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2024-25 Game Thread – Knicks vs. Pacers – HOME OPENER, PEOPLE!

Okay, after a disappointing start to the season, the Knicks could really use an ass-whooping of the Pacers tonight in front of their home fans.

So let’s hope that we get just that.

The Pacers only added one player of any note this offseason, James Wiseman, and now he is out for the season. That’s rough.

Let’s go, Knicks! I can’t wait for 58!

237 replies on “2024-25 Game Thread – Knicks vs. Pacers – HOME OPENER, PEOPLE!”

Won’t be able to watch the game but I do hope the Knicks becomes a dominant home team again. Even the past couple of years they haven’t had a dominant homecourt advantage as they did in the 90’s.

So pissed that BOTH this home opener and the WS are on broadcast TV! I’m gonna have to record both.

Next 3 Knicks games are same nights as potential World Series games too 🤦‍♂️

Next 3 Knicks games are same nights as potential World Series games too

This is absurd but…

Let’s Go Yankees!

Shump-shump!

yeah, I have to watch it on shitty ESPN myself. The curse of having a decent team.

in the pacers’ first game, tj mcconnell came in at one point in the second half, and just totally changed the game’s momentum…

i’m looking forward to a little deuce v. tj action tonight 🙂

back in the day, the yankees’ game would barely have been in the third inning by the time this game ended…

start from the beginning, fast forward through the breaks, caught up by the fifth…

I’m looking at this Pacers starting lineup and trying to figure out how they were the highest scoring team in the NBA last year

Looks like we’re finally trying to work the wings into the offense. It looks as messy as you’d think.

How in the world were the Pacers letting Myles Turner operate on the outside?!

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Doris talking about how the Pacers missed Mathurin in the playoffs last year. Yeah, because the Knicks weren’t missing anyone in the playoffs last year.

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I don’t get how you blind tip it like that. It’s impressive to get to the ball, but why would you then just blind tip it?

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Doris talking about how the Pacers missed Mathurin in the playoffs last year. Yeah, because the Knicks weren’t missing anyone in the playoffs last year.

I’m so happy to have the MSG feed…

This offense is going to be good when they figure out what they’re doing

This is a completely different lineup. They’ll get it going.

Solid 1Q. OG looks good. Now switching to the main screen…(Wing Bar in Carroll Gardens, if you’re curious. Great spot).

Tonight TJ will see if he likes to have a guy in front of him that is a Payne in the ass (like him) !! LOL

So now even Max will switch to baseball and i’ll be left here talking to myself! 😛

Whoa, this Judge guy is tall. Maybe he can play Power Forward once the world series is over?

Solid 1Q. OG looks good. Now switching to the main screen…(Wing Bar in Carroll Gardens, if you’re curious. Great spot).

I live like 8 blocks from there but I’m in the city tonight

Can we please play Kolek over “PAIN”!

Edit: Ok good D on that play, but we have to move towards Kolek

Sims looks exactly the same as when he was drafted, he still struggles with the same stuff… time to give our boy Huk some chances.

We missed an unhealthy amount of point blank shots… 🤨

I curse every time Payne takes a shot, but I like his effort on defense so far…

DRed let’s grab some cheap beers over a game sometime, I’m in Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill too

I think Thibideau likes Sims rim defense. At the end of the first quarter he was doing offense defense substitutions with Towns and Sims. And , to my eyes Sims has been better defending the rim and also gets rebounds.

For those of you that can’t pull yourselves away from this October basketball game, the Dodgers injured many baseballs in the first inning but have nothing to show for it. (Gonna be a stressful 108 outs to the title if they’re all hit like that)

Deep three from Hart. Wow

Nerves settling slightly.

Also, another season of Doris is tough. The other guy sounds like he is at .75.

Otahni and Betts flew out to deep Chavez Ravine. Freeman with a double down the left field line that Verdugo botched in the field. Judge looked lost. We stranded 2 in the 1st.

Yes. A stressful series this will be.

Brunson can get a bar going while the Yankees are playing a World Series game

🧡💙

All five starters have 8-12 pts. We’re shooting 55% and 50% from three. And the offense still feels chaotic.

Make that 54% from three.

This is more like it.

Brunson playing like he thinks the lineup is still Hart/Precious/Hartenstein. He needs to trust the other guys.

Good first half, very good effort on defense, offense has a ton of potential once they know each other better…

aren’t food commercials just the greatest, that philadelphia cheese one where the lady was floating peacefully through the air with a blissful smile – i want some of that…

My basic takeaway: I am pretty happy watching Jalen on offense and OG on defense.

KAT has a nice stroke.

They missed a ton of open shots

My basic takeaway: I am pretty happy watching Halennon offense and OG on defense.

Halennon? Who dat?

Doris talking about how the Pacers missed Mathurin in the playoffs last year. Yeah, because the Knicks weren’t missing anyone in the playoffs last year.

To be fair most of the people we were missing are not currently playing for the team 🤷🏾‍♂️

Did I just hear Stephen Smith’s voice? I’ve made it a career to avoid that pig. May have to do the dishes during halftime.

Also Josh Hart with 11 points and 8 rebounds.

At the half.

With a bum hammie.

The lady in the front row behind home plate wearing the Maga hat must have paid $20,000 just so Trump would tweet about her.

