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Hello again, everybody, and welcome to the Mike Francesa podcast on the Mike Francesa channel, on the

BetRivers Network on YouTube, on a very busy Thursday night. Now, the draft is underway. We'll get to

that in a minute. First, the Knicks, with a good performance in Detroit tonight.

Shouldn't it come down to what it did?

There's some things they have to clean up before game four, which will be Sunday at

1 o'clock back in Detroit.

And one thing I want to say that I was wrong about, I didn't think there'd be a lot

of noise in the building.

There was a lot of noise. And especially upstairs,

uh, the, uh, crowd was into it. They really were. They, they, they really have taken a quick dislike to the Knicks and especially Brunson because Brunson's flopping is getting a lot of

attention, um, uh, especially in game two. And then this game was a little chippy at times,

which I think is going to be the norm here. But the Knicks did the things tonight that we screamed about the other night. Number one, Brunson did not dominate the ball. Yes, he scored 30 points. But again, in the fourth quarter, he's going to have the ball in a tight game. He's also going to clean up on the foul line late.

I mean, he was 11 or 13 from the foul line.

So he's going to score points.

We're not talking about that.

What we're talking about is taking so many more shots than anybody else

and having four guys stand around.

Tonight there was movement.

Nicks want to push it and pass it.

They push it when they can and they pass it. And tonight they got the ball

to O.G. They got the ball to bridges. And towns came out a different human being. I mean,

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