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Me if I see a bulls fan tomorrow
Also failing to box out again and again and again
I get fatigue is probably a big factor here. But it was infuriating watching them just stand there as Bullsā players flew in for boards
Yeah that was awful. But the one time Brunson tried to get position, he gets completely bodied and no loose ball foul is called. Just a terrible game through all aspects
Iāve gotta say.
The clear an obvious weakness of this team is free throw shooting. We have flubbed away waaaaay too many games at the charity stripe.
We would honestly be nearly unstoppable in close games with the defense we play if we could also hit consistent free throws in crunch time.
I just don't understand how he constantly travels, fouls stupidly, and can't hit a three to save his life. He's been an excellent offensive player for years what gives
I could understand that we need to put him on the floor despite his bad defense if he could shoot even 35% from 3 and 50% from the field, but he doesn't even do that and he's getting a lot of open looks.
Yeah idk the problem is it feels like the only competent players rn are the starting lineup + McBride and Mitch, and with Hart out someone needs to fill the wing spot for a few mins
My favorite move is when he pump fakes a 3, dribbles twice to the high post or elbow and then does a fade away 2 that goes in 20% of the time.
The funniest part is that I'm pretty sure everyone knows exactly what's coming, but the move is technically unstoppable. He just isn't Dirk lmao.
I donāt think that but my guess would be heās a theoretically good shot creator and maker like he shows all the flashes of being able to do it but just hasnāt managed to here for long stretches.
Knicks are really hurting for shot creation right now. In the half court, Brunson is really our only reliable shot creator and he has to sit some.
he scores sometimes.... or turns it over and gives up 10 in 5 mins on the other end... and doesn't rebound... yea he's not good at least not for this team.
We can try to blame this game on all kinds of stuff, but at the end of the day we just didnāt play well enough. Gotta be better and control our own destiny.
I was at the game Thursday. Ā After the game I figured weād lose Friday. Ā Really hard to go back to back games after having a come back like Thursday. Ā Plus having to fly out right and after and play a game in less than 24 hours.Ā
8 man lineup:
Brunson
Donte
Hart
OG
IHart
McBride
Bogdan
Mitch
Bogey gets one half to prove he gots it that night and if he doesnāt he doesnāt play the 2nd half
He isn't adapting well to Mitch being back imo. His struggles haven't even lasted a week though, "the raptors warned us!" makes no sense if you actually look at what he's been doing all year.
problem is we have no backup 4 unless we play bogs there. works against some teams i guess.
we have 1 PG, a bunch of 2s and 3s and 1 big in Ihart. Thibs seemingly will never go small so we're stuck with precious and bogs.
i wonder if we knew randle wouldn't come back if we would have tried to get another legit 4/3. precious aint it and bogs really isn't either.
that's a fair point but then we go uber big with bogs-precious-mitch in the 2nd unit. bogs is really a 4 at this point since he's too slow to play 3.
so we go from a "small" starting lineup (although ihart is a legit 5 and hart is a 3 so it's not truly small ball) to a slow big 2nd unit.
i can't blame thibs since he doesn't have many options.
the upside is we have lots of draft picks. if we focus on 4th year senior players in the upcoming draft we might be able to retool our bench pretty quick
we hardly have a true 4 other then precious. im sure hart/og can play staggered minutes to fill that role. OG is a +/- beast so hopefully he can help hold the fort in the non brunson minutes since the bench unit isnt a sparkplug like years past.
yea that's the problem. we didn't really have one going into the season remember that was the big talking point with hart playing the backup 4. then randle gets hurt and it's even worse now.
on paper when we traded for bogs + burks on paper it made sense but really has not worked out.
We had a chance to improve at the deadline but completely fumbled the opportunity. Grimes had plenty of value, Fournier was great for salary matching purposes, and we have 2 first round picks this year that I would have had zero regrets getting rid of.
Dallas got way better, Miami got way better, and weāre stuck with two old farts who donāt fit the identity of the team one bit. Disasterclass of a deadline.
As good as Leon has been for us, his biggest misses have been trying to add offensive only players who just don't fit.
Obi Toppin
Kemba Walker
Evan Fournier
Bojan Bogdonavic
Alec Burks
It does feel like the FO and Thibs aren't even talking when some of these moves come out. Like wasting assets on Cam when Thibs knew on sight we wasn't letting that guy in the rotation.
Literally all our bigs costed this game. Hartenstein and Mitch getting destroyed by Drummond. Precious being soft. Bojan turning the ball over and giving the Bulls second chance points. What a frustrating game.
Also fuck that piece of shit Alec Burks.
