New York is the city that never sleeps, and neither does Sal Likata, from flushing in the Bronx to the meadowlands in MSG.

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Welcome to WFA and Daily with Sal Likata.

All right, well, the next just wrap up game one in a victory at the world's most

famous arena, Madison Square Garden, of course.

Nice to see the Knicks get another win in, you know, the opening game of the postseason

series here.

Problem is, I got to be honest with you, coming away after that game, watching that game, it was more infuriating than anything else.

The Knicks played like shit the entire game. Brunson, it took a heroic fourth quarter from him.

I mean, look, that's what superstars do.

And you know, as long as they have Brunson, they're going to be fine, especially in the series like this, but Indiana was, it shows you, goes to show you why people feel like

this is going to be an easier series for the Knicks. Indiana, you know, the bench points and

the way that they played hard in the beginning and the rebounding and all that Indiana brought

to the table early on. It seems like they did everything they possibly could and yet they still lost this game in where the Knicks didn't play anywhere near

where they need to play. Now, the Knicks got terrific efforts from Josh Hart. We mentioned

Jellon Brunson, who wasn't having a vintage game early on. And I'm looking at the,

you saw I wouldn't do this, but with this Knicks team, I think it does matter where

I'm looking at Brunton already is at 27 points. He's going to need to get to 40 for this team to

win. And sure enough, he goes nuts in the fourth quarter. And that's what happens. Anybody

who thinks that I hate to throw cold water on the Knicks situation here because it's a great

win and you take it and you move

on. They will be better. They will take care of the Pacers. I'd be stunned if they lost this series.

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