It is a Game 1. Of the Eastern Conference Finals. And the Knicks are in the game. And the game is at the Knicks’ home court.
How fucking cool is that?
Let’s take a moment to first appreciate how fucking awesome it is for the team that we root for to be hosting Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals.
Okay, moment over, now I want them to destroy the Pacers, go up by, like, 26, and then slowly pull away.
Let’s go, Knicks!
Just 8 wins left to go!
The Dylan tune is “Duquesne Whistle,” one of the last sort of kind of mainstream Dylan songs (it’s the most recent song featured in the musical, Girl From the North Country).
637 replies on “2025 Round 3 Game Thread: Knicks vs. Pacers, Game 1 – On a Final Run”
LFG, KNICKS!!!!!
Deuce-Deuce! In my trunk!
LFGK…
Hali is all gas and no brakes, but let’s see if he knows how to work the clutch
oh no, the game is about to start and my good vibes are slipping away…
just win baby…
oh man, Around The Horn is ending this week…
one of my favorite sports oriented shows – eva…
The city is fucking insane right now. Only the Knicks can make this place feel like Ann Arbor on a Saturday afternoon.
I had a girl from Miami who works in lingerie send me a DM that said “you Knicks fans are crazy. They’re even making Knicks lingerie right now”.
Here’s the link… it’s in their story. Buy it for the woman in your life… or for yourself.
https://www.instagram.com/fleurdumalnyc?igsh=M2tkYWR2Zzl2NDE1
i’m turning my out of office on in outlook…i don’t want to get fucked with leading up to tip off….
yeah booooyyyeeeez…lock and load..
Goooooooooo Knicks !!! 🧡💙
really urge you guys to read hubie having a girl from miami in lingerie in the same metaphorical vein as donnie saying he watched nba tv
lol I meant in the field of lingerie design, not literally in lingerie. But you probably knew that and it is funnier your way.
game not starting for over an hour
crochet left lindor stranded on third after a double and a steal
megill all over the place but settles down well
Btw Raven that counts towards the 28
I’m not anxious, or anything.
https://i.gifer.com/origin/47/47761ce1a17c34857b177e9c7f2d86d0.gif
hey z-man 😊
when you get on, just wanted to thank you for mentioning DudeInKnicksTown the other day…
his situation and in particular his strength and resolve while experiencing that tough situation really hit me hard at the time…
stopped me in my tracks when he mentioned the reason for his resolve: i have people who need me
so clear in his purpose, so much strength that in that difficult time he was actually able to share his strength with others…remarkable behavior…
anyways, hope all is well for you and the fam z-man…
Nice one Cyber.
Hubie, not sure “I had a girl from Miami who works in lingerie send me a DM” counts as an assist, but maybe tomorrow you can tell this particular story…
it is 27 assists not 28 iirc
Amen!!! LFG Knicks.
soto strikes out both times in two abs
This blog is manic depressive sometimes. Ay the moment it’s on the positive side. I didn’t vote because it’s too emotional an issue for me. But I will say that Pags could be right. I’m sure Pacersbloggere is voting 95 to 5 or so that the Pacers will win. They are much better than they used to be as are we. It’s hard to say how much better. I’d love to break their hearts with a Knick victory but it’s just as likely our hearts are broken instead.
Without, you know, swinging.
correct
This is just what it means to be a fan. You live for the highs and the lows. Some days you just need to feel something.
there are likely to be asian folks at the game tonite it seemed to be a big deal when referring to the okc fan base last nite for some raeson it is truly a good thing and i think that diversity is a good thing
my friend has watched a few games with me (miraculously still haven’t been kicked to the curb), and oldest son has watched some of the playoffs with me…
other than that though, like george thorogood says – i watch only, with nobody else…
do you watch games with other folks pepper?
megill at 5ks one third of way through third
Good point EB.
jim irsay dead
I am as excited as Red on the bus from Maine to Fort Hancock, Texas.
We are on a journey whose outcome is uncertain.
Let’s go Knicks.
andy is waiting in mexico with good things
We’re not even in the Finals and we’re already talking about girls and lingerie?? LOL
Did you guys even look at the link??? You should all be ordering some!!
Dang, and he just wished the Pacers good luck eight hours ago on social media. That’s a shame. He was a really good owner.
I just want to know how they photoshopped an image of my abdomen in that shot with the fleur du mal.
Hubert, I’ve lost a lot of weight the last few years. I haven’t lost that much weight.
megill 9ks thru 4
Hit the boards!
Let’s go!
Just walked past a guy in Knicks gear in the east village setting up a screen on the sidewalk to watch the game. It’s raining.
Love this dang city.
generally no, when I lived in nyc, i would sometimes watch with my uncle at home or a bar (or go to yankee or knick or ranger games…he had a good hook up for nice seats)…since i moved out west in 2008…i haven’t met any real ny sport fans to watch a game with (there was one dude who i coached little league with who was from jersey…think we watched a jet game together)…so its just me in the living room and my wife comes in from time to time when i get too loud and/or are cursing at the team…i kind of prefer it now…watching solo that is…some good solo’s on that Thorogood tune (well…there is usually one on most of his songs)
Maybe there’s no girl in lingerie, and this is just a script Hubert is writing, and he put a small bit here to see if the great Alan Sepinwall, the third finds it funny or not! 🤭
Did anyone watch TNT’s NBA tip off? If so, who did they pick?
Knicks in IV!
Wow.
Since we went 4-1 vs. BOS when I do this…
**Official Pagliacci Predictions**
-Down 10+ in first six minutes
-Hali 12+ assists
-Towns under 30 minutes due to foul trouble
-Pacers over 40% from 3
-Turner 5+ blocks
-Knicks more turnovers than assists
-Fake comeback to get close then lose by 15
That’s my pick
Not TNT’s
Come on, boyz! Let’s see 48 mins of discipline and aggression!
LET’S GO KNIIIIICKS! 🗽🏀🧡💙🧡🏀🗽
One city, one team! 🧡💙
But a lot of people in a lot more cities too… like Porto! 🙂
Knicks in 4! Knicks in 4!
Let’s GO KNICKS!!!!
Let’s gooooooooo
Thank god(s) for the italian broadcast, FUCK YOU REGGIE!
ECF Baby!!!
Let’s fucking go!!!
Athens 03:06 ! Zeus picks the Knicks!!!
