“Knicks offense is struggling!!” – Stephen A. Smith GOES CRAZY New York Knicks fall to 76ers 19-73
Is your tri state area out of dealer today Josh Hart with a three Nicks within four late but Kyle Larry always seems to do this against the Knicks no matter who he plays for a big three and Philly is able to hold on 7973 that’s a season low in terms of
Scoring for any team in the NBA this year 73 points great to have you with us will Pete along with W zerak from our Delta MSG Studios from the garden so Orlando had the league low here 74 points on Friday and the Knicks 73 tonight 32 1.2% shooting they go like 20% from
Three it happens but how do you explain what we saw tonight welcome to NBA basketball this is how it is if you don’t take care of business especially on your home floor and come prepared ready to play the other team is going to just punch you in the mouth and there’s
No way you can get up from the campus from the canvas and that’s exactly what happened tonight Nick nurse that’s why he’s an NBA championship winning coach he rallied his guys they’ve been playing terrible of late no Maxi no MB 0 and seven we’ve been talking about that
Statistic they can’t win a game without those two guys in the lineup he told his guys listen hit these guys first see if we can hang around in this game let’s get after him defensively let’s make him uncomfortable on the offensive end of the floor let’s hit him let’s grab him
Let’s pressure him and the Knicks did not shoot the three well 9 for 40 from the three point line you’re not going to win a lot of NBA games when you don’t shoot the three ball well so was it the aggression of the Sixers and the defense
Of the Sixers that caused all these problems for their it was absolutely the aggression from the point of attack they were challenging the Knicks to beat them off the dribble they were pressuring up on passing Lanes they were pressuring up on the ball individually when the Knicks
Did turn the corner and did get an advantage their coverages were absolutely outstanding their help on pick and rolls their switches with aggression that’s what it was all about when they switched they didn’t just sit back and let the Knicks get comfortable dribbling the ball they switched to
Pressure the ball and to get the Knicks retreating and moving away from the basket as a result the Knicks did not get good looks at the basket they got 43o attempts but they were not highquality attempts they were all challenged they were all physical and then on the boards I’ll tell you the
Nicks did a decent job getting some offensive rebounds but underneath Paul Reed and Company they were really tough down there they did not let the Knicks dominate physically all right a rare off game as well for Jaylen Brunson maybe because of the aggression that you’re talking about in terms of how Philly
Played against Brunson when only six of 21 take us through the fourth quarter obviously not a lot of scoring Knicks were never able to get any momentum going at all I think why Jaylen was off a little bit was the respect he has for Kyle Lowry Kyle Lowry is a veteran who
Knows how to win and when you see him on the other side you kind of think about some of the shots that you take this was the little Skirmish where where divon chenzo had had enough Kelly UB just kind of bumped him to the ground and divon
Chenzo grabbed his leg and then a little Skirmish I like the fight the Nicks showed I thought the Knicks played with a lot of effort but at the same time Philadelphia played with even more effort and that’s what got him the victory Jaylen Brunson with that and one
There cut the game to seven but they just never could really crack it you know that was a huge shot by Josh Hart and that was cut it to four and that’s when Lowry just next possession said all right you cut it to four you feel like
You got something guys well I’m going to push the lead back to seven and then the Knicks did not execute down the stretch I thought if this was going to be a close game they would have a chance but Jaylen Brunson just did not have it going tonight all right again a 33%
Shooting is a season low for the Knicks go down to the bottom 21 turnovers they’re high for a game this year is 22 so 21 turnovers didn’t help and we’ve talked and you mentioned Wy 9 of 40 from downtown Philly wins at 79- 63 three uh
79-73 so when you look at the scenario now with no Maxi and no embiid you mentioned that we talked about the pregame 0 and seven without their Stars they get this win and Mike Breen made the comment during the game that Nick nurse called his team out the other
Night for a lack of effort and whatever the case may be uh Philadelphia was able to uh get the win Monica mcnut now joins us Monica helping call the game on ESPN Radio 98.7 FM what do you think Monica what do you see from uh your Vantage
Point so usually I love being right and rubbing it in people’s face today I hated being right and the comment was for me and my keys on the radio was that the Knicks needed four quarters of focus because this is a team coming in trying
To restock when it comes to Pride and we hear coach Tom tibo say it all the time you don’t get to the NBA by happen stance you can play ball so even though they were missing their two Allstars they had a combination of veterans hungry guys guys with length and
Athleticism that wanted to come back and get right after a very disappointing performance for them versus the pelic yeah I don’t know if it was a lack of focus for the Knicks I agree with when Wally said it too this was a hard fought game but the offense was not easy and
And I give credit to the Sixers because of how hard they played in this game from the very beginning they basically told the Knicks we don’t think you can beat us off the dribble we’re going to play you one-on-one and it’s up to you to beat us off the dribble and they
