[New York Post] – Mon, 08 Apr 2024 04:40:12 GMT
- Jalen Brunson outduels Giannis Antetokounmpo as Knicks topple Bucks for statement win
- Bucks clinch playoff berth despite 122-109 loss to Knicks
- Jaren Jackson Jr. scores 35 points in Grizzlies’ 111-101 win over Bucks
- Game Preview: New York Knicks at Milwaukee Bucks, April 7, 2024
- Bucks lose to Knicks, facing longest losing streak of season
[New York Post] – Sun, 07 Apr 2024 10:06:00 GMT
- Bojan Bogdanovic, Alec Burks not a lock to be in Knicks’ playoff rotation
- Long-term implications for Knicks after Julius Randle’s injury
- Julius Randle to have shoulder surgery: The Knicks of January officially aren’t coming back (this season)
- The Knicks are in the middle of NBA playoff seeding. Can Julius Randle and OG Anunoby return in time for an extra push?
- Josh Hart — ‘Pleasantly surprised’ if OG Anunoby, Julius Randle return
[ESPN] – Mon, 08 Apr 2024 00:27:00 GMT
Bucks’ Khris Middleton exits loss after getting hit in mouth
[New York Post] – Mon, 08 Apr 2024 04:40:12 GMT
- Knicks’ Josh Hart blasts Scott Foster’s ‘ridiculous’ decision to eject him
- Josh Hart ejected for kicking Javonte Green in head. Should he have been?
- Josh Hart calls for NBA rule change after ejection
- Knicks’ Josh Hart tossed from game after kicking Bulls’ Javonte Green in head area
- WATCH: Josh Hart ejected for kicking Javonte Green in the head during Knicks’ loss to Bulls
106 replies on “Knicks Morning News (2024.04.08)”
Crazy to think the #2 seed in the East is probably going to go to a team with less than 50 wins. I wonder if that’s ever happened before.
2002-03. Chicago had 50 wins, Nets at 49. Though the West had 6 teams with at least 50 wins.
And I did not know that after the season we actually traded JVG to Houston for a future 2nd.
I fell asleep at halftime… 🙁
I watched it this morning and it has been a really nice surprise (plus all my teams won on sunday, a great day for my fandoms).
I’m willing to sleep every game from now on, including playoffs, if it means a win for the Knicks 😀
Random Thoughts:
– JB’s a top-10 player and at least a ALL-NBA 2nd team.
– In the 2nd half Thibs finally ditched the dreaded and unwatchable 2-bigs lineups and went with the straight playoff rotation: it paid off.
No room for Achiuwa at this level of competition and there’s reasonable hope Alec Bricks is in Siberia.
– Isaiah, Bojan and DDV (who ko’d Middleton and got his revenge game in Milwaukee) were the main supporting heroes on offense but the defense was a fantastic team effort with OG, Deuce and Mitch doing a great job.
– We need OG and Mitch to round into form (both are slowly progressing), with them closer to their usual selves we can make some noise later.
– I won’t speculate on seeding or other teams schedules, our margin of error is too slim to consider any game “easy” (see our San Antonio and Chicago recent trips).
I only want us to win as many games as possible, then the chips could fall as the hell they want.
– There are a lot of announcers (male and female) I can’t stand and Doris happens to be one of them. Every time she called Portis “Bobby” I wanted to mute the feed.
– Doc Rivers is terrible and he’s driving the Bucks down the drains.
I cant’ fathom how it’s possible he still has a coaching job… or better, two jobs: coach and bus driver, the same bus which he usually throws his players under.
– Dalls won a fun game but I’m not “that” impressed.
They needed the dumb Rockets to miss their last 3 free throws (in 25 seconds, just one of them would’ve won the game) and a buzzer beater three by notorious sharpshooter Dante Exum (playing in Europe really made him a new player).
They’re a fun team because Luka and Flat-Earth are magicians but it feels like something’s always missing for them to be serious.
Alas they’re fucking up our pick.