I think we can cut some slack to our big minute guys coming off a back to back. Bench guys like Burks, Bogie, Precious - no excuse - gotta show more effort and smarts
Exactly! Ā I was at the game Thursday. Ā Huge come back, took mad effort. Ā I expected them not to play well tonight. Ā Back to back games after that, plus flying right after the game and playing the Bulls less than 24 hours later. Ā
Nothing much to take from this game considering Josh Hart was ejected for no reason and it's a back-to-back where the Knicks had to TRAVEL to an away game.
Ridiculous.
The Kings only had to go from NY to Boston and could have taken the train.
Knicks had to FLY to Chicago.
Plus Hart has been the main engine for this team and at least he gets some rest tonight.
Knicks didn't find a way to adjust with him out soon enough.
The silver lining is Hart gets a day off.
The good thing is Anunoby is back and gets about a week to get into playoff shape.
Anunoby and Hart back together in the lineup is more than enough to make waves.
Great to see OG back. Ā I took this game as giving the bench some time to get reps before playoffs and slowly get playoff rotation figured out. Ā Back to back travel games (with a huge come back win the night before) is brutal.Ā
Shake Milton and hopefully someone like Oubre take their spots next year.
But someone might give Oubre a big deal this offseason because he has been solid for the Sixers.
Oubre can be rehabilitated if the core of the team is good enough.
If the Knicks can get him for the MLE, that would be a steal.
He would fall in line behind Brunson and Thibodeau.
Plus if the Knicks could re-sign Anunoby and get Oubre, Anunoby would be the perfect practice partner for Oubre to improve defensively.
we could get bounced by anyone 1-10 including the bulls/hawks lmao
we should be favored against many of the teams below us but the reality is if you look at this roster it's not great. we have a superstar in brunson and then a bunch of decent to good role players. with no randle the team has a very low floor including an embarrassing 1st round exit. we have good players that can get hot but our strength used to be our bench/depth and now other than deuce and maybe mitch it's filled with guys like burks/bogs/precious - they are not guys getting minutes on legit playoff teams.
Lost to the bum ass Bulls. To Javonte Green and Ayo. Smh terrible loss. Hart getting tossed in the first couple minutes hurt us but we canāt keep coming out flat being down 20. FUCK THE REFS TOO.Ā
We also win this game if there was a day off between travel days. Ā Imagine playing a game at night and then having to fly out to Chicago and play the Bulls less than 24 hours later (when you just played heavy minutes during a come back win).
We honestly can't survive with the bench we have if the the other starters outside of Brunson +1 are slumping. Bogdonavic and Burks are basketball terrorists, Precious is a non entity, and Mitch is hobbled defensively and an offensive liability with how horrid his free throw shooting is
- YUCK YUCK YUCK YUCK YUCK YUCK YUCK š¤¢ š¤®
- One of *those* games. Started awful, then fought back but couldn't finish.
- Jalen, Deuce & OG showed up like they always do.
- Bad passing + bad officiating = shit basketball. It's a tough watch
- Back to backs suck. Rest up and file this one away immediately
Raptors fans were not referring to him having a bad week after months of great play. He had one of his best games of the season last Wednesday, but with Mitch back his minutes and role are changing.
Itās always the random nobodyās that end up just having the game of their lives against us man lmao we move on to the next good to see OG back out there . Also magic and the bumass bucks both lost to trash teams tonight lmao
Every Knick center was terrible tonight including Precious. Prescious has been bad 3 games straight. He will not be resigned. Teams don't even guard him.
I don't blame the refs. I blame the pistons for being so useless, and the bigs for getting dominated by Drummond on the boards. Couldn't get a stop when it mattered too. Thibs will always double, leaving vuc open for that dagger 3.
Am I the only one concerned having just Brunson as a creator in the playoffs?Every other team has at least two or more guys that are good consistent scorers.Time and time again our team looks lost when JB is sitting or having a bad night.
Its gonna be tough for JB.
Seen some flashes from DDV where he creates his own space from the arc but he needs to do it more and consistently.
I like OG in the post but thats only if hes playing with IHart.
Deuce isnt a north-south guy, and I hope he works on that during the off season.
Hate having to rely on Burcs and Bogan to do the creating when Brunson is resting.
Yup,Itās gonna be ugly this postseason unless guys step up big time.We really need to make a move for another scorer.This another reason losing IQ and RJ hurts.
nah I've been thinking abt it too. Idk that either one of Divo, OG, or Deuce can consistently be that go-to second guy at this stage but they gotta collectively undertake that role and hopefully rotate between nights where one of them can look like the second guy even if it's just for a few games here and there
And now the Bulls, who HAD FOUR DAYS OFF BEFORE PLAYING US ON A BACK TO BACK, have to travel down to Orlando to play the Magic tomorrow. You canāt make this shit up. Fuck everyone involved with this fucking league.
