The refs are one-sided as hell right now. Missing aggressive actions by the Knicks but calling it on the Pistons
I mean we hanging tight with a better team without two guys who would be in our top 7 in our rotation, including a guy who may have been our #2 scorer. A big trade wouldn't shock me, but we playing tight missing two key guys. Unsure how the team looks full strength still
I've got a lot of gripes about officiating and the bullshit the Knicks do, but that's not one of my gripes. That's never getting called.
After watching tonight, I miss game 2 Brunson. Him playing that way is basically our only chance in this series and it was so egregious that he had to fix it.
Team has some glaring holes still. Keep having to tell myself they are ahead of schedule and playing without Stew and Ivey. But this is still fun
Realistically, young teams don't win because young players don't have well enough rounded games. They're still trying to figure it out and develop who they are. Duren is still wildly inconsistent and Ausar is nowhere close on offense. Playing on a team with Duren only makes that harder for him. It sucks because Ausar is the only guy we have who can defend Brunson and we can't play him big minutes when the Knicks get everyone involved and score like this. A year from now, hopefully that's a bit different. At the end of the day, the Knicks have 4 of the 5 best players in this series by any measure. And Cade isn't on a level where he can be the best player on a court with Brunson every night because Brunson's really good. If we win game 4 and extend it to another game, that's a very good performance for this group.
I really want to see one of those random 15 point Ausar games because that would mean we can keep him on the floor to defend Brunson.