Can’t believe they don’t have Breen on this. Should be a crime.
WTF was OG doing on the very first defensive possession?
JB started dancing!
That was me. These bars are too damn crowded.
Liking what I am seeing offensively so far
Our D is crappy
But so is theirs
Everybody shooting the lights out to start
og looks jet lagged
Can’t miss, this stinks
I would like the Pacers to miss a shot, please.
Pacers shooting like it’s still game 7
Is it too late to change my prediction?
Feed the Kat !
Is 100 a good shooting percentage?
KAT should average 30 ppg this series.
I went to the bathroom 0-0 and it’s 18-14!
What the hell happened?
Towns is such a wreck on defense. It’s kind of unbelievable.
For all of that bullshit somehow we’re only down 4
That was an offensive foul.
Being down 4 to a team shooting 100% is kind of good. When they come down to earth…
Pretty much everything I thought might go wrong defensively has and it’s only been 5 minutes.
I was totally staying sober for this game, but I’m starting to change my mind…
Stay focused, defend, don’t do dumb things, they’ll cool off and the game is loooong. LGK!
I blame this start on Indiana switching the usual shooting baskets to start the game.
My mantra is “the Pacers’ shooting will regress to the mean”.
We will see.
what is up with the fucking reversion to deep drop
This feels like karma for Boston missing all those shots.
I guess rust is not a factor. 😱
These guys might combine for 400 points
Mitch me
KAT has been almost as good on offense as he has been awful on defense.
Forgot how bad Hart is when he has to cover Siakam one on one.
Mitch Factor is ON
Mitch immediate impact
I don’t think OG has touched the ball yet this game.
Indiana didn’t
ha, strat – i missed the jump to and joined to that score – yuch…
Love you Mitch
This is already too stressful.
I’m very confused by the matchups we’re going with on D
calling doctor greenthumb
I can hear my giant martini glass calling me from downstairs…
Brunson with 0 asts so far just going ISO whenever he has the ball.
As of this moment, the Pacers’ eFG% is 96.7%. 29 points on 15 shots.
If Nesmith and Nembhard are really Jeff Hornacek and Dan Majerle then we are going to lose
There have definitely been a few “Mikal dies on a screen” moments
Mitch to Deuce!
Deuuuuuuuuce!
TJ take-down. This is on.
what an orb by mitch
These rims are black holes!
You were saying?… 😉 😀
WOW!!!!! PnRocking the Rim!!
I know Indiana’s defensive rating improved as the season went along but they look like they still pretty much suck on defense.
yes lord the lob
Two assists by Brunson now…
I think Mitch is better than Towns maybe
Not entirely objective
Brunson should easily get 10 asts every game against this defense!
Knicks take the lead despite otherworldly shooting by the Pacers.
CC Sabathia sitting right next to the Knicks bench.
Allowing layups is Not Good
Hit your free throws fellas! 🤬
Holy shit Mitch.
Please show a replay of that steak by Mitch.
That is a hard foul
Leading! 3 more like this please!
mitch is simply mitching out there…
please, much less KAT at the five…let him run center with the second unit or something…
Indiana shooting the lights out and we have the lead !? 😮 I’m pleasantly surprised!
Hard to believe we are up 2 the way they are playing.
Mitch!!!!!
Go get them boards!
Will KAT even play again?
Mitch is our best player atm. He’s a singularity.
Not sure how many minutes Mitch can go but he is obviously a very important player in this series
20-24 in 6.5 mins before Mitch came in
16-10 in 5.5 mins after Mitch came in
Mitch is something like 60% on ORebs when not counting his missed FT attempt this game
Money Mitch full diamond hands mode tonight
This reminds me of game 1 of the WCF series. Road team comes out hot, runs out of gas.
the plus/minus is very real in this case…
boston didn’t really have an answer for him…
KAT needs to work with Mitch this off-season.
Healthy Mitch healthy Knicks
I deeply dislike split-screen trite interviews…
Thanks for the 15 seconds Payne… please go away now
Can fouls more than a rookie big man
Get Payne out!!
Og….please…don’t dribble
Will someone put an elbow in TJ’s face? It would make him look better.
Someone needs to knock McConnell on his ass hard.
OG should not be allowed to dribble in a half court set.
Siakim must have hazed OG as a rookie or something
maybe try delon on tj
This isn’t a game where we can afford shitty Payne’s minutes, every possession counts.
P.S. Come on Cam, I’m trying my best 😉
I wish we had DDV coming in off the bench instead of Payne.
Why are we still going to Cam Payne? He’s done nothing except for 1 game
The coach is Thibs
The more things change, the more TJ McConnell keeps killing us
McConnell is shredding us
OG dribble possession is his version of a heat check
Why not try Kolek?
Max I was going to say that about the interview but it annoyed me too much to type.
And speaking of annoying, let’s all say it together.
WE HATE TJ.
I can’t believe he completely Julius Randle’d Cam.
Let’s play them together and do a side-by-side comparison
LOL
Lol
oh no, used to worry when jalen hit the bench, now it’s mitch…
Payne Drain!
Cam & Kat are finally cooking!
Italian announcer: “Cam Payne plays like he has Curry sewed on the back of his jersey, unfortunately for Knicks fans he’s not”
Pretty sure we’ve won 110% of the games Mikal has an offensive tip-in
I don’t think Thibs can play KAT and Mitch together against this team
I’m mentally exhausted already watching this series and we’re not even halfway thru the 2nd quarter…
I hate the Pacers.
Great game. It’s the opposite of the 90s, offense being better than defense, but it’s super entertaining too.
enjoying making rick call a timeout – get him thibs!!!
and put mitchell robinson in the starting lineup already…who knows, maybe we can get and hold a lead more easily…
Can Thibs use this guy from the challenge?… He’s at 100% !! 😀
OG has to step up.
What the fuck OG?!!? 😲
Og doesn’t look 100%
OG shades of Ntilikina there
You can’t fucking blow 2 easy fast break opportunities like that.
WTF og
Og…no bueno
Mikal beating up Nesmith Nembhard
Ogugly
Payne Curry baby!!!
big cam minutes…
very nice for KAT and cam to show up tonight…
edit: get cam out now!!!
How the hell does Payne shoot like that
Payne is shooting every round shaped object he can put his hands on…
KAAAAT!
