The Knicks host the Milwaukee Bucks tonight looking for their first home victory of the young season. The Knicks destroyed the Bucks when they first played them (in Milwaukee, even!) in the season opener, but Milwaukee was playing without the Greek Freak, Jabari Parker and OJ Mayo. They’ll be without Mayo again but Giannis and Jabari Parker will both play tonight.
Parker playing could be good for the Knicks, as while the Greek Freak is a good defender, Parker is coming off of a major injury and still looks tentative out there, so that should open up opportunities for either Melo or Porzingis.
Michael Carter WIlliams is not playing tonight, but that might be a good thing for the Knicks, as while he is very fast, he makes terrible decisions out there. His backup, Tyler Ennis, will start (Ennis also missed the opener). Ennis is not particularly good, either, so this might hopefully finally be a point guard matchup where the other team’s point guard won’t light the Knicks up.
The Knicks ran the Bucks off the court last time, so let’s hope that they bring that same intensity tonight.
It’s a big game, with the Bucks at 2-3, same as the Knicks. Sure would be great to get back to .500!
Let’s go Knicks!
Have you learned nothing these past few years?
This is an early bellwether game for the Knicks. Obviously a loss isn’t catastrophic, but it would be nice to win a home game and beat a floundering playoff-caliber team before it gels. The schedule will be very tough for a while, so we need wins like this if we are going to compete for that 8th spot. Melo needs to wake up.
Knickname for Porzingis: I thought of the Latvian Laser, but just plain Laser sounds cleaner.
Whenever Porzingis hits a shot I yell out Krispy. Krispy is the easiest nickname for him, and it makes sense because Kris P, you know? I personally call him Doom and Krispy.
The best nicknames are ones that the player like. Too bad that he doesn’t like Zinger, that’s the most natural one. Doubt he would go for Krispy. Probably not The Laser either.
Uh oh, Friday Night Knicks.
Can someone put a hit out on Robert Randolph?
Why aren’t we talking about a knickname for our best player, Langston Galloway?
Yeah. I’m stiking with KP. It’ll end up as KP6 soon enough.
Big game tonight. The Knicks should be slight favorites – winnable but not easy. Let’s go Knicks!!!
Rebecca Harlow, mistress of the darkness
Bumbling and stumbling so far
Lopez not willing to go out and cover Monroe.
Porzingis’ length on the offensive glass is a real weapon. He can reach over guys despite being boxed out
Okay,let’s put in the good players now
This has a major ass-whooping written all over it.
Really starting to worry about Lopez.
Hey, Calderon has already missed 3 wide open shots. Maybe it’s a good time to sub for him.
KP is drawing fouls tonight and isn’t getting called. He flies around with reckless abandon.
How the hell do they come out of the timeout with the same lineup??
Preach it Clyde!
Fantastic Forzingis
That layup was insane
We’re getting killed inside. Great defense by the Bucks.
Man it’s like fisher wants the Knicks to play from behind. We got lucky last game that Sasha was hitting shots but come on man.
KP is holding his man to 38% shooting, maybe he should be called Kristops
Anyone else seeing fisher as a mini Woodson in both physical appearance and coaching tendencies?
That was a depressing quarter to watch.
The Knick starters are down 10.
Rough stretch for Jerian. That’s two drives in a row where he went head down into the teeth of a set defense
We’d be winning if our old backcourt could make wide open 3s.
Yes, and it’s very sad.
I don’t coaching had anything to do with Calderon and Vujacic missing 4 wide-open 3’s.
@24 – I would put KP on the Greek Freak.
Sadly I think I’d actually rather have Woodson coaching this team right now than Fisher.
It’d be nice if KP could get some minutes with Grant and Galloway.
I dunno. I get happy with every nice play by Grant, Galloway or Porzingis. Everything else is filler.
I miss Tina Cervasio.
Bucks D looks good
Galloway trying the Pablosneak. But there’s only one master
@32 nah he can’t shoot. I think Jabari or Middleton is a better matchup
Derrick Williams’ slashing is a good thing too. (I know, I know. The contract.. )
This guy Williams played 10 mins last game…..Fisher
It’s like every team in the league has a plumlee
Plumlee, Zeller, same shit…
I used to say the same thing about the Gronks when I think there were three in the NFL
We made a 3!
Why the eff is the starting lineup back in? Sigh
Maan, if Vujacic and Calderon can’t hit open shots, what purpose do they serve?
Why can we not leave Galloway on the court with Melo and KP. Damn it! I just want someone that can hit threes off the space those two create.
I’d even play Melo at shooting guard
Backcourt now 0/10 with 3 pts.
Melo has 3 assists already?
