It was nice to see the Knicks actually come away with a win opening night, like the Rangers.

But, you know, again, you know, the Knicks didn't, I didn't think they shot all that well. But what they did do is they made their free throws. And they hit 18 more free throws than the Cleveland Cavaliers did. And they did something that they were unable to do last year. And that was beat the Cavaliers in the regular season. And, you know, I know the couple guys are missing here and there, but it was interesting.

Huck Portsy started. that they were unable to do last year, and that was beat the Cavaliers in the regular season.

And, you know, I know the couple guys were missing here and there, but it was interesting. The Huck Pordy started last night. He did. That was really interesting for me. And kind of, you know, kind of like, wow, okay, that kind of came out of nowhere. And maybe that was something that was being talked about that I didn't see. But, you know, at the end of the day, when you look at the amount of minutes everybody is playing, you know, we do see a little bit of a difference.

I feel like the team is different.

But I will say late in the game, Cleveland's getting ready to kind of go on a mini run.

And the reason they were going on a mini run is because our buddy, Carl Anthony Towns,

decides to grab the arm, you know, of Nick, who is it?

I forget which guy he grabbed the arm of.

Maybe it was Jason, Jared out, Jared Al. He grabs his arm. And all I could think about was you watching this going, what is this guy doing? Why? And then, and then he gives the face to the officials like, you know, what are you talking about? What did I do? And then they obviously roll it back. And then, of course, the announcers are all giggling about it. And you and I are like giggling. I mean like this is the crap that we watched all the way through the playoffs and he still hasn't learned, you know, not to do this. And by the way, that would have been an easy bucket for the Knicks and they would have run away with the game at that point as opposed to dealing with these mini runs that they went on in the last five minutes of the game.

So it's funny, you bring this up, obviously, because this is a talking point we had going into the season. So when I watch it, I'm like, all right, I have a choice here. Because there's a lot of things I liked last night. A lot. I have a choice. I could either be really annoyed by that because I'm going to project Carl Anthony Towns into the postseason doing the same thing and holding them back.

Or I could either be really annoyed by that because I'm going to project Carl Anthony Towns into the postseason doing the same thing and holding them back. Or I could say, all right, this is the first opportunity, a teaching moment here for Mike Brown with Carl Anthony Towns right out of the gate. And if he keeps doing it, then it's a problem. But maybe, maybe just in his first game, by the way, he's dealing with a quad strain, he wasn't 100%. He felt like he had to go out there and play in opening night, which I appreciate actually. But maybe if it continues, then it's a huge problem. But I'm going to give Mike Brown the opportunity to snuff it out. Okay. All right? And it's not going to happen again. It was the most ridiculous.

But this is, yeah, that's in his DNA, though. He can't get out of doing that stuff. I mean, it's just out of the blue. The Knicks are like totally in control. Everything's going great. And I want to say they throw the ball to Ananobe and he's going to, you know, drive the lane. Yeah. And somehow, you know, Mike Breed is saying, you know, he wanted to ward off Jared Allen. He wasn't warding off anything. What he did is he grabbed them by the arm and then everybody giggled about it. Yeah, well, it's, and I'm like, you know, you guys can giggle all you want, but just the crap that we saw last year in the playoffs. Well, and that's what this regular season's going to be about is us seeing things that we project into the postseason, you know, much like a Yankees regular season. They're going to make the playoffs unless some sort of disaster happens. They're going to be one of the better teams in the Eastern Conference. The regular season is long. We know this. and it's where you need to see signs that we actually didn't see in the regular season last year to make us feel better about a run in the postseason. Now, the things that I really liked, 11 guys played.

Yes. Eleven guys played and you didn't feel like any of them shouldn't have been in the game. Another thing I really liked was how they were going to respond because they desperately wanted a veteran point guard to be in there to run the offense when Jalen Brunson was on the bench.

Tyler Colick, who in Summer League was just an atrocity.

I didn't watch any of this, but every article I read was like this guy's regressing, and that's why they were trying to get a veteran he goes out

there and and it looks comfortable looked aggressive you got seven points i think he had two assists

he played 14 minutes he's gonna be but he's gonna get that opportunity and that's a that's a draft

pick it's a young guy and that's something that um to to keep an And I thought that McHale Bridges seemed heavily involved.

There were different guys that were bringing the ball up and starting the offense.

He was one of them.

He looked heavily involved.

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