00:00Knicks fans, cover your ears.
00:02I'm about to say something encouraging.
00:04You've seen points in every game where the Knicks look like the Knicks.
00:09It can be a three-minute stretch, a four-minute stretch,
00:12or whatever it is.
00:13You see stretches where they're defensively getting after it,
00:18the ball is popping and moving around,
00:19and they look like the team they look like in the playoffs,
00:21and then the effort tails off.
00:25Jalen Brunson said it last night.
00:26I asked him, like, hey, there are times where you look like this,
00:29and then what happens is that we get a little satisfied.
00:31You know what I mean?
00:32And that's a very honest and human emotion.
00:36Last year, the Knicks tightened the screws and teams folded, okay?
00:42The Cavs folded in game one.
00:44They weren't competitive after game one.
00:47Philly folded.
00:48This is a new Philly team.
00:50Atlanta folded after the first half of game four, right?
00:55Folded, cooked, done.
00:57That's what the Knicks were used to doing.
00:59When we decide that the game is over, you're going to oblige.
01:03That's not the case anymore.
01:05Teams know what's coming now.
01:07So while they're figuring themselves out, they can scout.
01:10They know exactly how the Knicks are going to play.
01:12Townsend's going to get the ball at the elbow.
01:13At the top, you're going to move.
01:15You're going to have some cutters.
01:16You're going to try to create some confusion.
01:18Somebody's going to cut to the rim.
01:19Somebody's going to pop out to the three-point line.
01:21If not, dribble, handoff, boom, you're flowing to pick and roll.
01:23Teams know how to guard and defend that because there's so much tape.
01:27Why the Knicks don't have tape on these new teams?
01:29You're going to have a lot of tape on these new teams.
01:29You're going to have a lot of tape on them.
