Comments on: 2021-22 Game Thread: Knicks vs. Pelicans

By: Early Bird

Early Bird — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 07:18:12 +0000

Among the many problems of this team, I don’t think Fournier can make the rotations that Thibs demands. Possibly Kemba too.

Thibs system requires players to hedge and recover and Fournier is a step or 2 too late recovering. Maybe he just happened to be out of position a couple times, but he’s so slow I suspect he’s incapable of making the rotation.

For Kemba I wonder if he’s too short to contest without overcommitting when recovering to the 3pt line.
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I think that’s one reason the 2nd unit routinely out performs the 1st. All the 2nd string players can rotate properly. Obi may be terrible individually, but is athletic enough to rotate properly.

By: pepper

pepper — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 06:31:10 +0000

“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”

Winston Churchill after the Knicks latest debacle…

By: JK47

JK47 — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 06:28:50 +0000

This team’s destiny is to select 9th in the 2022 NBA Draft

By: Hubert

Hubert — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 05:41:25 +0000

Wow. If we play to the schedule, we end up 29-53. That’s swell.

Well, the good news is we’ll have a great lottery pick. Leon ought to be able to turn that into at least a top 20 protected pick for the following season.

By: Knick fan not in NJ

Knick fan not in NJ — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 05:20:32 +0000

Totes McGoats as Totes McGoats:
RE: Noel

We are not missing him. Thibs just needs to take the leap of faith on Sims. Mitch, when in shape, can do everything Noel does on D- but better. I do appreciate what Noel brings, but he’s been unhealthy and unreliable this season. As soon as it looks like he’s catching some kind of groove, he goes back out for a few games.

Me no likey

You could be right. You know when I looked up the PER values of different Knicks, he was seventh on the Knicks with a PER of 13.1. He only has played 89 minutes, so it’s definitely a small sample size, but I certainly wouldn’t mind seeing if he could keep it up.

By: Raven

Raven — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 05:17:03 +0000

Wow. If we play to the schedule, we end up 29-53. That’s swell.

By: TheOakmanCometh

TheOakmanCometh — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 04:53:58 +0000

Looking at our schedule, we’re going to be favored in 7 of our final 36 games. That means we’d need 12 upsets just finish the season at .500 — while not losing a single game to an underdog.

Not happening.

By: The Honorable Cock Jowles

The Honorable Cock Jowles — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 04:34:10 +0000

lmao a playoff team

By: Bruno Almeida

Bruno Almeida — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 04:29:51 +0000

Every game just feels so pointless.

If there’s one thing I’m going to throw at Thibs and his staff is that our player development seems to be terrible. There’s simply no signs of sustainable improvement or at least fixing obvious mistakes by our players. Quickley is the same player he was last season as is Barrett, Randle does the same shit every game, Fournier too. There’s no sign of learning from mistakes and progressing, games are entirely decided on whether our guys are randomly hitting tough shots or not. If they are we beat the bad teams, if they aren’t we lose to every garbage team in the league. This is just stupid.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 03:47:45 +0000

In reply to d-mar.

That was a really embarrassing basketball game. I did not like it.