Wow no one wants to talk about this game huh.
I've got some random thoughts.
From what i can tell, Hibbert was huge. I'm not sure i ever count on Hibbert showing up twice in a 7 game series ever.
Melo had a stinker. He's not faring well in the play offs with defenses locked in on him, but the rest of the knicks aren't exactly showing up so he's taking a lot of bad shots. Kidd needs to find his 3pt shot again.
DJ had a great game, biggest of his career. I wonder if he can keep punishing the knicks second unit. My belief is yes, but probably not to this degree.
The knicks were incredibly lazy on D. As soon as a shot went up, they just turned and watched. They didn't body up at all. And paid DEARLY for it on the boards. And will continue to do so until their wings make sure their player isn't going for an offensive rebound.
Knicks also need to step up on D and give a much better second effort. So many times the pacers got an offensive rebound and no one on the knicks would react at all. It was really pathetic.
All told, it was a very knicks regular season loss. Except it's in the play offs. So that's really just amateur hour shit.
Knicks also need to seriously consider starting Chandler, Martin, Melo kidd/shump felton to deal with the Pacers size.