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The Herd with Colin Cowherd
Pacers-Knicks Reaction: Jalen Brunson needs help, Indiana "Best Team in NBA"
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I mean he's a disaster at the free throw line. It looks awful. The results are awful. Miles Turner is hitting threes in the corner for the Pacers. A much better offensive player than Mitchell Robinson. Carl Anthony Towns and say AKAM are both gifted offensive players. I love Sayocam's game, but Carl Anthony Towns is a complete liability defensively. So if you just take the bigs for the Pacers and the bigs for the Knicks, to me that's the difference in the ball game. You've got Mitchell Robinson, that's all defense and then Cat, that's all offense. Whereas with Turner and Sayakam, they're more balanced players to have. I mean, just think about how good the Pacers are compared to the Reggie Miller Pacers. Okay, The Reggie Miller Pacers, they made documentaries about those teams. Reggie Miller could shoot. Then it was a bunch of guys you didn't want near an 18 footer. Everybody can shoot on the Pacers. Miles Turner's cranking up threes. Siakam's got incredible feet and hands for a big runs the floor like he's a guard. Halliburton, they just got dudes and, and just offense is easy for them. Halliburton in the first half wasn't scoring. But when you get into the second half, there's a reason that the Pacers are such a clutch team. They're great. The Knicks slowed the pace down tonight, so that really played to the Knicks style. But let's be honest, you need Brunson to hit a lot of tough shots. That's the New York Knicks offense. You need him to hit a lot of tough shots. And Carl Anthony Towns is a gifted offensive player. But again, you get into situations where really well coached teams. I mean you have Carlisle's a great coach. You have Halliburton is one of the smartest players in the league. Then you have Siakam on the pick and rolls. They're just working Cat. Cat's a total liability. And the Celtics picked on him, the Cavs picked on him and Indiana picked on him when they faced during the regular season. And you can shore up some things. You know, again, everybody plays better defense in the postseason, but there are just your game is your game. And Cat's a bit of a defensive liability. Not. Not he is. And so if you just look at the bigs for these two teams, it's a mismatch for the Pacers, two really capable offensive guys, especially Siakam. The other thing is Channing Fry was on my show a couple days ago on FS1 and he said, he goes, I don't really consider New York. When I played against the Knicks, New York wasn't a road game. Like New Yorkers just, they pump you up. They love great talent and like they're appreciative of it. It's not a small town, it's Rucker park, it's Broadway. You're performing for New Yorkers. And the truth is Indiana is such an effortless, smart, well run offense. They've won six straight road games. You get the same game out of Indiana regardless of where they play. New York, they're only two and five in their last seven home games. So it's like, I mean, we gotta be honest about this. Where Indiana plays doesn't matter. And it reminds me a little bit, you know, I go back to the Showtime Lakers and I don't know what their road record was, but I can remember watching the Lakers with magic home and away just didn't. I mean they were better at home, but when you're great offensively and points come easy and you noticed the pace was very much in the Knicks favor. But then all of a sudden you get into the fourth quarter, there's six minutes left, there's five minutes left and the Pacers just keep moving the ball up the floor and their bigs can run the floor and they just get some easier baskets that the Knicks don't get. The Knicks once again very reliant on Jalen Brunson hitting a great difficult shot, which. Which he often does, I mean, give you a sense of how dependent the Knicks are on Brunson. He's got 79 points in two games and they're down.02 at home. So I really like New York, but they're lopsided Cat, no defense. Mitchell Robinson, you don't want him near the free throw line. I feel like, you know, Hardenstein's the guy they, you know, that's the guy they let go to okc. They couldn't afford him. Totally understandable. But, boy, they miss. They miss his sort of relentless offensive rebounding. And he was just so dangerous and so urgent and so active, and I feel like they miss him. And I think you just need another. Another offensive piece. I don't think you need Giannis if you're the Knicks, maybe it's kd. I just feel you need another consistent offensive piece because you want Robinson on the floor late because you don't want to get burned on the pick and roll. Indiana just has the ability. And again, so smartly coached. Halliburton, so bright, say Occam. These are really high functioning players. They just know how to get better shots more consistently work the ball, great pacing. This is a really good team. The Knicks are losing to a really, really good team. The east is so much weaker than the west, it's hard to kind of evaluate. But the more I watch the Pacers, I think they're the best team in the NBA. I mean, they were a buzzsaw through Milwaukee, a buzzsaw through Cleveland, and now they've gone to New York. They're up two zero. They're on fire. And this is, you know, they've had the fastest pace in the NBA the last three years. Even when the Knicks slowed them down tonight, they're still shooting incredible field goal percentages. Over 41% on threes. Didn't hit, you know, missed some free throws, but they're not reliant on that. They're not reliant