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2023-24 Game Thread: Knicks vs. Spurs: The Wembanyopener part Deux

The French kid seems pretty good. Let’s see how he does.

161 replies on “2023-24 Game Thread: Knicks vs. Spurs: The Wembanyopener part Deux”

Rough start but I like the timeout there. Just need to take a breath and settle down.

can’t watch this…going to see a Scorpions cover band…interested to see this…gotta think klaus meinie is a tough voice to cover…

go knicks!

Spurs can’t shoot this is nonsense

They can’t shoot this well, but damn, so many good looks from 3.

It’s pretty dumb Yankees aren’t on cable, even as a Mets fan

Worst loss of the season. Already clear Wemby will be better than any player in our history. Oh well, 3 seed would have been fun.

LFG!!!

Still not loving the non Brunson minutes, but glad Shake getting some run.

Damn, I’m glad I chose the Khruangbin concert tonight.

Yeah, just appreciate Laura Lee and don’t think about this! 😛

I’m not watching this but I see that Shake Milton is playing so I hope nobody on the team died

What we witnessed in most of the first half was incredible. It’s been a very-very long time since I last saw the Knicks refusing to give any effort on the defensive end. Did they think they traveled to San Antonio for the Alamo and River Walk, and they would win this game just by showing their jerseys? They disrespected the opponent, their fans, and the game of basketball. There is still time to fix things, otherwise they will be blown out and humiliated. Deservedly so.

Pretty annoying how Pop has tanked every game in the last 2 seasons but this one

There is still time to fix things, otherwise they will be blown out and humiliated.

Majority of players don’t care because they still collect a pay check

Pretty annoying how Pop has tanked every game in the last 2 seasons but this one

I am much more annoyed by our lack of effort and defensive breakdowns time after time after time after time….

only down 17? cut it to single digits by the 4th and I’ll switch from my illegal yankees stream

Underwhelming first half, they came out of the gate flat in both quarters, I’m pretty sure they’ll find a way to make it a game but they put themselves in a deep hole…

Let’s Go Knicks!

Incredible how automatic Brunson is. When was the last time the Knicks had a player that you just knew could get a bucket whenever needed?

“Brunson with the Feline quickness and the Canine energy!” Clyde is a gift ❤️ Happy Birthday to the Legend

Somebody let DRed know it’s single digits… nvm, it’s zero digits, unclear what to do

Wemby may ne a future all time great but he is not the best player on the court right now

The Little General willed us back in the game, now Let’s hope we’re not going to regret J-Hart and Deuce easy misses when the Spurs were collapsing…

If someone beside JB wants to help out in the 4th it would be cool

it feels like no one else on the team can score right now…

damn – we just lost to the freaking spurs…

jalen couldn’t step off the court for a minute tonight…

julius where are you…

Send Bojan to Siberia. I know they have nobody else for now, but if the Knicks get healthy I hope we never see him again.

Predicting a letdown in the 4th as we run out of gas and lose by 2

Man i hate being right so often

“They were both handsome”

Great line Clyde. Wally may go his whole life without something that good

Brunson!!!

Predicting a letdown in the 4th as we run out of gas and lose by 2
Man i hate being right so often

Please stop dude

If I was Pop I’d demand a DNA test for Brunson after the game to verify he’s human.

Did I hear that correctly? Brunson only the 4th Knick ever to have multiple 50 point games in a season?

J-Hart can be so frustrating sometimes with his unwillingness to shoot ANYTHING

Remember the other night when I mentioned Deuce lately has been getting torched defensively?

Remember the other night when I mentioned Deuce lately has been getting torched defensively?

He does, idk why this was controversial. It’s not really a new thing either. He plays hard and physical, but he’s not stopping guys like Grimes did

Crazy how much bigger Wemby is than Ihart.

He is looking a lot better now than he did at the beginning of the season

We can’t make that dagger basket or killer stop

The Spurs shot FTs every other possession in the last several minutes.

Yeah, Brunson is everything Melo was supposed to be at a bargain basement price

I’m okay with JB passing to the open man, I’m not okay with the 30-10 FTs disparity…

Poor final play. Should have overloaded everyone on one side like they did a few plays ago so Spurs couldn’t double, and then let the General take a run at a floater.

Both Yankees and Knicks having frustrating, down to the wire games at the same time its hard to keep up!

Robinson is hurt. I thought he might have been limping a little earlier, but wasn’t sure. Now it’s obvious.

I mean, I want a win, I want Brunson to break the record, and I want Mitch to not be out six weeks.

Not sure I will have any of those things shortly….

