145 replies on “2022-23 Game Thread: Knicks @ Sixers”
Among Thibs’ pre-game comments was that he’s open to playing Hart at PF.
The Deuce Memorial Game.
May he go out with a Breen Bang, not a whimper…
Let’s steal one in Philly, Let’s Go Knicks!
Gooooo Knicks! 🏀
I was trying to think of a way to describe Clyde’s jacket and I gave up
Oh my. Shams:
Just in: A failed physical exam of Gary Payton II has placed the Golden State-Portland-Detroit-Atlanta four-team deal in serious jeopardy, sources tell me and @anthonyVslater. Payton’s core muscle injury could sideline him for up to three months following a Warriors exam.
The Warriors have until Saturday to go through with the trade — or have the entire four-team deal be rescinded, sources said. Golden State re-acquired Payton at the trade deadline on Thursday.
And I guess there’s no way to amend it post-deadline, is there?
Knicks percolating
Nice start…
Nice start 🙂
This is going quite well so far…
STOP THE COUNT! 😀
OH SHIT
Brunson…da gawd
What’s the NBA mercy rule
Maybe we should be glad he didn’t make the all-star game. Angry Brunson is best Brunson.
Fun: Tarasenko needed 2:49 to score his first Rangers’ goal…
Let’s hope J-Hart can have a similar start tomorrow.
What’s this bullshit about Portland being the pizza capital of the US? Blasphemy!!
Portland pizza sucks so bad that I learned how to make it. I have had exactly 1 good pizza here, and it’s New Haven apizza style.
We just got some notoriety for being the most expensive. And it still sucks.
A pass to the 1st row? Check!
Lot of switching. They did the same thing last time against Philly
DEE-FENSE
Brunson just fucking people up
Their IQ is outplaying our IQ so far…
Embiid is basically unguardable
iHart with an actual contested rebound and a brilliant inside pass to Grimes! Love it…
Brunson on pace for 80
Brunson is da double gawd
Maxey is lightning quick
Josh Hart vibes worth multiple 1sts
A pissed off Brunson with a god-like quarter…
And I-Hart with some nice plays too.
Two great blocks to end the quarter. We’re here to win!
Edit: With the big help from the one line game thread by Brian, of course. 😀
That was a really fun quarter. Even Barrett throwing that pass to ISM was funny.
But d-mar, you said it re Embiid…
Let Jalen go for 82
“DEE-FENSE”
You rang?
This is going to be a tough game to win, but just watching Brunson in the first quarter was already a win of sorts.
And the Obi move across the paint for the little jumper? That was a win.
Barrett from the corner… money!
Hart’s revival is quite enjoyable
Knicks with few players to play tonight.
Clyde: “That’s why i wasn’t answering my phone in the afternoon, Kenny” 😀
Hart’s revival is quite enjoyable
Indeed
A block party with Mitch out? Nice!
So far so good but can we start hitting FTs please (we’re 4-8)?
I-Hart great screen on IQ’s drive…
Cohesive….coherent
I don’t know how this game will wind up but I’m already proud of our guys…
That Randle to Brunson to Hart play is a top 10 highlight on the season
Sims didn’t bite like three different times on Harden’s jukes, stayed down and totally denied him. Not an easy thing to do.
Of course Harden passed out to Tucker in the corner for a three. But still. Credit where due.
Trivia question is interesting. Something like “Harden has lead the league in points and assists. Who are the other 5 players to have lead the league in points and assists, not necessarily in the same season?”. I have to think about it. 🙂
“ don’t know how this game will wind up but I’m already proud of our guys…”
100%, great half of basketball
I love this team
Sixers defense is great. 😀
Thanks for eschewing that 2 for 1 bullshit
Cyber, LeBron, and I think Tiny. Also maybe Iverson? Maybe not…
Damn but I’ll take it
Really excellent half of team basketball
What was RJ doing??
Pretty sure also Wilt.
As for RJ, I think he was trying to avoid taking the shot from half court. Cuz you know, %.
Oscar? Wilt? Russ?
Sizers are lacking heart
Pretty good half. I thought we would be in big trouble once Brunson cooled off but we hung in there.
Cyber, LeBron, and I think Tiny. Also maybe Iverson? Maybe not…
Lebron, yeah. And Steph too, probably.
Impressive team performance so far.
Are we going to add J-Hart to those 9 men? I’m okay with it… 🙂
Embiid is a super-beast, I think only Embiid’s foot and maybe Giannis can stop Embiid…
Oscar? Wilt? Russ?
