Comments on: 2021-22 Game Thread: Knicks vs. A Team Hilariously in the Play-In Tournament

By: cybersoze

cybersoze — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 10:40:13 +0000

About the game, maybe it’s my fault, all was going well in the 1st half and then i fell asleep for the 2nd and you guys didn’t manage to contain the Nets. 😛
But hey, the L is for the best. Now we need to lose the next game or it was all in vain. It’s against the Wiz and that will put them behind us and even if we win the last game against the Raptors, they’ll at best be tied with us.
After losing in the KP revenge game, we’ll go to Toronto and can aim for the 9th pick if we don’t go for the try hard meaningless win.
Pels play Blazers next, so they’ll reach 36 wins. If we lose to the Wiz, they’ll reach 36 too. The Spurs are a more challenging case, but assuming they’ll go after the Pels to have homecourt advantage in the 9th/10th game, maybe they can win 2 games. Their schedule: @MIN, vs GSW, @DAL.

By: cybersoze

cybersoze — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 10:13:59 +0000

Brian Cronin: So wait, after one season of coaching, the Knicks decided to pick up Thibs’ fifth year team option? This is a thing that actually happened by a basketball organization with brains that allegedly fire billions of neurons in them?

Well, based on the fact that Dolan picked up a two-year option on Phil’s 3+2 contract, with the season going as Knicksy as ever, to then fire him 2 or 3 months later, you can still have hope. 😉

By: paullydub

paullydub — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 08:16:02 +0000

Thibs is now 76-76 as head coach of the Knicks. It’s really been many years since we’ve seen this kind of sustained winning from a head coach. When you consider he’s been doing this largely without Derrick Rose and Nerlens Noel, and forced to play so many young players multiple minutes at a time, you really have hand it to him.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 04:51:42 +0000

In reply to Raven.

So wait, after one season of coaching, the Knicks decided to pick up Thibs’ fifth year team option? This is a thing that actually happened by a basketball organization with brains that allegedly fire billions of neurons in them?

By: Raven

Raven — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 03:04:29 +0000

DRed:
7 assists from RJ is great.

Or, half empty, 6 of them were in the first half…

By: Bruno Almeida

Bruno Almeida — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 02:31:47 +0000

Yeah, this type of game from RJ on his year 3 hurts, specially against a team like the Nets that is not a defensive team at all. It’s really just feeding my fear that he just doesn’t have star quality at the end of the day.

He already doesn’t have the athletic ability that would give me confidence, like a Giannis or Embiid, so he needs to make up for it everywhere else, but he just never consistently puts together a good stretch of games. I don’t know, it’s just starting to look eerily Wiggins-esque for all the wrong reasons and I hate it, because I like the kid and I want so badly to see him succeed and finally be the one star we actually drafted and kept.

He will need to take an absolutely major leap to be worthy of the contract he’ll probably get, and that is a scary realization going into season 4.

By: DRed

DRed — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 02:17:58 +0000

7 assists from RJ is great.

By: Bing Bong Hits

Bing Bong Hits — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 02:14:25 +0000

Perfectly Knicksy loss. The core of young guns certainly know how to bring the energy and should make 2022-2023 season more fun to watch. We can definitely buid on them but taking the next step through will require mixing in the right veteran leadership to mold these guys into smarter winners.

By: KJG

KJG — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 02:13:08 +0000

Deeefense!!:
RJ thinks he’s already a high level #1 option that has to take over and keep shooting.He’s got to get out of that frame of mind if he ever wants to become an efficient player.You have to know what you can do well and stay within that area. Each season you try to expand your game a little so you can up your usage.Right now he’s trying to do WAY too much that’s outside his range. He took 27 shots!!!This is a guy who major problem is shooting,lmao

Yea, his number 1 flaw is shooting… does shooting get better in game or in practice… RJ says game

By: KJG

KJG — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 02:11:22 +0000

Raven: I will fight you both.

Smoochies