Month: February 2019

Post Game: Cavaliers beat Knicks, 125-118

Full BoxScore:
http://www.nba.com/games/20190228/CLENYK#/boxscore

Score by Period:

Team 1 2 3 4 TOTAL
Cavaliers 27 30 28 40 125
Knicks 31 28 38 21 118

Four Factors

TEAM eFG TOR ORB FTR
CLE 0.601 0.103 0.236 0.363
NYK 0.543 0.071 0.305 0.158

Simple Box Score

Name min pts fga 3pm ftm or Reb ast stl to blk pf +/-
Love, Kevin 28:21 26 12 3 11 1 8 3 0 1 1 2 17
Osman, Cedi 31:32 21 10 3 4 1 7 5 1 2 2 1 5
Zizic, Ante 26:28 8 6 0 2 3 5 2 0 2 0 2 13
Knight, Brandon 19:03 9 5 2 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 3
Sexton, Collin 31:32 22 15 2 6 1 3 3 0 0 0 0 5
Clarkson, Jordan 28:57 22 13 3 5 0 2 1 1 1 0 2 4
Chriss, Marquese 12:58 0 5 0 0 1 7 1 1 0 0 1 -14
Nance Jr., Larry 19:28 6 4 0 0 0 2 2 1 3 0 6 -6
Nwaba, David 18:29 7 4 1 0 0 1 3 0 1 0 4 -1
Dellavedova, Matthew 16:29 4 5 0 0 0 1 4 0 1 0 2 6
Stauskas, Nik 6:43 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 3
Frye, Channing 0:00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cavaliers 240:00 125 80 14 29 8 40 24 5 11 3 20 7
Name min pts fga 3pm ftm or Reb ast stl to blk pf +/-
Knox, Kevin 22:06 8 12 0 2 5 6 2 0 1 0 4 -11
Thomas, Lance 18:35 10 10 2 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 1 -4
Vonleh, Noah 22:11 16 7 0 2 4 10 2 0 2 0 2 -5
Dotson, Damyean 29:24 9 10 0 1 0 3 6 2 0 0 3 15
Smith Jr., Dennis 28:55 16 13 3 1 0 2 8 0 1 1 3 -5
Trier, Allonzo 32:00 22 15 2 4 2 4 1 0 1 0 3 -7
Mudiay, Emmanuel 22:22 10 10 1 1 0 1 6 0 2 0 1 -6
Robinson, Mitchell 28:24 12 5 0 2 2 7 0 1 0 2 6 -1
Ellenson, Henry 26:50 13 10 3 2 0 5 0 1 0 0 5 -4
Jenkins, John 9:13 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 -7
Kornet, Luke 0:00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Knicks 240:00 118 95 11 15 14 40 26 4 8 3 28 -7

Game Thread: Cleveland Cavaliers at New York Knicks

Game Thread: Cleveland Cavaliers at New York Knicks

Start Time: 02/28/2019 19:30:00

Knicks, Cavs show improvement ahead of meeting

The New York Knicks take their second winning streak of the season into Thursday night’s game against the visiting Cleveland Cavaliers in a matchup of the Eastern Conference’s two worst teams.
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Pre Game Links:

  • [cbssports.com] Knicks, Cavs show improvement ahead of meeting
  • [bleacherreport.com] Knicks News: David Fizdale Not Thinking About NBA Draft Lottery Odds, Tanking
  • [heavy.com] Kyrie Irving Free Agency: Knicks Among 3 Top Options for Celtics Star
  • [sports.yahoo.com] 2019 NBA Mock Draft 4.0: Ja Morant to Knicks, Jarrett Culver Jumps Into Top Five
  • [nypost.com] ‘We don’t play to lose’: Knicks not focusing on lottery odds
  • [amsterdamnews.com] Led by youngsters, the Knicks experience the joy of winning
  • [hoopshabit.com] 3 Reasons the Cleveland Cavaliers are playing better
  • [sbnation.com] Don’t worry, Spike Lee: Knicks’ tank is unstoppable
  • [washingtonpost.com] Samuel L. Jackson interrupts Oscars to tell Spike Lee the Knicks finally won a game
  • [cbssports.com] Cavaliers’ Tristan Thompson: Still out Thursday
  • [bleacherreport.com] Kevin Knox, Knicks Beat Aaron Gordon, Magic 108-103 in Eastern Conference Battle

    • 2018-19 Game Thread: New York Knicks vs. Cleveland Cavaliers

    This is an oddly long homestand, no?

