Shorthanded Knicks Fall Short Against Hawks | New York Knicks

Shorthanded Knicks Fall Short Against Hawks | New York Knicks

CLOSED CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY MADISON SQUARE GARDEN NETWORKS ♪ Pack up, let’s fly away ♪ ATLANTA GOT OFF TO A 22-POINT LEAD. HART, ALL 14 POINTS IN THE SECOND HALF, BUT ATLANTA PULLED AWAY DOWN THE STRETCH. De’ANDRE HUNTER WITH A KEY BUCKET, AND THE HAWKS TONIGHT BEAT THE KNICKS 116-100.

GREAT TO HAVE YOU WITH US FROM OUR DELTA MSG STUDIOS. BILL PIDTO ALONG WITH BIRTHDAY BOY WALLY SZCZERBIAK. THE KNICKS RAN OUT OF GAS IN THE FOURTH QUARTER. THAT WAS A TOUGH ONE. THE KNICKS WERE AGGRESSIVE SHOOTING THE BALL EARLY. THE THREES THAT HAD BEEN FALLING

FOR A LOT OF GUYS WEREN’T FALLING TONIGHT. THEY HAD TO TAKE A HIGH VOLUME. THE GREEN LIGHT WAS DEFINITELY ON FOR GUYS TO TAKE SHOTS WHEN THEY FELT LIKE THEY HAD AN OPPORTUNITY, BUT THEY DIDN’T MAKE A HIGH ENOUGH PERCENTAGE. YOU’RE NOT GOING TO WIN GAMES IN THE NBA SHOOTING 38% FROM THE

FLOOR AND 30% FROM THE THREE-POINT LINE. THAT’S NOT GOING TO GET IT DONE. WALLY WISHES HE WAS IN THIS GAME. 32 FREETION, SECOND MOST IN FRANCHISE HISTORY. 54 THREES TAKEN BACK IN ’22. DONTE DiVINCENZO BY HIMSELF TOOK 17 THREES, ONLY 5 OF 17 FROM DOWN TOWN. LOOK, I LOVE THE

AGGRESSIVENESS. WHEN THE SHOT IS THERE, TAKE IT WITH CONFIDENCE. HE’S A 40-PLUS-PERCENT FREE-THROW SHOOTER. YOU HAVE NIGHTS LIKE THIS SOMETIMES. I THINK THIS TEAM COULD BE FATIGUED. SOMETIMES WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE YOUR LEGS AS A JUMP SHOOTER, YOU COME UP SHORT. YOU START TO GUIDE THE SHOT. THE KNICKS COULDN’T FIND THE

STROKE FROM DEEP. OVERALL, THEY’RE REALLY UNDERMANNED. NO JALEN BRUNSON, NO JULIUS RANDLE, THE TWO ALL-STARS. IT’S NOT AN EFFORT THING. THIS TEAM PLAYS THEIR HEART OUT, NO PUN INTENDED. JOSH HART BEING THE LEADER OF ALL THOSE GUYS, HOW HARD HE PLAYS. THEY COULDN’T GET IT DONE.

IN ORDER TO BEAT THE KNICKS, YOU HAVE TO PLAY WELL AND THE HAWKS DID. ATLANTA UP BY 22 IN THE FIRST HALF. LATE THIRD QUARTER KNICKS ABLE TO TIE IT AT 78. A KEY SEQUENCE AS ATLANTA HIT THE LAST FIVE OF THE THIRD QUARTER TO GO UP BY FIVE IN THE

FOURTH QUARTER. THOSE ARE BIG BASKETS. EVERY COACH I PLAYED FOR IN THE NBA, THEY ALWAYS REFERRED TO THE LAST TWO MINUTES OF EACH QUARTER ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO SET THE TONE GOING INTO THE NEXT PERIOD. THIS IS AN UNBELIEVABLE THIRD QUARTER WHERE THE KNICKS REALLY GOT THEMSELVES BACK INTO THE

