Jalen Brunson scored 32 points and the Knicks dominated the Pacers to send the Eastern Conference finals back to Indiana. Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni react to the Knicks defensive effort and Tom Thibodeau’s bench mob. The, the Athletic’s Shakeia Taylor joins the show to discuss the Pacers’ lack of energy and how they bounce back in game 6.Host: Dave DuFourWith: Es Baraheni & Shakeia TaylorExecutive Producer: Andrew SchlechtAudio Producer: Grayson Moody Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What happened in Game 5 between the Knicks and Pacers?
For listeners of the show, you guys probably are aware that me and S and Zena all chose Pacers in six. So did Shakia Taylor. She's here. She's covering the Pacers. Pacers have a chance to go home and close it out in six after what we can only describe as a disappointing performance in game five. Shakia, those guys just they didn't show up.
they came out completely flat. I mean, there was no aggression. There was no force. There was nothing. The game got away from them pretty much right away. In the beginning, I thought they weren't playing well, but they proved me right even more so as the game went on.
Yeah, I wonder about like just the effort to start the game and the physical like we were talking about the physicality, the tone that New York set. What were guys saying postgame about kind of setting the tone early and how that was just off tonight from the Pacers side?
Tyrese Halliburton actually, as he typically does after a game like that, he took it all on himself. I didn't set the tone. I didn't set the pace. I wasn't aggressive. Pascal Siakam, same thing. Like everybody who we heard from tonight, you know, we heard from Halliburton, Siakam, Benedict Matherin. Andrew Nimhard, everyone was saying the exact same thing is we didn't come out with enough force.
We didn't come out aggressively. We let them set the tone and they controlled it from the beginning, which obviously is a very accurate assessment of the game. Even Rick Carlisle, you know, he gave credit to the Knicks. Like he, you know, wasn't just putting it on the Pacers playing poorly, but the Knicks played well. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, look, the Knicks defense, they changed a lot. You know, they started picking up Halliburton much earlier, you know, trying to force the ball out of his hands. They really just they continuously punched at the Pacers when they were trying to get into things. And it just felt like they couldn't get a rhythm all night. You know, the starters especially.
That was it was their worst game of the playoffs for sure. It's the worst game I can remember since like January, you know, when this group got together. You know, was there anything that that they pointed to that the Knicks did in particular that threw them off guard or was it just an off night in their opinion?
Halliburton actually said that, you know, that the basics as far as what the Knicks have been doing was still there. They obviously didn't want to give too much credit to the Knicks for keeping them out of the game. But I mean, the Knicks defensively, as you already said, never let the Pacers get in rhythm. None of the starters did really well.
In fact, the highest score, you know, for the Pacers was Benedict Matherin, who came off the bench yeah that is a huge deal um typically their depth is always a positive but when the starters cannot get going the depth doesn't really matter that much
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