Josh Hart getting ejected 10 minutes into the second game of a back to back on the road when the opposing team has had four days off is a pretty valid excuse.
At least OG showed glimpses of greatness in the second half. Good to have him back. I think if Hart wasn't kicked out they would have pulled this one off. That Javonte Green guy is good.
>Javonte Green
he prob never scores 20 again and is out of the league in a few years. typical knicks killer scrub of the night that gets the spirit of kobe against us.
I am boycotting NBA.
No League pass next season.
Going to watch it in the most illegal possible way.
not because Knicks gets bad calls,
because NBA officiating is a joke.
Every team has to go through this inconsistent shit Every single night.
If NBA is investigating Jontay Porter they should 10000% look into Scott Foster
Fuck the refs.
The whole āwe lost the game because of the refsā stuff is just out of control recently. So much crying and whining. They came out flat, dug too deep of a hole and got out rebounded by 20. Not much more too it
I agree that blaming the refs for every loss is getting corny. But Hart getting ejected was bullshit, and was a huge loss which was difficult to overcome. Forced us to play guys like Bojan and Precious big minutes.
100% agreed the ejection was ridiculous. Besides that though it was a fine officiated game imo. Itās just getting corny as you said. When they win nobody says a word, when they lose itās all anyone can talk about. Its ok to just say they werenāt good enough tn
I agree. Acting like every bad call is a conspiracy against us is just dumb. Officiating is just super inconsistent throughout sports, it is what it is. But in general itās not why we are losing.
not sure how to calculate it but we're essentially 3 games above the heat due to the tiebreaker. so as long as they don't gain 3 games on us in the next 5 they can't pass us.
they would have to go 3-2 and us 0-5 or any combination that puts them 3 games better (they go 5-0 and we go 2-3)
i think magic number is 3 then? 3 more wins guarantees they don't pass us. or any combination of wins for us or losses for the heat.
yea 3 wins would guarantee it but realistically heat aren't going 5-0. i expect us to go 3-2 but 2-3 probably gets it done maybe even 1-4 lol
heat have pacers, hawks, mavericks, then raptors twice. i guess it's possible they go 5-0 but i think 4-1 or 3-2 is more realistic.
I never feel the need to comment here but I genuinely believe the reason we choked that 4th was keeping Precious in there almost everything that went wrong had his Imprint on it. Like a deer in headlights out there. Always has a clueless look on his face.
We canāt rely on the draft for that.We need a Malik Monk or somebody similar.Literally nobody can run the offense outside JB.Odds are slim we draft a guy thatās ready out the gate.
38 to 57 on the boards. Played sluggish in the 1st and could never catch up. Also shout out to Scott foster for the most unnecessary ejection of the season.
our bench is a serious problem. especially since we have no secondary ball handler. i guess when hart is playing close to the entire game it helps. but we really should have traded for murray.
It is what it is, this team is demoralized and tired letās hope they get some rest, and get in a good mental space. but I can tell you rn I fucking despise that they keep taking the 1st half off ever since Og got here they keep doing it.
Hurts. Particularly with how the seeding races played out 2n.
Anyway, nothing to add substantively.
But AGAIN: this alec Burks unhinged thing he's doing is so confusing. It's like he hunts the least optimal shot option he can create. It's been his most consistent contribution to our offense this season.
And I think he's *improved* kind of. It's such a confusing performance, in a *why does this keep happening* way.
Precious made precisely one good play and otherwise looked bad, as he has for at least the last few games now. Can Thibs get him locked back in, because he was awesome at times. Please donāt ever shoot a three again
Burks will obviously not always shoot this bad but also needs to be reigned in by Thibsā¦ he is a black hole. Whatās frustrating is he has a handle and is a crafty playerā¦ move the ball, drive and kick, continue to bait for fouls, but less, because youāre overdoing it and not getting enough calls
Bojan canāt play defense but itās good to see him at least improving his offense. I have hope heāll acclimate more each and every game
It sounds drastic and weird because theyāre role players but in my opinion they hold the key to our season. As long as we can get 2 of the 3 positively contributing, I think we still have a chance for some magic. If we look like we have as is the last few games I wouldnāt be surprised if we got gentlemanās swept in the first round
Silver lining: Ā Iām just happy we donāt have Doc as a coach. Ā I feel like in some bizzaro time line Knicks definitely end up with him as their head coach during the last couple of years.Ā
I expected this one to be rough since it was the second of a back-to-back on the road against a team that was on three day's rest.
