Knicks vs. Pacers: JWill calls for Jalen Brunson to be DURABLE in the series | Get Up

On Get Up, Mike Greenberg is joined by Jay Williams, Brian Windhorst and Tim Legler to look at memorable moments from the Knicks vs. Pacers from years previous, ahead of their first playoff series matchup since 2013.
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[@27GT3]

When Knicks were struggling for years, These same media were making fun of us, Now Knicks are doing good, Now they all want to be our friends

[@gobirds4362]

It’s there job not their fault the knicks were trash forever

[@skywalker2759]

@@gobirds4362thank you lol

[@skywalker2759]

Nobody cares about the Knicks

[@SPACEKNOCKERZ76]

Cuz it was one series vs half a Joel and y’all had problems. Lol Knicks fans were t chanting they wanted Boston game 2 lmao

[@aravindkamath8025]

Yeah. Knicks are good now. So there is something to talk about. What is there to discuss when you are loosing all the time 😭😔😔😔😔

[@pg13pacernation30]

Jalen Brunson's last four games: Game 6: 41 pts Game 5: 40 pts Game 4: 47 pts Game 3: 39 pts Putting the city of New York on his back 🔥

[@lukadahmer8249]

Jalen Brunson is playing like Prime Allen Iverson

[@carmine_]

Brunson can do a lot more than Iverson could do tho… idk i kinda forget how iverson was but i know he was not playing like a big man like Brunson does and all the other crazy stuff Brunson does

[@michaelvazquez5144]

@@carmine_I was just going to say Brunson has a deeper bag

[@willn8664]

​@@carmine_ he plays more defense and facilitates more than AI who is more ISO heavy.

[@nikobellic2515]

Knicks fan delusion on FULL display “Yeah Brunson is a better version of Allen Iverson”

[@michaelvazquez5144]

@@nikobellic2515 ignorant NBA fan on full display.

[@chaoticstylez]

Is there anybody on the pacers as dominant as Joel Embiid. Is Halliburton better than Maxey? How deep is the pacer bench? This is what swings me towards Knicks in 5

[@Zinger3030]

Indy is way better than Philly and has already stomped the Knicks twice. Joel and Maxey had to dominate because their team is awful.

[@skywalker2759]

Stop being dumb

[@chaoticstylez]

@@Zinger3030 in no way does the regular season success translate to playoff success. Just look at Phoenix. 2nd no way is pacers better than Philly.

[@Albeesqware]

@@Zinger3030and they have never played each other with OG anunoby healthy. Also, the regular season doesn’t mean that much.

[@i2Craftyy]

@@Albeesqwareif the bucks without Giannis took Indiana to game 6 then Philly would wipe the floor with them if they had played in the first round

[@AnthonyFernandez23]

As a Knicks fan in this series we’re going to send the pacers home 🙏🏼🤞🏼.

[@BigTeletubby]

“Going up against Aaron Nesmith”😭😭😭

[@SUBASHKUMAR-wz8zx]

😀

[@WickedKpop]

Aaron Nesmith is a dawg, quit hating.

[@thomasthomasthomas296]

@@WickedKpophe’s been great, people underrate him so much, perhaps just due to how much he flopped in boston, and people ignored how good he’s been in indiana

[@marcusmiller7138]

I said the same thing agout caleb martin against the heat. Got lit up. I wont underestimate a player on the floor lol

[@allonzotate7497]

Jalen brunson killed the pacers this season 😂😂

[@AlSemz]

Thibs is a very smart coach especially defensively. He won’t make the same mistakes the incompetent doc rivers made and double in the middle of the floor allowing them to get torched by 3’s from toppin, turner and the rest of the support. Just throw different/physical defenders at Siakam and control the shooters around the perimeter. Pacers can’t beat you off 2s especially in the half court. Make this a slow grind NY style series.

