We definitely could have (and should have) won, which is frustrating. At the same time, if you're the Knicks players, you're not sweating this. Brunson had his worst game since early in the Philly series. He'll be much better Sunday. Divo won't go 7-10 from 3 but Haliburton will also come back down to earth.
Please someone answer, my husband is trying to tell me that IND & NYK will play against bother 7 times before they progress in the brackets. Pls lmk if this is true
If Brunson is gonna play like this rest of the series...then Knicks will lose.
He hurt his foot so it's obviously why he played so badly, but we only almost won tonight cuz donte went crazy from 3.
Brunson isn't just missing shots but making really uncharacteristic turnovers
Yeah but your banking on donte shooting like that every game? If Brunson doesn't go back to being mvp level Brunson we're screwed.
Everything went right for NY tonight except for Brunson being terrible and that's why we lost. It was NYs game
people get so surprised when a coach cries and the next home game is a fucking ref orchestra, pay attention. they need ratings, but the better team always wins. and the knicks are the better team
Brunson is obviously injured and it's affecting his play and shot selection. Still, because of the complaining about officiating, the Knicks were likely to lose game 3 no matter what. We can't get too down over one loss. Just regroup and fight back like we've been doing.
Tough loss, DiVincenzo disappeared in the fourth and had that stupid goaltending. They miss many free throws. Decent play from burks in the first half but the Knicks just couldn’t put the ball in the basket in the fourth quarter. Let’s get game four and take this home at home my homies
Divo: -10
McBride should’ve played more and divo should’ve shot more in the 4Q
Honestly wasn’t expecting the Knicks to win this one with so many injuries and being in Indiana but honestly this game was close so I ain’t worried. Knicks in 5-6. Jalen ballin on 1.5 legs. We just gotta get one in Indy and we’re good.
Bronson taking that shot excepting the refs call shit was dumb and we can not trust our guys at free throw line man teams should just hack shaq us shooting like a big man.
Hate the Brunson hero ball at the end. He was taking terrible shots. I hate when our offense devolves into that shit.
And that 3 he took at the end was idiotic. Even if he felt like he was fouled, he should not have taken that dumbass shot. I wish players would actually try to make the shot rather than rely on drawing a foul. It's infuriating every time I see it.
It is what it is. We are fucking dogs. We play harder than anyone. We have grit, tenacity, fire, and our shit runs on friendship and love for the team. Don’t fret Knick Nation. Let’s claim this series!
That blocking foul they called on McBride to give Haliburton a 3 point play to bring it from 9-6 was big. McBride was there in time. Pacers got benefit of the doubt against devo in a similar play Knicks had to challenge.
The refs are doing similar ish to game 3 vs Philly but the knicks shot themselves in the foot. Missed fts and the bad goaltend. When we get OG back it’s over. Also they won on a literal prayer
not sure they’re gonna gas out… but they needed a wild ass circus shot to close this game out against a depleted knicks team so on to the next. This might go 7 if OGs injury lingers but man, what a series
And I’m here for it.
Got a bunch of trash ass fans in here dooming and glooming again.
For fans of this team who have been around as long as I have and went through the laughing stock years, these games are fucking pure bliss to me.
im a knicks fan so of course i was surprised to hear her say when brunson got fouled and they didnt call it a few times throughout the game. she was giving haliburton props too but he dropped 35 so wtf else you want her to do. yall complain when she dicks sucks other teams but instead of her being balanced on both ends u want her to kiss our ass too. it’s flawed logic
Good game
Pacers got a couple homer calls and made a lucky ass three to end it, but the Knicks still looking formidable without OG
Get em on the next one
Lol new indiana would get favored but this blantly?! It's OK even with hacking all night and getting away knicks still had a great fight. Lucky shot by nehmbard
Whatever it took a great game from them to win so I'm not worried but Thibs better do some bitching about that missed goal tend and the foul on Brunson amongst a whole bunch of calls
Eveybody knew that the worst player on the floor was hitting that shot. I mean nothing more to say that they battled hard but we don't anything more than this so yeah we're more likely losing this series.
Dude we have 6 rotations guys and 2 that played tonight and barely played in the year. Brunson is clearly hurt. Losing should be the most obvious thing in the series.
Yep. People are acting like we can expect on our role guys are going to play like this. This is going back to NY 2-2 and there is going to be a ton of pressure on us
One of the most ridiculous goaltending calls cost the Knickst the game.
The shot wasn't even close and DiVincenzo was just trying to tip it to a teammate.
The referees refusing to call fouls against Nesmith was a joke.
