Go Southampton (or whatever) but Go Knicks!

My friend organized a watch party at our local bar for the Southampton vs. Man City FA cup game earlier today--apparently, he's been rooting for Southampton for the last fifteen years and was hoping they could unseat mighty Man City . . . and while they came close to doing so, breaking a nil-nil tie in the 80th minute when Finn Azaz scored on a wonderful bending shot, the upset was not to be and Man City scored two quick goals in response-- but it was fun to get invested in a random team, root for them for one game, and then instantly forget about the result-- unlike the mood I'll be in at 6:30 PM tonight, when the Knicks play the Hawks . . . the Knicks are down a game in the series, they have lost the last two games by one point, and they are really struggling against the scrappy, fast, athletics Hawks team-- I think they should let Towns go to town all game, because the Hawsk lack a real center and this should put them in foul trouble-- but mainly they can't do the normal Towns and Brunson type baskets where they bang around and finally explode toward the hoop, scoring but falling to the floor-- because while they're getting back up off the floor, the Hawks have already zoomed down the court and scored-- in a five on four situation-- the Knicks also need to hit some threes early, so they can get back on defense quickly-- and Josh Hart and Mikal Bridges need to score some points tonight!