[@ToneyDouglas23]

Sure we run a 7 man rotation but we also have Precious and Burkes and Sims if need be. Stop acting like we don’t also have depth, even with injuries.

[@SkyShoe22212]

Yea I am seeing people saying Brunson carrying us. We have multiple people averaging over 10 points a game beside Brunson. EDIT: we have 6 players averaging 10 or more.

[@SpankyLangford1]

Where tf Big Back Becky and Candice Bigfoot Parker at?!?!? ESPN I NEED UPDATES ON THOSE 2 THEY BEEN MIA. Knicks in 🖐🏽

[@rllykueth2687]

I need that triple B right now. Pacers in ✋✌️

[@SUBASHKUMAR-wz8zx]

Indiana Pacers in 6

[@kb4231]

Pacer fans are gonna hate the coverage of this series lol

[@YerpDerp17]

Nah, we just happy to even be in the conversation. lol We used to being a small market team that literally never gets talked about. lol And a lot of us 35 and over are just excited to see this rivalry again. I would say the Knicks should for sure be favored, but with Indys fast pace and bench depth I just don't think it will be a huge blowout like people are assuming. It all depends on which team controls the pace for sustained periods.

[@SkyShoe22212]

@@YerpDerp17 I have had good convo's with Pacer fans lol. With Philly, it was non-stop toxicity. I have developed respect for the Pacers and am looking forward to this series. I agree with everything you are saying.

[@moblack79]

I watched all of those games lol

[@bracebrooks967]

Indiana is being underestimated in this series big-time in my opinion. I believe the Pacers depth is gonna be the biggest reason they'll pull of an upset in this series over New York. After all, the Knicks are much too reliant on Jalen Brunson. He can't single-handedly carry them to wins all the time. Indiana's not strictly reliant on one player. The scoring is so well-balanced on that team. They also share the ball enough and play at such a fast pace they're often difficult to defend.

[@mosin9349]

Only one team has had a 30+ assist game in the playoffs so far. It’s the Pacers, and they’ve done it 4 times.

[@bracebrooks967]

@@mosin9349 yes, and I'm not hating on the Knicks. It's great to see them playing much better seeing they've been awful for years despite being in a big market, but this pacers team clearly has what it takes to out-play them.

[@mosin9349]

@@bracebrooks967 I think that they do also. But they also have the inability to consistently perform at that high level. This team is like Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde from game to game. You don’t know if you’re going to get this high octane efficient offense capable of beating any team in the league. Or if you’re going to get a group of guys with sudden amnesia who forget how to play basketball. It’s rarely in the middle. That is this teams biggest problem, themselves.

[@bracebrooks967]

@@mosin9349 you're right about that, and I do wish they were more consistent. I honestly would like to see the pacers finally get their first NBA championship. I live in Illinois right next to Indiana which is just a mile away and have had plenty of positive experiences in Indiana from meeting up with relatives, to having great staff at my dentist office to purchasing much cheaper items to filling up on cheaper car gas. So in general I have plenty of respect for that state despite the fact it's been stereotyped as being a boring state.

[@thatscool7877]

@@bracebrooks967 The Pacers don’t play defense and are facing possibly the best rebounding team in the playoffs right now. They’re going to get out-rebounded and if the Knicks control the pace, the Pacers can’t win.

[@vernonharrison2488]

Look for Obi Toppin minutes to increase

[@pickle.786]

that block on melo really ended that team

[@carmine_]

J Williams is such a dummy… dude when are ppl going to get this through their head ????? Brunson plays like a bigger guy and schools bigger players all the time… he schools double and triple teams all the time when those players guarding him are WAY taller… Brunson has been doing it forever and yes in the playoffs also… matter of fact he gets better in the playoffs… just stop with the height stuff lol its comical and pacers have shorter guys then even the sixers or other teams did And why does the size always get brought up when it’s Brunson??? So many other guards in the league are the same size as Brunson… that these ppl call “superstars” but some reason when it’s Brunson they always mention size.. mean while Brunson is stronger and plays way bigger.. he dont just chuck up shots or run like a cheetah past ppl…. No he does it all… they talk about Brunson like he is 5 foot lol dude is 6’2 tops

[@marcusmiller7138]

Indy has not played the knicks with OG playing. The knicks are 24-5 with OG.

