Knicks Backed to Rebound vs. Pistons Amid Title Hangover

They are the absolute classic hangover championship team. I mean, they're still celebrating like they won a championship yesterday. I mean, it is just, this is going to last all, they could go 0-82 and there won't be a Nick fan crying. That's how big it was last year and just so overwhelming to think that this team was going to be focused at the start of this year. I didn't think so. So they're 0-3. They have yet to cover a game. They host Detroit tonight. uh they blew a 10 point lead against Orlando on Sunday ended up uh you know losing uh Magic end of the game on a nice little 35 and 16 run they're laying four three and a half four uh you see the first three games there you know they lost it and two of those were at home right um so i i do think though they break the streak tonight i think they get the win they get the cover i told myself was gonna bet against them every single game every uh all year and i'd be pretty confident i'd be on the winning side of things right but i think i'm gonna buck that trend i think the knicks who lost last year to Detroit all three games by an average of over 25 points that they whacked last year the Knicks Detroit did to the Knicks so but maybe that's what they need to kind of get out of their funk so i like the Knicks tonight laying the four yeah i think going into the season uh going into the playoffs the knicks were a surprise as the playoffs went on it was not a surprise the knicks appeared to be the best team in the NBA as the playoffs went on but it was a rare scenario I thought in the NBA where you asked me about Milwaukee usually when a team wins a championship you start the first question is do you think this team's going to win again and my answer immediately would have been no like I thought the Knicks were very fortunate NBA champion but when the Lakers were winning theirs and Oklahoma City was winning theirs and Golden State was winning theirs and even as you mentioned with Giannis or Denver like I was like okay yeah I could see them winning again but for me the Knicks were one of those teams where yes they can win another championship but I always felt like this is probably a one and done in terms of uh winning it all so as far as New York is concerned the idea of betting against them makes a lot of sense all season long too because the lines are going to be inflated especially in October and November the way that they came out by the way also looking at that not being completely familiar as familiar with you or Joe with the NBA with with some of the coverage that I have here seeing the fact that they lost to Boston and Philadelphia should give you a little bit of hope like okay like they still have to play them a lot but those are two tough teams that they lost to that lost to Orlando without Banchero inexcusable how did that happen no idea you probably watched closer than I did but that's the one as far as the Heat is concerned um so that obviously I watch a lot closer and uh you know the the issue with the Heat seemingly is yes you're right they don't have anyone off the bench but the deal Scott, if you really think about it, the Heat never has anybody off the bench until they do, so what does that mean? It means that the Heat is the best team in the NBA bar none at finding guys that are nobodies that end up getting max contracts in the NBA because they cultivate, they have this culture, they find who is this max Strus, he's getting paid a lot of money who is this Bam Adebayo, he's a nobody, he's a max contract guy too, who 10 years ago who was, who the heck was Hassan Whiteside, where they find this guy he signs with Portland max contract too so who was that guy on Miami, I think they're gonna find somebody, I think they're gonna have a Jaime Jaquez or whatever by the end of the year they're gonna get those guys, but but it's going to take some time and the question is Scott, are they going to bury themselves before they even have a chance to do that, so to your point the idea that the Heat would win the championship and I you know it's a sleeper to win the championship was absurd, I mean that that was just crazy and now you have to ask yourself, forget about the bench and forget about the guys that they may have coming off that they could find, can these two guys play together and Bam Adebayo and Giannis play together maybe and maybe everything will be fine in a month but right now Scott, it looks like the biggest uh problem of any team in the NBA having these two big guys in one basketball in one lane uh i mean Bam who had 80 points in a game i think he had like 10 last night for the game before that so i i i am uh skeptical as to whether or not that this could be a contending type team but as we know in the NBA if Miami can just win their 40 something games find a way to get in a play-in find a way to win some games and get hot at the end the NBA rewards you for that which is why i think the NBA playoff system is disgusting adding those play-in games it's like just insane 12 teams get in and it's like nobody's good at the back end and that's what i hope baseball does not do i do not want to see baseball do that i hope they keep that the same they can add more games