Jalen Brunson says Knicks ‘should have fouled' Obi Toppin late in OT
Among the many mistakes the Knicks made late in the fourth quarter and overtime, one was their inability to foul Obi Toppin late in the extra session.
The Pacers had possession and a one-point lead with 20.0 seconds left when the Knicks allowed Toppin to go in for a dunk that pushed the lead to three.
'I think we should have fouled,' Jalen Brunson said. 'We just didn't.'
Coach Tom Thibodeau and Josh Hart both said the plan was to foul Toppin, but the Knicks didn't get a hold of him.
On the ensuing possession, Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns missed potential game-tying 3-pointers as the Knicks blew a 17-point, fourth-quarter lead to drop Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals, 138-135, at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday.
Toppin, the former Knick, scored four of his eight points in overtime and finished with 10 rebounds along with a plus-nine rating in 20 minutes.
Obi Toppin slams home a dunk after the Knicks were unable to foul him in the closing seconds of overtime in their 138-135 Game 1 loss to the Pacers on May 21, 2025.
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Green ripped Towns in March for missing a game against the Warriors, claiming he was scared of Jimmy Butler, not knowing that Towns was mourning the loss of a family friend.
Asked if he has cleared the air with Towns, Green told The Post's Peter Botte: 'We're not going back to that. This is his moment, not mine.'
The two coaches in this series, Indiana's Rick Carlisle and Thibodeau, are friends.
They go back a long way.
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'At the end of my playing career I was trying out for the Timberwolves, a franchise that was just starting and at the first free agent camp he was one of Bill Musselman's assistants,' Carlisle recalled. 'That was kind of the first time I got to know him a little bit, of course over the years. He's had a great career, an amazing impact as an assistant coach for many many years and he's had a high impact as a head coach.'
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