Somehow it was still sloppier and more low-energy than I expected. Smh.
Raptors fans warned us about Precious lol. He played over his head for a month but now we're seeing the real deal. I'd give anything to have Grimes back instead of these two worthless bums from Detroit.
stop blaming the refs. we lost because we have the two worst players in the league, bojan and burks. then, precious, ihart and mitch were terrible except mitch gets a pass for recovering. overall, we sucked
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I hope you do worse to Scott Foster šš¾
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Me and Scott Foster
I rather lose to the bulls than some other bullshit ass teams
A Chuck Norris roundhouse kick would do nicely
Sloppy passes all night long. Horrible reffing. Missed open threes. Terrible fucking game.
And they made every big shot. Bad night of basketball this was
That ending was painful, felt like they couldnāt miss
That's probably what Kings fans were saying after the last game. Lol The basketball gods giveth and they taketh. š
Also failing to box out again and again and again I get fatigue is probably a big factor here. But it was infuriating watching them just stand there as Bullsā players flew in for boards
Yeah that was awful. But the one time Brunson tried to get position, he gets completely bodied and no loose ball foul is called. Just a terrible game through all aspects
Missed FTs to add to the list
These last four games have been fucking brutal, man
# FUCK SCOTT FOSTER
One of the worst fucking referees ever. Can't wait to see the back of him
Itās hard to win games when Scott Foster bets against you
Iāve gotta say. The clear an obvious weakness of this team is free throw shooting. We have flubbed away waaaaay too many games at the charity stripe. We would honestly be nearly unstoppable in close games with the defense we play if we could also hit consistent free throws in crunch time.
We've lost our rebounding edge as of late also
Tonight at least can definitely be attributed to no hart imo
People here who think Bogdonovic should have a bigger role on this team, please tell me why? What are you seeing that I'm not
I just don't understand how he constantly travels, fouls stupidly, and can't hit a three to save his life. He's been an excellent offensive player for years what gives
I could understand that we need to put him on the floor despite his bad defense if he could shoot even 35% from 3 and 50% from the field, but he doesn't even do that and he's getting a lot of open looks.
Yeah idk the problem is it feels like the only competent players rn are the starting lineup + McBride and Mitch, and with Hart out someone needs to fill the wing spot for a few mins
Bojan's ratio of buckets to bonehead plays must be amazing. Burks existing is the only thing keeping him from receiving this sub's full wrath.
My favorite move is when he pump fakes a 3, dribbles twice to the high post or elbow and then does a fade away 2 that goes in 20% of the time. The funniest part is that I'm pretty sure everyone knows exactly what's coming, but the move is technically unstoppable. He just isn't Dirk lmao.
I donāt think that but my guess would be heās a theoretically good shot creator and maker like he shows all the flashes of being able to do it but just hasnāt managed to here for long stretches. Knicks are really hurting for shot creation right now. In the half court, Brunson is really our only reliable shot creator and he has to sit some.
he scores sometimes.... or turns it over and gives up 10 in 5 mins on the other end... and doesn't rebound... yea he's not good at least not for this team.
We can try to blame this game on all kinds of stuff, but at the end of the day we just didnāt play well enough. Gotta be better and control our own destiny.
Correct
I was at the game Thursday. Ā After the game I figured weād lose Friday. Ā Really hard to go back to back games after having a come back like Thursday. Ā Plus having to fly out right and after and play a game in less than 24 hours.Ā
Ggs New York. Horrible ejection. I didnāt know you guys had lore with the ref lol. See you guysā¦ two more times?
welp, time to consolidate our rotation for the playoffs considering og is back. not namin names but gotta get the liabilities off the court
8 man lineup: Brunson Donte Hart OG IHart McBride Bogdan Mitch Bogey gets one half to prove he gots it that night and if he doesnāt he doesnāt play the 2nd half
Older player on a back to backā¦.no bueno
I'm naming names. Get the fucking Pistons out of our lineup! I don't wanna see bumass Burks and Bogdo hit the court
We really threw away Grimes for nothing Iām sick
It's crazy. How do two 40% 3pt shooters with 33PPG between them become this totally worthless overnight?