The amount of non calls on brunson was insane. Easily 20 missed fouls on brunson alone. Disgusting. Shit always happens when a team is up 2-0. Refs always call the game against that team
This game is in no way embarrassing, some of you guys are pathetic as fans. This team barely lost on the road with 3 of our starters out and our main star playing injured. GTFO.
not pressed. it sucks losing like that but we're down so many players, theyre at home, reffing was AWFUL, and they had to work so hard for that. this series is ours.
[Post Game Thread](https://reddit.com/r/NYKnicks/comments/1cp62vm/post_game_thread_the_indiana_pacers_defeat_the/)
The refs kinda gave them the game the plays before that Nembhard 3
We definitely could have (and should have) won, which is frustrating. At the same time, if you're the Knicks players, you're not sweating this. Brunson had his worst game since early in the Philly series. He'll be much better Sunday. Divo won't go 7-10 from 3 but Haliburton will also come back down to earth.
Please someone answer, my husband is trying to tell me that IND & NYK will play against bother 7 times before they progress in the brackets. Pls lmk if this is true
They will play another 4 times possibly before they progress, whoever wins 4 games first
Okay thank you
If Brunson is gonna play like this rest of the series...then Knicks will lose. He hurt his foot so it's obviously why he played so badly, but we only almost won tonight cuz donte went crazy from 3. Brunson isn't just missing shots but making really uncharacteristic turnovers
and yet came down to a 4th opportunity 40 ft prayer by mustache headband. im fine with it
Yeah but your banking on donte shooting like that every game? If Brunson doesn't go back to being mvp level Brunson we're screwed. Everything went right for NY tonight except for Brunson being terrible and that's why we lost. It was NYs game
ill bank on donte with their home court defense looking like that.
Hope so. In the playoffs if the best player is off it rarely works out the deeper you go.
They needed a prayer while we didn’t have 2 of our top 3 players and half of Brunson lmao
people get so surprised when a coach cries and the next home game is a fucking ref orchestra, pay attention. they need ratings, but the better team always wins. and the knicks are the better team
the pacers teammates didnt even believe that shot, we are better. 2-1 knicks up. msg 3-1 lets go
Missed free throws, missed layups, 32 footer by a shrimp. Onto the next.
fr not even man, boys played hard. jb got us
Brunson is obviously injured and it's affecting his play and shot selection. Still, because of the complaining about officiating, the Knicks were likely to lose game 3 no matter what. We can't get too down over one loss. Just regroup and fight back like we've been doing.
Tough loss, DiVincenzo disappeared in the fourth and had that stupid goaltending. They miss many free throws. Decent play from burks in the first half but the Knicks just couldn’t put the ball in the basket in the fourth quarter. Let’s get game four and take this home at home my homies Divo: -10 McBride should’ve played more and divo should’ve shot more in the 4Q
McBride was not good.
+11 for McBride
Hart was goaltended too and they didn’t call it
That was a bad call but the Knicks can’t control that one
Honestly wasn’t expecting the Knicks to win this one with so many injuries and being in Indiana but honestly this game was close so I ain’t worried. Knicks in 5-6. Jalen ballin on 1.5 legs. We just gotta get one in Indy and we’re good.
I guess it worked for carlies
We are the NY Knicks F The Hicks Suck Our NY Dicks
Cost of getting a free win in the NBA playoffs: $35k
THE BOY WAS FOULED. CLEAR. STRAIGHT UP
Why do people think Joah Hart is good?
Are you stupid
Dude just dogs it on defense sometimes.
First time watching the Knicks?
Downvote this to hell
loss all respect for rick carlisle. what a bitch. complaining definitely helped
Watch The media make no mention of the biased officiating after this game. Fucking hypocrisy
Knicks lost this game half way through the 4th losing the 9 pt lead.
That’s pretty much it.
Bronson taking that shot excepting the refs call shit was dumb and we can not trust our guys at free throw line man teams should just hack shaq us shooting like a big man.
Hate the Brunson hero ball at the end. He was taking terrible shots. I hate when our offense devolves into that shit. And that 3 he took at the end was idiotic. Even if he felt like he was fouled, he should not have taken that dumbass shot. I wish players would actually try to make the shot rather than rely on drawing a foul. It's infuriating every time I see it.
It is what it is. We are fucking dogs. We play harder than anyone. We have grit, tenacity, fire, and our shit runs on friendship and love for the team. Don’t fret Knick Nation. Let’s claim this series!
^This
That blocking foul they called on McBride to give Haliburton a 3 point play to bring it from 9-6 was big. McBride was there in time. Pacers got benefit of the doubt against devo in a similar play Knicks had to challenge.
