The Knicks take on the Dallas Mavericks tonight with literally a single member of their normal starting rotation playing.
DDV might for for 80 tonight.
Now, logically, this should mean the Knicks should not win this one, but, well, have these Knicks ever been logical? So don’t be surprised if they pull this out!
53 wins is still very possible!
Let’s go, Knicks!
112 replies on “Game Thread 2023-24 Knicks vs. Mavericks (DDV Stands Alone Opener, which is not really a thing)”
Let’s go Knicks! This one will be very tough but here’s a
Thibs smiles about availability tonight
Donte Double Nickel Game
Duane Duane!
Duane Washington Jr. is injured.
It’s mandatory if you want to be a Knicks nowadays, so he had to shoot himself in the foot before re-signing his N-th 2-way contract…
Donte needs to make like 20 three pointers tonight
This game might put a huge dent on the Knicks net rating.
for some reason i thought we had lost deuce too, good to see he’s still here…
Deucey Drives
J-Hart can’t do anything right so far 🙂
Of course Doncic + Kyrie have to play tonight.
I just tuned in and saw like five turnovers back to back. Did that really happen or is there a glitch in the matrix?
I’m also watching in TNT mosaic, so I’m fully disoriented by what I’ve seen.
Josh Hart needs a day or three.
Bench: Sims, Taj, Toppin?
Ihart took 5 steps on that move
They just won’t quit! I love it!
Also, other nba teams totally do quit, so they just need to throw a haymaker early here to shut Dallas down.
If we somehow win, that will be hilarious BUT the Mavs would begin their inevitable tank early. So we might want to lose the battle but win the war here.
Guys we are not going to win, we’ll be lucky to lose by less than 40 here
Sims is out. Bench is Taj, Toppin, Charlie Brown…
This is going to get ugly
Here i am… let’s win this!
Charlie Brown!
This lineup would be totally believable in a late-2010s Knicks team.
Ok the bench has to pick us up now
Oh wait….
The Toppins change but Thibs stays the same, he won’t play them… 😀
Somebody call up Jason Smith and Quincy Acy
It’s not unwatchable so far
And the deluge of threes begins
Jinx! 😉
Who wants to take bets on who gets injured tonight?
I’m thinking DDV or Hart. Too bad Thibs can’t ever punt a game, he’s calling timeouts after every time they string a couple of buckets together. At this rate we’ll run out midway through 3Q.
Going out to get a burger…either its a 20 pt half time deficit or I can enjoy the burger when I get back…
Max, I take it back!!
Can i place a bet on who steals the ball from him? 😀
Spencer Dinwiddie is apparently at the game- can we sign him to a one day contract at halftime?
CHARLI3 BROWN
Luka is annoyingly cocky
(I mean he has every right to be but it’s still annoying)
Man, Charlie Brown actually gets meaningful minutes and ends up guarding Doncic.
Zach Zarba is extremely impressed with Zach Zarba.
iHart let’s not dive all over the floor in this one
Monster Achiuwa
Not a lot of “lol I can’t believe some idiots didn’t think Josh Hart was worth a first round pick” posts these days.
Jacob Toppin is in. We can’t be stopped now
Charlie Brown Jr guarding Luka Doncic might be the mismatch of the century.
Jacob Toppin has accumulated a stat
Donte inferno
The offense should be DDV shooting every possession until they start double teaming him.
You have to be impressed as all get out by how well they are playing.
I was just about to note, “Why aren’t they doubling DDV every possession?”
Divo MVP!
The fact that Dallas doesn’t have a double-digit lead is astounding.
How many 3s has Dallas made after missed Hart layups?
Totally. They have no right to be hanging with the Mavs.
Of. Fucking. Course.
This is why you just punt the whole game.
Doncic is killing us with his passing.
Is Taj ready to play the entire 2nd half?
It’s a pleasure to watch this guys’ effort.
Now may someone inadvertently hit Luka’s nose?
I counted 6 or 8 point blank shots we missed that would have this tied up at the half. A good confidence building experience for this group that will pay off in the post season.
I don’t like seeing the other team dare Hart to shoot the three and he just passes out of it.
iHart not starting the second half. Just bubble wrap everyone until the all-star break.