Seraphin with his best game of the season so far. 0/0 0pts 1 reb
Haha!
The P7aymaker
Alright. Now we look alive! We need some 3pt shooters on this team.
I have Melo with 5 ast. I think the score keeper is wrong again like the last game. The crazy thing is he should have around 10 ast.
Drago vs. Predator
Oh boy, here we go…
Tech FT argument, round 2! Fight!
Good thing Melo made that technical foul shot. Don’t need to hear about that shit all night.
Blockzingus!
kristops with the blk
This kid is special.
What the fuck is an Ansel Elgort?
We’ll find out at halftime.
Lopez doesn’t go straight up on blocks very well.
As a long time Hoya fan, this game is irritating me because it’s making me not like Monroe. I dunno..maybe it’s the “rivalry” between him and Lopez that’s bringing out a chippiness I’ve never seen out of Monroe. It’s still unbecoming of him nonetheless..
Holy shit, a great play-call out of a timeout!! Of course they went so quickly it enabled the Bucks to score on the other end before the buzzer.
Gallotrey
Trey-a-lang
Porzgawd with 5 ORB.
I feel like 0-82 is in play for the Nets
over/under 0.5 fgm for out starting backcourt the rest of the way?
7 boards in 14 minutes for Zingus?!?! Who messed up to let the Knicks get this guy?
Probably the best half Lopez has played in his brief Knicks career
Knicks need to continue to push the ball up the court. It helped them get back in this game and it worked well in the season opener against the bucks.
Galloway is our only guard to hit a shot
Can we please see Vujacic sit. Early. I want to see Early.
Fire fisher, idiot.
Buncha losers out there right now … That stretch was PATHETIC!
If Phil Jackson is supposedly watching film and talking more with Fisher after games he can’t possibly condone the continued use of this starting lineup and minutes for the starting backcourt.
How do you start a half like that
Slamzingis!
GRAB THE PHUCKING BALL
Brick
Charles smith monroe
Boom goes the Bazingus
Lol they really don’t box out in the nba
PORZINGIS!!!
Zinger can’t be stopped
Galloway looks gassed
Every time Knicks need a defensive stop to have a chance to tie the game they can’t get it.
KP’s the Priggie Smalls of the putback jam.
The Latvian Kraken?
Melo playing a good overall game tonight.
What does Melo need to do to get a call?
Jason Kidd can’t believe Derrick didn’t pass back to the trailer
Melo could drive, have his head completely knocked off his body and still not go to the FT line.
Knicks have become experts at dropping uncontested defensive rebs out of bounds.
Langston got that shumpitis
Knicks comically can’t tie the game
That was a great drive by Gallo too, dunno how the hell he got that shot off. He deserved a friendly bounce on that one.
At least their in the game. For a while it looked bad.
What a fun game. So easy to like these guys. Can’t wait to see what KP does next.
Melo playing a nice game. Couple silly TOs, but his passing and effort good.
Lance has no awareness of his feet on long shots. He consistently shoots on the line. Other than that he’s been good
O’q!!!
Oaq has to have a 8’10 reach because he definitely doesn’t jump on his blks
He’s a vet. Nice jersey grabs :)
I think the staff needs to change every opponent’s name to Milwauke Bucks in Williams locker.
The block on henson while holding his jersey is the reason i love O’Quinn’s game
If Giannis learned to shoot watch out
Unfortunately the Knicks still are awful defensively.
Did Fischer play the team that has the best shot to win too early
Henson has destroyed us
He would be KD reborn as a 2way player
Henson with the 2015 Jimmer Fredette award
Sasha is pretty useless.
I miss the days when MSG was an actual homecourt advantage. Actually I barely remember the days when MSG was an actual homecourt advantage.
At least he’s not a guard!
Very frustrating. Watching them fall apart right now… Led by…
Pretty demoralizing finish to this game.
Fire fisher. Why is the rotation as such where vuichic is in right now?
Yeah fishers lineups are objectively horrible
Melo taking over with 5 minutes to go. One blocked shot and a silly behind-the-back pass followed by not running back on defense. Odds are we have see this ending before…
If the Knicks dont beat the Lakers on Sunday this could turn into a pretty long losing streak by next weekend.
Thomas and vujacic(who literally hasn’t scored this game) are in over RoLo and grant
Oh but he got some rebounds … Contribute in other ways
The most annoying thing about the rotations is that Fisher is not using his best players at the end of the game. Where is Lopez?
SFisher should be fired for giving so many. Critical minutes to Vujavic and Calderon.
At least Calderon hasn’t played in the fourth, so maybe Fisher is a slow learner. Afflalo can’t get back quick enough.
