Colin Cowherd Podcast - INSTANT REACTION: Knicks Beat Pacers In Game 1

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All right, instant reaction on the Knicks narrow win at home, trailed for much of the game,

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but made the big plays down the end and the fourth. Once again, the Nova Trio combined for 92 points, shot 60% from the field, 50% from three, and only sat for 10 minutes. Indiana is a deeper team. You know, Indiana, over a six or seven game series, should be fresher in game six or seven, but the garden's a tough place. I mean, I really felt for long portions of the game. Indiana, it felt like the Knicks were chasing the Pacers for three and a half quarters. But then the Knicks, the Ventenzodraws the foul, and that was the right call. They went to the replay. You know, people will say, I don't love it being called at that time. It's the right call. You know, whenever I hear, well, I wouldn't call it in that moment. Well, okay, 30 seconds earlier, is it okay?Is it a minute earlier? Is it okay? You know, it's the right call. So the Pacers are a deeper team. But again, DeFingenzo, Josh Hart, Jalen Brunson, they all made huge plays down the stretch. I mean, Josh Hart is, you're just not going to get many offensive nights like that from Josh Hart.But I will say this about the Knicks, especially in big spots, there are very intentional team. They have almost no bad possessions. And they're a limited offensive team. So they come down. They're very intentional. They get good looks. I mean, Jalen Brunson is just too quick. His first steps insane. For his size, he gets so many good shops. I mean, he really does. He canreally quickly separate. Indiana is going to be a handful. They're long. Miles Turner. They had a couple of the best dunks of the season. Former Nick Obie Toppin. That was an ode to New York on that between the leg slam dunk. And then Aaron Neesmith also had one of the most vicious dunks I've seen in the playoffs. But despite the bench, early in the game, I wrote this down, the bench points in the first half were Indiana, 27 New York won. So I keep saying to myself, how long can New York keep playing these guys maximum minutes? At some point they wear down, but they don't.They didn't against Philadelphia. And the Knicks, there's a lot of self-belief when you watch New York. Like, they're a very confident offensive team down the stretch. I mean, DeVincenzo sort of a bounce around the league guy. Every time you let go with the ball late in the game, you thought it's in, playing with a ton of confidence.And that's what winning breeds. And New York is playing, it feels like above itself, but we have to remember, are they playing above themselves in the Eastern Conference against these teams? I mean, Indiana's young, you start looking at the East right now with Dame and Janus missing their series, most of it for Dame. I mean, the Knicks, I've watched all these teams. They looked like the second best team in the East. I thought Philadelphia had more talent and beats hurt, what's new, And they were the better team, especially in second half, especially infourth quarters. So I, you know, I have copious notes here. You know, third quarter, Nicks, I thought were getting into a little trouble. And then New York starts the fourth with an eight-nothing run. Then later they have either a seven or a nine-nothing run, Brunton hits a big shot. So I think it like in football, we would call the Knicks a very good situational football team. They make the plays when you have to make the plays. And that's what I see when I watch New York. That Villanova hustle effort,Brunson's unstoppable, gets incredibly good shots, effective. You know, they pass the ball incredibly well. They, you know, it'd be easy to say the Knicks know what they're not, but they're playing with such belief right now. In the Eastern Conference, I don't know. I mean, Boston's deeper, better, has more high-end talent. But when I watch New York play, I think their belief in a late game against the Celtics, I don't know. I mean, my concerns about Boston are late gamesituations. New York is money late. They are great late. Just so many big shots, so many big runs. People are going to talk about DeFigenzo Miles Turner and that blocking call, but he was moving. And, you know, I think in situations like that, you just, you know, I don't love at the end of NBA games how many reviews they have, but you got to get it right. They're pretty quick.There were three or four go-either-way plays that if you didn't have replay, that's all I'd talk about tomorrow on FS-1. That's all I would talk about. But the replays get it right, and the New York Knicks made the big plays late and deserved a win. It's crazy. You know, they are right now the best watch easily in the playoffs. Indiana's got a good team. Halliburton's not as good as he wasearlier in the season. They've got good length. They've got a tremendous bench. T.J. McConnell, you know, for a little guy to make the league and not be able to shoot threes very well, is strange. But he's a bit of a thorn. You know, he, you know, you could see him later in the series being a thorn for the Knicks. But, you know, these basketball games in the playoffs are close. And a lot of it is, do you have really intentional possessions?And they did. And New York's excellent defensively, they gave up a couple, a couple of open jumpers in the second half, which is rare for New York. But, you know, I felt three quarters of the game, Indiana was going to win. No question, though, five minutes left. I just felt like New York would make the big buckets at home, feeding off the energy at the garden, which is incredible. I love watching New York play. I'm trying to think of a team that reminds me of this team.And, I mean, that Miami team in the bubble that was young and got to the final against the Lakers and lost, that was a, you know, you had some youth. You know, that was the year that a lot of the older teams in the bubble got injured, underachieved. And Miami was that rare young team that got into the playoffs and just played over at skis. And, but I, you know, when I watch the Knicks, I keep waiting for reality with Josh Hart. You know, I look at his career average. I look at the player he is or Die Vincenzo.And they keep making big plays and big shots, you know. I'm waiting for it to end, and it hasn't. So big, big win, especially off how exhausting that series was against Philadelphia to come out with that kind of game and those kind of minutes. The Villanova guys were worth 92 points and only sat for 10 minutes. 60% on field goals, 50% on threes. That's crazy. Playoff, playoff numbers. That's crazy on a Tuesday night in Orlando in January when teams are coming off a back-to-back and nobody's playing defense. To do it in the playoffs is insane. Instantreaction. The volume. The NBA playoffs are heating up. 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