Barbara Barker

You have to work hard and get used to the yelling. That, in essence, is the scouting report on playing for Tom Thibodeau.

GREENBURGH — This is it. This is the moment Jalen Brunson has been playing for all season, the moment he can rewrite the narrative and put the ending to last year's playoffs behind him.

Embiid missed 30 games after having surgery, but returned last month to push his team into the playoffs. The 76ers were 31-8 with Embiid on the floor in the regular season, which included winning all five games he played since coming back from the injury. None of that mattered Saturday.

Now is not the time to exhale. It doesn't matter that the Knicks are 1-0 in the postseason.

Turn the page. Jalen Brunson is usually pretty good with that. He owns up to his mistakes, tries to learn from them, and doesn't let them define him.

"We should be 2-0. We're good," Embiid said after the Knicks won Game 2. "We're going to win this series. We're going to win this. We know what we gotta fix. We did a better job today so we're going to fix it. We're the better team."

Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart and Donte DiVincenzo — the Villanova basketball threesome that has stolen the hearts of Knicks fans while becoming

Embiid, the NBA's reigning MVP, scored a career playoff-high 50 points as the 76ers narrowed the Knicks' lead in the series to 2-1.

They can't let him bully them around. They can't let him change the tenor and direction of their first-round playoff series against the 76ers.

Both teams vowed at practice Saturday not to change the physical nature of their play for Sunday's Game 4.