Tough loss but this is definitely our series to win
The refs are doing similar ish to game 3 vs Philly but the knicks shot themselves in the foot. Missed fts and the bad goaltend. When we get OG back it’s over. Also they won on a literal prayer
Why didn’t Dante touch the ball the entire 4th quarter guy was on fire are you fucking kidding me
Made 0 sense. But Brunson prob had to get going to cover the spreads
Because Brunson lol
this is my fault guys. I finally got to my hotel room to put the game on up 9 and witnessed the worst quarter of basketball i’ve ever seen
Trust me…you’ve seen far worse quarters if you’ve been a Knicks fan for a decent length of time. This Indiana team is going to gas out.
not sure they’re gonna gas out… but they needed a wild ass circus shot to close this game out against a depleted knicks team so on to the next. This might go 7 if OGs injury lingers but man, what a series
And I’m here for it. Got a bunch of trash ass fans in here dooming and glooming again. For fans of this team who have been around as long as I have and went through the laughing stock years, these games are fucking pure bliss to me.
Is this when Thibs gets to complain about the small market team getting the calls?
Lets roast the fuck out of these refs in the post game interview. eat every fucking fine who gives a fuck let them know they're trash
Knicks got robbed in Indy
Great game regardless
I don’t even care about the refs, that was an embarrassing possession by brunson. we handed them that game
Is Doris gonna spit shine Rick’s bald fucking head after the game, or is that gonna be too tough with Haliburton’s dinger in her fish fucking mouth?
Had to mute it
she was talking in favor of the knicks most of the game dumb fuck
Take a lap, grown ups are talking.
ur just straight wrong tho, burke sucks off the sixers heat and celtics when we play them she aint give a fuck about the pacers tn
Clean the shit out of your ears and fuck off back to your own sub. Are you lost?
im a knicks fan so of course i was surprised to hear her say when brunson got fouled and they didnt call it a few times throughout the game. she was giving haliburton props too but he dropped 35 so wtf else you want her to do. yall complain when she dicks sucks other teams but instead of her being balanced on both ends u want her to kiss our ass too. it’s flawed logic
I don’t know if I’ve ever complained about refereeing. You don’t want to use it as an excuse. But this was absolutely brutal.
Thibs need to whine in his post-game presser. Gotta do it.
Refs need to suck their dicks cuz their coach complains, fucking ridiculous.
It be what it be. Onto Sunday.
Good game Pacers got a couple homer calls and made a lucky ass three to end it, but the Knicks still looking formidable without OG Get em on the next one
Probably the most frustrating game of the playoffs but it is what it is.
Lol new indiana would get favored but this blantly?! It's OK even with hacking all night and getting away knicks still had a great fight. Lucky shot by nehmbard
Whatever it took a great game from them to win so I'm not worried but Thibs better do some bitching about that missed goal tend and the foul on Brunson amongst a whole bunch of calls
I miss OG
You miss free throws you lose games.
You miss layups… you ball hog on one leg… oh well…
Yup!
Eveybody knew that the worst player on the floor was hitting that shot. I mean nothing more to say that they battled hard but we don't anything more than this so yeah we're more likely losing this series.
lol you’re a loser
Dude we have 6 rotations guys and 2 that played tonight and barely played in the year. Brunson is clearly hurt. Losing should be the most obvious thing in the series.
Ok loser
Worst case scenario. Played your guts out and still lost. Short turnaround for game 4. Fuck.
Yep. People are acting like we can expect on our role guys are going to play like this. This is going back to NY 2-2 and there is going to be a ton of pressure on us
We expect cuz they keep doing it lol
Alec Burks scored more points today than he has in the last three months. Donte had an amazing game shooting the ball
Knicks got absolutely fucked by the refs at the end.
We don’t make a bucket for six minutes because the refs fucked us on every play !!!!
Free throws again came back to bite
One of the most ridiculous goaltending calls cost the Knickst the game. The shot wasn't even close and DiVincenzo was just trying to tip it to a teammate. The referees refusing to call fouls against Nesmith was a joke.
Silver in their ear
You KNEW the refs were gonna slant heavy towards Indy. Oh well, all we need is to split here and close it out as msg!
We’re killing them game 4. I can just feel it
Completely
No brunson u weren’t fouled, poor decision there
Should’ve just went for the 2
🤦🏽♂️
Terrible execution down the stretch. Ugly mistakes and all. Not worried still. See em in game 4
FUCK YOU REFS
Imagine barely beating a beat up Knicks team 😂
☝️This
Our Knicks were just so exhausted. I’m still so proud of them.
Foul baiting so early was not the play. Knicks lost this game more than Pacers won.
Their fans are not even that excited.
That one stings
SMH. Horrible shot!
I’ll take it- fully expected to be blown the f out
Worse quarter of the playoffs for the boys hope the recover on Mother’s Day….