[@noone2634]

Rebounds, turnovers and defense will be the difference. Knicks sweep... who says we can't run fast breaks? LFGK

[@hoosierdaddy5846]

Hali will prolly guard donte.. not Josh Hart. Either Nesmith with guard hart or nembhard will. N the other will guard Brunson.. we'll see though

[@jrod132]

I think the Pacers wins in 7 games. It could go either way. If the Pacers want to win Haliburton has to play a little better than he did in the first round

[@douglasmennella4525]

No one remembers Rik Smits it seems.

[@douglasmennella4525]

P.S. Panel full of haters

[@Nostalgia9478]

That guy was good

[@juliusdeloach]

He played for the pacers kiddo

[@gatsby456]

Yep. He gave Ewing fits. The league was dominated by big men in that ERA. But he wasn't a world beater

[@mancycle1]

He was great

[@uzernam3]

I think Brunson averages 40 PPG this series with a 50 point game.

[@gothard5]

Pacers in 6

[@metfofo9190]

You’re drunk

[@jamesbuckley8917]

NYK lose game 1, then win series in 7 after a 2-2 tie.

[@uzernam3]

IMO Knicks dominate the Pacers to win the series in 5 or 6 games.

[@kk-sr1wl]

Brunson might not have enough to get the chip..

[@BeatMoneyDP]

Mainstream media wants the knicks to win so bad. The fact is if the knicks cant score 120 a game they wont win the series. The knicks have one of the slowest offenses in the league. They wont be able to keep up

[@daquanjohnson66]

We also have great defense And very physical. They won’t put up 120 a game

[@patrickoakley7890]

Fast break style teams don't win in the playoffs. The Knicks are gonna turn this series into a grindfest for Indy and they will get smashed on the glass. ZERO chance Indy puts up 120 a game against NY.

[@hanzpanzerkampfwagen4817]

@@patrickoakley7890 Indiana needs to put top security guard to ensure Josh Hart whereabouts the entire time he is in the game..

[@thatscool7877]

@@hanzpanzerkampfwagen4817 The Pacers don’t play defense, so that’s not going to happen.

[@butinsho7585]

Brunson in 4.

[@zepcrazyfre]

any true Knick fan knows this...we don't hate Michael Jordan (or Philly or Miami) they know *WE PASSIONATELY HATE THE PACERS!!!* Philly, Miami and Jordan etc disrespectfully hates us lol and it's been a running gag for decades (Hey Jimmy did you have your bottle this morning)? #*Semis

[@tearituppc764]

It is impossible for ESPN to analyze the Pacers properly. All they know is Ty and stats. Can't even pronounce Neismith's name properly. Watch for Nembhard and Neismith getting mistaken by the announcers constantly. It is not Nasmith. Pacers fans are going to be in tears from having to listen to Doris Burke gushing about Brunson while Knicks are down 12. If we could only have Chris and Quinn to listen to. I hope you at least bring Reggie over from Denver.

[@alexhicks7266]

"He can draw fouls." I wish that was true, but I bet he only gets 1 trip to the foul line per game this series.

[@ludachad05]

No way, he'll probably average over 10 fts a game

[@alexhicks7266]

@@ludachad05 Siakam? If he gets the calls he deserves, then he would get around 8, but he usually gets 2-4 per game.

[@ludachad05]

@@alexhicks7266 I meant Brunson

[@alexhicks7266]

@@ludachad05 Brunson is probably going to average 30 FTs with how the Pacers are officiated

[@samdunbar7259]

Pacers are too fast for them! Knicks will have no legs in the fourth! Pacers beat em up all season, but one game. Pacers in 6.

