Comments on: 2022-23 Game Thread: Knicks vs. Hornets – Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out?

By: Raven is a Big Black Bird

Raven is a Big Black Bird — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 11:43:05 +0000

I despise Gordon Hayward, but he said this post-game:

“I think at this point in time in the season everyone is tired,” Hayward said. “You’re going through it and games are every other night and they obviously had some emotional wins, too. That’s another part of fatigue, not just the physical but the mental and the emotional. So for us to win tonight was big for our team.”

By: cybersoze

cybersoze — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 11:36:23 +0000

And now i’m monitoring the Warriors road games, last night they played in OKC and got the L as usual. They’re now 27-7 at home and 7-25 on the road!? Is it only me that find this W/L distribution odd?

By: cybersoze

cybersoze — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 11:34:20 +0000

Some thoughts about the game thread, not so funny than previous threads of course. 😛

Don’t show Beavis and Butthead those CLT jerseys

WTF is CLT?? Should we start using some random letters to define NY? I propose NRK!! 😀

And RJ has to be closing in on the league lead for blocked shots.

I used to say this and then Milo would come with some stat denying my claim, so to prove i learn from him, here’s the list:
https://www.nba.com/stats/players/misc?dir=D&sort=BLKA
RJ is 9th, but the company is promising (Embiid, Zion, Ja, Giannis, Shai). 😉 Maybe if there’s a stat mixing BA (blocks against) and forays to the rim, RJ would be higher on the list, i don’t know. One thing is certain, the shots he has that end being blocked sometimes we can see it a few seconds before and that’s why we get mad at him. If we can see it, he should too and so he should look to pass. But he was better with that on the part that i was awake, trying to pass to Mitch.

Yeah I noticed that plus the Heat schedule coming up isn’t a piece of cake either although they do play the Knicks twice more this month.

Those games will be huge, we’ll have to at least split it to win the series against them, but going 2-0 would be the nail on the coffin and take off their chances to catch us in the standings.

By: Raven is a Big Black Bird

Raven is a Big Black Bird — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 11:33:45 +0000

“I think I see the disconnect. I think it’s totally fair to say, “They shouldn’t have lost this game” and that it was a bad loss. It was definitely a bad loss. It was a terrible loss. It’s just that it really doesn’t mean anything beyond it being a single bad loss. It was essentially an aberration. If they lose other games, then that has more meaning. This loss, in and of itself, though, doesn’t mean anything beyond “they had a shitty game.”

I think the problem on our side is that many of us were starting to believe that the team had turned a real corner and was becoming a juggernaut/behemoth. This was not a behemoth game, this was a listless loss to a lesser team. So we’re struggling with cognitive dissonance.

By: cybersoze

cybersoze — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 11:20:34 +0000

But to not ruin our chances to avoid the play-in, we’ll have to go 2-2 at worst in the west road trip. If we go worse than that, then yeah we should worry and this game can come back to bite us.

By: cybersoze

cybersoze — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 11:19:03 +0000

After that 1st quarter brick contest, i fell asleep. Reading the game thread i see we managed to put up a lead but then we had less energy than them and got the inevitable L. It’s just one game, no big deal. Thibs should’ve done a lot more changes to let guys rest, but hey he’s much improved from the previous seasons and it’s a minor thing for now. I do worry we’ll grow tired to play the playoffs like in 2020-21, but at least Brunson was resting so there’s that.

By: Donnie Walsh

Donnie Walsh — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 05:45:49 +0000

***an emotionally exhausting game 2 days ago might need a little rest?***

Why would doing ten extra minutes of work require an extra 24 hours of recovery? It’s not a back-to-back. They had 48 hours. These are professional athletes, man.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 05:40:22 +0000

In reply to Z–man.

It really doesn’t make any sense. And Nurse is a fine coach. The whole thing boggles the mind. To be fair, though, they did go toe-to-toe with the Nuggets in their last loss, which is something.

By: Z--man

Z--man — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 05:37:47 +0000

I continue to be very surprised that the Raps are so mediocre.

By: BigBlueAL

BigBlueAL — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 04:57:20 +0000

Yeah I noticed that plus the Heat schedule coming up isn’t a piece of cake either although they do play the Knicks twice more this month.

Actually watching Cuba vs Netherlands in the WBC opener before I knock out.