I’m sorry man I know I’ve been in a bad mood all night but honestly how can you view this game as a positive? Boston had no reason whatsoever to give a shit about this game, Knicks were at home playing like it was Game 7 and they still lost.

Boston also played like it was playoff Basketball. And they made some very difficult shots to tie it up and then to win it. Boston has a much better road record than home tecord, so this game was a fair test against them. We came very close, so although I’m disappointed, I’m also relieved.

‘We’re likely to lose this, but I’m okay with it not because the Celtics are good (which is very true), but because we have NO idea yet how to have Brunson and the good versions of Mikal and OG happen in the same game.

I’m still not sure that’s possible.

To begin with, as I keep saying, there are only so many shots in a game. When Brunson is on the court, he controls the ball and is the number option that dribbles a lot. He also likes to work with Hart and Towns. So on average Mikal and OG are going to have the ball less often and take fewer shots when Brunson plays. We can live with that as long as Brunson/Towns are highly efficient (which they typically are) and OG and Mikal remain in a good rhythm and are getting the same quality shots. It’s this latter part I question. When you are standing around watching instead of moving, cutting, driving and beign very active and aggressive like they were while Brunson was out I think it has a hard to prove negative impact on your game. The problem is NOT them. They are what they are. They are 3rd option players that can slide into the 2nd option role if needed. It’s on Brunson to change his game, but I don’t think he can. He’s a scorer. You could even see it at the end of this game.

Only game Knicks won vs Detroit was Ewing scoring his playoff career high 45 pts.

But why would you be more down now than you were at the start of the season?

We knew that the Knicks were not going to be as good as the Celtics on paper, but the plan was to at least play them in the Conference Finals, but the Cavs leaping to #1 was the surprise bit. So now they have to beat the Celtics just to get to the Conference Finals!

Excellent question.

Problem is Boston is really good defensively, OG and Bridges aren’t going to get easy baskets. Knicks should’ve kept posting up KAT instead of constantly running Brunson Hart 2 man games.

OG was defended very well tonight. He was 0-5 from 3. I didn’t pay attention to every one of them, but 2-3 were very tough. I knew he was going to miss them as soon as he put them up. He lead the team with a -7.

But I’ll always remember 1992 and how the defending champion Bulls swept all 4 regular season games from the Knicks but we shockingly managed to force a Game 7 in an epic playoff series so I’ll be positive when the time comes.