Obi’s best game as a knick!
Obi is working for the Knicks undercover 😀
Ok KAT that is much better
Thanks Obi, WoW KaT!!
Thibs has been waiting 5 years for Obi to miss a dunk like that!!!
Why is everyone feeding CAM lol
No B for Obi
That Obi muff erases OG’s…moment.
KAT KAT.
Cam exploding out of thibs dungeon
Not sure OG’s hammy recovered. May be great if he’s on the bench….but then we’ll have to expand the rotation a bit.
KAT must feel so liberated playing the Pacers defense compared to the first 2 rds.
that og flub was crazy. we need to give mikal a little more rest at this pace, he’s having to conserve energy already
That Obi miss makes up for the OG doink.
The Garden may have hit a new decibel level with that Obi blown dunk.
Towns ties his made 3ps from the Celtics with 3 — this is not a joke
OB Toppin playing for OG Forgiveness.
Leading early is a pleasant surprise
I feel like Cam’s heat has been sufficiently checked.
How was that a blocking foul?
Yeah aftee that last shot attempt by Payne it’s time to bring Brunson back in.
Deuce missed KAT on that cut like people miss the gorilla in that video
Reffs are strangely calling so far
Pacers ain’t shit in the halfcourt.
see towns on siakam there? we can try that with mitch on turner as long as kat’s not in foul trouble
The wrong Knick players are taking heat checks.
Every OG’s dribble is an adventure
From your lips to thibs’ ears
OG is all out of sorts
Go back to attacking the lane!
Jon Hamm interfering? Best thing I have heard about him ever
do not hand your infant to og anunoby
10day contract to John Hamm
MVP! MVP!
I like KAT’s drop defense. He keeps going backwards until he makes SURE the guy has an open 5-footer.
Or open three-pointer
We let Haliburton meditate before taking the open 3
This game is too helter skelter for me…
do we need to try and slow this ship down – somehow?
is this our pace or theirs…
Every Pacers offensive reb has seemingly lead to a 3pter.
i hate to say it, but both hali and lamelo shoot some cool looking long distance shots…
edit: that last hali haul was not one of them…
it’s getting tedious that the announcers keep mentioning runs: when mitch was mitching…whatever, just win by one…
At least we are getting a whistle
Totally agree. I am exhausted watching this
Oh looks, there’s TJ again… Hi TJ… I hate you…
Nice finish! Let’s Go Knicks!
What a drive!!! JB is GOD
fantastic defense by josh and og to end the half
Pretttty, pretttttty, pretttty good
Great finish to the half!
Nice finish to the half…
It’s theirs, Geo, they are the pacers !! LOL
Well we took their first punch in the mouth and answered.
And we’re playing more like Game 6 vs. Game 5. Liking it a lot.
We can play muccccccch mucho mejor
Seems like the Knicks offense maybe slightly under rated and this high octane style isn’t so bad for them
I thought the last 40 seconds Mitch for KAT swap was interesting since we were guaranteed to get at least 1 more offensive possession. Worked out, but seemed unusual for Thibs.
Amazingly we’re now shooting 51.0% and they’re now shooting 51.1%.
The Pacers shooting regressed. Part of it was Mitchell Robinson. Even when KAT reentered the game, the Pacers did not go back to hitting everything.
I like that the Knicks are playing Indy’s pace. Beat them at their own game and they can’t control the game
Kenny’s glasses make him look like Fizdale.
That’s not a compliment.
It does seem like we need to use another guy in this series. 23 minute halves for Mikal at this pace is not sustainable.
Quite the dilemma for Thibs – play a guy who is unstoppable on offense (KAT) or a guy who is completely dominant on defense and the glass.
Did Dramond win the Masters?
i like that, stay confident and keep running…gonna need more mitch and cam, hopefully jalen and KAT get another good rest around the beginning of the 4th to be able to finish the game at a high pace…
Sounds like rope-a-dope to me.
At some point they will need to give someone else on the bench a run. Wright should be the guy.
Or, you know, both at the same time
what’s the thinking for keeping KAT away from the four – fear he can’t handle siakam, or whomever else is stepping in to that spot for them?
Edit: obi toppin too i guess
let KAT play the five when thomas bryant hits the floor for some minutes…
Jalen, Towns, OG getting lots of rest, Hart doesn’t need rest. Only Mikal overextended. So…5 minutes from Shamet?
more deuce 🙂
deuce deuce in the trunk…
i love deuce’s shooting form for someone his size, perfect set, jump and shot, long distance and mid-range…
I’d try Precious
Love Hali talking about Mitch
You mean like the ring?
Bridges at the FT line!
Free throws – free points
Hopefully those Bridges bricks don’t start a snowball effect
OG with the dunk and then the block right after
There you go, OG. No dribbling. Just dunk!
We’re missing too many chances to open this game, come on guys!
Offensive my ass
Brunson is not getting his whistle. Carlisle won’t even have to complain about small markets this time.
Feeling similarly toward NEsmith and NEmbhard reminds me of feeling similarly towards Antonio Davis and Dale Davis
Foul and the flagrant
Interesting challenge
Not sure about it. Think this will be a loss
Bullshit call though, agree
Don’t know what they’re going to decide in this review. They showed like three fouls not called before the ads.
Pacers are fucking clown bitches
Can’t let them hang around. Thought we got away with a few calls. Let’s take advantage.
I don’t think that’s the challenge we should be challenging … there was more of a foul earlier … that was a lot of Brunson … though defender doesn’t necessarily get to the spot
Show some love for Bridges with a big stop in the low post.
Stupid challenge.
We’re not playing smart right now and OG’s double team on Siakam wasn’t his best read of the game
Absolutely horrible start to the 3rd quarter by the Knicks.
seems like we should be rediscovering the Brunson-KAT pnr
Brunson playing hero ball
kat rotates like a weeble wobble
Horrible sequence there.
Please for the love of God sit Hart for Mitch. We need two bigs. I’d even take Precious, who if I remember does well on Siakam while he’s OG’s kryptonite.
Yeah, offense got stagnant. Ball pressure made Brunson go iso
…except KAT falls down a lot, too.
I did like his drop defense against Turner one-on-one, because, um…
Boy seeing OG bring the ball up made my stomach flip.
Thank you Hali for bailing him out.