BASKETBALL GAME. GREAT BALL MOVEMENT THERE LEADS TO THE OPEN THREE BY DONTE DiVINCENZO. PRECIOUS ACHIUWA, HE’S GOT SOME SERIOUS MOVES IN THE POST. AN OUTSTANDING LEFT-HAND FINISHER FOR A RIGHT-HANDED GUY. HOW ABOUT DEUCE McBRIDE, FLYING THROUGH THE GARDEN AIR TO THROW THAT ONE DOWN. JOSH HART RUNNING THE POINT

GUARD, THE POINT FORWARD, THE POINT CENTER, YOU NAME IT. HE WAS DOING IT ALL OUT THERE. HE WENT ON HIS OWN LITTLE RUN TO HELP GET THE KNICKS TIED AT ONE POINT. TIED AT 76, TIED AT 78. YOU’RE RIGHT, I THINK THE FIVE POINTS TO CLOSE THE QUARTER WERE KEY.

LOOK AT MINUTES PLAYED. McBRIDE 45:38 AFTER PLAYING OVER 47 AGAINST CLEVELAND. HART, 43 MINUTES PLAYED, HIS LAST THREE GAMES HE SAT OUT LIKE SIX TOTAL MINUTES IN THREE GAMES. I’LL BE HONEST, AS A PLAYER YOU WANT TO PLAY ALL 48. WHEN YOU’RE OUT THERE, YOU’RE LOST IN THE GAME. YOU’RE COMPETITIVE.

YOU WANT TO WIN. YOU NEVER WANT TO COME OUT OF A BASKETBALL GAME. YOU KNOW YOU HAVE TO BECAUSE IT’S A LONG MARATHON OF THE SEASON. YOU CAN’T PLAY 48 MINUTES EVERY SINGLE NIGHT. THESE GUYS I THINK ARE RELISHING THIS OPPORTUNITY. TOM THIBODEAU KNOWS HOW IMPORTANT THESE GAMES ARE TO

WIN. HE KNOWS THE GUYS THAT HE TRUSTS TO HELP HIM WIN BASKETBALL GAMES. THOSE ARE THE GUYS THAT ARE GETTING THE BULK OF THE MINUTES AND ALL THE MINUTES. HAWKS UP BY FIVE GOING INTO THE FOURTH. ATLANTA DOMINATED THE FOURTH QUARTER, ATLANTA OUTSCORING THE KNICKS 43-32.

IT DEMANDS DOUBLE-TEAMS AND CAN HELP GUYS GET EASIER SHOTS. IT’S REALLY TOUGH. JERICHO SIMS, I THOUGHT WHEN HE ENTERED THE GAME HE HELPED THE OFFENSE. JOSH HART CONFIDENT WITH HIS THREE-POINT SHOT. HE’S BEEN LOOKING GOOD DRAINING THOSE THREES. DRILLED A COUPLE BIG THREES IN THAT FOURTH QUARTER.

OVERALL, THIS HAWKS TEAM, DEJOUNTE MURRAY HAS BEEN PLAYING GOOD BASKETBALL SINCE HE’S TAKEN OVER THE POINT GUARD ROLE. WE CAN’T FORGET JALEN JOHNSON. HE WAS OUTSTANDING IN THIS GAME, THE BEST PLAYER ON THE FLOOR TONIGHT. POINTS IN THE PAINT, DOMINATION BY ATLANTA. THAT’S A BIG STORY. THE THREE-BALL SHOOTING BY THE

KNICKS, 52 ATTEMPTS, SECOND MOST IN FRANCHISE HISTORY, MAKING ONLY 16 OF 52. HAWKS WIN IT 116-100. LET US NOW SAY HELLO TO ALAN HAHN AND MONICA McNUTT. ALLAN, YOUR TAKEAWAY TONIGHT. KNICKS DIDN’T HAVE ENOUGH OFFENSE ON THE FLOOR. YOU HAVE TO HAVE NIGHTS LIKE WE

SAW IN CLEVELAND WHERE THE DEFENSE IS GETTING AFTER IT, WINNING THE BOARD BATTLE THAT WE DIDN’T HAVE TONIGHT. KNOCKING DOWN THREES, THE KNICKS STRUGGLED WITH THAT, MONICA. WHEN YOU GIVE A TEAM A 22-POINT LEAD AND YOU CLIMB BACK IN, I THOUGHT BOTH TEAMS WERE WINDED. I THOUGHT THE HAWKS LOOKED