Not my time, Wilt had a lot of assists too? 😮 My doubts on Russ is scoring, has he ever lead in scoring? He’s not very good at it! 😀
Re: Trivia
Tiny did it in the same season.
Didn’t Wilt lead the league in assists one year “because he wanted to do it”?
Barrett actually had a pretty good first half, outside of taking over from Randle regarding hideous, unforced turnovers (3-0 so far).
I wasn’t watching him on D, however, except one play where he looked stapled to the floor as Maxey swept around him. But Maxey was embarrassing everyone.
Wilt had more assists than anyone one year but he didn’t lead the league in assist average. He just played 47 minutes a game.
Was Thibs coaching in the 60’s?
Sims seems to be playing less drop (or at least not dropping all the way past the baseline) with better results the last couple of games.
The defensive effort is excellent tonight
76ers color commentator (I don’t know who he is) just called Brunson a “very good defender”…
Lol, when 76ers keep playing like crap against us I guess he’s going to look good on defense
Brunson: Shakes ‘em, Bakes’em, takes ‘em
Julius murdering Melton
Julius with the tough shot for the and-1.
Brunson gets a lot of shit for his defense, but he also leads the league in drawn charges. That counts for a lot.
Nightmare sequence
How can we have a turnover like that?
Ah okay, RJ made the inbounds…
RJ asinine
RJ should never inbound the ball
Thibs lost it. Maybe some minutes restrictions coming…?
Nah.
Cam Reddish to start
Brunson gets a lot of shit for his defense, but he also leads the league in drawn charges. That counts for a lot.
Hot take: drawn charges should be recorded as steals
Feels like I hadn’t seen RJ get rejected recently
My ability to tune in just in time for our collapse is so uncanny that I’m getting seriously worried that I cause them.
Kemba took a lot of charges, was he ever called a “good” (or even average) defender?
Brunson tries hard on defense and he’s strong, but teams often target him relentlessly…
No team target a good defender.
Meanwhile the inbound turnover (and the following block on RJ’s drive) totally destroyed our momentum…
@Pagliacci
I’m in with your hot take, let’s do it
Jerry West
Other than Jrue, there really aren’t a lot of point guards who are great defenders.
I don’t think Brunson’s defense is that big a deal
Jerry West
Yeah. And i was wrong on Steph. He never lead in assists.
Pags, do your dishes!!!
I’m having some world class IPAs and loving the competitive spirit
I don’t think Brunson’s defense is that big a deal
Me too, he does so much on offense the balance is a huge positive. 🙂
Up 1 starting the 4th, another thriller coming?
Gotta make hay while Embiid is out
Pags, do your dishes!!!
Yeah, we need the win and the kitchen will be tidy. Win-win.
Harden learning from RJ with the pass to the first row. 😀
Damn
I’m having some world class IPAs and loving the competitive spirit
If i wasn’t watching the game, i’d think it was the IPAs “talking”. 😛
Barrett moves like a zombie
Despite the strong effort, a loss seems kind of inevitable.
RJ is really… unlucky
Despite the strong effort, a loss seems kind of inevitable.
I don’t think so, we’ll keep fighting till the end.
Make the FTs, God damn!
Neeyang wasn’t making that shit in the garden
Ok guys, my +/- on this game is now is now -17 so I’m turning it off. Gotta tidy up around here anyway.
I will be checking the box score now and then and if it looks close late, I’ll follow my conscience.
Doesn’t look like Randle touched the ball.
Good non challenge
Clyde…”get outta dere ‘
Back to back typical Randle moves … he doesn’t get back … then he throws it away
Sorry, Pagliacci. I think we all knew this was going to come down to the wire—its what the Knicks do. The key is to start watching when they’re down.
Where’s Brunson’s scoring when we need it?
Nieng killed us in the Christmas game,
but we like to let him open,
Sunday went well, tonight not so much… 🙁
Grimes needs to start hitting his 3s
Big miss by Grimes
Turned it on at the start of the fourth. Hasn’t gone well.
Not looking good. Grimes and Obi giving nothing
We’ve gotten enough stops… this is bad offense now … and it’s starting with Randle and Grimes still in a big shot funk …
“ Where’s Brunson’s scoring when we need it”
Sixers are a very good defensive team and they’re cranking up the D on Brunson in the 4th quarter.
But again, low expectations for this game
Barrett to the rescue
Stop reaching!
Loved that three by RJ. That fadeaway floater though….
