Comments on: 2022-23 Game Thread: Knicks vs. Bucks: Five for Fighting?

By: walkerandbendercornerstones

walkerandbendercornerstones — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 12:44:59 +0000

Late game execution continues to bedevil us. I guess it’s comforting though that literally every loss in the last month has been a close game where we had the lead late and just couldn’t hold on. I think part of the late game collapses is coaching but also part of it is we just don’t quite have the talent or experience to close out these games especially against the elite teams or if the other team has a superstar.

Some of this is experience. Maybe all these close losses will help us come playoff time. Some of it is coaching and how we approach the end of games.

But we also are missing one piece to take us from a good team to a real contender.

I’m glad Leon didn’t trade for Mitchell. We’d definitely be better now if he did but a Brunson/Mitchell backcourt would eventually get exposed defensively in the playoffs. That would be a second round exit type team and Danny was asking for so much that after we made that trade, we’d have very little room left to improve upon that team.

So we gotta be patient. Let her young players continue to improve and wait for the right star to become available somehow. They gotta be the right age timeline wise and the right fit roster wise.

Things will shake up after the season and playoffs end. They always do. The only bad contract we have is Fournier and that one isn’t that bad and should be moveable by the off-season or next season. We got draft picks. We got a lot of young players who are more attractive trade wise now than when the season started. Randle is definitely more moveable now than he was this summer.

These losses are frustrating but big picture wise, they show we’re improving and in a good spot.

By: Owen

Owen — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 05:35:57 +0000

At least Immanuel has risen from the dead.

Great night for Brunson.

Bucks are a good squad.

By: deeefense

deeefense — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 04:35:56 +0000

We missed way too many 3s. I get Randle taking 3s instead of long 2s, but it’s a mistake for him to shoot 3s as a weapon like he does some nights, even if they happen to go in that night.

They stepped on the gas on both sides when it came time to win the game as you just sort of knew they would.

Not much to learn from this one. They are better than us.

By: ess-dog

ess-dog — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 04:19:10 +0000

Oh well, at least Tankathon has us taking Brice Sensabaugh and Rayan Rupert with out two picks, which would make me quite happy.

By: pepper

pepper — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 04:05:48 +0000

we had/have 4 out of 5 that are “threats outside of 3 feet”….our coach thinks that 2 of them should just be decorative in the last 2 to 3 minutes of crunch time…

By: Z--man

Z--man — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 03:54:59 +0000

Not to trigger the Mitchophiles, but having five players on the floor that can be a threat with the ball outside of 3 feet like Milwaukee does (as well as a lot of good teams) is something I’d like to see one of these days.

By: Z--man

Z--man — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 03:14:23 +0000

Alan and Monica discussing those 2 possessions

By: Z--man

Z--man — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 03:13:18 +0000

“The possession where we let them get two offensive rebounds that ended in a Holiday 3 felt like the dagger.”

That and Fournier unnecessarily leaving PC open in the corner…

By: BigBlueAL

BigBlueAL — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 03:10:01 +0000

If this game was in Milwaukee Knicks probably hold on but since it was at MSG they had no chance.

By: TNFH

TNFH — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 03:09:56 +0000

The possession where we let them get two offensive rebounds that ended in a Holiday 3 felt like the dagger. As long as we’re all airing questionably valid grievances I’ll contribute that we would’ve won if Sims took Hart’s minutes.