It’s Detroit, not Chicago.
It’s Detroit, not Chicago.
Whoops. Chicago with a massive 30 wins that year led by ex-Knick Mr Bill, with future Knicks Curry, Chandler, and Crawford as well as our current MVP’s father.
Same, but with the caveat that I do not want to sell out to win the most games possible. Minutes were high but reasonable last night. That’s as high it should go.
I still have a hard time believing in Dallas as a real threat because neither Luka or World B. Flat wants to play defense at all, but they can play some beautiful basketball.
I would stay up late to watch Mavericks-Clippers. And that’s really saying something bc I’m annoyed that all Knicks home games don’t start at 7pm.
Reading the game thread I thought we lost. Then I googled the score. Hahaha. Go Knicks?
The Deuce/OG/Mitch lineup lived up to expectations in that second half. The Bucks just couldn’t score.
OG gave some insight on why his rehab has gone better the second time, less repetitive shooting. They believe it was the volume of shooting that caused the flair up, not a new injury:
New York Knicks starting wing OG Anunoby changed his approach during the build-up to his second comeback from his elbow injury.
“Maybe less shooting. Building up the shooting, not just going back to shooting like I normally shoot,” Anunoby told reporters after the loss, per New York Post. “So just taking my time and it’s going to get better and better.”
Secondly, I know OG did a great job (with help) on Giannis in the second half, but he sure looked frustrated the last quarter. He’s got to look at that line-up and say one ankle injury to any of the top 5 players and we’re a play-in team. The knicks lost their entire front line for 30 games and are still fighting for the 2 seed.
Thibs either gave a Norman Dale speech at halftime or made some pretty sweet adjustments. With all his and Rose’s imperfections, we are pretty lucky to have them.
Lol so 8-man rotation then?
Yes 😀
It’s what Thibs did in the 2nd half yesterday and will probably do during the playoffs (barring ejection, foul troubles, injuries)…
Pretty common in the playoffs. They never play back to back games and they often have 2 days off between games.
Also, just came here to say.
Jalen Brunson is a top 5ish player in the league and should absolutely be in the MVP discussion this season. He’s starting to get more love from the national sports media but the fact that it has taken this long is criminal.
Think about this season. We had a completely different team to start the season. We’ve been without our starting front court for a third of a season.
Throughout all that Brunson has been the one dude who has showed up pretty much every fucking night and has put this team on his back so many games it’s not even funny. He is one of the best players in the league. Full stop. If he’s not top 5 he’s very fucking close.
Yeah Thibs totally made Khris Middleton disappear in the second half.
But you have to give Doc credit, too. He made Julius Randle invisible last night.
No team in the league is allowed to say “oh well we would have beaten the knicks if so and so didn’t get hurt.” We’ve been missing our two time all-nba player for 3 months and just got back one of our centers and our best defensive player.
I still think maybe we should start McBride and have Hart come off the bench. Put OG at the 4.
More importantly, he is getting some love from the refs lately!
He’s averaging 10.25 FTAs the last 4 games after his 61 point/6 FTA game and the hideous no call against the Thunder brought some national attention to his lack of respect.
If Hart’s wrist has indeed clicked back into place, I like him and OG in the starting lineup because of the defensive versatility it provides. OG excels at the roaming role, so having Hart to cover a biggish PF as needed really helps.
Thibs could play matchups and start Deuce in teams with quick/good point of attack players like the Cavs or maybe Indiana (thought I would guess they put OG on Hali given his length and Hart on Siakam). It’s amazing how even shorthanded without Randle this roster gives Thibs quite a bit of flexibility.
I read some stat that Brunson has only been paid like 6M so far in his entire career. He gets more this year, obvs, but … wow. (And also whoa and woe).
He’s not very telegenic, which I think handicaps his stardom. If you put Kelly Oubre’s face on his performance, he’d be on every ad, poster, and lunchbox in America. It’s a cruel world.