    Anyhow, this is a major game for tanking purposes, as the Knicks have to be the big favorites tonight, which would tie them with Cleveland.

    If they win this one, that starts to make falling out of the bottom three a real possibility. That would be pretty devastating.

    I’ll still root for MitchRob to have a good game, though! I can’t help it!

    NY Post: ‘We don’t play to lose’: Knicks not focusing on lottery odds

    From Zach Braziller:

    David Fizdale understands. He gets Knicks fans’ desire to secure the best possible odds to land the best possible prospect.

    Who wouldn’t want Zion Williamson, RJ Barrett or Ja Morant?

    But it’s not going to change anything about how he coaches his team.

    “I’m not wired to lose on purpose,” Fizdale said Wednesday. “That just is not, I can’t even get my body to function that way or my mind to function that way. I’m lucky because [Knicks president] Steve [Mills] and [general manager] Scott [Perry] and Mr. [owner James] Dolan have all said to me, ‘You play every game to win and you don’t worry about where we land in the draft and all of that stuff.’

    “They told me develop these guys, play to win every single night and that’s what I preach to them and that’s what they expect out of me.”

    Okay then.

    2018-19 Game Thread: New York Knicks vs. Orlando Magic

    Well, here’s hoping that the site doesn’t go down again!

    This should hopefully be another fun game. DSJ is a blast to watch and Orlando’s guards should have trouble with him, so this could be a lot of fun.

    Hopefully the Magic somehow pull off the win, but with the current flattened lottery odds, I’m less worried about wins as I would be if this were last year (of course, this is the first time the Knicks figured out how to tank properly, but, hey, what are ya gonna do? Dolan’s Razor is gonna Dolan’s Razor).

    Let’s go, MitchRob!

    NY Post: The next step in Dennis Smith’s Knicks progression

    The day after Dennis Smith Jr.’s spectacular Sunday performance, the Knicks’ potential point guard of the future was slated to go on a food-shopping date. And it wasn’t just any food-shopping date.

    Knicks coach David Fizdale had himself a talk with Smith on Saturday after he benched him in the fourth quarter of Friday’s first game out of the All-Star break.

    The lengthy player-coach discussion centered on nutrition, Fizdale advising him to get into better shape and rely more on the club’s dietician.

    Whatever Smith ate in those 24 hours surely worked. On Sunday night, Smith had fans less worried about Kyrie Irving’s summer decision after a 19-point, 13-assist, zero-turnover outing in the Knicks’ home-losing-streak-busting 130-118 win over the Spurs.

    After Monday’s practice, Smith was headed to the grocer with the team’s nutritionist, Erika Whitman, and lauded Fizdale for his man-to-man chat.

    I’m mostly just trying to see if a new post will allow us to comment again.

    In any event, when the Knicks traded for Dennis Smith Jr., I have no real beef with the guy, I just assumed he was trade bait because the team seemed intent on acquiring some big name guys this offseason and it seemed like one of those guys would almost certainly be a point guard, so it didn’t seem like Smith had much of a future here (for better or for worse) unless the Knicks struck out on all the big free agents. However, he has shown enough that I could see him having a real role on the team even if they do sign Kyrie Irving.

    Good for him. Plus, he’s a whole lot of fun to watch. He’s not really all that close to being a good point guard, but he’s at least generally trending in the right direction, which is nice to see! Plus, of course, he is so damn fun to watch!

    Game Thread: New York Knicks vs. San Antonio Spurs

    We get to watch one of the greatest coaches in NBA history, Gregg Poppovich, tonight.

    Hopefully it is a fun game to watch!

    I want to see Dennis Smith Jr. and Mitchell Robinson dunk a lot, please.

    Knicks Morning News (2019.02.23)

  • [Sports Illustrated] Timberwolves Karl-Anthony Towns Out vs. Knicks After Car Crash
    (Friday, February 22, 2019 7:02:29 PM)

    Towns entered concussion protocol following the crash.

