Comments on: 2022-23 Game Thread: Knicks @ Mavericks. The Knicks Head to Their Home Away Home, Which Is, You Know, Anywhere But Home

By: Early Bird

Early Bird — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 12:29:01 +0000

We should petition the league to make games a minute shorter. We’d be unstoppable.

But seriously, how the fuck does this shit keep happening?

Was super interested in watching a replay of this game, but knowing the ending…

By: outlier files: geo

outlier files: geo — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 06:28:59 +0000

man, when do we play the pistons again…

wow, what a mess Black Adam was…

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 05:41:30 +0000

In reply to Bruno Almeida.

Remember before the season, when we all said that the roster didn’t make sense, that they had too many guys and they couldn’t play them all? And we all said, “This roster is built for a consolidation trade” and then they just…didn’t do that. And then instead they just…stopped playing guys. That was dumb. This is dumb.

By: Bruno Almeida

Bruno Almeida — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 05:23:50 +0000

This game was also a sad reminder of what we don’t have. The Knicks absolutely threw the game, but the Mavericks have the dude who can get a 60/20/10 triple double to carry this garbage dumpster fire of a roster to such an unlikely win. It is what it is.

By: gkhenman

gkhenman — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 05:17:28 +0000

I 100% agree with Brian. You just can’t play this few guys less than half way through the season. I understand shortening the rotation after the Cam fiasco. I wouldn’t let Cam’s unprofessionalism cost me my job either, but they need more depth. If there’s a trade to be made, they need to go ahead and make it. If there’s no trade somebody’s got to get out of the doghouse. Does anyone know why they traded Feron Hunt?

By: Raven is a Big Black Bird

Raven is a Big Black Bird — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 05:09:45 +0000

Oh yeah — Mitch Robinson DID score 20. So there’s that.

By: Raven is a Big Black Bird

Raven is a Big Black Bird — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 05:07:56 +0000

Was going to wait until tomorrow, but I’m about to ingest a very large amount of single malt so who knows when I’ll get up.

Two reasons we lost (well, more than that, but two big ones):

Randle. Last four minutes, the Knicks stopped playing the beautiful game (someone mentioned earlier how everyone was touching the ball before shots) and went to dreadful Randle isos. Over and over and over again. It was maddening and incredibly ineffective. And guess what? We lost a nine-point lead in moments.

Miles ‘Douche’ McBride. Yeah, I said it. For 44 minutes he was perfectly cromulent, couldn’t hit a three to save his life but so be it. But when they went away from passing it around to the Randle isos we watched him literally catch Frank Disease — from Frank no less! Deer in the headlights, the entire Mavs team played off him daring him to shoot and he wouldn’t. Allowing the Mavs to pack the paint. If Randle goes iso-mad you have to surround him with three knockdown shooters, and we only had two. Plus he was just too short for Dinwiddie, he guarded him well enough but Spencer just rose up over him time and again for his shots.

I actually blame both of these things on Thibs, for not actually recognizing the slow-motion car crashes that were occurring.

And now time to drink. Cheers.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 04:56:35 +0000

In reply to d-mar.

I mean, when Jalen Brunson misses the game entirely and RJ Barrett gets hurt a minute in and you go into overtime and yet still only play nine dudes? That’s just dumb. It’s just flat out dumb. It’s “Winning today’s game matters more than anything” thinking, which is, you know, dumb. What the fuck is up with this bullshit?

I don’t knock the players, they played a heck of a game in this loss. It was a thrilling game, and Grimes was magnificent, but you lose a starter a minute into the game, while playing without another starter, and you still only play nine guys? This is just clown shoes.

By: outlier files: geo

outlier files: geo — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 04:53:22 +0000

you know what – fuck it – i’m doubling down on this evenings entertainment and watching Black Adam…

how much worse can it really get…

By: d-mar

d-mar — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 04:43:43 +0000

If you had told any of us before the game we’d lose in OT without 2 of our starters, and that Grimes, Quickley and Randle would all have great games, we’d be pretty satisfied

It was obviously the nature of the loss that was vomit inducing, but big picture, a lot of positives.