BigBlueAL: Assuming Toronto rests all their best players on Sunday because they are locked into the 5th seed if the Knicks win by 22 pts again they’ll finish the season with a positive point differential.

This is why I say that the loss of Derrick Rose made a vast difference to our won/lost record. We’d be a playoff team otherwise without question.

IQ has become so much more crafty on offense. Given that he seems like a smart player with good work ethic he should continue improving, and be a pleasure to watch over the next few years.

Obi is obviously a very talented scorer. I loved that about him before the draft and got comments that he’s older, and not good on defense. The older part seems not important atm but his defense is still lacking and he keeps loosing his man. His bad defense is partially responsible for Hachimura’s big game yesterday.

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So far I love Buck Showalter. He came running out of the dugout dropping f-bombs. This Mets team had a severe lack of leadership last year and Buck has gravitas and chops.

buck showalter is one of those few individuals that can do it in the booth and the dugout…

holy cow, you know it’s 2022, right, you don’t actually watch a whole ballgame through do you 🙂

i’m looking forward to tomorrow’s televised yanks/sox game, turn the game on some tv’s, just leave it on as background to life…maybe do some gardening…

man, i miss watching hiro pitch, very calming experience…

yeah, that sounds about right for us…

gotta be honest, i am feeling a little swifty though…

if leon wanted to – there might be something to be had from RJ, julius and anyone not named: quik, obi, grimes (need to keep some kind of internal team draft hope alive) – and our own first round picks…everyone else/pick is for sale…doesn’t mean they have to go, but…

despite knick fortunes, i kind of hope utah gets bounced in the first round and mitchell goes on the market…

thibs is much better than what we’ve recently had, but – we need a coach who can help put points on the board…gotta force an “offensive” coach on thibs…don’t give him an option…

Leaders New York
Points O. Toppin 35
Rebounds J. Sims 9
Assists I. Quickley 10

but someone in charge should have sat julius down on the bench, earlier in the season, definitely after the finger thing…

if thibs wouldn’t have been so blinded by the notion that julius was key to winning, (which turned out to be the exact opposite of reality) we’d be the sixth seed or so right now…

Assuming Toronto rests all their best players on Sunday because they are locked into the 5th seed if the Knicks win by 22 pts again they’ll finish the season with a positive point differential.

we played like a .500 club most of the year…up and down, good quarters of basketball, bad quarters of basketball…

julius going off the rails because over the summer someone influencing the team’s game strategy rightly suggested we take the ball out of julius’ hands – it took nearly ’til the flipping all-star break to make that happen…

ju had like a death grip on the ball and his previous role, then he had god knows what going on off the court…

total thibs’ failure to not mange the change in team play philosophy with the team’s personnel…

JK47:
Alonso yesterday and now Lindor both hit in the face by fastballs

McCann also got hit up and in yesterday….and there was a 4th up and in near miss yesterday, as well. Buck Showalter is not happy about the Nationals’ possible headhunting.