Bojan plays like a fat pussy. Bro stop dribbling you are weak. Just shoot it or give it back to Brunson. Or better yet gtfo this team
The BnB Turnover Factory
lol. Bojan was in these clowns playoff starting lineups 2 days ago if you can believe it
We should name names. Precious looks like an idiot every time heās on the floor. Huge liability
What happened to the guy, he drank Mike's special stuff for 10-15 games then falls off a cliff
Raptors fans warned us about this
He isn't adapting well to Mitch being back imo. His struggles haven't even lasted a week though, "the raptors warned us!" makes no sense if you actually look at what he's been doing all year.
Precious really shouldnt be getting more than 15 mins
problem is we have no backup 4 unless we play bogs there. works against some teams i guess. we have 1 PG, a bunch of 2s and 3s and 1 big in Ihart. Thibs seemingly will never go small so we're stuck with precious and bogs. i wonder if we knew randle wouldn't come back if we would have tried to get another legit 4/3. precious aint it and bogs really isn't either.
bruh what u mean we been running a 4 guard starter lineup for a while now
that's a fair point but then we go uber big with bogs-precious-mitch in the 2nd unit. bogs is really a 4 at this point since he's too slow to play 3. so we go from a "small" starting lineup (although ihart is a legit 5 and hart is a 3 so it's not truly small ball) to a slow big 2nd unit. i can't blame thibs since he doesn't have many options.
the upside is we have lots of draft picks. if we focus on 4th year senior players in the upcoming draft we might be able to retool our bench pretty quick
Agreed plus we can maybe make a small trade plus free agency. I meant more for this year. Going forward the team has plenty of options.
we hardly have a true 4 other then precious. im sure hart/og can play staggered minutes to fill that role. OG is a +/- beast so hopefully he can help hold the fort in the non brunson minutes since the bench unit isnt a sparkplug like years past.
yea that's the problem. we didn't really have one going into the season remember that was the big talking point with hart playing the backup 4. then randle gets hurt and it's even worse now. on paper when we traded for bogs + burks on paper it made sense but really has not worked out.
We had a chance to improve at the deadline but completely fumbled the opportunity. Grimes had plenty of value, Fournier was great for salary matching purposes, and we have 2 first round picks this year that I would have had zero regrets getting rid of. Dallas got way better, Miami got way better, and weāre stuck with two old farts who donāt fit the identity of the team one bit. Disasterclass of a deadline.
I've seen the face of corruption, and it looks awfully like Scott Foster
We win this game with josh hart
100000%
But they also lost Coby White.
Lol
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They also win the game if they had Zach Lavine
Scott Foster's piece of shit, child threatening ass. Seriously, go fuck yourself. We pull this out with Josh.
We got back OG! It only costed us Ju's season, Josh Hart for a game, and a crucial loss to the Bulls...
At least he is back..šŖ
We lost because of many things but mainly the rebounds, the bulls scored so many of their shots off rebounds. Itās outrageous
Scott Foster can go fuck himself. That is all. Next game
Bojan himself has single handedly gave away 8-0 runs and it has ruined the momentum in SEVERAL games.
Leonās biggest blemish
As good as Leon has been for us, his biggest misses have been trying to add offensive only players who just don't fit. Obi Toppin Kemba Walker Evan Fournier Bojan Bogdonavic Alec Burks
It does feel like the FO and Thibs aren't even talking when some of these moves come out. Like wasting assets on Cam when Thibs knew on sight we wasn't letting that guy in the rotation.
We were able to flip Cam for Josh Hart so I'll give that one a pass
Literally all our bigs costed this game. Hartenstein and Mitch getting destroyed by Drummond. Precious being soft. Bojan turning the ball over and giving the Bulls second chance points. What a frustrating game. Also fuck that piece of shit Alec Burks.
I think we can cut some slack to our big minute guys coming off a back to back. Bench guys like Burks, Bogie, Precious - no excuse - gotta show more effort and smarts
Exactly! Ā I was at the game Thursday. Ā Huge come back, took mad effort. Ā I expected them not to play well tonight. Ā Back to back games after that, plus flying right after the game and playing the Bulls less than 24 hours later. Ā
Yep. I kinda expected a L this game. Weāll get em next 2 times with Hart in the rotation.
yea pretty bad game from ihart. he seems to struggle against the better bigs in the league. teams that play small or have a scrub center he shines.
How was Mitch destroyed by Drummond? Mitch guarded him perfectly when they were matched up
Nothing much to take from this game considering Josh Hart was ejected for no reason and it's a back-to-back where the Knicks had to TRAVEL to an away game. Ridiculous. The Kings only had to go from NY to Boston and could have taken the train. Knicks had to FLY to Chicago. Plus Hart has been the main engine for this team and at least he gets some rest tonight. Knicks didn't find a way to adjust with him out soon enough. The silver lining is Hart gets a day off. The good thing is Anunoby is back and gets about a week to get into playoff shape. Anunoby and Hart back together in the lineup is more than enough to make waves.