  • [FOXsports] Wolves overcome Towns’ first absence, beat Knicks 115-104
    (Friday, February 22, 2019 10:09:25 PM)

    Wolves overcome Towns’ first absence, beat Knicks 115-104

  • [TheRinger] Wolves overcome Towns’ first absence, beat Knicks 115-104
    (Friday, February 22, 2019 10:09:25 PM)

    Wolves overcome Towns’ first absence, beat Knicks 115-104

  • [YahooSports] GAME RECAP: Timberwolves 115, Knicks 104
    (Saturday, February 23, 2019 5:00:22 AM)

    Derrick Rose scores 20 points, Taj Gibson adds 19 points and 10 boards as Minnesota beats New York.

  • [Newsday] GAME RECAP: Timberwolves 115, Knicks 104
    (Saturday, February 23, 2019 5:00:22 AM)

    Derrick Rose scores 20 points, Taj Gibson adds 19 points and 10 boards as Minnesota beats New York.

  • [NYDN] Derrick Rose is back, but the Knicks are right where he left them
    (Friday, February 22, 2019 8:25:00 PM)

    A little under two years ago, Derrick Rose’s Knicks career finished in disappointment – with another knee injury, with another knee surgery.

    After Phil Jackson was fired, new team president Steve Mills had very little desire to re-sign Rose in free agency. That was it for the youngest MVP in NBA…

  • [NYPost] Derrick Rose shows Knicks fans he’s playing at a high level again
    (Friday, February 22, 2019 10:30:21 PM)

    The uniforms were the same and the court was the same, but nothing about the Knicks at the Garden was how Derrick Rose remembered them. Gone was Carmelo Anthony. Gone was Kristaps Porzingis. Gone was Phil Jackson. A lot can change in two years. “I think everybody was kind of surprised and devastated [about those…

  • [NYPost] Emmanuel Mudiay shows he still can be part of the Knicks’ plan
    (Friday, February 22, 2019 8:33:41 PM)

    Emmanuel Mudiay is still part of the plan. Returning for his first game since suffering a shoulder injury on Jan. 23, Mudiay came off the Knicks’ bench to score 15 points (6-of-16 shooting) in 26 minutes Friday night, adding six rebounds and three steals, in a 115-104 loss to the Timberwolves. Mudiay, who had started…

  • [NYPost] Knicks pushed to brink of all-time futility in loss to Timberwolves
    (Friday, February 22, 2019 5:38:29 PM)

    We now return to your regularly scheduled result. Looking to earn consecutive wins for just the second time all season, the Knicks came back from the All-Star break still looking like the embarrassment of the Eastern Conference, as they continued their battle against the worst teams of all-time and dropped their 18th straight home game…

  • [NYTimes] On College Basketball: Zion Williamson Will Be Fine, but His Teammates Might Not Be
    (Friday, February 22, 2019 11:04:54 PM)

    His knee will recover, and the N.B.A. will be getting rid of its “one-and-done” rule, but student-athletes will still come up short.

  • [NYTimes] On Pro Basketball: LeBron James ‘Activated’ in Lakers’ Comeback Win Over Rockets
    (Friday, February 22, 2019 3:30:24 PM)

    James says he is now in playoff mode, and it showed in 111-106 victory meant to erase doubts the Lakers are competitive for playoff spot.

  • [NYTimes] Zion Williamson’s Shoe Splits Open During Game
    (Friday, February 22, 2019 2:06:38 PM)

    Williamson, one of college basketball’s biggest stars, injured his knee after one of his Nike shoes broke less than a minute into Duke’s game against North Carolina.

  • [SNY Knicks] Knicks takeaways in Friday’s 115-104 loss to Timberwolves
    (Friday, February 22, 2019 10:05:07 PM)

    The Knicks had a strong start in their first game back from the All-Star break, but the Timberwolves gave them a 115-104 loss at Madison Square Garden on Friday night.

  • [SNY Knicks] Knicks return from All-Star break to host Timberwolves at 7:30 p.m.
    (Friday, February 22, 2019 6:30:23 PM)

    The Knicks will try to snap their 17-game home losing streak Friday night at MSG when they return from the All-Star break to face the Timberwolves.

