Comments on: Game Thread 2023-24 Knicks @ Rockets (An Actual Center Opener, which is sort of a thing)

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 06:41:28 +0000

Didn’t see it, but in reading about the call am wondering why the Knicks didn’t challenge the call? The refs said upon reviewing it after the game that it was an incorrect call. Did the Knicks burn their challenge on an earlier call? If that challenge hadn’t been used, could the outcome have been different, or is it six of one/half a dozen of the other?

They didn’t have a challenge left, no. Had they challenged it, would it have worked? It sure sounds like it, yes.

By: Donnie Walsh

Donnie Walsh — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 06:38:43 +0000

Didn’t see it, but in reading about the call am wondering why the Knicks didn’t challenge the call? The refs said upon reviewing it after the game that it was an incorrect call. Did the Knicks burn their challenge on an earlier call? If that challenge hadn’t been used, could the outcome have been different, or is it six of one/half a dozen of the other?

By: Rough

Rough — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 06:38:11 +0000

Ed Malloy: “The contact occurred after the release of the ball. It was incidental, and, therefore, should not have been called.” Well?

I repeat, however, that it as not just the last call. Referring was lobsided all game long. What a shame!

By: pagliacci

pagliacci — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 06:10:21 +0000

I think I was right. We’ll run our players into the ground and pile up injuries faster than they can heal. This team will never be healthy.

Frankly, with the whistle we got tonight and the whistle Brunson usually gets, it seems like that’s the league’s desired outcome. Ultimately, that’s the reason he can’t ever be a 1A. If he got Jimmy Butler’s whistle it’d be a different story, but the way he got manhandled tonight made that Pacers game look well-officiated. Fuck this league and their sportsbetting bullshit.

By: Rough

Rough — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 05:24:47 +0000

I am a Real Madrid fan too and I seriously can’t take any more injuries from my teams!!!!

You may afford to miss two or three top players in a game that is played by eleven, but missing two or three starters in basketball is critical. Plus, there is no ‘salary cap’ in European football. Real Madrid can afford to have pretty much as many top-tier players on their bench as they wish.

By: JK47

JK47 — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 05:21:19 +0000

This could have been a good team but Thibs is going to ruin it by grinding every decent player we have into dust.

The more guys get hurt, the more he leans on the guys who aren’t hurt, until they too get hurt. Lather rinse repeat. This is not going to end well.

DDV played 41 of a possible 43 minutes before asking out of the game with a hamstring injury.

I hope everybody enjoyed January, because that was the peak of the Tom Thibodeau era. This team is never going to be healthy. He doesn’t get it.

By: SoNiceWeShowItTwice

SoNiceWeShowItTwice — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 05:15:41 +0000

I am a Real Madrid fan too and I seriously can’t take any more injuries from my teams!!!!

By: Rough

Rough — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 05:05:29 +0000

Injured players can’t come back soon enough! It’s Mitch, I-Hart, Randle, and OG. Bring one of them back and we have a good chance of staying afloat. Without them, we either coast and end up in the play-in tournament or take our chances by playing the rest of the players heavy minutes at the expense of more injuries. That DDV hamstring issue tonight was very alarming.

By: Educate_the_weak

Educate_the_weak — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 05:04:35 +0000

The spread on this game was Rockets (-1.5)

By: The Eminently Bearable Knicksiness of Being

The Eminently Bearable Knicksiness of Being — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 04:51:34 +0000

This is about as clear a case as they come of refs deciding a game. It’s really beyond the pale. That said, the only thing that truly matters about this game (besides seeding) is what state it left Divo’s hamstring in. If he’s out for any extended period of time, we’re toast, plain and simple.