Whiny ass Halliburton
Reggie is so full of shit
Stop playing like drunk donkeys please
Get Brunson out of the game he needs to sit for a bit.
No, Kevin Harlan, that would not be fun.
Brunson has had Kat open from 3 several times and not finding him
damn hali
I love how much people are talking about Mitch but he has been doing this offensive rebounding since summer league of his rookie year
Leaving Brunson in with 4 fouls, I dunno
Mitch is totally wound up to 11.
4 fouls on Brunson, I’m scared about Cam’s minutes
Mitch is not afraid to lock down Halliburton on the perimeter. First time, Mitch played great D, but Hali hit a tough 3. Second time, Mitch forced a bad air ball from 3.
Here we go, brace yourself for the Cam Payne Experience
Why THE FUCK doesn’t KAT post up on this lineup every single time !!!!???? What the fuck
Dear KAT, let’s talk about a simple thing called box-out
That’s what you like to see, Payne dribbling the ball for 20 seconds before taking an offbalance jumper.
Level of foul whining on all sides is next level
Interesting Thibs ran away from the big lineup pretty fast when Indiana went small
KAT had Mathurin pinned down but Deuce didn’t get him the ball then finally did after KAT stepped out to the 3pt line which lead to his missed forced 3pter.
Helpful foul from Nesmith
Less helpful ft misses
Delon!!!
Stop bricking FTs suckers!
Delon Wright sighting!
Delon! Say his name, TNT.
Thibs!!!
It was not elegant, but the Knicks survived Brunson’s stint on the bench with 4 fouls. Lead by 3 after 3.
We’re only shooting 67% from the FT line.
Defense was “let McConnell drive to rack”
Not bad for a lot of non-Brunson minutes
Not sure what that defense was on TJ there. Looked like Moses with the Red Sea parting before him.
Always kills us
Hart has been blown by a few times tonight.
Our inability over the centuries to stop TJ McConnell is really something
Knicks only scored 21 pts in the 3rd quarter.
Need to start hitting foul shots consistently
Missing 9 free throws…OMG.
Their bench isn’t playing a whole lot more minutes than ours, so I’m not worried too much about gassing
This is feeling like a “we’re letting them hang around game”. Hard to imagine a game more up do the taking than this one right now… we’ve had better swings but can’t capitalize … I say as long as we don’t turn it over we should control.
Jesus can’t start with a foul in first 20 seconds …
Knicks gonna lose this game because of defensive rebounding is inexcusable.
We are getting beat on boards
We need stops
Terrible defense and 5th foul on Brunson
Heavy dose coming up.
Knicks deserve to lose this game.
Brunson just has to give that up
Shit
I hate fucking Reggie miller…he’s a dick
so incredibly dumb jalen
Did Brunson switch brains with KAT or something?
OG beast mode!
OG!!!
OG comes alive!
Holy shit OG to the rescue!!
Those 5 points by OG after Brunson went out with 5 fouls are huge.
OG chooses the right moment to wake up on offense
og como va
We’ve hunted Mathurin on five consecutive plays he’s an utter sieve
I was saying to my girlfriend how screwed we are without Brunson, right as OG ripped off 5 quick points. I don’t look very smart, but that’s ok! Keep it up!
I’ve already had enough of Reggie. So clearly pro-Pacers. Makes you appreciate the professionalism of Breen even more.
BigBlueAl:
As Clint Eastwood said in Unforgiven, “Deserve’s got nothing to do with it.”
On a side not the Martian walks it off!
Love how Twitter immediately gives credit to Suni Lee
I think one of Eastwood’s underrated movies is In the Line of Fire.
Maybe Suni can get OG to learn how to dribble.
I went to the knick broadcast on siriusxm….not exactly calibrated but better than miller
Go double big, let Mikal create some offense, play some D, start beating them on the glass
Immensely dumb foul
it’s crazy we have no jalen and no mikal and kat is a bystander
What’s the deal with these foul shots?
Fuck! Stop missing free throws!
HOLY SHIT DEUCE
Feels like missed ft’s will come back to haunt us
holy shit deuce rim protection lfg
Omigod Deuce marry me
I will be a bigamist for you
Deuce defies all logic sometimes I love him
The Knicks haven’t lost a game where they’ve reached 100 first in these playoffs.
What a block by Deuce, second game in a row
Pacers deserve to lose this game.
we need to win this game just to have that deuce block be a worthy poster
How’s that for verticality, bitch
5/6 free throws.
Soooooft touch KAT!
Yes! Yes! Yes!
YES YES YES
Ok KAT love this
Woo!! Looking great!
KAT locking up Siakam!!
kat is at his best guarding pascal face up
Lol I feel you max
Boo….yah!
I’m a big fan of fourth quarter Towns
Tough motherfuckers
Brunson schmunson
what a run………..
14-0 run without The Captain, all is going according to plan 😂
LOL Hubie!
Damn. You gotta love it.
Mitch has been so disruptive in this game. Hero work.
I frequently write that the only thing I know for certain about the future is that it has not happened yet.
Prime example: I was really worried when Brunson went out with his fifth foul. The Knicks promptly went on a 14-0 run.
DOGS!!!
KAT roaring right now
Brunson? We don’t need no stinkin’ Brunson!
Clarence just casually dropping “OG Como Va” got me shaking my hips bailando
Fuck heat checks 😡
Edit: he redeemed himself!
Props to Thibs here – this lineup is gonna be very difficult to score on.
Everyone seems tired right now.
Siakam. extended the arm there
Ridiculous no call in context
Knicks with the mill/control deck there
OMG KAT!
What does towns have to do to get a call
Bryant flopped
What a finish by KAT.
Thomas Bryant sucks btw
Never liked him despite seemingly strong box score numbers
Clearly. Even more because midway through it he thought “i should sell this” and it looks like a 2nd impact. LOL
This is going great. Let’s finish it.
Bryant is a looserrrrr
Thomas Bryant may be the only player with a WS/48 over .160 that Owen never liked.
Captain Clutch, but the Knicks are on Automatic!
Don’t start this nonsense
If they make all their threes and we miss all ours, is that good?
Sorry guys, I know it’s just me but I don’t like going iso-mode up 15…
And Nesmith is killing us
Complacent taking and missing 3s… mot loving that
Bail out foul by hart
never easy. guard the 3
Kinda wish we had stayed with that Deuce/Mitch lineup another minute.
