I find it very hard to believe that the Knicks can lose back-to-back games against the Spurs, especially with Brunson back.
Lets go, Knicks!
Categories
I find it very hard to believe that the Knicks can lose back-to-back games against the Spurs, especially with Brunson back.
Lets go, Knicks!
135 replies on “2022-23 Game Thread: Knicks vs. Spurs”
Cronin never quits
Teams have governors now? I learn something new here every day. 🙂
Can we contain “wherefore art thou” Romeo Langford?
Maybe Sochan can only guard 4 positions…
“Weaving and achieving”….
So nice to not have to listen to that blowhard scerbiak…
“So nice to not have to listen to that blowhard scerbiak…”
Oh Doogie…
Holy Shit Julius!
Randle chase down?! Finish your drink
Here i am, it’s a guaranteed win, i’m like 9-1 in the last 10 or something, because i didn’t watch almost all of the losing streak.
Don’t start writing Jakob Bottle just to tease Downtown Doogie. 😛 Although maybe the autocorrect will think about it. 😀
Every time Grimes hits a three an extinct species is rediscovered teeming in a remote cloud forest
Hartenstein doesn’t have butter stumps like his predecessor, but man do balls slide off his flappy hands a lot. Plus he taps back rebounds to the other team way too much, instead of just grabbing them.
Whinge over.
I gotta say, I’m not happy with the way Hartenstein is playing today. Needs to tighten up the defense and hit the boards harder.
EDIT: @Raven is a Big Black Bird – Yup!
Every time Deuce hits a three an extinct language is rediscovered being spoken in Queens
Deuce Breakout Game begins…
D3uc3
I even looked over my shoulder to see if Thibs was here in my living room… WHY? WHY? WHY?
Randle is growing on me
On offense
That was a great block too
At some point we all have to acknowledge that Randle is having a spectacular season
Randle is a man among boys.
Maybe they should test Randle for PEDs. Dude is jumping out of the gym these days!
He looks so spry
Vitamin b12 shots…Roger clemens swears by them
..
Poeltl is playing bowling 😀
It feels like this bench unit could play one million minutes and not score a basket
Freakin Mitch
Pathetic
Don’t worry guys … our quickest defender and best sharpshooter is in there… E4 will never let us down …
Randle and Brunson definitely playing 40+ minutes tonight.
That was a rough shift for our bench. Of course when Stanley Johnson starts shooting like Steph Curry that doesn’t help…
Fournier needs to be benched again if he doesn’t start hitting shots soon. He had one game hitting his shots and is now on game 3 of missing way too much.
Evian with offensive and defensive lapses like we all remember…
Mon dieu!
Not at all worried about this game despite the comeback but we need something from Obi or trade for someone else in order to shore up the bench. Our bench is anemic
Anemic? I thought it was chock full of all these great draft picks and free agent signings?
Every once in a while Bad Julius tries to make an appearance and Good Julius shooes him away.
Clyde and Wembanyama… LOL!
Brunson…free throw yips…
Sims already has more moves than Mitch. Of course he doesn’t make them, but he has them…
Grimes’ sneakers are a match with Sochan’s hair.
This is one of the ugliest quarters of basketball from both teams that I’ve seen this season
Knicks could use RJ right about now.
The more run that Sims gets…better he looks
Nobody mentioned it, but Brunson has the yips
I guess Pepper mentioned it actually
BBA ya think?
We’re not moving on offense
Offense is oogly
Brunson get a bit dribble-happy sometimes
Bruh, he’s taken 40 shots in the NBA.
Sorry. Carry on.
Mitch 2018-19 in the house!
Glue Grimes!
Love those multiple pass sequences. And somehow Grimes is always in the middle of it.
Was just thinking that, Z–Man.
Why is Grimes the only Knick who realizes you can move without the ball?
The Grimes dump off to Mitch is undefeated. I would simply do it every time.
I have a bad feeling about this game. I don’t like the missed FTs, occasional defensive breakdowns, and suspect shot selection. It feels like they are trying to find a way to lose again. I might need a vacation if they lose to this team again.
As Teddy KGB would say: “Hanging around, hanging around”
Grimes is quicker than he looks
Hart has been atrocious on D tonight, he can only play drop coverage competently. I’d trade him
Randle rabid
“As Teddy KGB would say: “Hanging around, hanging around””
Exactly.
This game has torture written all over it. They are home and the much better team. Just put these slugs away!
I love Full Arenas Empty Arenas Julius
“I love Full Arenas Empty Arenas Julius”
As in Gilbert?