CORRECTION: ~ 6M over first four years. Still …
I do think part of it is because he isn’t flashy with his game. He’s not high flying and dunking on fools. He’s not making ridiculous wizard passes like Jokic or blocking shots like Embiid.
But his numbers are gaudy and he puts this team on his back so many games. He’s so in control and his fundamentals are amazing.
In the 23 games since the ASB, Hali’s Ts% 55.1 and 3 point % 30.1
By point differential Knicks should have 50 wins and the 2nd seed wrapped up. Safe to say if Randle and OG hadn’t gotten hurt it would’ve most likely played out that way.
This final week going to be fascinating to see how the playoff matchups are set. Orlando has Milwaukee twice and play at Philly. Indy plays at Cleveland.
You’d still want to put your best defender on him, I think, as he’s still the engine of that offense.
In terms of playoff matchups I seem to have a different perspective than most.
I think Philly is actually a good matchup for us. Josh Hart plays great against them, and when Hart plays great we do well.
Everyone seems to want Orlando but that’s the one team I want on the other side of the bracket. They are way too big for us, and you’re looking at 7 games of Brunson going against Suggs with help off of Hart (who will have to shoot bc they have three seven footers protecting the paint).
How I rank ‘em…
Most favorable: Cleveland
Favorable: Indiana
Slightly favorable: Philadelphia
Slightly unfavorable: Milwaukee
Unfavorable: Miami
Least favorable: Orlando
Hubs, that seems spot on. I want nothing to do with Orlando either. I think people are banking way too much on them being “inexperienced” but I think that stuff can be overblown. They are not a good match up for us.
Orlando might not score 100 pts in any playoff game, they are a bottom 10 offense and in recent history outside of the Heat last season bottom 10 offenses have done very poor in the playoffs.
The 2 worst coaches (and the only bad coaches) in Hubies list are Bickerstaff and Rivers, so I would have Cavs as 1 and Bucks as 2. Other than that I like his ranking
I believe the Bucks are tanking and I think they lose both games against the Magic to avoid playing the Embiid Sixers or Miami.
I’d feel good about our chances against the Bucks but I put them there out of respect for Giannis.
The Bucks have a bigger ‘dont have enough good players’ problem than a coaching problem.
Cleveland is probably the best possible matchup because they don’t seem healthy right now. Philly with Embiid would be a problem.
I like our chances against any possible first round matchup. By stats and the eye test we’re clearly the second best team in the East even sans Randle and each possible first round opponent has a fatal flaw. Pacers and Orlando are bizarro versions of one another (one team can’t defend, the other can’t score—and both are young.) Cleveland and Milwaukee are Charmin-soft. Philadelphia has two great players in Embiid and Maxey but a really poor supporting cast (they are probably the worst matchup if Embiid is ready to go, but I still like our chances in a 7 game series.) The Heat are working Herro (who isn’t good, by the way) back in and just generally look uninspiring, even if you price in some playoff Jimmy magic. Chicago and Atlanta aren’t even worth thinking about.
Given the above, I think we should welcome trying to get the 2 seed, securing home court against everyone outside of Boston, and hoping for the ~20% chance that our likely matchup (probably Philly) gets upset in the play-in.
I think I prefer J-Hart in the starting lineup over Deuce. OG is not a particularly good rebounder. We need someone to replace Randle’s rebounding and to some extent his playmaking. J-Hart does that better than Deuce. Replacing Randle’s scoring is more problematical. We’ve been trying to do that by upping Brunson’s and DDV’s usage, but imo we need someone else to step up. OG says he wants a bigger role. This is his opportunity to show he’s capable. I’m a bit suspect that he can effectively, but we’ll find out after a few more games as he gets back into form.
Deuce gives us more offense than J-Hart, but we’ll me missing size other things.
It may make sense to go with matchups, but that’s really not Thib’s style.
So our 8 man is Brunson, DDV, OG, Hart, iHart with McBride, Mitch and Bojan off the bench? Maybe Precious is the 9th man?