Didn’t get into the paint the Knicks took more threes than shots in the paint Monica like that tells you everything you need to know about this game and if they had made a bunch of Threes you wouldn’t even look at that stat but it stands out because they weren’t able to
Convert inside the paint they did not really get to the free throw line as much as they normally do only 16 free throw attempts and everything was from the outside and they just didn’t have anyone going from downtown we have a shopping cart right here behind us the
Knicks were shopping for buckets and this game came up empty there was nothing on the stocks tonight golly aisle four we got nothing for you literally the the wheel is are empty it’s the one with the wheel something wrong with the wheel it rattles down the
Aisle that noise whatever it is they out of stock what did you guys think about Kelly UB I thought defensively he really really established at the beginning of the game that that length was going to bother Jaylen Brunson what do you think about his game just kind of leading the
Charge for the Sixers so my buddy K Scott is the on air play-by-play artist for the Sixers and I’ve heard her talk about Kelly U as the guy that gives this team some grit some nastiness right he he wants that opport and I actually had their game on Christmas Day and he was
The guy that kind of stepped up in the absence of Joel em beid alongside Tyrese Maxi and so to me Kelly UB and bodies if you give him the runway and the opportunity I believe he’s averaging 25 points per game when Maxi isn’t available if you give him the chance
He’s going to capitalize and take advantage of it yeah and again it’s part of the length that you throw at a team like the Knicks and this is what the Atlanta Hawks did it was kind of the same thing the amount of length you can throw at the Knicks and disrupt them and
Keep them out of the paint and the athleticism but I still feel like this comes down to the fact that Philly knew exactly what was going on tonight and oh by the way if you’re scoreboard watching which we all are this is the time of year we do it that’s what makes the
Miami lost Cleveland lost Orlando L this was an opportunity for the Knicks that they missed tonight cuz they couldn’t get it going tonight so when you think about it Miami and Orlando and and Cleveland are going well the Knicks lost two so not too bad and that’s just what
This time of year it’s fun to scoreboard watch but nights like this uh not as much right all right but hey we have these guys well well the Knicks have these guys coming up in two days yeah what are your thoughts with how they might learn from this game and come out
A little bit differently on Tuesday against this same exact team well I thought Wally there was room for this team to attack right they they to Allen’s point it’s not necessarily the primary uh or the first initial penetration I think they have the opportunity to create though with more
Than one there’s a couple times in the first have where Josh cuts off of penetration he’s moving they can’t account for him he gets some easy baskets we know that they like to attack that Baseline side and then spray the basketball then move off of that so fine
If the first penetration is not effective I think they’re going to have to play in the paint a little bit more and flat out y’all you got to hit some threes you’re just got to hit some well yeah that’s the other part of it too is
Nine for 40 is not something that again the Knicks are are are a good three-point shooting team they do shoot the three well but you have nights like this and again the Atlanta game stands out to me as well another night a lot of Threes went up but not enough of them
Went actually in the basket and we saw last night what the last game what happened against Orlando first quarter everything went in it got you off to a good start so it clearly is a tone Setter for you but I’m with you Monica I I do think there was opportunity to
Finish with a two in the paint and a lot of times the Knicks would either hesitate or kick it out the Sixers don’t have Joel embiid there’s not like shot blocking out there for them that you have to worry about the rim but yet it seemed like they were too hesitant to
Score in the paint so if I’m looking for something on Tuesday night Wally I’m looking to to see if the Knicks grinded out more in the paint and try to play a little bit more of that type of a game to finish more in there soften it up
Like you like to use that phrase that allows in the three-point shot to come into play okay Monica Allen as always we appreciate it interesting here the last three games from three Wally and Allen touched on it against Atlanta 16 of 52 against Orlando the kns goes 16 of 33
And tonight they go nine out of 40 was a shot selection an issue or they just not going in uh it was a little bit of both they did not generate good offense the key for coaches to you know get good shots in the NBA is you want to get your
You want to touch the paint you want to break down the defense get the defense into scramble mode I don’t think the Knicks did a good job of penetrating the uh Philadelphia defense and as a result they were taking a lot of contested shots Brunson from downtown one out of
Nine div chenzo tonight from downtown only three out of 12 around the corner we’re going to hear from Nick’s coach Tom tibo but up next we got highlights in the MSG 150 Orlando Against Foree look For foree foree Fore For spee spee Spee foreign spee Speee speee fore
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“Knicks offense is struggling!!” – Stephen A. Smith GOES CRAZY New York Knicks fall to Philadelphia 76ers 19-73
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