on the three. Sometimes you lose to a better team. And as much as defense is appreciated, both teams, you know, it's much easier to defend the Knicks. So the Knicks can be a better defensive team than the Pacers, but the Pacers have really good length. They've got excellent length and they're good enough defensively to, in the big moments, late, stop a fairly limited offensive team in the Knicks, but I think we did this, to me, is more about the Pacers than criticizing the Knicks. Knicks were a good team. The Pacers are special. I love. I said this probably a month ago. It was during the Milwaukee series. I had said this. I love watching Indiana play. Indiana plays basketball. It's my kind of basketball. I get so tired of Boston and this parade of threes. It's just so repetitive. I love what the Pacers do. I just love the way they play. I love when your bigs have touch. And Siakam is so good. He is so good. It's great in Toronto. You also know that it's really something to watch. Like Halliburton kind of toy, like he can shoot. He got that big three late against Brunson. Halliburton is. It's just. He's just at times sort of toying the in the out, the herky jerk. He's just got kind of an awkward pace and he's a lot to guard. Whereas Brunson, smaller leverage, he doesn't love to be trapped. Halliburton just kind of welcomes everything. He can go full speed, he can go half court. If you double him, he can squeeze through it. He gets rid of the ball quickly. There's just so many layers to Halliburton's game, I think. And this is a well constructed. You know, we've been talking a lot about this okc really well constructed. Indiana's really well constructed. There's some Boston, there's some really good general managers in this league. But you know, the people that complain about the NBA go back to those Knicks Pacers, Spike Lee, you know, documentary series. Go look at Indiana skill level then and now. There are so many good players. What Biggs can do now, running the floor and the touch around the basket, the hands, the feet. It's incredible to watch. And I don't think anybody in this league like Oklahoma City is really good, but it's SGA and a really deep roster in defense. I mean, I think we're watching it here. Like Minnesota's just got some. They just got some limitations offensively, as do the Knicks. I mean, you could argue Indiana against OKC would be a much better series and so would the Knicks against the T Wolves. Those two teams would match up really, really well. Like Minnesota. Mitchell Robinson, limited offensively for the Knicks. Carl Anthony Towns, limited offensively for the T Wolves. Like the T Wolves and the Knicks feel more similar where you have one guy that you really trust to get points in a Brunson or an ant and then you cross your fingers on a Julius Randle and how much you get out of Carl Anthony Towns who can get into foul trouble, who's atrocious defensively. OKC, Indiana are. It's going to be Indiana's offense and OKC's defense. It's going to be a classic final. But. And I do think New York will go to Indiana and the games will be close. I think just the way these teams are built, you know, but it feels like, man, you are just. You just need Brunson to hit big shot after big shot late. And Halliburton doesn't face that pressure. He can hit the shots. Get it to Neesmith, Turner, say, Occam, he's just got more offensive options. Sometimes the better team, especially offensively, the more gifted team prevails. And that's what I feel like. I'm watching fast pace, Pacers slow the pace. Eventually Pacers hitting big shots late. And just a side note, these are the two oldest coaches in the NBA, Rick, Carlile and Tibbs. And this, the intensity and the urgency these teams play with every possession three minutes into the game. Every possession matters. Every possession. What I love about the NBA, you have. Because these teams aren't young. I mean, there's some younger players, but you've got guys who have been around the league for a while. You've got really committed players on these rosters. Like, these players really care. And these coaches are squeezing every last ounce of talent, skill, and every last possession out of these teams. I mean, it's just great American sports. These rosters and these teams, man, they're just, they, they're not taking possessions off. I mean, I'm sitting there in the first quarter and the first quarter was low scoring. Remember in game one, it was like both teams shooting 70%. It was like AAU basketball. Nobody was guarding anybody, but I mean, the offense was just so highly skilled. It was just a track meet. And, you know, this game, it was low scoring, but the intensity, both teams playing just really intentional basketball, like every possession matters. I've said this about college basketball. Even the good teams like, like Florida or Houston playing for the national championship, you can go eight possessions and you just get bad shots. And there's just limitations on, you know, who you want the ball getting into the hands of. I mean, you watch the Pacers, like every offensive possession, if you're not ready to roll, if you're not locked in, they're getting a great shot. They're getting a wide open jumper from the corner. It could be Miles Turner, it could be Naismith. You have to be so on it defensively when you play Indiana because they are ready to run at any opportunity. And if not, they're just going to move it. Everybody touches it. And if you're not zoned in, they get easy looks. They are a pain in the butt to face. Indiana's won six straight road games for a reason. The volume.
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