That seems…doable if Brunson is good to go for basically the entire game, lol.
God if Hart can find his outside shot that would be huge for us. He’s had hot streaks before. It’s not impossible.
Randle must be so fucking pissed right now. I feel sorry for him.
I’m still hoping against hope that burks is just hurt, because it would be nice if the Burks who could shoot could play like 11 minutes a night.
Philly with Embiid would be the 2 seed, I don’t know if I want any part of them in the first round.
I’d be happy with the 3 seed and avoiding Philly or Miami. I’ll take Orlando or Indy any day of the week. Obviously Cleveland too but I dunno man that roster should theoretically be pretty good and tough to beat in a playoff series. Same obviously for Milwaukee, the fear is their offensive talent can get hot for a few games and the Knicks without Randle don’t have the offensive firepower to keep up.
let’s get back in the polling business on preferred playoff opponents. hoping for philly over orlando is cray cray, as cool substitute zman would say. and silky, no effing way are we clearly better than a philly team with a healthy embiid by any test, statistical, ocular or otherwise. though i don’t think they run us over, either.
the biggest x factor for orlando is how much they can ramp isaac. it’s so unusual to have a guy at the most valuable position (flex wing/big) play at an all-nba level for only 15 mpg.
The Pacers have the second ranked offense in the NBA behind the Celtics. Yeah I know they aren’t good on defense, but I don’t know without Randle that I trust this roster to keep up with teams who can really score.
with the non-celtics playoff teams in the east being roughly the same level I don’t know if there’s a clear answer, the only bad teams with a chance are Atlanta and Chicago
Indiana’s offense without Hield and Mathurin isn’t as explosive not to mention Hali playing pretty poor now for over a month.
The Sixers, Pacers and Cavs all have easy schedules – the Pacers and Cavs have one game against each other. I could see Philly jumping to the 6 seed if they win out.
I don’t think the Cavs can lose to the Hornets on the last game of the season, so they probably will finish at #5 at worst.
I fear a series against the Pacers because it would be about the two teams trying to impose their very different styles, and given how much New York depends on its top players, I am not sure running back and forth all game would be helpful. That’s why I prefer a slow paced, offensively challenged team like the Magic, even if I admit they have a significant advantage over other opponents in Suggs being the best defender for Brunson. The Knicks also tend to not do well against spacing bigs, so Turner could have a huge shooting game or three against them.
The ideal scenario from NYK POV and the path of least resistance to EC finals:
1 Celtics
2 Magic
3 Knicks
4 Bucks
5 Pacers
6 Cavs
7 Sixers
8 Heat
last night as they started the game there looked to be a clear team height advantage for the bucks…
we got some seriously game smaller players though…
josh starting at the 3 next to OG at the 4 works…
friend of mine’s mom ran into thibs in an elevator today and said he was very nice and she told him the Knicks should have beaten OKC
She should have complained about minutes allocation. That would have been hysterical. 🙂
Obi is playing well for them. Carlisle went out of his way the other day to compliment Obi on his improvement this year….not that we could have used him this year given that Randle is such an iron man physically and was blocking him. doh!
Obi is averaging less than 20 mins per game in April after playing less than 18 mins per game the previous 2 months in which he averaged less than 8 pts per game.
But the coach said nice things about him!
Maybe I’m overweighting the 36 point drubbing we handed a fully healthy Sixers team on Jan 5. Maybe it’s Playoff Embiid. I don’t know, I just don’t fear Philly the way I’m supposed to.
Me neither. Embiid is obviously an MVP caliber player but I feel like defensively iHart and Mitch can contain him. Stick OG on Maxey and call it a day.
Philly’s net rating was third in the league until Embiid went down on January 30th, and that’s with him having already missed a handful of games to that point. I think they’d be a disaster to draw in the first round for the simple reason that they are obviously immensely talented. We still absolutely could win, especially with Embiid’s health being an open question. But it’s the only conceivable first-round series I think we’d be underdogs.
