When the Brooklyn Nets set up for a final shot Friday night, putting the ball in the hands of Caris LeVert, Twitter -- and Knicks analyst Walt Frazier -- reacted immediately, wondering why Tim Hardaway Jr. was isolated at the top of the key defensively against LeVert.
The Knicks had better defenders on the floor, and Hardaway -- even though he’d been matched up for much of the game against former University of Michigan teammate LeVert -- failed to prevent LeVert from going right, which Hardaway wanted to do. Even Clarence Gaines, the former Knicks scout and the man who received much of the credit for drafting Kristaps Porzingis and Frank Ntilikina, weighed in on Twitter, noting that he would have liked to have seen Ntilikina get that defensive assignment.