TIRED. THE HAWKS HAD ENOUGH IN THE TANK. THE KNICKS OBVIOUSLY MISS JALEN PARTICULARLY IN THE FOURTH WHERE THEY HAD DONE ALL THIS WORK TO BRUNSON. ABSOLUTELY. MAKE IT A BALL GAME. THEN YOU GET QUESTIONABLE SHOTS TAKEN DOWN THE STRETCH AND IT TAKES THE WIND OUT OF THEIR

SAILS. YOU KNOW, HAHN, IN MANY WAYS WE’VE SEEN THIS STORY BEFORE. THAT’S WHEN THE TEAM WAS HEALTHY. THE KNICKS LOWEST SCORING OUTPUT WAS 12 VERSUS THE NEW ORLEANS PELICANS WHO ALSO HAPPEN TO BE A BIG ATHLETIC TEAM LIKE THE HAWKS. THAT’S TRUE. THE HAWKS HAVE A LOT OF LENGTH.

THE HAWKS HAVE NOT BEEN A GOOD BASKETBALL TEAM, BUT THEY WERE MAKING THEIR SHOTS EARLY ON, WALLY. THEY GOT INTO A RHYTHM EARLY ON. I STILL FEEL LIKE THIS GAME WAS RIGHT THERE TO BE HAD LATE THIRD QUARTER. WHEN THE KNICKS TIED IT, THEY TIED IT ONCE.

COULDN’T GET A GOOD SHOT. TIED IT A SECOND TIME. GIVE UP FIVE POINTS IN THE FINAL MINUTES OF THE THIRD QUARTER. IF YOU CAN TAKE A LEAD INTO THE FOURTH QUARTER, THIS PLACE WAS GOING CRAZY, YOU MIGHT HAVE HAD A CHANCE. THEY COULDN’T CLOSE THAT QUARTER WITH THE LEAD.

ACCORDING TO YOU, THEY MIGHT HAVE GOTTEN WINDED IN THE SECOND HALF. IN THAT FIRST QUARTER THEY WERE FLYING AROUND THE COURT. THEY WERE AGGRESSIVE OFFENSIVELY, EXECUTING OFFENSE PER FIFTHLY. THEY HAD THE KNICKS’ HEAD SPINNING. CONVERSELY THE KNICKS DUG THEMSELVES THE 22-FAST-BREAK POINT HOLE EARLY. EXPENDED A LOT OF ENERGY TO GET

BACK IN THE GAME. IN AN NBA GAME WHEN YOU EXPEND THAT MUCH ENERGY, THE LINE ALWAYS WAS, THEY MADE OUR RUN, NOW WE MAKE OURS. I THINK THAT’S PROBABLY WHAT THE HAWKS WERE SAYING IN THEIR HUDDLE. THEY’RE SAYING, OKAY, KNICKS CAME BACK. WE KNOW THEY’RE A GOOD TEAM, KNOW THEY’RE GOING TO COMPETE

AND MAKE THIS A GAME. NOW IT’S OUR TURN TO GO RIGHT BACK AT THEM AND PUTT THIS GAME AWAY. THAT’S HOW THE HAWKS GOT THE VICTORY. INTERESTING HERE, GUYS. PRECIOUS ACHIUWA IN THE GAMES THAT RANDLE AND ANUNOBY HAVE MISSED, TONIGHT PLAYED 23 MINUTES BUT SCORED 15 POINTS. I THOUGHT EARLY ON HE HAD

GOOD ENERGY. IT FELT LIKE WHAT TOM THIBODEAU WAS DOING, NEEDED OFFENSE, THE SHOT MAKERS NEEDED PEOPLE TO SPREAD THE FLOOR. BOGDANOVIC DOES THAT. HE HAD A HARD TIME DEFENSIVELY IN THIS GAME. THE HAWKS WERE TRYING TO ATTACK HIM. JALEN JOHNSON WAS REALLY GOOD. I FEEL LIKE THE ACHIUWA MINUTES

