Boomer and Gio acknowledged that the Knicks loss in game one could simply be attributed to the fact that they didn’t make their shots, but Gio also can’t figure out why New York didn’t attack Jimmy Butler after he rolled his ankle in the fourth quarter.
“I’m annoyed by that loss,” Gio said. “It was a game they should have continued to have control of, especially when you saw Jimmy Butler go down.
“There wasn’t a blood-in-the-water sense for the Knicks when he was hobbling around. When something like that happens and he doesn’t come out of the game, I’m expecting the Knicks to take full advantage of it, and they just didn’t.”
Butler remained in the game and clearly wasn’t operating at full strength, but with the rest of the Heat clogging the paint and daring the ice-cold Knicks to burn them from downtown, New York couldn’t take advantage of Butler’s lack of mobility, and Gio says they let the Heat star get off easy.
“This is like the fish that’s bleeding, and the shark comes up and feels it and has to go after that injured fish,” Gio said. “This is the antelope in the desert that is limping and the lion goes after it…and the Knicks still didn’t do anything about it!
“To me, it was surprising and strange that Jimmy Butler stayed in the game in that condition, and that the Knicks didn’t have that killer instinct to take advantage of it.”
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