00:00Okay, so the Knicks are six-point favorites tonight.
00:03That's up a half from the last game.
00:06The total is 226 in this one.
00:09I would expect the Knicks to play better and maybe win.
00:14But as we've talked about, I cannot get off Indiana here.
00:18I still think that is the play plus the points.
00:21And I do think inevitably they're going to head to the NBA Finals here.
00:25But I guess the question is twofold.
00:27Can the Knicks even win this, and can you make a case for the Knicks covering?
00:31I can't.
00:33I think the Knicks can win the game.
00:34I don't know if they can cover just because of the style of play that Indiana plays with.
00:38They play at such a pace.
00:40They play faster than anyone the Knicks have seen in the postseason so far.
00:43Detroit was a half-court team.
00:45Boston took a lot of threes, but they didn't run up and down.
00:47They were more of a half-court team that allowed the Knicks to get back and set their defense.
00:51And Indiana doesn't want to do that.
00:53They know that they have a deeper team than the Knicks.
00:55They just want to wear them out over the course of this series.
00:58And whether that's in between games or whether that's over the long haul, I think Indiana, to your point, is going to go to the NBA Finals because the Knicks are just going to run out of gas at some point, whether it's in Game 5 or Game 6.
01:10And if it makes it to Game 7, we'll see a very, very tired Knicks team, even with the home crowd, kind of failing to make those big-time shots, and Indiana will go to the Finals.
01:19So you're right about that, but I do think that if the Knicks are going to win a game, it's going to be in front of their home crowd.
01:24It's going to be here tonight, and they have an opportunity to tie the series up and make it – make, you know, some of those New Yorkers believe a little bit more than they did after that Monday night game – or that Game 1 collapse.
01:35Yeah, and certainly the Knicks can win a game in Indiana, but, you know, if they lose tonight, it's not going to feel very optimistic.
01:42By the way, look at Jalen Brunson's point total tonight, 29.5.
01:46My gosh, that's really high.
01:48Who do you think goes off tonight or not in the group between New York and Indiana?
01:53We've got 20 seconds.
01:53Sorry, Crum.
01:54Yeah, I take the under on Jalen Brunson, and I actually take the over on Pascal Siakam, who was quiet in Game 1.
02:00Look for him to be a little bit more aggressive in Game 2.
