Comments on: 2023 Playoffs Round 2 Game Thread: The One Foot in the Grave Knicks vs. Heat, Game 5 https://knickerblogger.net/2023/05/2023-playoffs-round-2-game-thread-the-one-foot-in-the-grave-knicks-vs-heat-game-5/ Knicks, Stats, Humor, Analysis. Thu, 11 May 2023 16:58:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Hubert IV https://knickerblogger.net/2023/05/2023-playoffs-round-2-game-thread-the-one-foot-in-the-grave-knicks-vs-heat-game-5/#comment-852702 Thu, 11 May 2023 16:58:19 +0000 https://knickerblogger.net/?p=20601#comment-852702 Josh Hart has been unplayable in this series.

And this is why you wait til all the evidence has been collected before you do obnoxious premature victory dances every time the guy makes a good play. Because the “Josh Hart is very good but we paid way too much to acquire him” camp of djphan & myself is currently doing a game-winning touchdown dance in the endzone.

For perspective:

Caleb Martin cost $6MM. Max Strus cost the league minimum. The two of them are playing circles around Hart, who cost a first round pick and is probably going to be paid a very stupid sum of money.

I love the guy, he’s a great swiss army knife. But we overpaid badly, and y’all got some big ass L necklaces around your necks.

]]> By: KBA: 44 or more https://knickerblogger.net/2023/05/2023-playoffs-round-2-game-thread-the-one-foot-in-the-grave-knicks-vs-heat-game-5/#comment-852611 Thu, 11 May 2023 11:37:46 +0000 https://knickerblogger.net/?p=20601#comment-852611 PS — JHart has struggled since the chicken wing game.

]]> By: bidiong finally logged in https://knickerblogger.net/2023/05/2023-playoffs-round-2-game-thread-the-one-foot-in-the-grave-knicks-vs-heat-game-5/#comment-852610 Thu, 11 May 2023 11:32:42 +0000 https://knickerblogger.net/?p=20601#comment-852610 Must have won because I’m in NY right now!

]]> By: KBA: 44 or more https://knickerblogger.net/2023/05/2023-playoffs-round-2-game-thread-the-one-foot-in-the-grave-knicks-vs-heat-game-5/#comment-852609 Thu, 11 May 2023 11:26:56 +0000 https://knickerblogger.net/?p=20601#comment-852609 Growth mindset. JB was a rock and the boys delivered. RJ, Grimes, iHart, Mitch, even Randle. If we can only add IQ to this mix, we have something special.

]]> By: Z--man https://knickerblogger.net/2023/05/2023-playoffs-round-2-game-thread-the-one-foot-in-the-grave-knicks-vs-heat-game-5/#comment-852608 Thu, 11 May 2023 10:46:33 +0000 https://knickerblogger.net/?p=20601#comment-852608 I would also say that yesterday was the best complete game of Randle’s 14-game playoff career. Maybe that’s the start of better things in the future for him. Maybe even tomorrow?

]]> By: Z--man https://knickerblogger.net/2023/05/2023-playoffs-round-2-game-thread-the-one-foot-in-the-grave-knicks-vs-heat-game-5/#comment-852607 Thu, 11 May 2023 10:43:58 +0000 https://knickerblogger.net/?p=20601#comment-852607 RJ’s postseason has probably doubled, if not tripled, his trade value. It might be just a 10-game illusion, but the dude has been rock solid since the first 2 games. Just to put it into perspective, his TS% is .564, while Brunson’s is .566 and Mitch is at .578.

Not that we should trade him, but in terms of trade value, his salary seems more in line with a guy like John Collins than the albatross it was going in to the playoffs. Not sure he’s at Wiggins-level yet but this is a major step in that direction. And still only 22.

He is now officially a good problem to have.

]]> By: Early Bird Writes https://knickerblogger.net/2023/05/2023-playoffs-round-2-game-thread-the-one-foot-in-the-grave-knicks-vs-heat-game-5/#comment-852606 Thu, 11 May 2023 06:26:15 +0000 https://knickerblogger.net/?p=20601#comment-852606 Butler got blocked 4 times. That says something.

]]> By: Brian Cronin https://knickerblogger.net/2023/05/2023-playoffs-round-2-game-thread-the-one-foot-in-the-grave-knicks-vs-heat-game-5/#comment-852605 Thu, 11 May 2023 06:14:51 +0000 https://knickerblogger.net/?p=20601#comment-852605 In reply to djphan.

this was a bad game from butler.. so it’s going to be tough to beat the heat at home if they get anything close to playoff jimmy which we actually have not seen in any of these games

Yeah, Butler looked like ass in the fourth. For his sake, I almost hope he’s hurt. It would be utterly beautiful if “Playoff Jimmy” fell short Friday, as well (the Knicks are doomed, so he won’t, but it would be beautiful).

]]> By: Brian Cronin https://knickerblogger.net/2023/05/2023-playoffs-round-2-game-thread-the-one-foot-in-the-grave-knicks-vs-heat-game-5/#comment-852604 Thu, 11 May 2023 06:11:32 +0000 https://knickerblogger.net/?p=20601#comment-852604 In reply to timo.

The Garden crowd was awesome, but on Friday, the Heat fan will also be pretty vocal.

]]> By: timo https://knickerblogger.net/2023/05/2023-playoffs-round-2-game-thread-the-one-foot-in-the-grave-knicks-vs-heat-game-5/#comment-852603 Thu, 11 May 2023 04:30:20 +0000 https://knickerblogger.net/?p=20601#comment-852603 Key sequence when lead got down to two: iHart dunk off the RJ rim shot, immediately followed by loose ball foul on Butler with Knicks in bonus. RJ saw Butler coming on the long rebound off the 3-pt miss, threw his body into position and was ready to sell the contact. Two free throws, six point lead.

On the five second violation, RJ had an opportunity early on the clock to get it to Brunson and should have taken it; after that, nothing really there and you don’t want to just toss it up for grabs and get a fast break going the other way. The corner is the toughest inbounds spot. How many people saw the last possession of the Hawks’ season vs. Boston when they tried four times to inbound from that same spot and couldn’t do it? Three times the Hawks’ in-bounder threw the ball off the Boston defender with the clock approaching five and the fourth time De’Andre Hunter just threw it away. Hilarious.

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