Comments on: 2021-22: Knicks vs. Dallas Knicks

By: swiftandabundant

swiftandabundant — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 13:29:16 +0000

Having the ball in his hands more thanks to Julius’ struggles

I don’t know if it’s because of Randle’s struggles or not but they seem to be running the offense more through him. He also just seems to be shooting with more confidence and attacking the paint more. And while Randle has struggled, last night at least he really seemed to be making the effort to attack and then dish. The defense has to account for Randle so I think things are opening up for RJ a bit?

RJ is a pretty good playmaker. It makes sense for us to run things through him more.

Also, yeah no KP but Mitch again with a great game. I’m tellin’ ya, Mitch has been so much better recently. He seems to finally be in shape and has some of that skinny Mitch bounce back. Would love to see a bit more variety in his offense but what he is giving us now is light years ahead of what he was doing earlier this season. If Noel is finally healthy, we may FINALLY get to see this elite rim protection all game that we thought we would have. That will shore up our defense and rebounding so much.

IQ wasn’t great last night but overall he is controlling the ball and offense so much better.

I keep saying it. We’ve slowly been righting things these last few weeks. Schedule will get tougher though but honestly, I do not worry about strength of schedule that much. I would much rather we face tough teams and be playing well than face bad teams when we’re not playing well. If you play well, you can beat anyone.

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 13:11:58 +0000

I’ve only gotten to see snippets of these last few games. What’s changed about RJ that has him playing so much better than earlier in the season? Just that his shot is falling again? Having the ball in his hands more thanks to Julius’ struggles and our lack of a traditional point guard? The relative weakness of our opponents? Something else?

(And even the opponents thing only seems to go so far. Like, San Antonio was severely depleted against us, but they still had Poetl, aka the kind of rim protector who in the past has given fits to RJ and his mediocre athleticism.)

By: cybersoze

cybersoze — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 12:09:54 +0000

Dedicated to CDiggy: “Russell Westbrook 2-for-14 as Los Angeles Lakers lose to Sacramento Kings again” 😀

By: cybersoze

cybersoze — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 12:00:43 +0000

Next stop: ATL. A win there to help derail their season a little more, it’d be some kind of a revenge from the 2021 playoffs.

By: cybersoze

cybersoze — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 11:56:21 +0000

Was at the game, great ambiance, nary a Julius boo and lots of RJ chants.

That’s great to know. I think Julius is adapting to not being “the man”. I hope he builds from this game.

Mitch was an absoute monster, and it was great seeing Nerlens out there.

We need both at a high level. The team plays much more comfortably on O when they know Mitch and Noel are going to get a lot of stops on D.

By: cybersoze

cybersoze — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 11:51:20 +0000

We have 5 more games, before the “road trip of hell”, so it’d be amazing if we go 4-1 in this games to get to 3 games above .500, as Max said in the last thread. I can’t see us going better than 9-13 on that road trip stretch, so this would put us right around at .500 (1 game below). Then in the last 14 games, the schedule gets easier and i think we can go 9-5 or even 10-4. Some teams are already thinking about the playoffs, like BRK in the 3rd to last game.
But even in the best case scenario, i think our ceiling isn’t higher than 7th, most likely we’ll be 9th or 10th.
ATL has dug quite a hole, they’re 6 games below .500.

By: Z-man

Z-man — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 11:22:44 +0000

Was at the game, great ambiance, nary a Julius boo and lots of RJ chants. It was nice having a relatively stress-free game on a weeknight. Mitch was an absoute monster, and it was great seeing Nerlens out there. Fournier playing like we hoped when he was acquired. Only negative was that IQ and Obi didn’t have it on O. It was great that the queasy feeling when Thibs put the starters back in at the end was not a thing this time.

Hopefully RJ and Julius will both keep playing like they did last night, especially at home.

By: Knick fan not in NJ

Knick fan not in NJ — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 08:04:51 +0000

Definitely. We have the same record as the Lakers, but are tied for 10th in the conference instead of tied for seventh.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 05:31:07 +0000

In reply to Geo-fied.

The last win was a good win because they had to have it. This was just flat out a very, very good win.

By: Geo-fied

Geo-fied — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 04:44:38 +0000

Bing Bong Hits
January 12, 2022 at 8:53 pm
Breaking out a new half-time incense burning and ceremonial dance ritual to ward off the dreaded 3rd period meltdown.

tomorrow’s new york sports page headline:

Bing Bong Hits delivers new york back to .500