Embiid is really good. It’s kind of not fair
Not a smart play by Sims even if the call stands
It is obscene that we didn’t move Obi … he is wasting away …
Bloody turnover…
Brunson touched it last, but isn’t that a foul?
Maybe we should have drafted Maxey
Maxey destroyed us tonight
Oh well…still a good effort
Niang hits triple the amount of big 3s than grimes … it’s annoying …
Scheduled loss but it stings a little bit more then expected after a very good first half.
Grimes and Obi shooting blanks all night on open looks didn’t help.
@Early Bird unfortunately it seems more like we just collapsed and stayed down than anything going to the wire. Well, at least it wasn’t me this time!
Save us Josh Hart!
This would’ve been a resounding win with Mitch. Also Sims shouldn’t be starting over this version of Hart.
Wondering if Grimes driving more is affecting his shooting
Plus/Minus says IQ and I-Hart were the worst…
I strongly disagree, to me they both played well, better than Grimes, RJ, Sims, Toppin and Deuce…
(Is this a hot take? Nah…)
Not that Mitch could do it either, but we couldn’t stop Embiid.
That was as predictable of a loss as we’ve had all season. I’m glad it was this close.
The SAS-DET Wembanyama Bowl looks very exciting
You mean the Jalen Duren’s 30-17 game? 😉
P.S.
And they go to another OT!
After trailing by eight after a layup by Harden, Maxey stepped in front of a poor inbounds pass by R.J. Barrett and drilled a 3-pointer to cut a 10-point deficit to five and wake a sleepy Wells Fargo Center.
That and Randle’s turnover/not getting back and allowing a three were backbreakers.
What does this GP2 situation mean? That Kevin Knox is going to be playing major minutes alongside Steph, Dray, and Klay down the stretch as they look to repeat??
Are the Blazers now stuck with Payton AND Thybulle??
Or are they able to retroactively undo all the other trades that were done as precursors to that final trade by those four teams?
Seems like there has to be some room for justice written into the trade deadline fine print, no?
We know the Knicks are not the best shooting team in the league. But they score enough. The question is what they do on the other end of the floor. Well, out of 57 games played, the Knicks held opponents to 110 points or less 22 times. They are 22-0 for those games. They are 8-27 for the other 35 games. In other words, no D, no W. It is as simple as that!
Cam had 11 points on 7 shots in his debut and was a plus 4 in 17 minutes.
We will be watching him in the all star game next year I am sure.
We will be watching him in the all star game next year I am sure.
And will Thibs take him to center stage during introductions? 🙂
I’m just happy the Jazz got rid of most of their guys. A chance for an easy win tonight.
Brian apparently thinks you can put a comment like that on an old thread without the Knicks suffering the consequences.
145 replies on “2022-23 Game Thread: Knicks @ Sixers”
Among Thibs’ pre-game comments was that he’s open to playing Hart at PF.
The Deuce Memorial Game.
May he go out with a Breen Bang, not a whimper…
Let’s steal one in Philly, Let’s Go Knicks!
Gooooo Knicks! 🏀
I was trying to think of a way to describe Clyde’s jacket and I gave up
Oh my. Shams:
And I guess there’s no way to amend it post-deadline, is there?
Knicks percolating
Nice start…
Nice start 🙂
This is going quite well so far…
STOP THE COUNT! 😀
OH SHIT
Brunson…da gawd
What’s the NBA mercy rule
Maybe we should be glad he didn’t make the all-star game. Angry Brunson is best Brunson.
Fun: Tarasenko needed 2:49 to score his first Rangers’ goal…
Let’s hope J-Hart can have a similar start tomorrow.
Portland pizza sucks so bad that I learned how to make it. I have had exactly 1 good pizza here, and it’s New Haven apizza style.
We just got some notoriety for being the most expensive. And it still sucks.
A pass to the 1st row? Check!
Lot of switching. They did the same thing last time against Philly
DEE-FENSE
Brunson just fucking people up
Their IQ is outplaying our IQ so far…
Embiid is basically unguardable
iHart with an actual contested rebound and a brilliant inside pass to Grimes! Love it…
Brunson on pace for 80
Brunson is da double gawd
Maxey is lightning quick
Josh Hart vibes worth multiple 1sts
A pissed off Brunson with a god-like quarter…
And I-Hart with some nice plays too.
Two great blocks to end the quarter. We’re here to win!
