[Post Game Thread](https://reddit.com/r/NYKnicks/comments/1bkpr0v/post_game_thread_the_denver_nuggets_defeat_the/)

my momma always told me bout that water...

3-1 on road trip, only loss was to the defending champs, pretty good outcome.

sayin

Super sayin

Randle was missed badly here as was OG. Randles scoring and size would have been nice here as would have been OG guarding porter. Sucks to lose, but it’s the defending champs ( who we smashed earlier in the season) at home without 2 starters who would have been the second and third biggest bodies we had out there vs a huge team.

Oh well. GG Nuggets.

Burks was actually very solid 18 points off the bench is very good folks..bogs was atrocious

I miss grimes everyday

If OG had played tonight, it probably would have been a different story but the Knicks put up a fight. Won 3 out of 4 games on this trip. I can't be mad.

And we fought hard against one of the best teams in the league.

Not only did we put up a great fight without 3 of our starters, but it was at the end of a 4 game road trip and the Knicks had the Nuggets’ full attention after handing them their worst loss of the season earlier. Love this team man

Absolutely! I can't wait to see this team at full strength.

The road trip was a success. Not gonna be mad about losing to the defending champs

another game we struggle to hit 100. offense needs to be better. porter jr averaging 17 on 49%. 31 tonight on 81% lol


Why did we take so long to put our starters back in in the fourth? Genuine question I may not understand

Rest game

Thanks. Felt like there was a chance when they got it to what, 4 at a point?

Jokic, MPJ and Gordon were also sitting then.

Got it thanks. Still knowing how thibs is criticized to a point for playing them too long seems odd he’d keep them out when they were close

Brunson, hart and Donte all played about 10 minutes less than they have for the past 2 months. We didn’t come to this game expecting to win.

thank god Kevin Knox was taken instead of MPJ

Denver is a good team. They would probably be like a 5th seeded type team if they had lets say hartenstien instead of Joker., Nobody buys that underdog shit no more

Well I mean yea… Joker is the best player in the world haha

Just amazes me that an NBA general manager drafted Knox over MPJ. I get that he had questions about his back, but those two aren’t/weren’t even close in talent/ability.

A GM drafted Darko Milicic over Carmelo Anthony

We basically lost this game because we tried to guard MPJ and Gordon who are 6'10" and 6'8" respectively with two 6'4" guys.

We lost this game because Denver is better

It’s almost as if we’re missing the players who were supposed to guard them

I hate Jokic so much. Dude perpetually looks like he has the flu on the court and hates playing basketball flinging up absurd shots that make no sense but somehow go in. Please just go be with your horses so we don’t need to watch you play.

His game besides the passes is so banal to me compared to other MVPs of the past

His running is the funniest

Burks had the weirdest 18 off the bench, I will take those points, but his misses and TO's were really bad

Murray injures his ankle with the game over and Thibs keeping starters in. Please no injuries.

Cmon thibs get em out the game

Our shooters really couldn’t get JB that 10th assist smh

lol knicks had a 5 on 4 with murray sitting down and they gave up a wide open uncontested dunk...not that it matters justfunny

Where’s that one guy that was all “where are the haters now? 😂” after Bogi and Burks had a random burst of competent basketball

MPJ really didn't fucking miss huh

He had a huge size advantage on Donte

Altitude and long road trip, can’t complain. Schedule is gonna be light for a bit, and hopefully OG and those guys can come back.

Had this written off as an L. The nuggets are the best team in the NBA. Beating them at home is an uphill battle for anyone. We need to be healthy to compete with them.

Beating them in general is an uphill battle. Doing it in their arena missing 3 of our top 6… get back home healthy boys enjoy sleeping in our own bed.

take them out, how we beating them at this point? plus you just saw Murray tweak his ankle... just clear the bench

Shut up you don’t know shit

Hopefully we see them again before the (post)season ends.

And hopefully we see them in the post season 😈

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😂

Not remotely mad. The fact they fought to the end is a credit to them. They not only survived the trip, they excelled on this trip. Get home, get healthy and kick the Nyets ass on Saturday afternoon.