Fisher has cost the Knicks at least 1.5 games
Idk about firing fisher but he better fix these minutes allocations quick because they’re literally unforgivable
A totally winnable game probably lost to horrendous coaching…
Grant or Galloway have to start being in the starting line-up.
Knicks don’t know how to win yet.
Grant will start sometime in November.
@131 every game counts
The good news is THANK GOD WE DID NOT GET MONROE!
Vuj is still in at sf…
Porzingis is out
I guess Lopez and Melo. Two man game … Fischer pulling the wrong strings. Melo is one of them … Sorry I’ve been on him tonight. And rightfully so. Gallo and Grant play all game but he’s gotta use em I’m the right spots …
Galloway hasn’t come out since later in the 3rd I think. Which is great but of course he’s probably gassed
LOOKS LIKE THEY COULDNT GET THE REBOUND BECAUSE VUJ WAS AT FUCKING SMALL FORWARD
Afflalo should ask for a raise, his stock by not playing has grown tremendously.
Exactly. You had to play Melo at the 2 and stagger Grant and Galloway when u can.
Fishers a fucking idiot honestly
Sickening…
This team is going nowhere.
Fire Fisher, trade Melo.
We can’t play Galloway and Grant all game. Calderon’s played 16 minutes.
This team could go some where if there was some sort of competent coaching. The Knicks have honestly had to have the hardest schedule so far and have fared decently.
Subtle changes and they could have been .500 or better now
The issue was more that vuj was playing small forward with Melo and RoLo at the four and five instead of Melo at the three with Porzingis and RoLo at the 4 and 5 which likely caused them to lose the crucial game losing rebound
I thought we’d open the season 0-6, so I’m still feeling good. Zinger had 9 offensive rebounds!
There were plenty of coaching decisions I disagreed with, but it’s important to take a step back and realize Milwaukee almost certainly has better basketball players than us.
If the Knicks lose on Sunday…..
Subtle changes are Calderon, Vujacic, Thomas and Seraphin never stepping on a court again.
@151 the lakers won tonight in the county of Kings. So hopefully they are out getting wasted the rest of the weekend. It’s a 12pm west coast start for them
Thomas has earned playing time.
Viva El Niño. 70 degree November nights are cool.
Obviously Fischer is a dog of a coach…
In flashes, when Melo just plays with the offense, we are awesome. But it’s also painfully obvious that that is not his game… He is on an island…
Thomas shot 11-13 against WAS & MIL and then 6-18 in the other 4 games.
He can’t rebound, assist and is not exactly a defensive specialist.
He’s the same awful 14-15 Thomas with some inflated numbers due two great games.
Right, thats why he needs to be in with Grant. At the end he and Sasha were the main ball handlers, and that was no good. I think Aflalo will help alot. You can start Grant and Aflalo eventually
The Knicks were 15th in the league, right in the middle, in terms of strength of schedule coming into this game, and the Bucks suck so that means the Knicks have now probably played an easier than average schedule. The Knicks just kind of stink. Sasha Vujacic played 27 minutes in this game. Lance Thomas is one of the rotation players. Jose Calderon is the starting point guard. Derrick Williams is one of the better players on the team. The Knicks are not some talented team that is underachieving. They are a not very talented team that is playing not very well.
I’m fine with throwing Cleanthony out there, but I’m not sure who else y’all want to play.
So far this season Grant is the leader in raw plus minus by a good margin. Part of that is certainly that he’s replacing an awful player in Calderon but I think some of it is that the Knicks play more pnr/less triangle when he’s in as well.
@159 how do the Bucks suck?
They played them twice, the Spurs, Wizards, Cavs, and the Hawks. Maybe some kind of stat says thats middle of the pack but the dreaded eye test knows that is not.
I’m curious to see if any of the Westchester guards can earn a roster call-up in the next month or so.
Yeah, I know that is too early to panic.
But we have 7 Guards in Westchester.
I’m pretty sure that if we start trying, one of them will produce more than Calderon.
How about they just play Derrick Williams to get the other team in foul trouble. His FT rate has to be up there because it seems that he lives at the line.
@165 exactly and the idiot Fisher played him 10 mins against the Cavs. SMH
If the problem with your basketball team is that you’re not playing Derrick Williams enough that’s not the only problem with your basketball team
Sasha Huyabic and Jose Caldergroan have to be the worst starting guards of any NBA team ever.
@167 that’s not fair. He’s been a spark plug in games. I’d rather him than the starting backcourt
I would suggest adding Jabari Brown and playing him with Grant on the 2nd unit. Galloway and Afflalo as the starters. If not that then play Early and Grant on the 2nd unit. Sasha and Jose play no more than 10 minutes each until they prove that they can contribute.