Thst was more a flicker than a floater from IQ but I like it
E4 executing
Still executing
McDermott a career 90% shooter vs the Knicks
Doug McDermott is Wally 2.0
If IQ develops a midrange game he’s gonna be a really good player
Mitch can’t stay out of foul trouble against Zach Collin’s … come on my dude …
Thank god we got Julius back in there! Never thought I’d say that …
Gosh I put the hex on him
We could lose this game.
I actually like Collins.
The Spurs’ bench is elite (not really but if you only saw them play the Knicks you would think so…)
It’s actually impressive that we’re still winning…
What is a “whinge”? 🙂
This is the definition of “clinging to a lead”
I don’t think Sims touched that?
McDermott is a little old for the Lord Sumner
BBA cuing up “this would be the worst loss…” post.
Knicks will lose
Brunson seems off
Grimes got pretty high on that contest. He’s actually pretty athletic.
I can’t believe we are going to lose this game and I blame Cronin for all of it
God I wish Grimes weren’t a Tier 6b(ii) player
IQ totally looked off an open Grimes on the possession right after he made the 3
Any close game at MSG nowadays I fully expect the Knicks to lose so don’t even bother anymore with worst loss of the season posts lol
For Sims that frustrated shrug was a major emotional outburst
It’s nice to have a Brunson
It’s usually some guy on the other team doing what Brunson is doing.
Nice to have that on our side
This is probably a game where Randle at the 5 and RJ at the 4 to close would be ideal.
Sochan is a really impressive defender.
Brunson might be the best mid-range shooter I’ve ever seen.
McDermott 3. Game.
Randle is awful under pressure
Oh come on
Keep on dibbling, boys
That was not the platonic ideal of an offensive possession with a two point lead in the final minute of an nba game
Game ball for the Knicks goes to…Jeremy Sochan
Oof
Good lord
The Knicks have the worst inbounds plays I’ve ever seen. My JV team ran better. It’s unreal
Refs finally called a 5 second call to benefit the Knicks!
Rookie mistake
I’m sure it’s frustrating and cam wants to play but it must be not the worst to just sit back, giggle and get paid … guy has enough talent that he’s not gonna be outta the league …
Well designed play
Supersub E4
No one wants to win tonight
Hubert Davis and Allan Houston would’ve made both.
Cronin’s Curse, Dolan’s Razor, and the Unbearable Knicksiness of Being
Mcbuckets time?
No such thing as a bad win right?
Glue Grimes
Grimes is good guys. Great contest
that’s Three Slaps 🙂
Quentin Grimes, tier 7f player
Woo hoo
By hook or by crook…I’ll take it. PS undefeated in 2023!
Good effort from the spurs … our ability to get stops evades us too often
Pop and Thibs laughing about how bad each of their teams were down the stretch
I feel like that contest from Grimes at the end was worthy of at least a tier 9h player
The mind boggling thing about Brunson is that he’s 6’1”, spends all his time in the paint and never gets his shot blocked
If they wanted us to give more value to a win against the Spurs, on my part they succeeded. 😀
Even when we win I age a few weeks.
Go LAL!
That win totally makes up for the 1999 NBA Finals.
Maybe he can teach RJ how to do that.
Doogie, Whinge means whine (as in complain). I think of it as the British version of whine. I’ve only read it and never heard it spoken, so I have no idea how to pronounce it.
“ The mind boggling thing about Brunson is that he’s 6’1”, spends all his time in the paint and never gets his shot blocked
Maybe he can teach RJ how to do that.”
Haha good point!
I knew they’d pull it out. I just didn’t want to freak you all out by saying that. 😉
Holy crap the Bucks blew an 11 point lead to the Raptors with 36 seconds left!
(They ended up winning in OT but what a crazy freaking season this has been )
Correct, Knicks Fan, it is a mis-spelling of whine, because the Brits can’t spell anything.
It is pronounced ‘win-j’
“The Spurs practiced at Baruch College while in the city and coach Gregg Popovich joked he looked for a picture of U.S. Rep.-elect George Santos in the gym. Santos has admitted to lying about having earned a degree in finance and economics at the school. “I thought maybe he had played sports or something while he was there,” Popovich said, “Because that’s where he went to school, right?”
I love Pops.
“It is pronounced ‘win-j’”
Is it a short or long “i” sound?
Win like “The Knicks played so badly the last few minutes of that game, including Julius suddenly and mysteriously and repeatedly driving into double-teams like it was a year ago, that they did not deserve to ‘win’.”
Although it might be a bit more breathy, like ‘whin-j.’
Randle inefficient but with 4 blocks and 3 steals…
Giannis with the rare quadruple-double…
Btw in that Bucks Raptors game, the Bucks were up 16 with 1:15 left in regulation and it went to OT
That has to be the biggest comeback with that amount of time left in NBA history, right?
I suppose it’s technically not a comeback if they did not win in the end…
True, I guess “biggest blown lead” would be more accurate