Jalen Brunson had 29 points and the Knicks erased a 20-point deficit to take game 1 over the Boston Celtics. Dave DuFour and Zena Keita react to the Knicks comeback win, discuss the Celtics awful shooting night, and Denver’s surprise win in Oklahoma City. Then, Andrew Schlecht joins the show after the crushing Thunder loss to talk about what went wrong against Nikola Jokić and the Denver Nuggets.Host: Dave DuFourWith: Zena Keita & Andrew SchlechtExecutive Producer: Andrew SchlechtAudio Producer: Grayson Moody Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Chapter 1: How did the Knicks manage to defeat the Celtics?
Guten Morgen und willkommen zu den NBA Daily. Kommt eine verrückte Nacht des Playoff-Basketballs. Die Knicks verletzen die Celtics. Wir haben Andrew Schlecht hier, um über das Wunderblöken von Game 1 zu den Nuggets zu sprechen. Guten Morgen, alle. Guten Morgen, Zena. Good morning, Dave. Man, what a night. Yeah, second round is coming out throwing haymakers.
So far, all of the home teams have dropped game one. We're going to have obviously the Warriors going to play the Timberwolves tonight for game one of that series. We'll see if that holds. But, you know, the Celtics had a 20 point lead. Last night, Zena, and I thought that was it. I thought the game was over. And then all of a sudden, one of those epic Celtics droughts just kicked in.
Chapter 2: What went wrong with the Celtics' shooting strategy?
They finished the game 15 out of 60 from three. And that's the first number I'm going to point to. Aside from the final score, which was 108-105, the Knicks get a big win in overtime. But it's hard to win basketball games if you're going to miss 45 threes, Zena.
Yeah, especially in the fourth quarter, going four of 22. And it's important to note that Celtics took 97 shots in this game. And 60 of them were from three. This is what they do, but they didn't do it well. You've been sitting at home waiting for the Knicks to finish that grueling series with the Detroit Pistons.
And yet somehow the Knicks enter Boston and find a way to play those Tom Thibodeau minutes. and win playing hardball basketball. Just going after every loose ball, jumping higher, running faster. Every single aspect of their game was just who wanted it more. Shout out to Mikael Bridges. Shout out to OGN and OB.
Dropped 29 points alongside what we always know Jalen Brunson to do, who also had 29 points, just cooking in the clutch. It was unbelievable. Bravo, bravo, Nix, bravo.
You know, you gotta, I'll point to this. First half of this game, I thought Boston came out, you can see their game plan. We're gonna attack Jalen Brunson, we're gonna attack Carl Anthony Towns, put both of those guys in foul trouble. Smart, right? It limits their offensive options at the other end. But then Boston just... did this thing in the second half where they just started chucking threes.
And they were already shooting a lot of threes, but this felt like rushed. It was one pass, get a shot up. You know, even like off an offensive rebound, you know, usually you'd get a reset. It was sometimes guys just dribbling straight to the three-point line and firing up a shot instead of attacking the basket.
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Chapter 3: How did the Knicks' defense outperform the Celtics?
Look, when Carl Anthony Towns is the center, that's the time to go to the basket, like get to the rim. You know, Mitchell Robinson did a much better job protecting the rim, but he didn't play all that much. See, I just can't understand why the Celtics, you know, they won't just put their head down and drive.
But we should swing this and give some credit to the Knicks, because they did mount the comeback. And fourth quarter, Jalen Brunson steps up big. Und er hat fast das Spiel gewonnen, du weißt, mit dem Floater am Ende der Regulierung. Aber er fordert die Überzeit, aber nur durch, du weißt, was er tut. Er hat schwere Schüsse, ist auf die Freethrow-Line gekommen.
Und du weißt, mit den Celtics, sie haben einfach nicht stoppt, Drei zu schießen. Und einfach, du weißt, ich höre nicht, als wäre hier ein gebrochenes Rekord, aber es scheint, als ob sie diesen einen wegschieben lassen. Kind of by being stubborn. It's a little bit like Tin Cup. You know, he makes the bad shot and they're just like, well, keep giving him the ball.
So, you know, between that and so Jalen Brunson, though, down the stretch was awesome in this game. But Mikael Bridges in overtime, what he did defensively, he was just involved in every single play. He steals the inbound pass. You know, Fred Katz wrote about him adding physicality back in for his defense. I think we saw that a lot.
Absolutely. The physicality is exactly what made Boston uncomfortable all throughout this game, but particularly the way that they played in the half court. It's as if they took a tip from the Pistons into this series because you saw them shrink the floor. Everything that New York did in terms of making Boston feel as if they had to play closer to the basket without Kristaps Borzingas.
Those threes weren't happening and they couldn't find any success inside the paint. And I want to say that Josh Hart, 53 Minuten, richtig? Wir können viel Kredit an Jalen Brunson geben. Wir können viel Kredit an Mikkel Bridges geben, der große Schüsse getroffen hat, insbesondere einen in der Überzeit. Und ein Obi in der Strecke, unglaublich auch. Aber Josh Hart mit dem Rebounding.
mit dem Hustle, 50-50-Ball und der Defense, die er gespielt hat, war der Spielschützer, in meiner Meinung. Wenn Josh Hart nicht auf dem Boden war, was er für die Knicks gemacht hat, dann hätten sie nicht diesen Wettbewerb gewonnen.