Edit: With the big help from the one line game thread by Brian, of course. 😀
That was a really fun quarter. Even Barrett throwing that pass to ISM was funny.
But d-mar, you said it re Embiid…
Let Jalen go for 82
“DEE-FENSE”
You rang?
This is going to be a tough game to win, but just watching Brunson in the first quarter was already a win of sorts.
And the Obi move across the paint for the little jumper? That was a win.
Barrett from the corner… money!
Hart’s revival is quite enjoyable
Knicks with few players to play tonight.
Clyde: “That’s why i wasn’t answering my phone in the afternoon, Kenny” 😀
Indeed
A block party with Mitch out? Nice!
So far so good but can we start hitting FTs please (we’re 4-8)?
I-Hart great screen on IQ’s drive…
Cohesive….coherent
I don’t know how this game will wind up but I’m already proud of our guys…
That Randle to Brunson to Hart play is a top 10 highlight on the season
Sims didn’t bite like three different times on Harden’s jukes, stayed down and totally denied him. Not an easy thing to do.
Of course Harden passed out to Tucker in the corner for a three. But still. Credit where due.
Trivia question is interesting. Something like “Harden has lead the league in points and assists. Who are the other 5 players to have lead the league in points and assists, not necessarily in the same season?”. I have to think about it. 🙂
“ don’t know how this game will wind up but I’m already proud of our guys…”
100%, great half of basketball
I love this team
Sixers defense is great. 😀
Thanks for eschewing that 2 for 1 bullshit
Cyber, LeBron, and I think Tiny. Also maybe Iverson? Maybe not…
Damn but I’ll take it
Really excellent half of team basketball
What was RJ doing??
Pretty sure also Wilt.
As for RJ, I think he was trying to avoid taking the shot from half court. Cuz you know, %.
Oscar? Wilt? Russ?
Sizers are lacking heart
Pretty good half. I thought we would be in big trouble once Brunson cooled off but we hung in there.
Lebron, yeah. And Steph too, probably.
Impressive team performance so far.
Are we going to add J-Hart to those 9 men? I’m okay with it… 🙂
Embiid is a super-beast, I think only Embiid’s foot and maybe Giannis can stop Embiid…
Not my time, Wilt had a lot of assists too? 😮 My doubts on Russ is scoring, has he ever lead in scoring? He’s not very good at it! 😀
Re: Trivia
Tiny did it in the same season.
Didn’t Wilt lead the league in assists one year “because he wanted to do it”?
Barrett actually had a pretty good first half, outside of taking over from Randle regarding hideous, unforced turnovers (3-0 so far).
I wasn’t watching him on D, however, except one play where he looked stapled to the floor as Maxey swept around him. But Maxey was embarrassing everyone.
Wilt had more assists than anyone one year but he didn’t lead the league in assist average. He just played 47 minutes a game.
Was Thibs coaching in the 60’s?
Sims seems to be playing less drop (or at least not dropping all the way past the baseline) with better results the last couple of games.
The defensive effort is excellent tonight
76ers color commentator (I don’t know who he is) just called Brunson a “very good defender”…
Lol, when 76ers keep playing like crap against us I guess he’s going to look good on defense
Brunson: Shakes ‘em, Bakes’em, takes ‘em
Julius murdering Melton
Julius with the tough shot for the and-1.
Brunson gets a lot of shit for his defense, but he also leads the league in drawn charges. That counts for a lot.
Nightmare sequence
How can we have a turnover like that?
Ah okay, RJ made the inbounds…
RJ asinine
RJ should never inbound the ball
Thibs lost it. Maybe some minutes restrictions coming…?
Nah.
Cam Reddish to start
Hot take: drawn charges should be recorded as steals
Feels like I hadn’t seen RJ get rejected recently
My ability to tune in just in time for our collapse is so uncanny that I’m getting seriously worried that I cause them.
Kemba took a lot of charges, was he ever called a “good” (or even average) defender?
Brunson tries hard on defense and he’s strong, but teams often target him relentlessly…
No team target a good defender.
Meanwhile the inbound turnover (and the following block on RJ’s drive) totally destroyed our momentum…
@Pagliacci
I’m in with your hot take, let’s do it
Jerry West
Other than Jrue, there really aren’t a lot of point guards who are great defenders.
I don’t think Brunson’s defense is that big a deal
Yeah. And i was wrong on Steph. He never lead in assists.
Pags, do your dishes!!!
I’m having some world class IPAs and loving the competitive spirit
Me too, he does so much on offense the balance is a huge positive. 🙂
Up 1 starting the 4th, another thriller coming?