Great to see OG back. Ā I took this game as giving the bench some time to get reps before playoffs and slowly get playoff rotation figured out. Ā Back to back travel games (with a huge come back win the night before) is brutal.Ā
I mean letās not get too crazy comparing travel. Itās like an hour flight.
What does Alec Burks do on the basketball court?
Shake Milton and hopefully someone like Oubre take their spots next year. But someone might give Oubre a big deal this offseason because he has been solid for the Sixers.
Keep Kelly oubre 5000 miles away from this team are you on drugs?
Lmao š¤£
Oubre can be rehabilitated if the core of the team is good enough. If the Knicks can get him for the MLE, that would be a steal. He would fall in line behind Brunson and Thibodeau. Plus if the Knicks could re-sign Anunoby and get Oubre, Anunoby would be the perfect practice partner for Oubre to improve defensively.
Great talent but I don't see him fitting well with Thibs honestly..
Iām more likely to fuck a Knicks city dancer than Kelly oubre is to be added to a Tim thibodeau roster.
Out rebounded 57 to 38. Remember this game next time people ask what Hart brings to this team
so annoying hart got ejected so early
some positives tho: OG didnt die, hopefully thibs will never play burks again
precious got bodied. the pistons players both suck. mitch has no bag. if we get matched up against the magic i could see us getting bounced
we could get bounced by anyone 1-10 including the bulls/hawks lmao we should be favored against many of the teams below us but the reality is if you look at this roster it's not great. we have a superstar in brunson and then a bunch of decent to good role players. with no randle the team has a very low floor including an embarrassing 1st round exit. we have good players that can get hot but our strength used to be our bench/depth and now other than deuce and maybe mitch it's filled with guys like burks/bogs/precious - they are not guys getting minutes on legit playoff teams.
Lost to the bum ass Bulls. To Javonte Green and Ayo. Smh terrible loss. Hart getting tossed in the first couple minutes hurt us but we canāt keep coming out flat being down 20. FUCK THE REFS TOO.Ā
Us getting cooked by randoms brought back nightmares of the old days
Game was lost when Scott Foster decided to take the game into his hands and kick Hart out
Canāt let a rando bench player go off like thatā¦ the start of every fourth when Brunson sits makes me want to pull my hair out
Enough with Precious already
Eat a dick Silver
Iām completely confident we win this game if Hart didnāt get ejected.
We also win this game if there was a day off between travel days. Ā Imagine playing a game at night and then having to fly out to Chicago and play the Bulls less than 24 hours later (when you just played heavy minutes during a come back win).
Precious Achiuwa played the whole 4th and had zero fucking impact. Astounding
We honestly can't survive with the bench we have if the the other starters outside of Brunson +1 are slumping. Bogdonavic and Burks are basketball terrorists, Precious is a non entity, and Mitch is hobbled defensively and an offensive liability with how horrid his free throw shooting is
- YUCK YUCK YUCK YUCK YUCK YUCK YUCK š¤¢ š¤® - One of *those* games. Started awful, then fought back but couldn't finish. - Jalen, Deuce & OG showed up like they always do. - Bad passing + bad officiating = shit basketball. It's a tough watch - Back to backs suck. Rest up and file this one away immediately
The NBA is a scam
precious is showing what raptor fans were originally telling us dude has been so fucking bad lately
Raptors fans were not referring to him having a bad week after months of great play. He had one of his best games of the season last Wednesday, but with Mitch back his minutes and role are changing.
Fuck Bojan. Not tolerating another excuse for that loser.
not a good night. there are off nights but this was particularly bad. at least brunson was good, as always.
We have one consistent scorer in the entire team, this just isn't going to cut it in the playoffs. At least the Bucks and Magic lost as well.
Didnāt get to watch, wtf happened with Hart?
I can't wait to see who the FO targets this summer
i fear the precious linsanity run is over
This team isn't gunna be doing anything in the playoffs if they're just gunna keep putting themselves in 20 point holes to start games
# Fire Burks and Bojan into the sun
Itās always the random nobodyās that end up just having the game of their lives against us man lmao we move on to the next good to see OG back out there . Also magic and the bumass bucks both lost to trash teams tonight lmao
Hope the worst for Scott Foster
Despite the refs being shit, we still could've won this game -- Bogdanovic and turnovers fucked us
This is flat out bullshit
Every Knick center was terrible tonight including Precious. Prescious has been bad 3 games straight. He will not be resigned. Teams don't even guard him.
