It has turned into a pumpkin in the Miami series, because we’re not doing so hot on the offensive glass against them, and we’re not winning the turnover battle either. Miami is a ball hawking team that forces a lot of turnovers. We’re just not getting those extra possessions and it seems like we’re getting killed on 50/50 rebounds and loose balls. Plus we can’t throw the ball into the ocean even when we get quality shots.

I sort of agree, at least with regard to our supporting cast. I think Grimes, the Harts, Obi, and to a lesser extent IQ aren’t getting the looks they got in the regular season, and that’s because the defense is way tighter. (IQ is, I think, also just pressing—he’s missing bunches of the shots he often makes.) But it’s also just variance—Grimes often made those contested 3s and layups in the regular season!

Whatever the cause of our supporting cast struggles, it then redounds to the three core scorers, who have to shoulder more of the load against defenses that don’t respect our supporting cast, and to Mitch, who has to deal with more bodies in the paint. There is a pattern here, but I also think that us shooting 30% from 3 rather than 20 in our losses would make our offense, and the series, look significantly different.

We’ll get more data in game 4!

3. The iso shots we feasted on in the regular season aren’t going in, either because of variance, the Heat zone, or because of injuries to our stars (likely all 3.)

we had a 107 ortg vs cleveland and we’re at 105 ortg vs miami… this is not just restricted to the miami series…. what has changed is that our defense is not playing at an all-time playoff best level and we’re more middle of the pack .. our drtg vs miami is a very normal 113.5…

maybe you could blame it on variance… but this many players not playing to their regular season abilities over multiple series sounds like a pattern to me…. and yes you can blame 3pt shooting on variance…but everything else very likely cannot…. and that’s a problem…

I annoyed a lot of people

was speaking with someone at work a bit ago, they had been in the marines, a little older than myself…

we were having an honest conversation and she slipped in a couple of times her awareness of how others perceived her (overly critical, “difficult” to work with, negative)…

I was super impressed by her ability to see herself from other’s perspective…less enthusiased she seemed to be pre-emptively apologetic for her behavior…

I made sure to remind her that she was not alone in her critical minded world view…

than we talked about therapy 🙂

i’ve discovered it to be a shared experience among many folks…

I did have an account on this blog about 10 years ago and made a lot of negative predictions about the Knicks and our future. In my defense, most of them turned out to be dead right.But I annoyed a lot of people back then

What’s up, hoolahoop!

keep communicating…busy beautiful times on hand…set your boundaries well…keep your mind as clear as possible…

the age that drove me crazy was around 4 to 6…

the youngest of 3 was the one who finally broke me…eat when want, sleep when you want…just be quiet about it all…

If you need to shit on something, you have my permission to do so on Barrett or Julius. because, you know, right now they deserve it.

If it’s not E, it’s his brother with a case of the perma-furies.