Big miss from Siakam big rebound on that ft from Hart
Brunson!!!
Holy hell
Why are they playing off Nesmith, just awful defense
Embarrassing
I can’t with this fucking team.
Not great.
This is how the game started.
Fortunately, they probably – probably – don’t have enough time left.
Unleash Delon
Pacers aren’t scoring another point in this game. They used up all their 3’s.
We’re getting a bucket here then closing this shit out
Or four
Wtf. Stay on Nesmith!!!
Clear foul. Siakim hits his arm
Could be a loose ball foul on Siakam still
Good challenge though not sure
Btw KAT got fouled on that layup earlier, unacceptable no call
OG hands of stone
This is the series right here
Why are they not dribbling out the clock???
If this gets overturned there’s like a 100% chance the Pacers hit a three next, right?
I don’t think the call is overturned
That should have been an easy 2. OG giveth and taketh away.
OG has been garbage on offense tonight.
I don’t even want it overturned.
* i want it overturned I meant. I don’t want it to be the reason everyone is whining after the game.
That was on Brunson. He SLAMMED that pass to OG. No one would catch that.
I don’t know what is a foul anymore !!
How the F do you not get up on screens up so much. They clearly are only jacking up 3s
I know I’m stating the obvious, but this announcing crew is KILLING me.
Fuq out of here
OG got fouled cmon
Fuck
This is ridicolus, the foul was on the body before the arm. Clown refs
Wow
Play some fucking defense
Reggie is terrible. He needs to be sidelined. TNT can’t be serious
Terrible call.
SVG stfu
Reggie has to be the worst possible choice to announce this series.
This is insane.
what the fuck
WTF is hart doing
The 3 point shot should be banned.
This is just nonsense
We lost even if we prevail here
Sickening. Can still persevere here.
We lost vs Boston, remember
I just had a heart attack when he slipped
Hart got fouled, Pacers guy pulled him down there
These refs man
These announcers should NEVER EVER be allowed to announce a Knicks game. It’s obvious they are actively rooting against the Knicks.
Hart needs to cancel whatever shoe deal he has
Fuck why did KAT take so much time on that FT??
Goddammit
Put OG on Nesmith ..geezus
This is what I signed up for
This is worse than 1995 Game 1.
I don’t think you can foul them the way we’re shooting free throws tonight.
Yuck
Jesus, what the hell is Brunson doing?
jeez Cap…wtf
12 missed free throws
Why the fuck is og shooting these man
Brunson got fouled on the inbounds no?
kill me
Unfuckingbelievable
Fucking classic
Tyrese is bush league with that bullshit
And yeah, Brunson got fouled bit whatever
Someone needs to put a hurt on tyrese
At this point I hope the Knicks get swept and everybody gets fired.
Thank God it was a 2P. Now let’s wake up and play basketball again.
I fucking hate this team
Hot take. Knicks have to win this. They don’t recover from choking away this game
Karma needs to come for Tyrese Halliburton right now. Instant karma.
Un fucking believable. Why do I do this to myself
This wasn’t even a meltdown, not really. The Pacers went on an insanely lucky run and even if we lose this game I think we’re clearly going to win the series.
Choking free throws
Nobody guarding Nesmith
Incredible choke job
We played prevent offense for the last 5 minutes. Let’s do better the next 5.
Missed FTs and the most ridiculous luck imaginable and we are in OT. This is a fucking nightmare. Haliburton is the luckiest fuck in the entire NBA
They had their flourish. Hali made a clutch shot and made his choke sign. Now let’s beat their asses.
Maybe Brunson can foul out and we can start playing good again
Thibs does this shit all the time. We had a lineup that was running Indy off the floor, why the fuck did we change it?
I can’t even watch this bullshit. Fuck tnt
Exactly. People need to chill the eff out.
0% chance we hold up in this OT
Is Brunson the reason Nesmith is open?
Big shot KAT
the Knicks can definitely take the attention off Juan Soto.
Make Hali never live down that choke signal ever in his life.
The Pacers are playing some incredibly fraudulent basketball
The refs are killing us. Everybody saw the goaltend.
Brunson is killing us, wtf are we doing?
We totally choked down the stretch like amateurs. Yes, Indiana got lucky but we were also lucky we didn’t lose in regulation. Let’s hope they will show some maturity in overtime. We showed we are the better team tonight but it’s the final score that counts
Missed goaltending call in OT of a playoff game, nice
Pags, just go away. If you are annoying me, you are really annoying.
Just me or they foul brunson on perimeter ever possession?
It worked out there, but boy, Brunson hero ball isn’t great right now.
Refs huh
Should be a foul on Nesmith with the trio
Fuck you reggie
Like how Boston fouled Brunson late, Indiana is moronically fouling him, too, when he is struggling with his shot late.
It’s so quiet when he shoots FTs
Foul was on neismith no?
We can’t get stops against these guys at all.
That’s what I thought, but I guess Hali got the reach in first.
Jesus i wish we lost to Boston
We’ve completely stopped playing defense
It should have been
Can’t get a stop to save our lives
Let’s see if a team will actually realize that they have to double Brunson in these situations.
Have to laugh .. cause .. well, you know
I hate basketball.
Luckily, the same goes for the Pacers.
I’m not sure who I hate more, Reggie, Stan or Haliburton.
How do you lose someone right now?!
That’s off Brunson
I’d have to see the tape but I think our mistakes on D have been Mitch, alas. He’s been getting lost ball-watching.
oh fuck
Shit shit shit
Shit, that’s off Brunson.
Thank God I still have the Yankees.
Damn it.
This game sucks so bad!
Why would you let OG touch the ball there????
I’m not saying we’re always a dumb team but dumb teams do deserve to lose .. and there’s alot of dumb shit we’re doing here … it’s always the tone at the top…
I’ve decided I don’t care about NBA basketball.
This has to be the biggest choke job in NY sports history.
570000 impossible threes for them, none for us.
I think I’m done with basketball now
We’re going to lose but this game actually means nothing.
I’m with you, ess-dog.
There’s a LOT of time left still. So they shouldn’t even foul here, honestly.
Thibs really created this mess with his obstinance. He refuses to follow through with in-game matchups that dictate the outcome in our favor. Taking McBride out of the game was so boneheaded.
Worst loss ever.
