Comments on: 2021-22 Game Thread: Knicks vs. The Team That Gifted Them Fournier and Kemba For…Reasons

By: cybersoze

cybersoze — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 12:20:18 +0000

Max: Are the Thunder a G-League team? No one in the League’s offices has something to say about it?

Will SGA be happy with how things are going, or will he demand a trade anytime soon? To the Knicks, please. ;D

By: Max

Max — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 12:13:29 +0000

Thanks Cyber, I went to read the reasons for the omission and what can I say?

This goes straight to my list of “Strange things about the USA”, just under the “every State has the same number of senators whatever its population”…

🙂

By: Max

Max — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 11:59:02 +0000

cybersoze:
Max, there’s no “E” on the american grades, so you probably meant the only possible grade for Quick’s horrendous performance – F.

So let’s give him a F+

🙂

By: cybersoze

cybersoze — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 11:57:59 +0000

Max, there’s no “E” on the american grades, so you probably meant the only possible grade for Quick’s horrendous performance – F.

By: Max

Max — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 11:57:31 +0000

Good to have some eye witness feelings Frank!

By: Max

Max — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 11:55:43 +0000

Around the League:

We MUST sweep Orlando

Duarte is good, Lamelo is a star (I was skeptical of him, I stand corrected)

Toronto is a surprising mess, the Wizards are annoying

Morant is back

Are Towns & Edwards for real?

Zion is more important for the Pels than Simmons for the Sixers

Really, we MUST sweep Orlando

Are the Thunder a G-League team? No one in the League’s offices has something to say about it?

Harrison Barnes? That Harrison Barnes?

The Plague: DNP-CD

Did I mention we MUST sweep Orlando?

By: cybersoze

cybersoze — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 11:52:28 +0000

Early Bird: I actually meant the tying part, instead of the career high part. But my post was ambiguous

Oh i see, that is news to me, yeah. Thanks.

By: Hubert

Hubert — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 11:51:38 +0000

Went with the starting five at the end of regulation and Kemba betrayed him, but where’s Rose?

He didn’t. Mitch was on the bench for the Celtics comeback. Their 8-0 run prior to the Brown & Smart 3’s was all shots at the rim bc no one was there.

Obi had done a great job but by this point we were running an ISO offense and the Celtics had limited the effectiveness of the small ball lineup bc Williams was able to defend Randle on the perimeter.

It was bizarre to see Mitch not in the game. Maybe Thibs was afraid of hack-a-Mitch?

Frankly, even Mitch at the free throw line would have been better than that offense we ran the final two minutes.

By: Owen

Owen — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 11:48:58 +0000

Also, Sims and IQ plus minus numbers really stand out in the negative category.

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 11:47:43 +0000

The bad:
Julius’s isolation stuff against a really good defender (Robert Williams) just needs to stop. Run some action, get some open shots. I did notice after one timeout they immediately went to the DHO with Fournier and Randle with Fournier promptly drilling a 3 (seemingly the same play he ran with Bullock a bunch of times last year).

Kemba – a little worried he is cooked. He used to be able to get stuff off inside against centers – no chance tonight. Williams is really good though. And the TOs at end of regulation — even if his knee is holding him back physically, there’s just no excuse for nearly losing the game with mental errors as a 9th year guard or whatever. Pretty bad.

Thibs – as much as I was impressed with him giving a lot of leash to the Obi-Randle front court (which was really fun by the way!), I thought his sub patterns were really odd. When you need defensive stops, which is what we needed at the end of regulation, I just don’t understand why you would leave Kemba in the game.

The defense overall was pretty rough. So many open 3s and missed rotations. Lots of guys leaking out behind Julius.

But at least we won!