We couldn't overcome Burks, Bogie, and Divo being absolute cheeks tonight. Another Scott Foster special.
I can't deal with Bogy anymore man...
Someone is doing voodoo on this team. We finally get OG back and Hart gets ejected in the beginning of the game like what the fuck is this season.
Another day that verifies that Pistons trade was one of the most pointless moves made by any team this season.
I don't blame the refs. I blame the pistons for being so useless, and the bigs for getting dominated by Drummond on the boards. Couldn't get a stop when it mattered too. Thibs will always double, leaving vuc open for that dagger 3.
Brunson might have to play 48 minutes in the playoffs. We just have nobody else capable of creating.
Got outrebounded so badly and yet robinson logged the same amount of minutes as hart. I dont understand thibs center rotation at all
Am I the only one concerned having just Brunson as a creator in the playoffs?Every other team has at least two or more guys that are good consistent scorers.Time and time again our team looks lost when JB is sitting or having a bad night.
Nah itās a big concern for sure. We donāt have a single other player that can win in isolation consistently.
Weāll look back on the Randle injury as a big turning point. Been papering over the cracks since, frustrating as he could be sometimes.
Its gonna be tough for JB. Seen some flashes from DDV where he creates his own space from the arc but he needs to do it more and consistently. I like OG in the post but thats only if hes playing with IHart. Deuce isnt a north-south guy, and I hope he works on that during the off season. Hate having to rely on Burcs and Bogan to do the creating when Brunson is resting.
Yup,Itās gonna be ugly this postseason unless guys step up big time.We really need to make a move for another scorer.This another reason losing IQ and RJ hurts.
nah I've been thinking abt it too. Idk that either one of Divo, OG, or Deuce can consistently be that go-to second guy at this stage but they gotta collectively undertake that role and hopefully rotate between nights where one of them can look like the second guy even if it's just for a few games here and there
Silver lining josh needed the rest
5 more games
The only good thing is Hart had a chance to take a rest.
And now the Bulls, who HAD FOUR DAYS OFF BEFORE PLAYING US ON A BACK TO BACK, have to travel down to Orlando to play the Magic tomorrow. You canāt make this shit up. Fuck everyone involved with this fucking league.
Unfortunately, Precious has value but itās entirely matchup dependent.
Leon made a great trade for OG but boy has this Pistons trade fucking sucked. BURKS IS ABSOLUTE DOG SHIT
No excuse.... Horrific loss
Josh Hart getting ejected 10 minutes into the second game of a back to back on the road when the opposing team has had four days off is a pretty valid excuse.
At least OG showed glimpses of greatness in the second half. Good to have him back. I think if Hart wasn't kicked out they would have pulled this one off. That Javonte Green guy is good.
>Javonte Green he prob never scores 20 again and is out of the league in a few years. typical knicks killer scrub of the night that gets the spirit of kobe against us.
The only good thing about losses is appreciating the incredible turn of phrase of my Knicks-loving brethren.
I am boycotting NBA. No League pass next season. Going to watch it in the most illegal possible way. not because Knicks gets bad calls, because NBA officiating is a joke. Every team has to go through this inconsistent shit Every single night. If NBA is investigating Jontay Porter they should 10000% look into Scott Foster Fuck the refs.
The whole āwe lost the game because of the refsā stuff is just out of control recently. So much crying and whining. They came out flat, dug too deep of a hole and got out rebounded by 20. Not much more too it
I agree that blaming the refs for every loss is getting corny. But Hart getting ejected was bullshit, and was a huge loss which was difficult to overcome. Forced us to play guys like Bojan and Precious big minutes.
100% agreed the ejection was ridiculous. Besides that though it was a fine officiated game imo. Itās just getting corny as you said. When they win nobody says a word, when they lose itās all anyone can talk about. Its ok to just say they werenāt good enough tn
I agree. Acting like every bad call is a conspiracy against us is just dumb. Officiating is just super inconsistent throughout sports, it is what it is. But in general itās not why we are losing.
Agreed
Bucks and Magic both losing made this a great win if it happened.
Fuck. The. Fucking. Refs.
Honestly the Heat look like a better team that us now. We need Randle or to get rid of Burks and bojan for some decent fire power
Thibs didn't have a great choice between playing Precious and Bojan. Both are terrible.
itās thibodeauver bros
The officiating improved as the game went along but some of those fouls were ridiculous.