Er hat den Ton gesetzt. He's their best center sometimes. He had 11 rebounds in the game. Again, Karl-Anthony Towns, he picks up his fifth foul pretty late in the game. But having that early foul trouble, Tom Thibodeau kind of fouls him out in the second quarter and just takes him off the court. I think that that's a mistake.
The Knicks probably don't have the deficit that they face going into the second half. If Karl-Anthony Townsend is out there. But, you know, again, the Boston game plan seemed pretty clear. Go after Brunson, go after Cat. And then they just abandoned it. And frankly, the Knicks took advantage, just continued to pressure on defense. Boston started throwing the ball away a little bit.
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Chapter 4: What was the key to the Nuggets' unexpected win over OKC?
Es fühlt sich einfach an, als ob die Nuggets, ähm, du weißt, wiederum, Jokic macht so viel, um sie in diesen Spielen zu halten. Und dann, jeden Tag und dann steigt einer dieser Rollplayer-Jungs auf.
Ja, es war eigentlich wirklich lustig zu sehen, dass das Spiel sehr ähnlich zu der Art und Weise, wie die Denver Nuggets zurück in dieses Spiel kamen. Du hast Jokic gesehen, dass wir nicht gut in dieser Halbzeit-Defense können, was OKC an sie ausgibt. Also jedes Mal, als Jokic den Rebound hatte, im ersten, dritten und vierten Quartal, er hat es einfach ausgelöst. Dieser Waterpolo-Aspekt von ihm.
und den Ball hochzuhalten und den Ball an die Outlets zu bringen, funktionierte. Und Russell Westbrook war so schnell und so schnell wie er ist. Er war normalerweise das Outlet Pass. Und es war genau das gleiche Spiel, das du am Ende des Spiels gesehen hast. Russell Westbrook brachte aus, fand sofort seinen offenen Mann und Aaron Gordon knallte die drei, besonders die beiden.
Die beiden waren die, die die zwei Schüsse verletzt haben. Das könnte sie im vierten Quartal aufbauen. Also der Fakt, dass sie sich für diesen momentanen Winn verabschiedet haben, war wirklich cool und perfekt serendipitös. Es war einfach alles perfekt. Mein Lieblingspunkt war, Aaron Gordon konnte es kaum zu Stephanie Reddy erklären.
Ja.
After his post-game interview, he was as speechless as I was watching it. He tried to gather his thoughts when she said, why did you go for a three knowing you were only down one? And it took him a second to gather eventually that the right guy will find the right shot, essentially. I'm paraphrasing, but that's what he got to. But he looked like a deer in headlights.
He couldn't believe what he did.
I wish he would have just said, well, you know, I had a little bit of a brain fart there. I mean, the truth is like, you know, I mean, he catches the ball in transition with three seconds left and he's wide open and it's in stride. I mean, it's a great shot if this is like any other point of the game. And he does nail it. But man, my man, my coach brain flips on there.
It's like it's a layup, you know.
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Chapter 5: Should the Thunder be worried after losing to the Nuggets?
Und so those guys getting in foul trouble early, you're going to see Dagnall find some creative way to ensure that those guys aren't in foul trouble. J-Dub's going to come back and play, be the Robin to the Batman of Shea. I'm not concerned. If anything, it's fuel.
We'll see what happens. I don't know. I don't know. We're going to talk to Andrew Schlecht about it after the break and see if he's worried. I don't know. I bet he's not either. Thunder drop game one and lose home court advantage. And you were in the building to talk about it. Andrew Schlecht here hanging out with us. What the hell happened in OKC? We were shocked. What happened?
That was a very jarring sequence. It really didn't feel like Denver was going to win that game until literally the shot went down from the wing right over here.
Yeah.
From Aaron Gordon. It felt like the Thunder were just going to like, like they're hanging on by a thread. Right. At the end of this game. I think they were out executed. von einem Team, das viel mehr Erfahrung als sie hat. Das Wichtigste an diesem Match-Up ist, dass die Thunder fast alle Vorteile haben. Außer Erfahrung. Das ist das Einzige.
Und wenn es in der Länge dieses Spiels kam, waren sie komplett ausgezeichnet. Von der 6-Minuten- und 28-Minuten-Marke des vierten Quartals bis zum Ende des Spiels wurden sie 26-11 ausgezeichnet. Und viel davon war nur Exekution. Sie haben zu viel gespielt. Sie haben die Nuggets auf der Linie zu leicht gespielt. Sie haben nicht viel gespielt. Die Nuggets nicht. Die Thunder gab es ihnen.
Und dann die letzte Sequenz, die Strategie. Und jeder hat es gefühlt. Man konnte die Nervosität in der Arena fühlen. Als sie mit den 10 Sekunden übrig waren, oder ich glaube, es waren vielleicht 14 Sekunden übrig, war es wie... Sind wir sicher? Ich denke, alle werden sagen, sind Sie sicher, dass das, was Sie tun sollten?
Denn wirklich, lasst ihn den Ball auf den Platz bringen, nehmt fünf oder sechs Sekunden von der Uhr und dann schießt, wenn Sie diese Strategie ausführen wollen. Und ich denke einfach, dass es nur diese kleinen Dinge gibt, die der Thunder gemacht hat. Und es war für den Thunder, es war ein Tod durch 1.000 Schüsse. Es war nicht nur ein Fehler.
Ich glaube, es war der offizielle Fehler, aber auch die Verletzungen, die Verletzungen, die Verletzungen, die Verletzungen, die Verletzungen.
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