Game Thread: Miami Heat at New York Knicks
Start Time: 01/27/2019 19:30:00
Reeling Knicks, losers of eight straight, host Heat
A quarter-century ago, it was hard to imagine an NBA squad more associated with a head coach than the New York Knicks were with Pat Riley, who imposed his will upon a team that played a grinding, defensively intense, borderline dirty style of ball.
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48 replies on “Game Thread: Miami Heat at New York Knicks”
the other day fiz had an interesting comment regarding enduring so many losses in a season…
he responded in the usual coach speak about pain and grow, said he understood fan frustrations…
talked about “doing it the right way”, and used the nuggets, 76’s, and another club as prime examples of teams which had committed to a three year rebuild process…
I wonder now, in fiz’s mind are we in year one or two?
David Lee won a title with the Golden State in 2015.
He’s being sarcastic
oh…
Cavs are doing their best to cancel Bulls’ practice tomorrow
Thank god we don’t employ Zach Lavine. Well, we do, basically. And he is a mortal lock to be a Knock some day, probably after an athleticism sapping injury. Just glad we didn’t step on that mine.
Maybe Knox’s floater is his best shot.
Whteside is going to light us up tonight…
i don’t think i’ve seen a team switch trap more than we are tonight since pitino’s full court press
Man, how much do CHI and CLE both suck?
Frank is very passive-aggressive. Without the aggressive.
I can’t ever remember seeing a Knicks team this bad at passing.
I get the Wade love, but the “Let’s go Heat” chants are hard to take
I think I’m officially out on Dotson
There’s a two way guard somewhere in Ntilikina, and he’s hiding behind Frank’s jumper.
Frank. Offensive machine.
And Frank leads the Knicks in assists and FGA so far. Go Nticks!
This is a bit scary. The Heat are extremely mediocre, as weird as that sounds.
shit
huh? why the quick hook?
I don’t care if it was a goaltend that was an incredible play by Robinson
Yeah, Mitch really gets up there.
mitch had 2 blocks and 3 steals in 6:55
But he can only do it coming off the bench. Not ready to start.
it’s strange that we’re winning with vonleh playing poorly on both ends
Can we get rid of Mudiay already
Clyde on garden home court:
“What was once their Xanadu is now their Waterloo”
Always love a good Clydism. About the only thing to enjoy these days
Pretty confident Timmy can shoot the Heat to victory in the 2nd half
Breen ripping people for doing the wave made my day.
Right now Mitch is averaging 4.1 blocks per 36 and 1.4 steals per 36. Here are the men who have played more than 500 minutes in a season and averaged over 4 blocks and 1.5 steals in NBA history:
David Robinson
Hakeem Olajuwon (2x)
Larry Sanders
mitch and larry will getting paid about the same for the next four years
I don’t know how to break this to you but Garry Shandling died in 2016.
@10 “Frank is very passive-aggressive. Without the aggressive “
Bada bing, we have a winner!
Carmelo Anthony gets standing ovation before Knicks game.
Sign of the Apocalypse
luka boxscore alert
Yep, giving Raptors hell
if i coached the knicks i’d have the msg scoreboard operators only show a list of player numbers and a column called “lobs to robinson”
Put Frank back in!
Frank has a groin strain, not returning.
I was like a minute from turning this one off but they’ve pulled me back in
knox getting downgraded from 47mpg is definitely bad for the tank
Come on gents, win this one for Frankie’s crotch. Tank’ll be fine.
dotson has thrown like 4 holy shit i’m about to land passes today and that was the first one that didn’t work
I was writing something good about Dotson and then he did . . . whatever that was
One day, we’ll have guards that will be able to hit Robinson rolling to the basket properly. And bigs that can routinely set good picks.
Running Lance Thomas out for 15-20 minutes a night is low-key vital to this tank.
Welp. Three quarters of moderately decent basketball. Could have been worse. Often is.
Surprised they aren’t showcasing Lee at all. I’d much rather trade for him than Timmy.
This is a really terrible collection of players. But I guess that’s the horrors of tanking for you. I hope it pays off come draft time.
You know, watching this team try to execute down the stretch I can understand initially why someone would blame coaching. But the players are just inexperienced in terms of physically executing in these situations. Plus a lack of collective mental discipline due to youth. If that makes any sense.