I-Hart’s not even on the bench…
This is like 2021 where teams would have half their team out due to Covid.
And DDV limping now. Fuck Josh Green, and fuck this game.
I-Hart is officially out of the game with a “sore left achilles”…
Taj may be out next with a coronary.
Damn
Jesus, can we just forfeit the game now so no one else gets injured?
Just threw my burger in the garbage
Now it is officially unwatchable. And dismal news about Hartenstein too.
Is a team allowed to play 4 on 5? Brown, Toppin, Deuce, and Precious.
Save Hart and DiVo from injuries, and Taj from a coronary.
Indiana with a pretty embarrassing performance tonight at home vs Golden St playing the 2nd night of a back to back.
Forget the medical staff – we may need an exorcism. This is crazy.
I was watching this fucking game because I have a bout of insomnia and I can’t fall asleep but, after I-Hart’s injury, seeing THJR playing defense for the first time in his life it’s too much…
Yeah it’s so crazy these guys are all getting hurt. What could it possibly be?
We don’t quit.
Say what you like about the management of injuries, but the management of team culture? They just don’t quit (@z-man on the same wavelength)
It is amazing how much they fight!
Let Jacob practice some dunks
Maybe iHart’s Achilles was just like a little sore and they told him, “hey take a load off buddy, we got this one” or some such
Deucey Dunks
Well that Deuce dunk is the highlight of the evening
Deuce!!
I always forget that Deuce can actually dunk pretty well.
Damn, Deuce
Why can’t we let Jacon Toppin not quit? Isn’t that part of the culture, too?
JACOB!
Portland should’ve gotten more than just a single 1st rd pick for Hart…
Well maybe this game will help get Hart’s confidence back with his 3 point shot
This is now the “I was posting the night Jacob Toppin dunked” memorial thread
I’m very proud of our guys…
This is like a carbon copy of our game vs the Grizzlies, with the roles reversed
Bucks getting hammered at home vs Wolves, granted Lillard is out.
Donte wants this. Make it so, boys.
Valiant effort, guys.
Hart with the triple double, at least!
Last couple of games Knicks have gotten back to the bad habit of not giving a fuck about defending the 3pt line.
We made Luca play 40 minutes.
I think there are extenuating circumstances.
How many late 1st rd picks have multiple triple doubles in a season?
I was impressed that despite having only seven guys to play in the second half and probably being exhausted they still trapped in the back court a lot of the time and had some success with it.
With all the injuries, I don’t think the Knicks will be able to catch the Cavs, but the #3 seed is still there for the taking.
It seems like every time I watch Luka he’s bombing 3’s from everywhere, but then I look at his stats and he’s making kind of a pedestrian 37% of them.
It’s crazy how good 3pt shooting has become that 37% is pretty pedestrian.
Luka takes so many bad shots, though. They went in today, but his main (only?) flaw is that he can get a little trigger happy.
lol the Mavs had to play Luka 40 minutes to beat a team that needed Josh Hart to take 22 shots
party foul…hopefully they have a Five Guys out by your new spot…
no way a 5 guys burger goes in the dumpster…their fries are good too…
the boys though have me hooked on their soda machine, they have like a million different flavors…
you know what, i think i’m hungry, need to go eat…no burger though, mashed taters, pork chops and pineapples, peas, baked beans, biscuits and some cold milk…
I’m guessing starting lineup on Saturday will be Brunson, DDV, Hart, Bojan and Precious.
It was some scrappy local place ..I went back out and got some schwarma
dang, sounds like a no repeat visit locale…i don’t really know what schwarma, just that the avengers were all munching on it in one of the end movie credit scenes…
edit: oh, it’s like a gyro/kebab…for some reason i thought it was noodles…i love those multi-meat spit food stuff…
It was good…had it on a spit over mesquite…real deal type of stuff
Did iHart really get hurt? This feels like an April Fool’s prank
IHart landed awkwardly and tweaked his achilles near the end of the first half. I think they just rested him in the second half as a precaution.
Switched from the game in 3rd quarter to Bill Bradley’s Rolling Along on Max. I’ll leave the reviews to our in-house maven, but Dollar Bill is a pretty amazing individual. For fans who were fortunate enough to experience the two chips, it’s worth watching to get his takes on the relationships between the players during the championship period and how they endured.