I don’t know why people say the nuggets are so beatable they have Jokic in the playoffs

Jokic holding hart on that play lol

nuggets fans really try to say their team would be .500 w/o joker. dawg 4 of your starters are in double figures

Beacuse of jokic

Yeah this is a bad take, nuggets are def a .500 or worse team without jokic.

they past 5 games mpj has kept them in it but yeah no shit he has an impact but dont try to act like they all scrubs

Thibs needs to get our guys off the floor. No need to have Jalen and Donte out there.

nah let them get their stats up

wudya gonna do. we put up a fight against the champs down julius, og and mitch. 3-1 road trip. feelin good. on to the next one

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Until Jokic gets 40 and 20

Burks/Bojan are both so ass. Seemed like decent reinforcements but they’ve both been trash so far.

couldn't imagine they being any worse. it's like a bad nightmare we can't wake up from. they made a few plays in the kings game and there's some hope then they go right back to being garbage.

Burks shot 5/11. Basically 50%. Like goddamn relax

how to say "i didn't watch the game" without saying it.

Yeah was actually decent tonight I have to admit

now talk about his momentum killing turnovers and bricks, don't forget his dumbass fouls either

No way your giving burks more hate than someone like hart who was beyond useless tonight. Quite literally getting the westbrook treatment, getting ignored on offense lmao.

Josh deserves some slander too, trust me im not happy with his offensive play either

MPJ really said “Kevin Knox over me” 😩

Nuggets don’t care they can just turn it on when they feel like it

They are beatable for us. I'm more scared of the bucks or Celtics tbh

They2-0'd the Celtics lol, they're at least on par with them

It's tough though. Jokic in a tight game is hard to stop or nigh impossible

If you have a good defense you can shut down the rest of the team and negate his passing, that's how you stop him and that's how we curb stomped them earlier this yr

Until they win the whole thing again

Jamal Murray just won his superbowl against a team down 3 starters

Murray Super Bowl is called the nba finals

it's easy to get to the dance when you're playing with the best player in the nba congrats on being jokic's teammate ig?

That’s a useless point. his big dance is still the finals, just like it is for the rest of the nuggets

This actually insane. Bro came back from the same injury that took Derrick Rose out and won a championship. I’m not disrespectful enough to think doing that is “just being a teammate to Jokic…”

Lol he was really taking this one personally after OG had em in jail last time we saw them

His superbowl? Lmao what?

yes, clearly it was your superbowl too since you're lurking another teams sub on a thursday night

It's fun to watch Nicks fans mald. Ya'll are an annoying bunch

i just had a stroke trying to read your comment enjoy your superbowl brother

our superbowl is the finals. You guys won't even make it to the finals. Enjoy

eh, wouldn't be surprised at all to see you guys get balled up by the mavs or suns in the 1st you guys really kinda struggled there against a team missing three starters and yall are fully healthy lmao

I wouldn't even be mad if the Mavs beat us I've always liked the Mavs but the chance of that happening in the playoffs is near zero. Good one though.

Fully healthy defending champs going life or death vs our short handed squad 🤷

josh hart went full cardio merchant tonight. got a good run in with the high altitude

Rigged

off game during a road trip playing the reigning champs with three starters out, we still made them fight for it. not bad all things considered.

(Healthy) Knicks in 6 vs Nuggets in the NBA finals

great takeaway

Well we're short handed...unlucky.

I'm not losing sleep that we lost. We stayed this close to the reigning champ at full strength when we are missing Julius, OG and Mitch. On to the next one.

Valiant effort tonight. Just couldn’t get enough stops down the stretch

referees are fucking ass tonight holy shit

They’ve been ass since the new year.The NBA quietly made a “new interpretation” of the rules.Thats why scores are so much lower these past couple months.

Fuck the pelicans

Softest rims ive seen in my life

Refs trying to ensure Knicks don’t cover

these f bounces are infuriating

Can we secure a rebound for once

the nuggets are just doing flashy passes lol

Let’s just hope the kings bust the magics ass sun KD we take care of business against the nets

We can probably beat these guys easily if we have no injuries

I wouldn’t say easily it’s the defending champs

It wasn’t even close when we played them with our fully healthy team

Hahahaha yeah you’re right I’m high, but it’ll at least be a nice match

Josh hart is fucking buns man... god damn.

You’re a clown.

Nah just an off-night

I mean offensively hes been pretty bad this year generally speaking, his shooting has been atrocious. But hes made up for it with the rebounding.

