We rested guys and still won! Gave me a lot of confidence in our bench.

Hawk porty on that thang

i had a weird feeling og was gonna hit the gamewinner dude just enters killer mode against us sometimes but he decided to get the game winning steal instead lol

I hate their whole fucking team

I still remember that baseline jumper game winner when he was on the sixers smh

Was legit thinking the same thing. He typically closes out the final possession of the first quarter for them and almost always gets a bucket out of it.

Rick is a terrorist he knows what hes doing. He told them to try a little harder tonight obviously. But this team cant close worth a damn without haliburton.

Real talk though, he should be 1st or 2nd All-Defensive team.

If he works on his bag a little more & figures out how to actually close games, he’d easily be in All Star territory.

Oonga boonga hoops 

Giannis has been injured most of this season, I’d give it to Brunson or Cade so far.

Barely

Remind me! 1 month

Knicks aren’t a beacon of health either

Yup the Knicks definitely had a fully healthy roster tonight

Knicks down 5 rotation guys coming off the cup and the Pacers on 3 days rest at home lmao.

Missing hart kat deuce and mitch man.

We didn’t play KAT, Hart, or Robinson + McBride and Shamet are still out

We’re missing 5 rotation players + only one game off after intense hoops and partying in Vegas + pacers only playing twice in 9 days + Nembhard devil magic. Most obvious trap game in history and we still pulled out

You’re getting cooked lmao

The Knicks were somehow even more depleted today

We found the nephew who likes to yap without knowing shit about what he is yapping about

Knicks are missing a starting five’s worth of players and are two days removed from what is essentially an extra game

They say Hart, KAT, and Mitch while also having Deuce and Shamet injured by the Magic lmao

Hart would play 48 mins and then do the halftime show

Yeah nah they would’ve played lmao

The offense is night and day. Thibs was letting Brunson dribble the ball for 15 seconds and shoot a difficult fadeaway as the entire game plan instead of final 20 seconds when it’s actually appropriate. 

It was also a nightmare to get the ball over the time line last season because everyone knew Brunson was going to have the ball in his hands for the first 15 sec of the shot clock. Now Brunson plays off ball a lot more and defers to Hart, Bridges, and (thank God for) Kolek to bring the ball up so he can receive it coming off an action. Brunson is shooting catch-and-shoot corner 3s which absolutely never happened under Thibs. 

They are also significantly more pass-happy as a team, there are hockey assists happening all over the place and their pace is way up. Can’t remember the stats but I think they were bottom of the league in pace under Thibs and now regularly score in the 120s. But they give up a lot more now, previously the Knicks ground out long offensive and defensive possessions. Except for, say, the Indy series, where they ground out offensive possessions and then got sliced to ribbons and gave up a basket in five seconds. 

Brown also plays the bench a lot more. Hart and Bridges were getting 48 minute games, Brown tends to top out at about 37. As a result we see guys like Kolek, Clarkson, previously Shamet get burn. Thibs DNPed Shamet until the ECF and then expected him to contribute, Brown had him winning games at the start of the season. 

There have been growing pains like stupid turnovers and bad passes in the new offense, and building a defensive scheme with KAT and Brunson in it continues to be a challenge. But Brown has spent the first few months experimenting with lineups so we are at least seeing different looks to try to address it. I mean, in the cup final he benched Bridges, who was shooting poorly, for Kolek. Kolek had a bad turnover in his first stint and I said “he’s done for the night” but not so under Brown. The leash is longer. 

So basically everything is different under Brown lol and I have great respect for Thibs leading this team out of the gutter but so far all of the changes imo are positive. 

Double double, animal style

This has largely been true over the last couple seasons as well.

Only exceptions I can remember are Siakam’s single buzzer beater this year, last season’s Minnesota game, and the Cleveland game last season where Tyrese went out early with an in-game injury.

The team just has very low levels of clutch & resolve without Ty.

I don’t know where you’re hearing that from (?) but I really doubt it.

Packaging a young player w/ star potential & picks for some borderline star or star big is probably on the table. But the FO won’t force anything and Zion isn’t a great fit & would probably cost a little too much.

Damn you’re right. I only saw that one on TNT

I’m just really hoping the guys don’t make a push near the end of the season to bring them firmly out of top 3 pick contention lol. When you consider the other rosters at the bottom of the league it’s a miracle (injuries) we’re still right there with em

I swear when I posted that there were no mentions lmao

He’s right in a sense I hated game 7 and I hated this.