Hello, good morning and welcome to another edition of the Nix Film School pregame show.

My name is Andrew Claudio, aka GMAC,

and it is time for the Knicks preview of their matchup tonight against the Chicago Bulls.

On a night that they're honoring Derek Rose,

but not with a uniform retirement,

we will ask all about that in just a second.

It's also a morning to flush away the

frustrating ending to a pretty good basketball game between the New York Knicks and the

Oklahoma City Thunder. Curious how much that matchup may come up in this game, especially

the Knicks now on a back-to-back a night after Tom Tivodeau played his five starters all 40

minutes each. I'm sure my, my guest

today will be able to relate about the coaching tendencies of Tom Thibano, but we'll get to that

in a second as well. The Chicago Bulls come in here at 15 and 19 on the season. They're three and

three in their last six. They're six and six in their last 12. They're 10 and 10 in their last

20. The trends point in the direction of a 500 team in every direction. But obviously, they beat

the Knicks the last time they played them at the Garden back on November 13th, which is actually

an inflection point that we've gone to a lot because after that

loss, the Knicks went 19 and 4 in their next 23 games.

Obviously, now 19 and 5 after the loss last night to OKC.

So we'll see if this Chicago Bulls game, Derek Rose Knight is a bit of an inflection

point again.

And joining me to talk about this game against the Chicago Bulls

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