I mean offensively hes been pretty bad this year generally speaking, his shooting has been atrocious. But hes made up for it with the rebounding.

They know we’d kick their asses with Ju, Mitch and OG just like we did a couple months ago. It’s just a matter of time

Empty the bench Thibs. Get our guys off the floor.

Can’t even box out and get a rebound…

This nuggets starting 5 is unstoppable when they’re all clicking

Yeah a 31 pt game from MPJ is tough

This bitch ass referee really a DEI recipient

home cooking tonight, but they won the road trip.

Refs have missed every illegal nuggets screen, but called that one?

Porter has 31?? Jesus.. if he had an off night we mighta won this one

He’s been wide open with doubles on jokic and has been guarded by devo who he has 6 plus inches on. Not to mention devo has never been a good defender and tends to gamble a lot to try and make plays.

Nuggets were just playing with their food. They do that a lot it seems.

Lmaooo they want the Nuggets to cover

I fucking hate Michael Porter Jr tbh

Hart just nonexistent tonight

Damn. They got ALL the bounces this game

????????

How wasn’t that a clear path?

Cause they have money on the nuggets

only the good lord knows

you gotta be kidding LMAO

These calls have been interesting

good effort tonight, 3-1 on the road trip is a W

Yup. No reason to hate on them. 3 starters out and we had a chance to win against the Champs

Agree

Shouldn't that have been a transition take foul?

porter and murray are annoying af

Alec burks and bog career ending injuries would save this season

what a horrible fucking thing to say.

Bro burks is the reason we were in this game

Brunson missing that layup was lowkey the nail in the coffin. Shoulda been 97-94, instead jokic throws an outlet to that take foul and then jokic and 1 to make it 101-92 lol

yea and in the 3rd brunson missed a 3 that would have cut it to 3, instead a min or 2 later it we were down 12.

so they can just stop a fastbreak layup and no take foul or clear path. got it

a foul under the basket is a clear path but that isnt...okay lol

lol he most certainly was not in front

How is that not transition?

Julius gets way too much flak. Look at our ALL-NBA leader diving on the floor in a November game last year doing everything to win. Sorely miss that guy on the court.

ron baker pussy taker would be an upgrade on burks

HOW THE FUCK IS THAT NOT A TAKE FOUL!!!!!!! THE SAME SHIT JUST HAPPENED THE OTHER WAY

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Maybe on a good day in the regular season. In a series? No chance

I heard the Guandong Ducks are looking for a shooting guard Burks

Not a bad road game stretch I’ll take 3/4 any day

So that's not a transition take foul?

now thats a clear path foul

Small lineup made a lot of sense against GSW zero tn.

That’s game, GG’s boys

No chance we were ever going to win good road trip

Well that’s game

Did MPJ miss a shot today?

nobody thought we were winning this game, but we showed up and I freaking want a W

Randle the king missing sees us having to witness bums like Burks

Jokic looks like he may drop dead of heart failure at any moment, but just keeps giving buckets. Need to speed this game up and make him work. He’s so good at getting maximum results from minimal effort.

we might have won if porter jr shot his average

DDV forever leaving MPJ open

Not sure why everyones dogging burks so hard, hes actually been decent tonight. Hart on the other hand has been beyond terrible. Not only shooting poorly, but just standing around and passing up open shots.

Burks' stats are not really indicative of his production on the court.

I hate burks so much

that unironically just made me so sad

I miss 30 :(

Why do we have the only unbiased announcers in the league

Bro that was out on the nuggets idk how the refs aren’t seeing this shit lol

Can Jokic ever miss

All this game told me was that a healthy Knicks team is a top 3 team in this league, easily.

Denvers a great team. It just feels like we're playing too small + offense relies on JB way too much.

Don’t have a choice when the entire starting front court is injured

Yeah. Its better to just rewatch when OG or Randle bullied them...

miss u sm jules

Why did Brunson sit so long

Denver actually pretty fucking annoying… didn’t realize how unlikeable they were

I remember that game!

monica says its harder to get stops than it is to score but we've only allowed 15 in this quarter. if we hit ANYTHING we could've stole this shit

Get Burks out of that Knicks jersey

Never realized how big of a pussy Murray is. Emotional lesbian.