100% I watch every game. How are we always down by 20 and needing to mount a huge comeback in the 2nd half

A) most of the league is pretty terrible on defense.

B) when the Knicks try, they are a legit top defense, have been #1 for over 2 months.

C) Knicks are a weird team where they can end a game in 6 minutes, but the rest of the game looks like they’re just fooling around. Eye test doesn’t exactly match up but tbh it does.

we’re actually pretty good, just very critical of our own team

Every time yall play us it definitely feels like you are lmao

The defense kinda makes sense to me. Despite it being a bad offensive season I think this is the best defense I’ve ever seen KAT play. Brunson has also gotten better in the last month or two since he started taking charges again.

The offense I’m more so confused by.

The defense has definitely stepped up since like… February. Brown changed the scheme a bit and KAT has taken a step up defensively with his effort.

Other teams are not good this year lol

Because these are relative stats. You dont want the other 29 teams religiously so you assume many of them are better than you. I mean this respectfully but if you only watch one team you probably have no idea what a top 5 defense looks like in 2026

Because the rest of the league is that atrocious defensively

i agree

i bet our offensive and defensive rating in the first quarter is 30th and its probably top 5 for the remaining 3 quarters

They definitely play with their food this year. Years past if they were going up against a bottom feeder they wouldn’t take it easy… Thbs wouldn’t let them. This year they sometimes play to the level of their competition. As long as they can turn it on in the playoffs….

We have bridges as our defensive captain, og, & mitch

Offense or defense?

Maybe OP just high

Other teams are worse.

You guys were 21st last year on dRtg as well, can’t fool me again lol

I had the nuggets/blazers game on while March madness was on. That first quarter was genuinely insane to watch, hardly anyone was missing

Lots of Knicks fans are dumb. Please excuse him

They must be idiots with short memories. I seem to remember a team last year who was horrible against contenders in the regular season. And if I’m not mistaken, that team did pretty well in the playoffs.

After watching the 2025 Knicks in the regular season vs playoffs, you’d think our fans would hold off on that lol

That’s one of the least important stats you can ever look at. It really just doesn’t matter.

I have a lot of doubts about Boston incorporating Tatum appropriately come playoff time, and his level. But I have doubts about every team this year except OKC and even they’ve been giving some reasons to doubt them.

I’m not going to argue one side or the other, but both can be true.

You can struggle against top teams and then beat the absolute cat piss out of bottom feeders and then have great overall numbers.

Edit - looked it up and will argue that yall are struggling against good teams.

Since the New Year,

0-2 Denver

0-2 San Antonio

0-1 Detroit

0-1 Knicks

1-0 Lakers

0-1 Charlotte

1-0 Cleveland

0-1 OKC

They probably overpaid for Mikal. But he is still a useful starter

The team doesn’t work without Mikal on help defense.

What scenario do the Knicks-Celtics not meet in the 2nd round? Is Detroit falling out of the one seed? I don’t see it.

Shits gonna get crazy

it cant be knicks celtics ECF. we are 2 and 3 seed. we would meet 2nd round

unless you think one of us is getting the one seed with cade out (i dont think so, too few games left and detroit will win the games against inferior opponents)

I really want to see how Thunder adjusts to Wemby come the playoffs.

Based on seeding Knicks will face the Celtics on the second round, unless Detroit has a incredible fallout or the Cavs get hot.

Celtics knicks is overwhelmingly likely to be the 2-3 matchup , its very unlikely either team catches detroit

If you want to call the Knicks and Celtics the two best teams in the east it’d be hard to argue. It’s going to be hard for them to meet in the ECF with the current seeding though

Silver can only pray to like 38 different gods that there will be a guaranteed big market team in the Fiinals this year

If we don’t get a spurs thunder series it will be a tragedy

I think it’s going to be Lakers Thunder and Knicks Cavs

NBA counts possessions; BB-Ref estimates them.

But we should be using Cleaning the Glass, anyways, to filter out garbage time.

Very Strange.

Here’s the BBref Page for those curious.

I think honestly the team is just kinda exhausted at this point, but not in the stamina/exhaustion sort of way. More like a “can we start the postseason already?” sort of way.

In the case of the Knicks, it’s been one 2 week stretch. Started off the year one of the best records in the league, went 2-9, and then finishing with one of the best records in the league

Because of the KAT/Randle trade, their fates are entwined like Harry Potter and Voldemort. Each team should be a favorite to be in the conference finals, but there’s something about watching them and the way they have absolute breakdowns that make you wonder if they can actually make it out of the first round.

And number 1 in our hearts

This actually extends to the start of the calendar year, #1 in NRtg as well. Completely unbiased take here but the 2026 NBA playoffs should only consider team record in 2026, I mean it only makes sense.

We’ve honestly probably got a shot, but it would probably require Wemby averaging more minutes than the Spurs are ever going to let him. Particularly for the defensive rating. Detroit and OKC both have multiple players in top 10 for dRating, Spurs only have Wemby.

Wemby is oversized and doesn’t belong in the NBA. Alien praying mantis. Neither does Doncic’ cause he’s a whining cheater. Great teams come from great coaches and great players.

Spurs are top 5 in both for Half court as well. Which is the bigger surprise to me. Usually young teams pad their stats by running harder in transition

they’re 6th in offense so they’re right there. all the injuries definitely impacted their offensive rating especially when they were down so many playmakers for a large stretch.

Oh, and BTW, MJ has been surpassed by now on stats. Old players are old news.  On your other problem: Disgusting. Poor girl.

Yep, we hope. There is cheating….. It is the NBA

All 3 of these teams are also top 5 in Net Rating.

And it’s not like OKC is back in 15th or so when it comes to oRtg anyway lol, 7th with only 0.8 behind Charlotte and 0.9 behind Spurs is good. Room for improvement is there sure, but it’s good.

Of course a Thunder bum with his dumb take 🙄