We did have a Knicks game last night in Salt Lake City, and it was, you know, look,

Knicks are in this road trip where it's been up, it's been down, you know, it's kind of like, bad opponent in Utah, and they're kind of sleepwalking through that first half, and then things flipped there in the second half, and they end up winning kind of going away. And Jordan Clarkson and his return to Utah, he was a member of the Jazz. he goes off for a season night, 27 points off the bench.

And at the end of the day, I mean, look, it's a victory, and they got one more to go on this road trip, two and two thus far. And here's where I stand with the Knicks, and I've felt this way for a while, and you can agree or disagree here in a second. And I'm not a die-hard Nick fan, so I come at it from a little bit of a different angle.

They've gotten to the point where, to me, the regular season is, I'm not going to say completely meaningless, but we're all just waiting for the playoffs, and we're going to nitpick things. There's things we're going to like, things we're not going to like, questions we're going to have. to me, I don't think that there's really anything they can do in the remainder of the regular season that's going to make me feel like, yes, I feel really strongly that this team can go to the NBA finals or conversely that I don't have confidence or, hey, they're going to get picked off, they're going to lose to this team. You know, this shortcoming is going to be the thing that does them in when it comes to the postseason.

Like, ultimately, we just got to get to the point where they're going to play these games. They're going to match up with who they're going to match up in these series and let the results lie where they may. Yeah, I agree with you. I think being on the West Coast is tough. I think you worry about the tread on the tire. I think going into this game,

obviously Josh Hart was dealing with a sore knee.

Yeah.

You know,

and I also,

I think people into this game, obviously Josh Hart was dealing with a sore knee.

Yeah.

You know, and I also, I think people need to listen to what Mike Brown's comments in his evaluation of the team, talking about lack of hustle, talking about defensively there was, you know, they felt they were lazy and they got beat up on the boards and I'm talking about the game against L.A. And then they go into the Clippers game and they go into this game. And you start, as you stated, the first half, I was like, oh, they made the doors blown off. Yeah. And Brunson went cold. And the second half, you know, they rallied. I think the biggest thing for the Knicks right now, you just acquired Jose Alvarado.

And I, listen, his first two of the games, I thought he was solid. As of late, he's kind of been spotty. Colick, they got out there. He's been spotty. They need somebody to back Jalen Brunton up to be a better presence off that bench because he's playing a lot of minutes. He's picked up on his menace As of late on the West Coast

In Valley he was able to lot of minutes. He's picked up on his minutes as of late on the West Coast.

And in Valley, he was able to kind of rally in the second half and really knocked down some shots.

But Clarkston was big.

I thought Cat was big.

Mitch had a big game.

I thought he was solid.

So OG had a couple big threes.

But Utah gave him a fight.

I don't know if anybody watched the game.

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