In order of preference:
1. Orlando–respect what they’ve built and it wouldn’t be easy, but IIRC the playoff record of defensively elite, offensively weak teams is not good
2. Indiana–since the ASB their offensive rating is a still-very-good-but-hardly-historically-good 119 and their defense still sucks. Since Haliburton has been much less effective since his injury, this is a rare case in which I think it’s smart to put some real stock in the post-ASB numbers.
3. Heat–I don’t have a great case for putting them this low based on the numbers, but you all know the deal.
4. Cavs–something seems decidedly off with them, but fully healthy they’re still probably the most talented of the non-Philly bunch here.
5. Philly–see above.
Important caveat: I’d pick us against all of the top 4 here barring some unexpected development, so it’s a hair splitting exercise.
If I remember correctly, Randle had a good game then. Philly has nobody to guard Randle, so I would be confident in that matchup if he was healthy. Alas.
Yeah I honestly just don’t see how the top 2 preferred opponents aren’t Orlando and Indiana.
Maybe in the glow of a huge Knicks win last night I’ve overstated the case a bit–or maybe it’s the fact that the pharmacy forced me into SSRI withdrawal several years early since they just decided to not fill my prescription. Either way, let me pump my own brakes: I do not want to see Philly in the first round–they are my most dispreferred first round opponent. That said, I think a 7 game series, with this edition of Brunson, home court, and any version of Embiid that is less than 100% is not that scary to me. In a way, I feel like Hubert: I know, intellectually, that the Sixers are good, but I just don’t trust them to take care of business even with the best player on the floor–especially when their third guy is *Tobias Harris*. So, even though Embiid has clearly been the best player in the league this year, I don’t trust their 3 – 8–nor do I trust Maxey as a high-level decision maker just yet, though the talent is clearly there. So, while the case is ultimately vibes-based, I think the vibes are not nothing. Also I think our injury situation was about as or more dire than Philly’s, and we’ve posted a better overall NRTG than them. If I recall correctly, we at one point had a higher net rating than them even when Embiid was healthy. If the foregoing is true, then that particular statistical case looks like at best a wash.
More big picture: I think the benefits of the 2nd seed–home court and the small but not insignificant possibility of playing Atlanta or Chicago in the first round–outweigh the drawbacks (possibly meeting Embiid in R1). Let’s get the #2 seed and let the chips fall where they may. If we can’t beat Philly in R1, there was no point in getting too excited for the Randle-less Knicks anyway.
2nd seed has no possibility of playing Atlanta or Chicago in the 1st rd.
Randle was 1-11 with 4 turnovers in that game.
Josh Hart was +46.
Hart kills Philly, and I think getting a good matchup for him is critical. He’s incredibly bipolar, and when we play a team that can force him to shoot we turn into the worst offensive team in the playoffs.
The two teams that can do that are Miami and Orlando.
Ah, I misremembered the format. I think a version of the point stands, however: even if there’s a chance of meeting Philly in the first round as the #2 seed, there is also the chance that they are eliminated from contention in the play-in and we face whoever the winner of 7/8 is (hypothetically, Miami.) That benefit of the 2 seed–along with home court–outweighs, in my estimation, the increased risk of a first round exit if we end up pulling Philly in the first round. So I still think we should go for the 2 seed even if that locks us into Miami/whoever the non-Philly 8 ends up being.
I would rather avoid the Sixers and Heat, and I’m totally fine with any of the other opponents. The Heat are always a damn tough team and even if you beat them it will hurt in the longer run, and there’s no reason to ever want to face healthy Embiid over the other teams in the conversation.
I’m personally hoping for the 3rd seed, but if we end up in 2nd finishing the season strongly I’m fine too, take some nice momentum into the playoffs. Anything 5th or below hurts.
I think the issue is some of y’all are thinking Josh Hart is a constant variable. I think his performance is pretty opponent specific.
Josh Hart vs Cleveland last year was a poor man’s LeBron. Josh Hart vs Miami was the worst player in the series.