Wemby is the best player on the floor and likely destined GOAT. Too bad that a little bit of judicious tanking trumps all other team building decisions

That was a Clydesdale size pile of shit

The ref threw that jump ball badly. Not sure what Mitch did wrong.

Check the ref’s FanDuel account to see if he has action. This one is BS.

In the end a pretty embarrassing performance by the Knicks, except Brunson of course.

Tough one. We had every chance to win this one, but we missed some dagger shots, didn’t come up with a couple of key stops, and the refs were in the tank a bit on the foul calls and that jump ball

Wemby is the best player on the floor and likely destined GOAT. Too bad that a little bit of judicious tanking trumps all other team building decisions

He won’t be healthy long enough to win the 7 rings he will need

If Wemby and his team are getting this whistle now, I can imagine in 5 years.

Annoying loss.

Let’s go Yankees.

Could have been one of the most exciting wins of the season. Goes down as one of the most disappointing losses instead.

The team played terribly, Brunson almost brought us back on his own, but yeah, a couple unlucky bounces and it’s over.

We should have won despite the refs, but holy fuck is the standard of refereeing in this league fucking garbage right now. Brunson gets fucking clobbered on every drive and nothing is ever called and that jump ball violation was ridiculous. Completely takes the fun away of what should have been remembered as a great basketball game.

They tried in the second half, Brunson almost won it by himself but he ran out of gas. They could have won it, but I can’t say they deserved to win this one. Let this game be a good lesson for the unacceptable attitude they showed in the first half.

I don’t know what it is in Texas, but the refs screw the Knicks every time. (See the Houston bs game).

First half put us in too much of a big hole and Brunson magic wasn’t enough to recover. Poor minutes from Achiuwa and Bogi too. Uuuggghhh

Every Knick other than Brunson pretty much sucked and we still should have won it.

And the refs did us no favors…how the fuck does Brunson only have 6 foul shots?

Seems like we played the same game in Texas 3 times this year. Some of the best non comebacks ever.

The universe is back to normal, the Yankees are winning while the Knicks blow a game to a shitty team!

Astros are gifting the Yankees runs, this isn’t going to work in the long run

Astros are gifting the Yankees runs, this isn’t going to work in the long run

I’ve seen enough of Greg Birds being thrown out at the plate to know we take what we get.

I-Hart’s injury was to his non-shooting hand, right? Where he wears the sleeve. Hopefully that will help him not miss any time.

I get the complaints about FT disparity. But the Knicks should focus on themselves first. They should have come out of the gate with assertiveness and aggressiveness, and showed this young Spurs young team who is superior. Instead, they were lazy, hypnotized in the first half, dug themselves a 21-point hole, and had to spend a huge amount of energy trying to mount an unsuccessful comeback in the second half and overtime. All this ahead of playing four games in eight days against the Thunder, Heat, Bulls, and Bucks. This Knicks team is normally smart, but not tonight. I blame the coaching staff on this one. They should have prepared the team better.

Frustrations aside the Knicks were due for a game like this, on the road against a shitty team but a team that’s actually trying unlike their recent opponents. Fact is they need OG and Randle back, hopefully they can play in a few games prior to the playoffs but the more games they miss the less likely it seems Randle will be back.

At least OG showed even not healthy he’ll have a huge impact simply with his defense, not sure what Randle will be able to provide if he returns.

I thought the game was tomorrow. My apologies! I blame myself for the loss!

Wow, Brunson! I sure would love him to have the Knick scoring record!

Thibs going off about the refs in the postgame

Thibs has a point, but this not all. This was a horrible first half defensive display by his team. 38 and 36 Spurs points in the first two quarters, along with 50% 3pt shooting (almost all shots were wide open) says it all. His players were getting beat off the dribble time after time and defensive rotations were not working. There were no closeouts on 3pt shots, no one even in the same zip code. Whenever someone was trying to close out on the perimeter, they were getting blown by as if they were not there. They were giving up fast breaks, backdoors, even the baseline and there was no help behind. And so on and so forth. It was a mess.

The team did get it together in the second half, and this is why Thibs has a point, but the game shouldn’t have been close to begin with. The Knicks should have taken care of business against a rebuilding/tanking team but they failed to do that.

We suck against stretch 5s, have all year, our guys can’t play defense without a big in the paint. OG helps fix this problem by adding weakside help.

I’m not saying this game was fixed, but if we found out it was you’d hear “yeah, no shit” quite a bit

Skilled bigs>rim runners – hopefully the Knicks look into adding a center with some scoring skills

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