Hour 1: Knicks’ Chemistry Crisis + Are Yankees Showing 98-Level Signs?

Evan & Tiki

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4.2 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The Knicks are running out of time to figure things out, and the biggest issue continues to stare them in the face: a lack of chemistry between their top players. After another flat performance against a quality opponent, the conversation turns from frustrating losses to a deeper concern about whether this team actually fits together when it matters most. Evan and Tiki dig into why the Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns pairing still feels disjointed, how coaching decisions and lineup choices are under the microscope, and why the starting five continues to underperform. They also debate whether meaningful changes can still happen with the playoffs approaching and what urgency should look like in the final stretch of the season, while also reacting to early season Yankees buzz that may already be going too far.

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0:00.0	What is jarring is how disconnected this starting five is.
0:05.0	And why that is so jarring to me is we had this conversation a year ago.
0:09.8	Yep.
0:10.1	Mike Brown comes in.
0:11.5	He's going to get the best out of cat, the best out of Jalen Brunson.
0:14.9	They'll actually be connected.
0:17.0	They'll work well together.
0:18.8	This starting five over the last month and a half has been awful.
0:23.3	And Mike Brown sits there after games and talks about maybe we should change it up.
0:28.5	Well, how about you change it up?
0:30.6	Do it.
0:31.4	Don't talk about it.
0:32.6	Be about it.
0:33.4	Because this game, you know, it annoys me when non-basketball fans, you just watch the last two minutes of the basketball game.
0:39.4	Not last night.
0:40.3	No, not when you go down by 17 to start the game.
0:42.8	You ultimately lose the game by 17, but you exhaust yourself trying to get back into it.
0:47.1	They set the tone with the kind of garbage, uninspired crap basketball we saw last night.
0:53.4	Now, the good news is it's not the playoffs yet.
0:55.9	The bad news is the playoffs are coming. And you brought this up yesterday and you put it in my
1:00.5	head as I was watching the Knicks embarrassed themselves last night in Houston on national TV.
1:05.3	Can you just flip a switch? And can you just develop chemistry? Because Jaylon Brunson and
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