Any series we play with bad Hart we’re gonna get our asses kicked. And if you look at those three losses vs Orlando, Hart averaged 4 ppg in them.
IMO that’s much more important than the history of teams that aren’t Orlando.
hubert what did i tell you about staring at the small samples without the special glasses
lmao
silky as an aside i have a friend who had a very similar (in fact pretty much identical as you wrote it) pharmacy refill fail pretty recently and it was not a small problem. sorry, hope you get it sorted.
wishing for a particular opponent for the playoffs seems like asking/begging for some type of ironical smackdown…
The only reason I wouldn’t be happy facing the Heat is that it would be hard to win in the next round with three of our guys on crutches
LOL! Exactly! 😛
Flip side, vanquishing the Heat in the first round, assuming no one gets hurt, would be a big morale boost for the team and could propel them confidence wise in the next round. If you think that kind of stuff matters.
He’s also averaging 17.2 per 36 with TS% of 67.7% (huge career high) and 3p% of 40.8% (huge career high) and an on/off of +2.1. Some of that is probably the faster pace offense, but he’s playing better. The Pacers don’t need him starting for big minutes and neither do we with Randle playing, but Randle isn’t playing. So we could use him.
BREF gives the Knicks a 41% chance of finishing at the 2 (14.4%) or 3 (26.3%) seed, and a 48% chance of finishing 4-5. If they had the tiebreakers over ORL or MIL their chances would be much better as the chances of a tie between some of ORL, MIL, CLE and NYK is pretty high.
It gives both Miami and Philly overwhelming odds at finishing 7-8, but a 1 in 4 chance of one of them surging to #6.
Not sure what this all tells me other than it’s somewhat pointless to try to choose an opponent right now.
With Calipari leaving Kentucky, does that mean we’re going to start drafting Arkansas players instead?
Choosing your opponent seems logical and smart in some cases but also “creates” specific mindset.
If i were Thibs or member of this season’s fun team my mindset would be:
“Bring me anyone. I’m ready”
I’ve been thinking about the weirdest shit today. Like, would Giannis and Hartenstein be an effective pairing? I think they would but Giannis always wants a shooter at center. If we’re this good with Hart & Randle at the 4 why wouldn’t it work Giannis? And what about Giannis and Mitch? Good god can you imagine trying to score against those two and OG? And where exactly will I put the Leon tattoo when this comes to pass? Is the arm enough or should I get it spread across my whole back?
Huge game tomorrow for our playoff fortunes. We could tie with MIL and pull ahead of ORL if they lose at HOU, who unfortunately no longer has anything to play for.
…is there any book weird enough to give me a line on Volpe leading the Yankees in WAR?
I think it is extremely unlikely that either Indiana or Cleveland drop to 7th. Both teams have two games against easy opponents and then a game against each other. For either to fall into 7th, one of them would have to go 1-2 and then the team moving into 6th would have to win out. That seems very unlikely.
I think the Bucks tanked the three games before the Knicks game because they were trying to drop to 3rd and avoid Philly. I think their plan was to lose those three, beat us, and then rest everyone and let Orlando pass them. If they had beaten us it would have almost guaranteed them being out of the 4-5 game because their magic number to stay above us and Cleveland would have been one at that point, I believe.
I think people are crazy to want Philly more than Orlando, Indiana, Cleveland, or Miami. My order of preference for all teams we could face in the first round is:
Indiana
Orlando
Miami
Cleveland
Philly
Milwaukie
If Milwaukie drops to 4th and we stay at 3rd our matchups if Orlando can win their series would be Indiana then Orlando then Boston coming off a pair of tough series against Philly/Miami and then Milwaukie. You couldn’t plan it better.
Oooochhhh.
Oooochhhh. Ooooochhhh.
The Heat have a massive advantage in coaching and the best player on either team in Butler. Spo would come up with a game plan to take Brunson out the game and you already know he isn’t going to defend J.Hart at all.
