The Knicks have a bit of a harder stretch coming up, so it is very important that they take care of business against a bit of a spiraling Washington team that will actually have its full starting lineup for the first time in a long while (unless I’m missing someone).
Let’s go, Knicks!
114 replies on “2022-23 Game Thread: Knicks vs. Wizards”
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I guess I’m the only one left stupid enough to watch this game. What a shit show to start.
So this was the trap game. Makes sense. KP looking for garden glory. Beale not wanting to miss playing here too.
Knicks lose this one by 15
Porzingis did not enjoy getting booed. So we have that going for us.
Here i am, what did i miss? I see the Wiz are off to a hot start! 🙁
How is our trade target (Beal) looking? 😀
Mitch looks tired
I don’t think the Wiz will shoot 60% from 3 all game, so i’m not worried… yet!
Those loose ball fouls hurt. Mostly great shooting though. Kuzma’s three was impressive.
Isn’t it amazing how these guys come into MSG and hit everything? Our defensive philosophy doesn’t change. A little bit of me believes in the home court disadvantage for us bc guys get super up to play here.
Is this version of Kuzma for real? He looks much improved.
Nice feed from RJ
RJ on fire. Give him the ball.
At first i thought he had missed the FG.
This is some raggedy ass ball…Hart is a stiff
How the hell did Isaiah Hartenstein post a .664 TS%
We badly need a dead eye 3 point shooter. We just don’t have that guy in the rotation.
Well at least we won’t blow a giant lead this time
Next Hart contract has to have a rebound incentive. No more taps to nowhere, please.
hart is a gangly mist of slow motion hustle
Hart has been confounding tonight
Deuce can’t shoot, but he just locked Beal down.
SIMS!!!
I was excited that Sims was coming in because I thought Thibs had finally seen enough of Hart. Turns out it’s because Mitch is hurt.
Thibs just released Sims from the cryogenic pod…
RJ is playing great
That is a hell of a bunny to miss
Sims > KP
We need 3Ps, unleash the frenchie.
Grimes should run clinics in practice on cutting to the hoop
Barroom brawl
I thought Grimes was faking but I guess not
No Grimes no comeback.
Cyber, you may get to see the Escargot…
So KP elbows Grimes and is rewarded with 2 FTs.
Hahaha, nice fake from Randle sending KP to the floor. 😀
Seems like we’re lucky to be down only 8…
The price for Bullock may be going up after tonight….
Well, if they weren’t hot from 3P in the 1st quarter this would probably be a 2 point game, so i don’t know which team is having more luck.
We’re gonna need Sims to step up here….
Yeah, we need a good game from Sims. When he picked 2 quick fouls i got worried, but then he cooled down… to match his expression. 😀
Phew…Grimes is available…
We look discombobulated…
What does sprain thumb means? Will Mitch miss games?
I feel like when we are out on the break we rarely find open 3’s on the wing. It feels by design.
Depends how serious it is…it can be very painful and make it impossible to grab a ball…
This is looking more and more like an impending L…
Offense is not good but Defense inexcusable… as usual
KP doesn’t like Grimes. 😀
Brunson is trying to keep us in the game.
Brunson just dominating the paint…
Randle 2-12….sigh…
At least the knick city dancers brought their A game tonight…
Vintage Randle
randle just out there loitering on defense all night
Absolutely awful Randle game on both ends. His process on offense has been dogshit, let alone the results.
That was one of the worst defense plays Obi has ever executed … and then just fading under the basket … wtf was that
Obi is a ghost. Has been for 2/3 of the season.
Well at least Obi hasn’t missed a shot tonight…
Signs of life from the non-Randle group. Keep him on the bench at least to start the 4th.
Deuce waved IQ off, then made a play in the paint to Sims…nice!
Deuce to Sims, nice!
If the Knicks can find a way to make a few 3’s they could claw back. Can’t win a game in this NBA with 4 3’s.
i was going to make that ghost comment. rj even ignored him streaking and pointing for the lob to instead lead jalen brunson under the backboard. are we absolutely sure obi exists.
Again.. this really comes down to defense
Quick taking over
2 awful possessions down 7
You can tell Obi just isn’t having as much fun anymore… he’s no world beater but he puts up with quite possibly the worst franchise and scheme for his growth and opportunity …
Deuce turnover
IQ brick
Barrett miss wide open 3
Barrett miss floater
Game over
Amazing possessions …
Old enough to remember when Obi Toppin would give us life in games like these. Dude’s been invisible for months.
Yeah to make Obi your stretch 4 is just horrible resource allocation
It’s so impressive when we suck on both sides of the ball
or maybe Obi just isn’t good…
Wizards are big and can shoot … at least for tonight … we are slow and shitty and can’t shoot
Thankfully the Knicks are on the road for their next 2 games.