  • [SNY Knicks] Zion Williamson reportedly will miss first NCAA game vs. Syracuse
    (Friday, February 22, 2019 12:15:47 PM)

    Projected No. 1 NBA draft pick and Duke freshman phenom Zion Williamson will reportedly miss his first college game.

  • [SNY Knicks] Ranking the 10 best New York sports movies of all time
    (Friday, February 22, 2019 12:00:51 PM)

    Some of the best movies ever — including some of the best sports movies ever — have been filmed in and/or take place in New York. Here are the 10 best.

  • [SNY Knicks] Enes Kanter trolls Knicks after debut with Trail Blazers
    (Friday, February 22, 2019 10:07:25 AM)

    Enes Kanter, one of the NBA’s biggest trolls, took a jab at his former team after he won his Trail Blazers debut Thursday night.

    • Post Game: Timberwolves beat Knicks, 115-104

    Potential Links

  • [lohud.com] New York Knicks suffer another loss in return from break, fall to Timberwolves, 115-104
  • [lmtonline.com] Timberwolves-Knicks, Box

    • Full BoxScore:
    http://www.nba.com/games/20190222/MINNYK#/boxscore

    Score by Period:

    Team 1 2 3 4 TOTAL
    Timberwolves 29 37 28 21 115
    Knicks 33 25 25 21 104

    Four Factors

    TEAM eFG TOR ORB FTR
    MIN 0.529 0.113 0.153 0.251
    NYK 0.489 0.171 0.205 0.219

    Simple Box Score

    Name min pts fga 3pm ftm or Reb ast stl to blk pf +/-
    Wiggins, Andrew 35:16 17 16 3 4 1 6 1 2 1 2 1 -5
    Saric, Dario 23:06 13 7 3 2 0 7 0 1 2 1 3 -6
    Gibson, Taj 31:22 19 15 0 1 4 10 3 2 1 0 4 -5
    Okogie, Josh 16:49 4 6 0 0 1 4 1 2 1 1 1 2
    Teague, Jeff 31:15 12 11 0 2 0 1 11 0 3 1 3 0
    Rose, Derrick 23:22 20 14 0 8 1 2 3 3 3 0 2 2
    Deng, Luol 28:35 7 4 0 3 0 4 1 1 1 2 2 23
    Jones, Tyus 17:24 4 3 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 1 13
    Tolliver, Anthony 20:07 16 9 4 2 0 3 0 1 1 1 3 15
    Bates-Diop, Keita 12:44 3 3 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 16
    Bayless, Jerryd 0:00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    Canaan, Isaiah 0:00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    Timberwolves 240:00 115 88 11 22 7 42 22 13 13 9 20 11
    Name min pts fga 3pm ftm or Reb ast stl to blk pf +/-
    Knox, Kevin 38:07 18 14 3 5 2 7 1 1 3 0 4 0
    Kornet, Luke 10:33 0 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 -17
    Jordan, DeAndre 32:37 16 8 0 6 3 19 1 0 1 2 1 7
    Dotson, Damyean 33:51 20 16 5 1 1 3 3 0 2 1 1 2
    Smith Jr., Dennis 21:40 7 6 0 1 0 1 7 2 5 1 2 -7
    Vonleh, Noah 25:24 8 7 0 0 0 5 0 1 1 0 1 0
    Mudiay, Emmanuel 26:20 15 16 2 1 2 6 1 3 4 1 3 -4
    Trier, Allonzo 29:33 20 11 1 5 0 3 1 1 4 0 4 -6
    Robinson, Mitchell 13:00 0 2 0 0 1 2 1 1 0 3 4 -16
    Jenkins, John 8:55 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 -14
    0:00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    Hezonja, Mario 0:00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    Thomas, Lance 0:00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    Knicks 240:00 104 87 11 19 9 48 15 9 20 8 22 -11

    Game Thread: New York Knicks vs. Minnesota Timberwolves

    Maybe the Knicks will start a winning streak tonight!

    For whatever reason, Fizdale says that while DSJ will continue to start, Mudiay will play significant minutes off of the bench in his return. Interesting. I suspect that they just feel bad for Mudiay clearly being on the outs with the organization in terms of their future plans.

    Let’s go, Knicks! Go where? Hopefully not to a win, but go somewhere!