Comments on: 2024 Playoff Thread: Knicks vs Sixers, Game 3, Playoff Road Opener, which is actually an important thing

By: BJ

BJ — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 09:34:17 +0000

Well, that was a tough second half. Joel jobbed the refs, getting every call when he should have been yanked from the game. Somebody said WWE on NBA on TNT, surprised Embiitch didn’t pull out a chair from the stands… He’s always been a Villain but he really went full Heel last night. We let him get in our heads, but if this team plays their game and fights the dirty shit by just going even harder, we got this.

On the plus side Pagliacci unlocked Brunson. Mitch is a warrior and he’s already fought back once this season, he’s got that dog in him, mark my words he’s coming back with a vengeance.

By: BJ

BJ — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 09:22:12 +0000

Donnie Walshsays:
April 25, 2024 at 21:58
Fuck off Donnie Sixers fan
I got a pile of cheesesteaks on my plate and smoothie from the wawa to wash it down.

Don’t forget your water ice and pretzel jawn

By: JK47

JK47 — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:50:18 +0000

I am going to try to work on myself this offseason to stop following and caring about this sport and this league. It’s just misery and bullshit all the way down.

I think that’s an excellent idea.

By: pagliacci

pagliacci — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 04:38:10 +0000

Sorry guys. I let us down today by putting my personal honor, which is really just a form of vanity, above the team. I predicted Brunson would be terrible and we would win. What happened? Brunson was great and we lost in an incredibly costly, infuriating, and unfair fashion.

This is much more demoralizing than anything that happened to Philly in G2. Refs missing calls is one thing. Refs allowing a player to literally take out his best defender in a play that has more resemblance to an MMA move than an NBA move, and then continually rewarding that player with more FTA than the entire opposing team when he spends all day chucking jumpshots…

This game was fucking rigged. It felt like watching Donald Trump skate by all his legal troubles with endless special treatment at every level all the way up to SCOTUS. It makes me not want to be a basketball fan anymore, and wish I never was.

I renounce all vows towards positivity because this game undid all the good vibes from G2 and then some. We have lost this series because:

-Embiid is clearly 100% or close enough
-Our best defender against him is out for the rest of the series. iHart is probably next.
-He gets a custom rulebook where he gets Shaq’s FTA rate on soft-ass perimeter jump shots. It’s functionally illegal to play defense.
-Their guys get to mug us all game on the perimeter. They get a “clean” strip on our guards every fucking play it seems
-Their coach/GM can just flip a game any time they want by whining about the refs. Ours just makes a few classy innuendoes and gets back to work, a clearly inferior strategy in this league

So there it is, we lose in 6 and it goes down as another run of disappointment, gut punches, and broken dreams. The Iron Law of Knicks fandom holds: anything good that happens is only to set up a greater disappointment down the road.

I am going to try to work on myself this offseason to stop following and caring about this sport and this league. It’s just misery and bullshit all the way down.

By: Educate_the_weak

Educate_the_weak — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 04:21:38 +0000

Wonder what the odds are for Lebron going back to L.A

No way you can lose 11 straight times and counting and want to run it back

By: Rough

Rough — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 04:12:02 +0000

Cross your fingers the Bucks fall apart and the Freak asks out.

By: Educate_the_weak

Educate_the_weak — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 04:09:03 +0000

The NBA has the Pacers/Bucks game starting at 5:30 on a Friday…that’s crazy

By: ess-dog

ess-dog — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 03:55:08 +0000

Diakite’s gonna have to come in and play the heavy. “Sweep the leg” time.

By: Rough

Rough — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 03:51:11 +0000

What annoys me most is that Embiid seemed to be moving better tonight than the first two games. Looks like he is recovering, while his dirty plays took out one of our centers and almost did the same to the other one.

By: Educate_the_weak

Educate_the_weak — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 03:39:42 +0000

The Suns look good with Beal,Booker and KD

Those teams don’t work anymore