Gotta make hay while Embiid is out
Yeah, we need the win and the kitchen will be tidy. Win-win.
Harden learning from RJ with the pass to the first row. 😀
Damn
If i wasn’t watching the game, i’d think it was the IPAs “talking”. 😛
Barrett moves like a zombie
Despite the strong effort, a loss seems kind of inevitable.
RJ is really… unlucky
I don’t think so, we’ll keep fighting till the end.
Make the FTs, God damn!
Neeyang wasn’t making that shit in the garden
Ok guys, my +/- on this game is now is now -17 so I’m turning it off. Gotta tidy up around here anyway.
I will be checking the box score now and then and if it looks close late, I’ll follow my conscience.
Doesn’t look like Randle touched the ball.
Good non challenge
Clyde…”get outta dere ‘
Back to back typical Randle moves … he doesn’t get back … then he throws it away
Sorry, Pagliacci. I think we all knew this was going to come down to the wire—its what the Knicks do. The key is to start watching when they’re down.
Where’s Brunson’s scoring when we need it?
Nieng killed us in the Christmas game,
but we like to let him open,
Sunday went well, tonight not so much… 🙁
Grimes needs to start hitting his 3s
Big miss by Grimes
Turned it on at the start of the fourth. Hasn’t gone well.
Not looking good. Grimes and Obi giving nothing
We’ve gotten enough stops… this is bad offense now … and it’s starting with Randle and Grimes still in a big shot funk …
“ Where’s Brunson’s scoring when we need it”
Sixers are a very good defensive team and they’re cranking up the D on Brunson in the 4th quarter.
But again, low expectations for this game
Barrett to the rescue
Stop reaching!
Loved that three by RJ. That fadeaway floater though….
Embiid is really good. It’s kind of not fair
Not a smart play by Sims even if the call stands
It is obscene that we didn’t move Obi … he is wasting away …
Bloody turnover…
Brunson touched it last, but isn’t that a foul?
Maybe we should have drafted Maxey
Maxey destroyed us tonight
Oh well…still a good effort
Niang hits triple the amount of big 3s than grimes … it’s annoying …
Scheduled loss but it stings a little bit more then expected after a very good first half.
Grimes and Obi shooting blanks all night on open looks didn’t help.
@Early Bird unfortunately it seems more like we just collapsed and stayed down than anything going to the wire. Well, at least it wasn’t me this time!
Save us Josh Hart!
This would’ve been a resounding win with Mitch. Also Sims shouldn’t be starting over this version of Hart.
Wondering if Grimes driving more is affecting his shooting
Plus/Minus says IQ and I-Hart were the worst…
I strongly disagree, to me they both played well, better than Grimes, RJ, Sims, Toppin and Deuce…
(Is this a hot take? Nah…)
Not that Mitch could do it either, but we couldn’t stop Embiid.
That was as predictable of a loss as we’ve had all season. I’m glad it was this close.
The SAS-DET Wembanyama Bowl looks very exciting
You mean the Jalen Duren’s 30-17 game? 😉
P.S.
And they go to another OT!
After trailing by eight after a layup by Harden, Maxey stepped in front of a poor inbounds pass by R.J. Barrett and drilled a 3-pointer to cut a 10-point deficit to five and wake a sleepy Wells Fargo Center.
That and Randle’s turnover/not getting back and allowing a three were backbreakers.
What does this GP2 situation mean? That Kevin Knox is going to be playing major minutes alongside Steph, Dray, and Klay down the stretch as they look to repeat??
Are the Blazers now stuck with Payton AND Thybulle??
Or are they able to retroactively undo all the other trades that were done as precursors to that final trade by those four teams?
Seems like there has to be some room for justice written into the trade deadline fine print, no?
We know the Knicks are not the best shooting team in the league. But they score enough. The question is what they do on the other end of the floor. Well, out of 57 games played, the Knicks held opponents to 110 points or less 22 times. They are 22-0 for those games. They are 8-27 for the other 35 games. In other words, no D, no W. It is as simple as that!
Cam had 11 points on 7 shots in his debut and was a plus 4 in 17 minutes.
We will be watching him in the all star game next year I am sure.
And will Thibs take him to center stage during introductions? 🙂
I’m just happy the Jazz got rid of most of their guys. A chance for an easy win tonight.
Brian apparently thinks you can put a comment like that on an old thread without the Knicks suffering the consequences.
Cronin!!!