WERE AFFECTED MAINLY BECAUSE YOU HAD TO PLAY CATCHUP AND NEEDED ANOTHER SCORER ON THE FLOOR. FOR A STRETCH, GUYS, HE WENT 6 OF 6 FROM THE FIELD AT ONE POINT, FINISHED 7 OF 8 FROM THE FIELD IN TOW AT THAT TIME. ONE THING YOU CAN’T EVER REALLY

DENY WITH PRECIOUS IS HE’S GOING TO COME ON THE FLOOR AND PLAY WITH A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF ENERGY. SOMETIMES HE’S IN THE RIGHT SPOT, SOMETIMES HE MAY NOT BE. TONIGHT I THOUGHT THE BURS TSZ HE GAVE WERE HUGELY IMPORTANT. ABLE TO MIX IT UP ON THE GLASS AS WELL.

SIX REBOUNDS IN A CATEGORY THAT THE KNICKS TOOK AN L IN TONIGHT. YOU UNDERSTAND THE OFFENSE/DEFENSE THING, BECAUSE THE OFFENSE WAS A SUPER STRUGGLE PARTICULARLY IN THE FIRST HALF. KNICKS NEVER GET REBOUNDED, BUT THEY GOT DOMINATED ON THE GLASS. THE REBOUNDING AND THE FREE-THROWS, Y’ALL. THAT SPEAKS TO THE PHYSICALITY

THAT THE HAWKS WERE ABLE TO PLAY WITH. HOW OFTEN DO THE KNICKS GET DOUBLED UP AT THE FREE-THROW LINE. ONLY 40 POINTS IN THE PAINTED. THAT’S NOT TYPICAL OF THE KNICKS EITHER. IT’S ALSO AN INDICATION OF 52 THREE-POINT ATTEMPTS. THAT’S A NUMBER THAT A PLOT OF

US WILL LOOK AT WITH OUR EYES WIDE. ONLY WALLY WILL LOOK AT IT HUNG GRILLY. WALLY WANTS TO COME BACK AS DONTE DiVINCENZO IN HIS NEXT LIFE. NEON GREEN LINE FOR WALLY. REMEMBER ALAN ALWAYS WANTED THE KNICKS TO SHOOT MORE THREES.

ALL OF A SUDDEN HE’S PUTTING IT ON ME THAT THEY’RE SHOOTING TOO MANY THREES. RIGHT NOW WITHOUT JALEN BRUNSON AND JULIUS RANDLE, YOU CAN’T BREAK DOWN THE DEFENSE LIKE YOU NEED TO. YOU CAN’T GET DRIBBLE PENETRATION WHERE YOU’RE GETTING THE TEAM INTO ROTATIONS TO GET GOOD LOOKS AT THE BASKET AND GOOD SHOTS.

YOU HAVE TO SETTLE FOR THREES OVER THE TOP. A LOT OF THOSE THREES WERE CONTESTED, WERE QUICK IN THE SHOT CLOCK WHICH IS FINE. YOU TAKE THE FIRST AVAILABLE SHOT, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE A GUY THAT WILL DEMAND DOUBLE TEAMS AND BE ABLE TO GO ONE-ON-ONE.

I THINK THE KNICKS HAD A GOOD GAME PLAN. UNFORTUNATELY DIDN’T HAVE A HIGH ENOUGH QUALITY OF SHOTS, DIDN’T MAKE ENOUGH SHOTS. DEUCE McBRIDE TONIGHT, GUYS, WE MENTIONED THE MINUTES, OVER 45 MINUTES. DIDN’T SHOOT WELL. 4 OUT OF 15 WAS THE NUMBER, TOTAL NUMBERS IN TERMS OF SHOOTING.

HE WAS TENACIOUS ESPECIALLY GIVEN HIS EFFORT WITH DEJOUNTE MURRAY ON THE DEFENSIVE END OF THE FLOOR. CAN WE TAKE A MOMENT, THE BASELINE DUNK. HE BROUGHT THE HOUSE DOWN. WE’RE WATCHING HIM GROW RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES. WAIT A MINUTE. YOU NEED THE WHOLE SEQUENCE, NOT JUST THE DUNK.