I’d love to play against Milwaukie.
Report: “Knicks fined $25,000 for violating injury reporting rules”
This is for when the Knicks initially listed Mitch as being out for the Raptors game, but then played him in that game…….I think all within the same day.
Mr. Dolan is really going to be hurt by having to pay 25k
To be clear, I don’t necessarily want Philly more than Orlando. I just want the 2 seed more than the 3 seed. I don’t see Philadelphia as so scary we should want to avoid finishing as high as possible. I mention Orlando bc I happen to think that gaming our opponent could lead to a tougher matchup.
During the Previous NY Thibs years Thibs’ ninjas were younger, cheaper, more heroballing and easily drowned by a zone defense.
This season we see a pretty confident, ultra Team first Squad that can compete against anyone under any circumstances.
We’re not a top tier team mainly due to injuries but we’re damn close!
We don’t need to pick opponent.
The other teams should avoid picking us imo.
Are there actually no NBA games today?
There are never NBA games the night of the college basketball championship game.
Thanks. I forgot about that.
The women’s championship game being at 3pm on a Sunday is so much better than the men’s game starting at 9:20 on a Monday
The last men’s championship game I watched was Derrick Rose’s Memphis team vs Kansas. I’m pretty sure it ended at midnight and I was like “fuck this, I’m done.”
Julio Teheran is really good at lobbing 91 MPH frisbees up to the plate. He’s going to make the other Mets pitchers look really fast by comparison
Looking at the advanced numbers, you really think the Heat has the best Player?
I kinda like swapping out injured Randle, Obi , IQ and Barrett for Deuce, Bogey, DDV and OG (if reasonably healthy).
And Spo is a terrific coach, but Thibs could never live down losing with prime Lebron, D Wade and Bosh….
Clearly 2-8 in the east are very tightly bunched and virtually anything can happen.
https://stathead.com/basketball/versus-finder.cgi?player_id2=butleji01&year_min=2024&player_id1=brunsja01&seasons_type=forall&request=1&utm_campaign=2023_01_wdgt_player_comparison&utm_source=bbr&utm_medium=sr_xsite&utm_id=brunsja01
If the matchup were less intriguing I probably wouldn’t stay up for this, but Clingan/Edey should be a hell of a heavyweight bout.
OT: totally agree with Alan’s take on the last season of Curb. I still laughed plenty, but the magic had run out.
I’m truly tired of reading/listening about the super coaches who happen to have prime HOFers on their rosters or Ex Coaching Legends GMs that build them contending teams without even trying…
Give Erik, Monty, Steve, Tyronn and co Thibs’s trash-roster while he got his coty award and let’s see how far they’ll go and then I’ll put them on the same level.
Till then Thibs is The Man!
And deserves his chip soon!
Edey with 3 blocks already.
I still don’t know how much of an NBA weapon it can be, but Edey’s post touch is insane
https://nypost.com/2024/04/08/sports/breaking-down-knicks-playoff-possibilities-with-four-games-left/
Man, Edey is way more painful in drop than I recall from earlier in the season. Then again, UConn actually has athleticism to punish it. This game isn’t looking good for his draft prospects so far.
What do you mean “painful in drop”
Purdue plays almost exclusively drop coverage because of Eddy’s relative immobility. But he and the rest of Purdue have gotten eviscerated by a genuinely athletic college team in Connecticut.
let’s just say what we’re all thinking: zach is a stiff…
he makes mitch’s movement look swan like…
I retract my post yesterday about maybe getting edey…
sampson on uconn looked better…
Edey has his flaws, but if his teammates can only get off 7 threes (and make 1)…
more than anything – I think I just liked the notion of maybe picking up a couple of college seniors this draft…
sort of avoid any “projects” that’ll take a few seasons to develop and contribute…
although. maybe it doesn’t take 4 years of college ball to be able to do that…
Spoelstra has had a legitimate 8 seed roster these last two years and he made it to the Finals.