The airballs were not a good idea
Well that was rough
Fucking sickening
Easily. Nothing Reggie did was as bad as this.
I’ve lost all interest in watching the rest of this series.
KAT had a great look…alas.
At least the worst loss since the charles smith game
They deserve that loss and wakeup call.
Brutal loss.
They just didn’t miss down the stretch
It kind of does
+100000000000
Brunson had a good look. Airball.
Towns had an even better look. Barely hit the rim.
We did our best to lose this game.
There was no need to put Brunson in, not with the way that lineup was playing, then we went into iso-ball too early and WE MISSED A TON OF FREE THROWS.
That said, the refs killed us, first with the reversed call in regulation, then with the missed goaltending call.
Those two wrong calls just destroyed us.
I’m streaming the rest of the series illegally because fuck TNT for putting Reggie on this
Don’t blame the refs, don’t blame luck, blame us! Up by 16 on our own floor and about a dozen or so with two minutes to go. We couldn’t get a single stop down the stretch and overtime. They were getting open shop after open shot. We gave them the game.
I think this edges that, but yes, that was obviously very, very bad.
You guys think you had it bad: my area experienced a blackout with around 6+ minutes to go when we had around a 12-15 point lead. When I get to my phone I saw that there was a 3 point difference and then I saw that there was a tie game going into OT.
I’m shellshocked.
I love you guys. I mean it. I wouldn’t have lingered around here for so long if I didn’t.
They said the same thing about our game 1 win in Boston.
This means a lot, unfortunately. To let Halliburton do that on your court and not fight back, to choke all those free throws, to be so stupid down the stretch. They have a major mental edge now.
Yankees at Rockies Friday night.
the pacers just did to us what they did to the cavs…
On par with. The celtics choke jobs to us
Disgrace
Aaron Nesmith 8/9 from 3 I am going to kms
Max, you’ve typed many things I was going to say in the past few days, but you can’t blame this one on the refs. We shat the bed. So many bad decisions, one of which was hey, one of those Pacers is super hot, let’s play up on him and see if the rest of the team can beat us. Nah, let’s just let him make three after three after three after three…
I’ll just go with this.
Everything that had to go right went right, they hit every fucking shot including a high bouncer with no time left…. we looked really good until the last five minutes. Just go in there and kick their ass in game 2.
We started and finished the game playing completely ineptly on defense.
In between we did pretty good.
I think we were a little gassed at the end of the game and they are good enough offensively to take advantage, but they were also ridiculously lucky. They hit 7 3s in a row and that idiotic Haliburton shot. Variance sucks. Still, we missed 2 critical FTs. Just an absolutely horrible loss that will test their character and ability to come back. They will either fight back or be so exhausted physically and mentally get crushed in the next game.
Kftv and knickfilmschool should be a great listen
I’d avoid espn or anything else
How do you take Miles McBride out of the game where he is 20+ differential and replace him with Bridges? This loss was so epic it can only be attributed to coaching decision-making.
Nesmith was open on to many. Find him
The lineup with Deuce plus the two bigs was actually effective defensively. When we went to the five starters with 5 minutes left we just couldn’t get a stop.
It’s a bummer because we actually played well, and looked like we were going to win a game where the opponent also played well. This is like game 4 of the Celtics series in reverse. We played well enough to win but didn’t.
Our starting unit sucks and we always go to our starting unit. Stop playing those 5 together.
The finish they actually deserved. They got cocky with 7 minutes left… times were really good … pacers played like they were down big with time ticking away … we didn’t counter that energy AT ALL. IN FACT IT WAS THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE
The starting 5 got picked up by mitch early. Went on a run without Brunson in the 4th.
The lineup stats have been out for a while. Starting 5 doesn’t work good enough. You don’t need to play it so many minutes.
12 missed FTs
A loss for the pantheon
Terrible loss. We dominated them up until Nesmith started hitting every 3 he threw up and we missed free throws. You can’t let the foot off the gas…
But everything HAD to go right for the Pacers to win this. They needed a miracle performance from Nesmith, missed free throws from OG and Towns at the end, a very lucky shot from Hali to go to overtime. The refs blew several calls including an obvious goal tending in OT that would’ve put us up 6. Zac Zarba and Ben Taylor have ALWAYS given us bad games and this is no different.
I dont think the Pacers won so much as we lost it. There was so much luck involved here, I’m not as mad as I should be. Just bring it Friday and go with the mindset that you can beat these guys you guys need to hold the lead
Definitely a Thibodeau loss tonight. His first one for this playoffs. Hopefully no more.
Co-sign.
Look, everything went right for them to come back: Thibs took out a lineup that was working really well (the lineup many of us have been calling for); we missed a TON of FTs all game; they made a bunch of circus shots among the easy, open looks. Perfect (shit)storm. It isn’t likely to happen again…and Hali giving the choke sign is going to be some pretty serious motivation going forward.
Knicks in 5.
Thibs not recognizing what was effective and what wasn’t.
never seen Macri this heated
I’m going to be thinking about OG mishandling that pass under the basket for a long time.
KAT made some huge plays, especially in overtime, but when he paused for an eternity on that 2nd FT I knew we were fucked.
Always smart to take lineups that dominate out of the game when they’re cooking on both ends… part of what we do around here
But this is also another bad look for Thibs. Should’ve kept McBride in there and run a different offense when they were overloading on Brunson. He also drew up some awful inbounds offense and defense at the end of the 4th and OT.
God, I hate this loss but at least we don’t have to wait long for Game 2
I will say… I wish we had a Mase or Oakley in the paint to body slam Halliburton once or twice.
Adam Silver must be salivating at the Finals ratings for OKC vs Indiana…
Everything that could go wrong went wrong. Even Hali’s shot bricked a mile in the air before going through.
Thibs fucked up, but plenty of blame to go around.
Hubert, that wasn’t OGs fault. Re-watch that. Jerry Rice wouldn’t have come up with that ball. Brunson very weirdly spiked that ball into the ground.
So what, though? WE JUST DID THIS TO BOSTON. By stealing two wins we only had to really beat them twice.
Maybe they stole this one. It just means we have to be better than them 5 times now instead of 4.
This is a tough one to swallow. We had them on the ropes and gave the game away. We shot ourselves on the feet. This is a crushing loss and it’s going to take a lot to bounce back. I cannot believe how foolishly we defended at the end of regulation and overtime.