I KNOW. ONE TURNOVER IN THE 40-WHATEVER MINUTES. THE KID IS GROWING RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES. IT’S THREE CONSECUTIVE PLAYS, Y’ALL, AT A MOMENT WHEN THE KNICKS WERE TRYING WITH EVERYTHING THEY HAD. HE DRAWS TWO OFFENSIVE FOULS AGAINST THE BIGS OF THE HAWKS TRYING TO BLOW SCREENS, TRYING

TO PLAY STRONG DEFENSE AND SLICES IN THAT BEAUTIFUL ENERGETIC DUNK. HIS GROWTH, Y’ALL, IS GOING TO BE SO IMPORTANT, EVEN AS THIS TEAM GETS HEALTHY. THERE WAS A MOMENT TONIGHT WHERE I WAS LIKE, WHEN THIS TEAM GETS HEALTHY, THESE GUYS ARE GOING TO BE LIKE, WOW, THIS IS SO MUCH

EASIER. WHEN THEY DON’T HAVE TO PLAY 48 MINUTES. AND MAKE A CRAZY PASS ACROSS THE BASELINE. FOR DEUCE, SO MANY QUESTIONS ABOUT WHETHER HE CAN DO IT IN TERMS OF BEING A BACKUP. I THINK HE WAS ANSWERING THOSE QUESTIONS VERY PROFOUNDLY. YOU SAID HE DREW TWO. THE FIVE OFFENSIVE FOULS HE DREW

IN THIS GAME AND ALL OF IT FROM HIS WORK ETHIC, FIGHTING THROUGH IT, FIGHTING THROUGH IT, FIGHTING THROUGH IT. THE FRUSTRATION IS THE LOSS. THE FRUSTRATION IS THE FACT THEY COULDN’T MUSTER ENOUGH OFFENSE WITH NO JALEN BRUNSON IN THE LINEUP AND STILL WAITING FOR JULIUS RANDLE AND OG ANUNOBY TO

COME BACK, THAT’S A TON OF OFFENSE THAT WILL COME BACK INTO THIS LINEUP. WITH A LOSS, WHAT DOES TOM THIBODEAU ALWAYS SAY? YOU WIN IT OR YOU LEARN. YOU LEARN IT FROM A GAME LIKE THIS. YOU LEARN IT FROM WHAT YOU CAN GET WITH PLAYERS POSITIVELY AND NEGATIVELY. WE’RE LEARNING ABOUT DEUCE

McBRIDE ALL THE LITTLE THINGS HE CAN DO. WE ARE REMEMBER HE LOST THE GAME. I NEED THE TWO HIGHLIGHTS PUT TOGETHER. IN CLEVELAND, 6’11”, ANUNOBY. MAKE SURE YOU RUN THAT TOGETHER AS WE CELEBRATE THE SEASON. ALL THINGS YOU’VE GOT TO BE ABLE TO TAKE FROM A GAME. THAT’S WHAT YOU WANT TO TAKE

FROM THIS GAME. KEEP IN MIND, GUYS, THERE’S 20 TO GO. THERE’S SOME WINNING TIME NOW. THEY’VE GOT TO START STACKING SOME WINS. THEY’VE GOT TO GET HEALTHY FIRST. McBRIDE HAS PLAYED TWO FULL GAMES BACK-TO-BACK, COMMITTED ONE TURNOVER. ALAN AND MONICA, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. LET THE RECORD SHOW THE BIRTHDAY

BOY’S MOST THREES TAKEN IN A GAME, NINE. TONIGHT YOU HAD HART TAKE SEVEN, DiVINCENZO 17, McBRIDE 10 AND BOGDANOVIC 11 THREES TAKEN. ALEC BURKS, 7 IN 11 MINUTES.

With Jalen Brunson out of the lineup the Knicks found themselves down by 22 in the first half. They were able to overcome that deficit but never was able to take the lead against the Hawks in the 116-110 loss. The Knicks look to rebound against the Magic on Friday.

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