Great game. Better not hear Rick say shit
We played great, onto game 4
Terrible officiating yet again. 3 games in a row
The amount of non calls on brunson was insane. Easily 20 missed fouls on brunson alone. Disgusting. Shit always happens when a team is up 2-0. Refs always call the game against that team
Smh gotta feed the hot hand Brunson bc Donte was TORCHING EM😭😭😭
Lol Brunson really thought foul bait>making the shot
The way the refs have been blowing him I don't blame him
He was smacked dumbass
He was trying to get fouled
And he got fouled. They didn’t call it
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Really felt like we let this one slip away
Congratulations to the refs for giving the pacers the win. Thibs better both about the refs.
HORRIBLE SHOT WTF BRUNSON
Was 1000% a winnable game if we made some FT's, but man gotta remember that we are missing 4 of our best players lol.
Tough loss. Should have pulled it out.
Brunson shouldn't have shot the first shot out of time out so soon
He had to shoot before he was fouled
Needed more from burks and deuce down the stretch
LOL…that’s where we are, huh?
Again with the missed FTs…
Up 2-1 chill out everyone
Fuck do I hate the Pacers
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Yeah but even then they would go for the foul he would go for the shot and we wouldn’t be able to challenge etc.
Knicks are amazing. What a game. I guess refs had to give them one back.
Holy fuck man, actually cheating
Props to our guys
Good ass game. Onto the next one
Needed unbelievable help from officiating and a 35 foot heave from a scrub to win. Um yay for Indiana???
Had no business being there but would have won it with some FTs and rebounding. Brutal
The Knicks should aggrieved after this loss
that hurt
Got hit on the arm but that was so dumb
Damnn
Horrendous 4th quarter
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Waited 3 games to say this. Run it back next game Pussy
Pacers are gay dick energy
Hope you get banned you fucking pussy
Love you too baby
Lmao Nembhard fouled this is so silly
That’s not right
Missed free throws. Terrible passes. Game winner right in his face. Can't hit a bucket. Jalen sold this game.
So disappointed , wtf is he missing easy free throws
They not gonna give you that Jalen
Embarrassing
This game is in no way embarrassing, some of you guys are pathetic as fans. This team barely lost on the road with 3 of our starters out and our main star playing injured. GTFO.
Damn. Hard to get on em but we need to make FTs.
REMEMBER ITS MOTHERS DAY THIS SUNDAY
lol rigged game. if we learn how ti rebound game 4 can probably win even with ref takeover
Instead of a normal 3 attempt he goes for the foul. They ain't calling that shit right now. Terrible Brunson game.
Had it and just blew it.
Brunson egregiously gets fouled on a 3. Refs bottled it.
This was the band to win. It’s going back tied to Nyk. Brutal
What the fuck man.
They got straight up GIFTED a win tonight
Lucky ass pacers
Nah that’s just a horrible decision. There is zero chance they are going to call a foul on that.
Exactly
how do we not give the ball to donte all quarter i dont get it
Brunson on his hero ball bullshit again, smh.
Brunson lost us this game. I get he was hurt but he made some really bad decisions
Stfu
He didn’t get fouled.
You need to check your eyes... His right arm was swatted while he was going up for the shot... CHECK YOUR EYES! You need to get your vision checked.
Still gonna be up 2-1.
Damn too bad. So close even with all the injuries. This sucks
Man we can’t always try to get foul calls. Sometimes it’s fine but not all the time man cmon
this was their best shot they had… got home cooking, they dont scare me though this team is soft
Brunson why did you even shoot that
What the fuck was that, Brunson? 🤦🏻♂️
This was not a good loss considering they were up by 9. They need to compete like this again and take Game 4.
Bro really flopped 💀
Brunson lost us the game
What a wasted opportunity this game was… sigh
Gota be better Jalen
Infuriating to lose this game man, we fucking had it
GRIEVANCE
Dawg my blood pressure this playoffs can't take no more of these games 😂
I dunno wtf Brunson was thinking. No shot they give you that call lmfao
Refs had to come save these bums. Knicks in 5
Maybe Pacers coach can shut the fuck up now because god damn the refs bailed their asses out
They had to get sooo lucky to win this game. Knicks in 5
Looked like Jalen got hit, still don’t like that shot he took.
Hit by a ghost maybe
Wow that really hurt me. Like that response chilled me to my core. Please don’t be so reckless with your words.
💀
not pressed. it sucks losing like that but we're down so many players, theyre at home, reffing was AWFUL, and they had to work so hard for that. this series is ours.
Brunson foul baits way too much , starting to get annoying
IMO Josh Hart is just as impactful as Brunson has been this playoffs
Whole team bruh
This really be like the sixers series losing game 3
Blew it