Knicks vs. Hawks Series Preview + Film Breakdown | NY Got Game
NBA Playoffs are FINALLY here! Knicks will take on the Atlanta Hawks in the first round. Dexter Henry & Bryan Fonseca preview the series and tell you everything you need to know before Game 1 on Saturday.
Dex and Bryan talk to Stefan Bondy, NY Post’s Knicks beat reporter, to get his thoughts on the series.
Later, they take a look at the film from Knicks-Hawks games this season to breakdown how Atlanta generates threes, how they likely will try to defend Jalen Brunson and how Karl-Anthony Towns an exploit their weakness in the interior.
Lastly, they predict how the Knicks rotation will look in the series using NBA2K26.
0:00 Intro
0:35 Conversation with NY Post’s Stefan Bondy
20:15 Knicks-Hawks Film Breakdown
56:17 Setting the Knicks rotation for the series
#newyorkknicks #atlantahawks #nba #nbaplayoffs
Subscribe and don’t miss out on all the key news, highlights, and interviews about the Yankees, Mets, Giants, Jets, Knicks, Nets, Rangers, Devils, Islanders and what’s buzzing in the sports world too!
Catch the latest news here: https://nypost.com/sports/
Follow The New York Post Sports on:
Twitter – https://twitter.com/nypostsports
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/nypostsports/
25 Comments
Atlanta can play Dyson, JJ, JK, Jock and Bradley I think Dyson on JB and JK on kat they can switch in the pick and roll instead of fighting over/under screens 😂😂😂😂😂😂, we also can put JK on brunson
Jock and Bradley can and will control Robinson, you guys actually think 2 players and a bunch of garbage men will defeat Atlanta, good luck with that 😂😂
Inexperienced 😂😂😂😂 CJ, naw, Buddy, Gabe, OO and JK 😂😂😂 JJ kicked NY ass last year with trae, 😂😂😂 remember trae playing dice at MSG 😂😂😂 you mfres are tripping hard Atlanta in 4
Atlanta has to stop JB and kat, how is NY going to stop JJ, Naw, CJ and JK I'll wait 😂😂😂
If NY stays in the lane against Dyson, 2 man game pick and pop with Dyson and anyone 😂😂😂
JK can get to the paint, Atlanta has JJ, JK, Naw, Dyson and OO/Jock as the closers
👊🏽
🤣🤣🤣🤣let’s go Knicks
I want to correct the host that said no one on the hawks team played on the 2021 team Okongwu was . Clint Capella was the starter center, Okungwu was off the bench. Report the facts 🙋🏾
Whoever dictates the pace will win the series. Knicks win a half court slower paced game. Hawks win an up tempo game.
#btw, Atlanta has been a better post season team than NY over the last 25 years, so this will be a reality check NY 😂😂
This hawks team is no where near as good as the pistons were last year. That was a a much stouter defense that was way more physical. Not to mention Cade is better than any player on the hawks
I also don’t think they played poor 3 pt defense against the hawks in the most recent matchup. NAW just went off.
Hawks need to do three things to win this series l
1) create turnovers
2) get offensive rebounds
3) hit threes.
All three of these things happened in the last game and they still lost….
Anyone giving Atlanta more than 1 game in this series has some terrible Basketball knowledge!!!! Watch JB and KAT slay all these teams with their pick and roll
Knicks in 6
23:20 OG wasn't caught behind the screen, he didn't switch. That shot doesn't go up if OG switches like he should've.
36:20 If we're being honest. If OG made the same gamble Mculler did, it would be looked at different. He went for the steal at the right time, it just didn't pay off. Also, I'm not taking chances if KAT is on the floor. Over helping too soon and too often is definitely a big issue we have, especially on players who don't need it.
39:50 JB should've seen that open pass to OG and OG should've flared out more to the top to make the pass easier
45:20 This is where depending on how the game has been going, before JB looks to Iso, I want to see KAT get aggressive and front Dyson right in front of the rim so JB can pass it and he try and abuse Dyson
48:50 To me, this is a terrible decision by Brunson to bring his defender into the play when you see them running a pick and roll
53:30 This is not a good play by KAT. He bailed out the defense by taking a fade away shot with a smaller player on him. We need him to punish them at the rim with those match ups or attack the rim to draw in the defense and kick it out for a three. Not a fade away jumper.
1:09:00 Diawara playtime depends on Clarkson. If JC doesn't have a strong first half in game 1 and the game is close or we're losing. I think Brown should go to Diawara in replace of him.
sound crazy "i didnt want knicks raptors cus it would be boring" hhaha, gluttons for punishment lol
JJ averaged 22/10/8 this season. Only the 5th player in history to do that. Google the other 4 names.
Hawks in 🖐🏿