Seems like with a big lead and not much time on the clock you should stick with the more defense oriented lineup. Instead, we went with the starters, which is our worst possible defensive lineup.
Lol the last thing in the world I want to do is see it again!!
I believe you, though. Brunson had some really weird passes down the stretch.
dear future pt, it was even worse than you remember
I love OG to death, but despite the calm demeanor imo he has some issues with his nerves at times.
Keep mcbride in and go double dig if thibs is worried about size. Team choked and the coach made bad moves.
That fn Haliburton shot
Giving up any game is a big deal. The margins are narrow and it takes a lot less luck to win 3 of 6 than 4 of 6.
that og under the rim was a foul that didn’t get called. Clear hit on the arm
Thank you, was just going to say the same thing. Not to mention, this was a tight game the entire game until the Mitch-KAT-OG-Hart-Deuce lineup ran Indy off the floor in the 4th. It’s not like we dominated the entire game.
Yeah, awful coaching. Keep mcbride and mitch in
Kudos to Nesmith. Unbelievable shotmaking.
I’ve said this many times this season, most of the times in jest, but tonight truly was fucking embarrassing.
Yeah this was an extremely flukey loss, things went extremely right for the Pacers, etc, but it’s a 7 game series and it’s not good to lose a game you had won until a bunch of insane shit happened. Knicks in 5.
12 missed free throws is inexcuseable. But the killer misses was OG and KAT. They hit those we should win
Is there a way to watch to game in English without Reggie and Stan?
The missed goaltend is actually huuuge. NBA should change those to booth reviews
You don’t even have to consider the offensive vs defensive lineup, just watch what’s happening in the game. When KAT and Hart replaced Bridges and Brunson, we were up 94-92 with 10 minutes left in the game. Over the next 5 minutes, we went on a 17-6 run. Then, Brunson and Bridges replaced Deuce and Mitch and Indy goes on a 20-12 run over the next 4.5 minutes before Thibs calls a timeout and makes a substitution.
Obviously we shouldn’t have been playing Jalen Brunson
Probably not but if you’re streaming the game it shouldn’t be too difficult to pause the stream and get it to sync up with the radio broadcast.
The goal tending was huge, the missed FTs were huge, but it shouldn’t have come down to that! Defend the fucking 3pt line the last two-three minutes and you win. You were up by 14 with two minutes and change! On your home floor!
I feel fine because neither of these teams can beat OKC anyway.
KAT was 9-11 from the FT line, the sequencing fucking sucked but that is what it is. Aside from Indy outshooting us from 3 we turned the ball over too much
Thibs channeled JB Bickerstaff tonight with that stupid challenge. And Carlisle smartly avoided using his even though there were several times when his players were begging him to. His reward for doing so was two huge game-changing overturns in the 4Q and OT, while we were powerless to do anything with multiple calls that didn’t go our way.
Hopefully the lesson was learned. And hopefully it didn’t already cost us the series.
You never know until you play the games. Boston was suppose to be an L
Brunson scored to put the Knicks up by 9 with 58 seconds left. The only way you can possibly lose is to give up 3s and/or turn the ball over multiple times.
Coaching malpractice to allow three open 3s. They could have just stood at the 3 point arc and allow IND to get lay-ups every possession. In bound the ball and dribble out 24 seconds.
The only way InD could make up 9 points without multiple turnovers was to allow multiple 3s. Malpractice.
Yes, malpractice. They are professionals. They should know better. The coach cannot take a timeout after every play. Is it that difficult to understand that it is critical to defend the 3pt line in those moments?
Malpractice is the correct word. Find the guy who is killing you. One play OG just stares at him.
Nice of them to break that record
What especially irks me is how the coaching really made a fundamental impact on this game. You had Carlisle mixing and matching a rotation of 10 players to find any advantage he could exploit in the game against us vs. Thibs literally benching, Deuce, his most effective player during the peak of our play because his formula had the starters finishing out the game. Its just so infuriating. The guy refuses to get it.
To be clear, I don’t think we got robbed or the loss is on the refs.
We shouldn’t have been in that situation to start with, we blew the game for a miriad of reasons* and I started whining about our “prevent” iso-offense when we were up by 15 😁
But the reversed call come with 29 seconds to play, we were up 5, and instead of two free throws (a 6 or 7 points lead) Indiana hit a three and cut it to 2.
In OT we were up 4 when they missed the goaltending call** and instead Indiana hit another three and cut it to 1 (and stopped our tiny tiny tiny momentum, Pacers were scoreless to that point).
What I mean is that sometimes you can play dumb basketball and still save your skin and sometimes little details add to your inertia and the avalanche just won’t stop (rewind to the first two games in Boston).
To reverse a game like this everything had to go right for them, including a couple of lucky calls, and everything had to go wrong for us, including a couple of unlucky calls.
All just went exactly so.
There’s still a lot of basketball to play.
* One of the reason was the dumb lost challenge that handcuffed us on the two huge calls.
** it’s 2025 how in hell it’s still a human decision and reviewable only if challenged?
I think part of our inability to defend at the end was the players we had on the court, part was that we were gassed and part was horrid luck on our part.
2 of 3 of those were Thibs’s fault. It he had the right players on the court, we would have defended better and not been gassed.
The big run the Knicks made had Deuce and Mitch on the court. Maybe try stopping them from scoring and play your defenders
This is correct. Murphy’s law. It is an optimistic way of looking at how things went down tonight. One the other hand, what did we do to prevent it?
Towns only starter with a positive plus minus?
They certainly didn’t run us off the floor. We’re good enough to beat these guys and we played an excellent game for like 45 minutes. So this stings extra bad.
Now this team feels like they can overcome any fucking deficit. This is just the worst way to start off a series. Its ugly as fuck.
They win this game if you keep duece and mitch on the court
I think so
They came back from 7 vs the Cavs in 40 seconds to win. The 3 ball and stupidty of the other team will always keep a team alive.
Have to wonder what makes Thibs lean into it so much.
It’s incredible that someone that’s supposed to be a defense first coach doesn’t understand that having Deuce and Mitch on the court with OG and Bridges is a very good idea if you need stops. A team like Indiana is going to take advantage of Brunson and Towns together in some way. That’s why the starters struggle at times.
I’ve said this before, but defense is still underrated.
We don’t measure defense well so we don’t weight it properly.