Cole’s pitch count is half Flaherty’s…a good sign. It would be nice if Judge could remember how to hit a baseball, though.

Mikal posting up smaller guards may turn out to be a pretty good play for the Knicks.

Jericho Sims always has that look on his face like “I know I shouldn’t be out here but I guess there’s no other choice”

Any score in that stupid baseball game? Knicks up 25 over here…

I mean 28…

I mean 30…

Pretty incredible stat lines for the starters. Unfortunately I can’t watch the game live.

Hmm, I guess it’s best to wait until more than 1 game to make any kind of judgements

Mikal is 15-18 after the infamous missed technical FT, that’s what I call “breaking a spell”…

Can we now agree that one game was a small sample size?

Yes, hot takes were misplaced, now we can go 81-1 😉

Nice to see that Mikal has not forgotten how to play basketball. Nice shot distribution, everyone is eating, and the Pacers look absolute ass which I always love to see.

Doris with the evil witch laugh over the replay of the missed dunk.

Did you just see Obi get the ball from the top of the backboard?

I didn’t, but Mike Breen said he did it. Amazing, no?

It’d be nice if Payne would give it to any of the 4 better players on the court

It’d be nice if Payne would give it to any of the 4 better players on the court

LOL

I want to smash Thibs in his nose for putting Jalen back in with 8 minutes left leading by 25.

I mean Payne was kind of sucking, but put in Kolek.

Hmm, better to play the rookies in a blowout against than a blowout for I guess (thibs bb philosophy)

how low can you go giancarlo…

pitcher did seem to throw the same pitch over and over…it was working until stanton did that moonshot…

Edit: i didn’t catch the speed, it looked like some kind of “slurve” pitch, super hard to hit…

pitch was a “knuckle curve”…79 miles an hour coming…can’t wait to see the exit velocity and distance and height…

the whole crowd was like wow…

Dadiet can’t even go out and drink with us, Mike, poor kid

Clyde is hilarious 😀

This is gonna be the biggest overnight change in a team’s net rating in NBA history. I knew our -25.7 wouldn’t last!

Smoltz with the “timing is everything “ call:

“Cole’s fastball looks better than ever” right before Edman nails a double down the line

This is gonna be the biggest overnight change in a team’s net rating in NBA history. I knew our -25.7 wouldn’t last!

Of course you did, you were just acting doom and gloom to be a good luck charm.

Dadier really doesn’t look hopeless. It’s a very nice surprise.

Meanwhile, do you bring Cole back for another inning or go to the pen?

Dadiet not playing great

His positional awareness has already improved (though I’ve been flipping back and forth and might have missed some low-lights)

Cole walked the tightrope unscathed again, good job…

You have to minimize how many times the Dodgers see the same reliever, so I’d keep him there.

So we go from Boston hitting all of their 3s to the Pacers missing all of their 3s. Can we get a normal shooting performance to evaluate this team against?

oh shit. clay holmes is in the pen warming up…

gerrit cole must know this, and understand the importance of continuing to pitch well…

edit: i am feeling not so great about this situation…

After having some good series, the two managers are back to being their usual selves, with questionable bunts and pitching changes.

questionable bunts

I thought I read here that stat-nerds had eradicated the bunt.

Weaver should’ve been facing Ohtani.

Using him for 5 outs means he may not be available tomorrow, so I get leaving Kahnle in. Though we ended up using him for 5 anyway, so….

First time I’ve seen Weaver. He’s a damn anorexic. I want to open a beer bottle with various parts of his face.

On the other hand, perhaps I’m late to the game, but Giancarlo may have the biggest ass in baseball.

Just pitch to Betts

U don’t need lefty on lefty smfh

Used up the best pitcher in Cole and lost..that was the game

One of the reasons I stopped watching the Yankees is Boone. He always defers to stats instead of sticking with what’s working. I didn’t know if that had anything to do with tonight, but it annoys the fuck out of me.

How can you go with a pitcher just off the injury list in a situation like that?
Cortes hadn’t pitch in weeks!
The Dodgers were ready, they did both swing on the first pitch.
And people ask why Yankees fans want Boone fired…

Yeah that could be the end of Boone

Yankees aren’t going to keep this Dodgers offense down like they did tonight again with Rondon and Schmidt

CORTES just came off Injury and you put him in that situation, that’s on Boone

Graterol also hadn’t pitched in ages and had no trouble getting through an inning.

Feel bad for Nestor, he obviously wanted this moment so badly. Freaking brutal loss. Need to win Game 2.

Question for people who have watched baseball within the last 15 years: if the runners hadn’t advanced when the left fielder fell into the stands catching Ohtani’s foul ball would the Yankees have pitched to Betts, or still gone lefty v lefty? (Back then they would have brought in a righty to face Betts, but apparently you can’t do that anymore. That’s why I’m wondering where the conventional wisdom stands these days)

I think it was a pick your poison situation. Betts has been much better lately, and Freeman has been injured and slumping. Not unreasonable to create a force at every bag and pitch to Freeman in that scenario. The real critique IMO is just whether Cortes was the right guy in that spot.

I’ve never seen the “fielder falls into stands with ball and therefore the runners get a base” thing before. No idea if that’s new. I’m guessing they pitch to Betts with runners on first and second but no idea

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