Can the Knicks force game 7?
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🗓️ 30 May 2025
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Summary
Jalen Brunson scored 32 points and the Knicks dominated the Pacers to send the Eastern Conference finals back to Indiana. Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni react to the Knicks defensive effort and Tom Thibodeau’s bench mob. The, the Athletic’s Shakeia Taylor joins the show to discuss the Pacers’ lack of energy and how they bounce back in game 6.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni & Shakeia Taylor
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for May 30th, 2025 coming up. |
| 0:12.3 | Esperi and I are going to talk about the Knicks being back, Bing Bong, the 3-2 going back to Indiana. |
| 0:19.1 | Then Shakia Taylor is going to join us to talk about what went wrong for the Pacers. |
| 0:28.0 | Ooh, buddy. |
| 0:30.0 | Eastern Conference Finals, the Knicks got it done, wire to wire. |
| 0:34.6 | They did not make it hard. |
| 0:36.7 | We're going back to Indy. |
| 0:38.3 | The Knicks still trail. |
| 0:39.9 | Three two in the series, but they pick up a big win. |
| 0:42.3 | 11. |
| 0:42.8 | 94. |
| 0:44.5 | Man, huge game for the Knicks. |
| 0:47.7 | They did not roll over, unlike the Timberwolves. |
| 0:52.0 | They did not. |
| 0:53.0 | No. |
| 0:53.5 | And Carl Anthony Towns did not roll over. Yeah. How about that? Playing on a bum knee. And I mean, you would not have noticed it from the way he performed. And he was the best player on the court every single time he was out there. Yeah. I thought he was electric, especially at like setting the tone early in this game, you know, |
| 1:11.9 | especially in these type of elimination games. |
| 1:14.0 | I mean, we just saw it with the Thunder and Timberwolves where it's like, you could be |
| 1:17.3 | out of the game in 12 minutes depending on the energy and vibe you bring to the game, right? |
| 1:23.0 | The Nick set the tone. |
| 1:24.1 | Like they played more physical. |
| 1:26.4 | And I know some of that stuff sounds like a cliche, but if you listen to all the post game pressers from basically everybody, from the Knicks side, from the Pacer side, they're all talking about physicality and just like setting the tone initially, right? Well, you can see it. I mean, just like literally it came across the screen. I mean, if you go back and look at the box score, the pacer starters combined for 37 points. That shows me that they got punched in the mouth and never recovered. And credit to you, by the way, I'm going to give you credit. You called this like, I don't know, eight minutes into the game. You said, oh, this is over. It's a wrap. Indy doesn't have it tonight. They did look dead. They looked like a team that was just trying to get back to Indy. Maybe they're, you know, trying to boost the ticket sales or something. But it really, they just low energy night. Tyrese Halliburton did not show up, two for seven from the field. |
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