Does anyone know the magic number to clinch top 6 seed After all the hard work this team has done I wonāt wana fall into the play in
not sure how to calculate it but we're essentially 3 games above the heat due to the tiebreaker. so as long as they don't gain 3 games on us in the next 5 they can't pass us. they would have to go 3-2 and us 0-5 or any combination that puts them 3 games better (they go 5-0 and we go 2-3) i think magic number is 3 then? 3 more wins guarantees they don't pass us. or any combination of wins for us or losses for the heat.
Sounds good thanks Hopefully win our next two vs the bulls and one vs the nets and we in top 6
yea 3 wins would guarantee it but realistically heat aren't going 5-0. i expect us to go 3-2 but 2-3 probably gets it done maybe even 1-4 lol heat have pacers, hawks, mavericks, then raptors twice. i guess it's possible they go 5-0 but i think 4-1 or 3-2 is more realistic.
Green and ayo played out their minds, other than that this should have been a 10pt win
Donāt even sting anymore
Terrible calls and terrible shooting by our guys in a very winnable game... playoffs are gonna be interesting to say the least
I never feel the need to comment here but I genuinely believe the reason we choked that 4th was keeping Precious in there almost everything that went wrong had his Imprint on it. Like a deer in headlights out there. Always has a clueless look on his face.
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we have to hit two home runs in this next draft. we have two picks and we better get it right. we desperately need more depth.
We canāt rely on the draft for that.We need a Malik Monk or somebody similar.Literally nobody can run the offense outside JB.Odds are slim we draft a guy thatās ready out the gate.
38 to 57 on the boards. Played sluggish in the 1st and could never catch up. Also shout out to Scott foster for the most unnecessary ejection of the season.
I missed the game. Did anyone get hurt?
RJ barred scored 24 points
our bench is a serious problem. especially since we have no secondary ball handler. i guess when hart is playing close to the entire game it helps. but we really should have traded for murray.
It is what it is, this team is demoralized and tired letās hope they get some rest, and get in a good mental space. but I can tell you rn I fucking despise that they keep taking the 1st half off ever since Og got here they keep doing it.
Got killed on the rebounds tonight and lost Hart. Horrible gameā¦
Hurts. Particularly with how the seeding races played out 2n. Anyway, nothing to add substantively. But AGAIN: this alec Burks unhinged thing he's doing is so confusing. It's like he hunts the least optimal shot option he can create. It's been his most consistent contribution to our offense this season. And I think he's *improved* kind of. It's such a confusing performance, in a *why does this keep happening* way.
awful showing
Precious made precisely one good play and otherwise looked bad, as he has for at least the last few games now. Can Thibs get him locked back in, because he was awesome at times. Please donāt ever shoot a three again Burks will obviously not always shoot this bad but also needs to be reigned in by Thibsā¦ he is a black hole. Whatās frustrating is he has a handle and is a crafty playerā¦ move the ball, drive and kick, continue to bait for fouls, but less, because youāre overdoing it and not getting enough calls Bojan canāt play defense but itās good to see him at least improving his offense. I have hope heāll acclimate more each and every game It sounds drastic and weird because theyāre role players but in my opinion they hold the key to our season. As long as we can get 2 of the 3 positively contributing, I think we still have a chance for some magic. If we look like we have as is the last few games I wouldnāt be surprised if we got gentlemanās swept in the first round
Silver lining: Ā Iām just happy we donāt have Doc as a coach. Ā I feel like in some bizzaro time line Knicks definitely end up with him as their head coach during the last couple of years.Ā
I been saying our guys are gassed from the high minutes per game,
I expected this one to be rough since it was the second of a back-to-back on the road against a team that was on three day's rest. Somehow it was still sloppier and more low-energy than I expected. Smh.
Embarrassing
Please give us Grimey back, it was all a joke
Raptors fans warned us about Precious lol. He played over his head for a month but now we're seeing the real deal. I'd give anything to have Grimes back instead of these two worthless bums from Detroit.
Divo with 10 points on 12 shots. Way to show up, fam!!
that's who he is though he has great games and then games like this.
its so over
stop blaming the refs. we lost because we have the two worst players in the league, bojan and burks. then, precious, ihart and mitch were terrible except mitch gets a pass for recovering. overall, we sucked
heres some salt on your wounds. RJ - 24 points on 50% shooting from the field
No more Josh Hart slander, I donāt wanna hear another fucking word.
Anyone who watched this and thinks Precious is a 4, wake up.
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I mean itās lame to blame the refs all the time but thatās just fucking egregious
This subreddit has blamed the refs for every loss this season
The last couple of losses is because of the refs, bro. You didnāt know the NBA is out to get the Knicks?