[@thatscool7877]

Run and gun offenses never work against good teams in the playoffs.

[@samdunbar7259]

@@thatscool7877 never say never

[@byt865]

@@thatscool7877pacers aren’t a run n gun offense at all. They just play quick when they can

[@DarkoProductions]

Time to remind a new generation of Knicks fans, who their daddy is. Go Pacers

[@aryawilshere4843]

Show his stats from Game 1 & 2 too

[@gatsby456]

Here they are: 16 for 57, around 30 FG% and 17 3pt% in those games. Both W's.

[@tigerhoods7927]

lol they still won clown

[@jeremyjj3866]

We were actually happy about those outcomes because our other guys stepped up big time

[@Nostalgia9478]

Stephen A and LeSkippy Bayless somehow made the Knicks and Cowboys even more hateable lol

[@csharp57]

Cowboys don’t belong in the same argument. They have been more successful. You had to wait until the playoffs to clown the cowboys. Knicks were jokes the entire season for YEARS. Hating on the Knicks is like hating on Utah. They haven’t been relevant

[@patrickoakley7890]

The ESPN guys are being kind to Indy. They don't play a LICK of defense, and they are more worried about leaking out for fast break points than going for a rebound. The Knicks are going to absolutely destroy these guys on the glass and on defense. Knicks in 5....I want to say 4, but I think Indy has enough firepower to maybe take a game. But if the Knicks play with the same intensity that they played against Philly with, you might wanna break the brooms out.

[@raybohlander5502]

Pacers in 6... Knicks got a 4 point win against the pacers in the only win they got of the 3 games they played this season... relax buddy y'all ain't like that

[@patrickoakley7890]

@@raybohlander5502 you casuals always show your hand every time you bring up the worthless regular season. NONE of those games mean anything now in May, buddy. Sorry. The Knicks are the superior team as of 5/6/2024.

[@raybohlander5502]

@patrickoakley7890 how lazy calling people casuals... I gotta know what is the in-between you either a casual or a fanatic... you follow the Knicks to every game they play? Foh.... regular season don't matter.... well if it didn't matter they wouldn't go to the playoffs.... pacers in 6.... I don't buy the hype...

[@nikobellic2515]

Brunson can’t do ANYTHING without a screen…

[@patrickoakley7890]

@@nikobellic2515 sure sure, keep telling yourself that 🤣

[@Zinger3030]

Pacers are a better, deeper team. Sorry folks.

[@zaach215]

yall lost when u guys we’re fully healthy and we didn’t have og or mitch knicks in 5

[@ScribeLur]

You’re allowed to believe that, the pacers still wont win . Even if thats all true

[@Zinger3030]

You beat the 76ers by ONE point in the series. The Pacers are much better than Philly and ypu barely beat them.

[@zaach215]

@@Zinger3030 u think y’all better then the 6ixers is wild and yall beat a unhealthy bucks team and it went to 6

[@thatscool7877]

@@Zinger3030 imagine dropping a game when Dame and Giannis weren’t playing. That was the Pacers.

[@beobe4326]

BRUNSON IS NOT A SUPER STAR. WE GOT TO STOP DOING THIS ONE GOOD YEAR, AND HE IS A SUPER STAR?

[@tearituppc764]

Brunson is a fantastic star and he will have great games in this series (from an international Pacers and Kings fan)

[@jamarlc5949]

1 good year 😂😂 he should have been an all star and all nba last year…and what makes this even more special is the second best player on the team got hurt and he stepped up even more officially validating he’s a star

[@skywalker2759]

@@jamarlc5949star but not superstar

[@nathanielziering]

Brunson's leadership skills are off the charts. That's what separates him. He carried hobbled Knicks to 50 wins, #2 seed in East and put up ridiculous numbers.

[@herbalescent71]

@@jamarlc5949Preach