Porzingis and Kuzma are clowning Randle.
Obi likely isn’t good… I’ve come to that conclusion… can he ball out against scrubs late in season, sure… he’s like the rest of these guys you wait for development … before you know it they’re 28 and barely on rosters… this feels like Obis destiny
Last time i checked only tanking teams had a losing record at home and… the Knicks!
Sims… wow… it’s like he wanted to foul out there
Looking at the schedule actually 4 of the next 5 games are on the road so that’s even better.
Ok … this is not worth my time tonight… going off
Kuzma made Randle look like a tree stump
IQ is lively. Wizards are not a terrible bad team.
a miracle here would only be fair
There’s still time left!
So now we get to mount our huge ridiculously implausible comeback where we make a ton of threes and the other team alternatingly iso’s into a terrible shot, misses free throws, and fouls us on 3PA, right?
Right?
That was very lucky to not have it go in when they got the board so many time, so this is huge.
We’re trying the opposite of losing a double digit lead in the end. 😀
Defense! Defense! Defense!
Okay, that missed layup was probably the end of their chances.
Defensive rebounding no bueno.
Okay, after those blown tip-ins, maybe there’s still a chance!
I can’t watch the game, but KP has a nice box score line.
TIL Mitchell Robinson is in some way responsible for 100% of our rebounds
That was some dumb fouling by KP right there.
“They call the foul on Randle?!” Dude, he straight out smacked KP’s arm to knock the ball out of bounds. How was it not a foul?
KP playing like a moron is keeping them alive.
Did Randle wear the wrong contacts tonight?
Major props to Kyle Kuzma for donating a million bucks to Flint, Michigan.
Nice Clydism: “Once the Garden was their Xanadu, now it’s their Waterloo…”
Luckily, Randle’s playing enough minutes to keep his 15+ rebound streak going!
Mitch appears to an important element of our team from watching the last quarter
Also Clyde is the best
Knicks from 3pt range 7 for 26, Wizards 16 for 42. That’s the only stat needed to describe this game.
Tremendous game for Clyde tonight, topped off by the cherry blossom uniform humor.
“Mitch appears to an important element of our team from watching the last quarter”
Before he got hurt, Mitch’s +/- was -12 in 9 minutes so his absence wasn’t the main problem tonight…
only caught a few minutes of the game…was just checking in between Barry episodes…
feels like we’re due at least one more loss…hopefully come sunday the team is back to winning…
Well the good news is that we moved up a couple of draft slots on both picks…
At the end of that game we could not get a board. Or defend.
are we still on pace for 48 wins and locking up the sixth seed in early April?
The Wizards are better than their record. Beal has missed a bunch of games and when he was playing they were often missing other players. They moved the ball well tonight.
I can see them making a little run at us the rest of the way if they stay healthy and maybe add some defense at the deadline.
KP’s length was definitely an issue for us at times when players were trying to go inside. Guys were stopping their drives and throwing it back out or shooting off balance.
“Before he got hurt, Mitch’s +/- was -12 in 9 minutes so his absence wasn’t the main problem tonight…”
I wasn’t paying close enough attention tonight, but the Wizards are not such a great matchup for Mitch. If he guards KP or they play 5 out by not playing Gafford he’s going to get taken out of the paint or give up some open 3s. That reduces his value defensively and on the boards.
@Atlanta
@Toronto
vs Cleveland
@Boston
Could be an ugly scene by early next week…see if Thibs is still clinging to this joke of a 2nd unit…
just started season 3 episode 1…
ha, hard not to be a big fan of North Hollywood Henry…
one of my favorite characters to come along in a while…
toughest thing about the first two seasons of Barry though – trying not to think about how much the guy Bill Hader looks like Hughie from The Boys…
I don’t know…maybe a lot of white people do kind of look alike…
And the Hawks won’t be desperate for a win after beating the Mavs!
At least the Knicks didn’t lose by making a clear path foul on what should have been a take foul down 1 with 7 seconds left, like the Lakers did. Two free throws, an actual take foul and two more free throws later, it was a five point deficit and game over.
This team is both maddening and completely boring. If a team could be useless middle management, that would be the Knicks. Please blow it up, Rose.
This team is not going to be blown up. Either they will trade for a star or tinker around the edges.
We’re definitely a part of the Great Middle in the East. I don’t think there is a whole lot of separation between NYK, MIA, ATL, TOR, WAS, CHI, and IND assuming something close to full health. Anything can happen in these last 36 games. My guess is (and has always been) that we wind up somewhere in the play-in, with a ceiling at #6 and a floor at #11. If I had to bet right now it would be something in the 9-10 range.
Which is ultimately fine by me, It would mean incremental improvement in a substantially improved EC.