The things of value you measure well will always look more important than the things of value you don’t measure well if you do a regression. The idea is to recognize you aren’t measuring certain things well and then try to determine their value another way.
When healthy, Deuce is one of the best players on the team. You have to create logical lineups with him, but he has to be on the court more. Towns and Brunson never were and still aren’t a good fit defensively unless maybe Mitch or Deuce is out there.
It’s very similar to the philly loss in game 5 last year, it just happened over a longer period of time (3 minutes instead of 30 seconds). We came back strong from that.
I was at the game and it’s not even close, the absolute worst loss I’ve ever witnessed in 40 years of attending games , regular season or playoffs.
Filing out of MSG was like leaving a funeral, total silence and stunned disbelief
Only saving grace is its game 1 and we can recover, but for 46 minutes we looked like we were going to dominate this series, and now it’s probably gonna be a long one.
KAT is KAT and, if Brunson is usually a bad defender, Brunson with 5 fouls is less useful than a traffic cone because he can’t even try the only defensive fundamental he knows (taking a charge).
The lineup was working well enough I thought Thibs would have waited to reinsert him if/when the lead goes down to single figure, I was wrong.
The starting 5 has played a billion minutes together now and still can’t defend. In a close game where you’re trading buckets, I get sticking with the starters, but in this situation we just needed a couple of stops.
Once again I was far too optimistic. I predicted Pacers in 6.
What ended up happening was Pacers in 1.
A gut punch like this to start off a series is unrecoverable. It makes what Reggie Miller did to us to start the ’95 series seem like a love tap. They completely own us mentally now. I’d be surprised if we even compete in Game 2.
As everyone in the world, this is on Thibs and his terrible fucking lineups. The starters are garbage and he is the only person in basketball that hasn’t realized it.
I just want this to be over quickly now. No team wins a series after losing like this. None.
Yeah and every top lineup you look at has Deuce in that lineup. Even going back to game 6 vs Boston, the game changed when Mitch and Deuce got on the court. This starting lineup has so many minutes together and it’s been bad for 5 months now. If you’re the coach you have to know this.
I’m glad I didn’t listen to Thib’s post game interview. I probably would have thrown something at my TV. It most likely was a lot of BS like we have to do this better, that better, and the other thing better. We have to play for 48 minutes blah blah blah. Then if questioned on any decision he made he most likely asserted something from a position of authority and no one had the balls to suggest that maybe he was wrong, thinking about it or weighing it incorrectly. He asserts a lot that BS that no one questions.
Gotta beat them 4 out of 6. Do-able. They’re not that great.
IMO, we are well past the point of it being noise. That’s especially true because we can visually see and measure some of the problems.
This is just one game. We may still win this series. But we all know some of the issues with fit and creating balanced lineups at this point. When we lose because the coach seemingly still hasn’t figured it out, it can be very frustrating.
I hope we win this series and beat whoever is in the finals, but if I was Leon I would still make some significant changes if I could pull something off.
This is why you’re full of shit.
We won a game JUST LIKE THIS against Boston, in fact TWO of them, and you were swearing we were going to lose that series after games three and five.
Sure, we won the series. But that’s not the song you were singing literally in the last round.
We were gonna lose that series according to you even inflicting the same exact kind of loss that’s apparently impossible to recover from.
We have the better team 1-7.
They have the deeper team.
They have the better coach.
They are going to try to wear us down.
How that eventually nets out is anyone’s guess. We sort of knew that how we defended 3s and how they were shooting was one of the keys, but it’s a killer that it happened in game one when we were in complete control and then it went into OT. They stole home court and the extra minutes surely aren’t a positive.
The Knicks lost a game that we were exceedingly unlikely to lose. There is a lot of blame to be shared. There is also a lot of credit to be heaped upon the Pacers’ shooting in the last three minutes of regulation. I doubt that Nesmith could hit that many threes in a row unguarded in warmups.
I doubt not know if Thibs will learn lessons from this loss. I hope he does. For me, the most important lesson is that KAT cannot play defense against a Pacers team that does not put either Turner or Bryant on the floor.
We have no killer instinct. Up by 17 and we relax. Unacceptable! No, coaching did not make the difference tonight. We do have one of the best coaches in the NBA. The players approach made the difference. You can’t think “we got these guys” and it’s over.
Rough, the lineup that got that lead Thibs took them out.
Jk – Pags is the Halliburton of Knickerblogger. He says asinine, infuriating shit because he wants to get under your skin. Just scroll past! (Or install knickerblocker in Chrome)
Home court advantage seems a lot less valuable than it was 20+ years ago. No question we can win one or two games in Indiana over the course of the series.
Weakie, I told you once before, it is not as simple as a video game. You can’t keep Deuce in and Brunson out, and so on and so forth. It is much more complicated than “it’s Thibs fault.” You write this every time. Remember that you were saying the same about Pitino right before he won the Coach of the Year award. Have some humility! These people understand more basketball than us. It is not as easy as one, two, three. At the end of the day, it is up to the players to execute, and our players did not execute at the end of the game tonight.
We beat Boston 4 out of 6. We can beat these clowns 4 out of 6
Clowns! I like this!
oh they executed alright, just very poorly…
man, now i gotta avoid espn for a couple of days, don’t even think i wanna watch the wolves/thunder now…poop…
i blame this all on you donnie…somehow, someway – your happiness seems to be getting some kind of preferential treatment over mine…feels not fair…
edit: just remembered ATH is down to just 2 shows left, so gonna watch some espn…the panel today split on knicks/pacers…started to get a little nervous when mina kimes picked pacers in six, she’s usually pretty right on most stuff, football mostly, but…
FWIW I thought Reggie Miller was fine.
I’ve never said anything about Pitino
Not just like this. As strat pointed out, playoff teams up 14+ with 2:45 to go were 994-0 before today. This choke job is unprecedented in recorded NBA history. Boston bled leads away slowly. We got our souls owned.
BOS was a far superior team and the defending champs, who had just recently shown the ability to come back from 3-0 to force a game 7, and likely would have won that game 7 if not for Tatum getting hurt. We were about even money in betting markets even after going up 2-0. Here we are at best evenly matched and just showed IND that we’ll bemd right over for them in front of our home crowd whenever they want. We are now significant underdogs to win the series.
We’re fucked and everyone here knows it.
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