“We still do have active flood rescues still coming into the system and we’re dealing with those on a case-by-case” basis, Wassing said. “We have seen that tempo drop off, and that’s a good thing.”
The Knicks put themselves in bad positions by committing 17 turnovers in Game 4 that led to 20 points, but they also gave up easy baskets even when their defense was set. It left them with plenty to correct if they wanted to extend their first conference finals appearance since 2000 to a Game 6 in Indiana on Saturday.“I’ve never known this team to quit,” forward Josh Hart said. “That’s not the character of the guys that we have in the locker room. So obviously our backs are against the wall, but we’re competitors and we’re going to bring it until the series is over.”
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two-time All-Star Tyrese Haliburton blamed himself for the Indiana Pacers’ second-half collapse in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals.Coach Rick Carlisle figured Haliburton’s teammates played their part, too.Less than 24 hours after
and allowing the New York Knicks to cut their series deficit to 2-1, the Pacers went back to work Monday in search of solutions. Game 4 will be Tuesday night in Indianapolis.“I felt like we got kind of stagnant on that end,” Haliburton said minutes after the 106-100 loss. “I thought we just didn’t do a good job of continuing to play fast. I felt like I did a poor job of keeping pace in the game, especially in the fourth quarter. I feel like I was walking the ball up every play, so I know it’s got to be a big area of improvement for me.”
Clearly, it wasn’t just Haliburton — or his teammates — struggling to seal a victory that would have put the Pacers within one win of reaching the franchise’s second NBA Finals.
scored 20 of his team’s 36 points in the fourth quarter and an increasingly shifty defense slowed down Indiana just enough to hold them to a playoff-low 42 points in the second half. Carlisle credited the Knicks’ defense for making the right adjustments.Kate Mara and Robinson in a scene from “Friendship.” (A24 via AP)
Kate Mara and Robinson in a scene from “Friendship.” (A24 via AP)But there’s also a feeling in the second half of the movie that DeYoung isn’t sure how to end this slide into insanity and the movie gets unmoored from its satirical look at bromances and just follows Craig as a one man wrecking machine, like the movie was hijacked by
Not to take anything away from DeYoung’s debut, which is a hoot. Do us all a favor and see it with your buddies. And if you see a guy there all alone, maybe reach out?“Friendship,” a A24 release that is in select theaters Friday and goes wider May 23, is rated R for “language and some drug content.” Running time: 100 minutes. Three stars out of four.