Comments on: 2021-22 Game Thread: Knicks vs. Fifth Straight Victim

By: Max

Max — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 12:30:49 +0000

Guys, I’m not worrying about our spot, only responding to Alan’s question about the rules… 🙂

I already know we’ll pick 3rd or 12th no matter what 😀

By: cybersoze

cybersoze — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 12:24:35 +0000

Max: So yes, the Lakers can have more chances than we do… 🙁

First: The Lakers won’t make the play-in, next 2 games for SAS are both at home and both against a tanking team (POR).
Second: But even the Spurs can have better odds than the Knicks if we keep up the game7 approach.
Third: And if we keep winning, don’t forget the Pelicans they’ll have better odds too.
Unless we change the way we fight for wins, and i’m not saying to blatantly lose, just don’t outwork a team trying to win in the end (eg, game against Miami), we’ll be 12th as predicted by some of us earlier.

By: BernieEarnie

BernieEarnie — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 12:20:41 +0000

Max: So yes, the Lakers can have more chances than we do… 🙁

The good news is that the Lakers don’t own the pick. If in top 10 goes to Pellies ( below that goes to Memphis). If the Knicks don’t win the lottery, wouldn’t mind if LA did.

By: cybersoze

cybersoze — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 12:08:34 +0000

Alan: I feel bad for Randle the person even as I desperately want Randle the player off this team. He’s obviously going through something we don’t know about, and maybe a change of scenery would help with that. But it’s hard to imagine him working through it here in a way that’s beneficial to the Knicks.

Exactly this. It’s for the best that he goes, even for him and his family. And it’s already being reported that he’ll ask out at the end of the season. Which puts everybody in agreement that he should go, including himself.

By: Max

Max — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 11:51:13 +0000

the Tankathon standings have the Lakers with the 9th pick as of now, and the Knicks with the 12th. But if the Lakers make the play-in tournament with a worse record than the Knicks and then are eliminated from the play-in, would they still draft higher? Or do the play-in losers automatically get slotted behind teams that couldn’t even make the play-in?

The 14 teams that after the play-in are out of the playoffs will be ordered by their records,
as were before the play-in tournament existence (when the East was so bad that many Western Conference winnng teams during the years have been in the lottery while EC teams with losing records have not).

So yes, the Lakers can have more chances than we do… 🙁

By: Owen

Owen — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 11:13:40 +0000

Julius isn’t the worst person the world, just the one who commits the worst turnovers.

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 11:04:25 +0000

Apologies if this has been asked and answered in an earlier thread I missed, but the Tankathon standings have the Lakers with the 9th pick as of now, and the Knicks with the 12th. But if the Lakers make the play-in tournament with a worse record than the Knicks and then are eliminated from the play-in, would they still draft higher? Or do the play-in losers automatically get slotted behind teams that couldn’t even make the play-in?

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 11:03:51 +0000

I feel bad for Randle the person even as I desperately want Randle the player off this team. He’s obviously going through something we don’t know about, and maybe a change of scenery would help with that. But it’s hard to imagine him working through it here in a way that’s beneficial to the Knicks.

By: Z-man

Z-man — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 10:50:18 +0000

I give Julius credit for facing the music last night and playing reasonably well. Probably wasn’t easy. And I sympathize with how his 5yo son being there and hearing the boos makes it hard for him. Despite all the bs, I’m rooting for him to recover, both as a Knicks fan and as a person.

By: Max

Max — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 07:40:48 +0000

Darn!
The Spurs had a real chance to push the Lakers closer to hell but Keldon Johnson missed an incredible layup…