I mean, come on, seriously, this has got to be a win.
And I imagine it will be!
Let’s go, Knicks!
188 replies on “2024-25 Game Thread: Knicks vs. Bucks – I Mean, Come On Now, This Has Gotta be a Win”
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Let’s Go Knicks!
Game threads are free zones for hot takes, so here’s mine:
the Bucks have the two best players in tonight’s game so… don’t panic! 😀
Well, Wally likes Towns. So there’s that…
Gooooo Knicks! 🏀🧡💙
Hmm… I think we definitely have the 2nd & 3rd best players, Max
I’m with Hubert there (big electronic hug…)
KAT!! Hands up!! Hands up!!
Easy loss here as Giannis gets to the rim uncontested 20 times and Lillard bombs 10 threes off simple screening actions that send Bridges sprawling.
To me we have the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th best, maybe even the 7th 🙂
But the hot take is a hot take because if you go with this year’s numbers Dame’s playing better than JB… 😉
The Bucks are paper thin after the big-2, with Lopez getting older and older Portis is their third best player.
Clyde and Breen are something all Americans can agree on. I’d like to think Robert Randolph is in that category but not sure….
Towns ability to shoot over people from three is quite beautiful
By the year 2050, will anyone still be taking 2-point shots?
I can’t decide if Doc Rivers is slowly morphing into a rhinoceros or a hippopotamus.
And the Knicks Kids Dancers might be better than most teams’ adult dance groups.
How the hell do you reverse that foul call?
Lopez fouled KAT like 3 times on that drive.
KAT is even better offensively than I thought and I already knew how good he was on offense.
Knovak-Anthony Towns
Mikal needs to get his act together.
If I had known KAT makes all his shots I would have been more excited.
Lane is nice and open so far tonight
I really love Breen laughing at Prince.
They will run out of defenders to throw at Giannis.
By the year 2050, will anyone still be taking 2-point shots?
By the year 2050 there’s a new 4-point line that Steph would’ve liked existed when he played. 😀
Sims…resurrection
Won’t be able to tune in for a bit. Are we playing some actual defense here or are the Bucks just Doc Riversing this one away so far?
Sims!!!
So I guess putting a long defender on Brunson full court is the new normal.
Refs missed a 3 second violation that lasted 6 seconds.
Won’t be able to tune in for a bit. Are we playing some actual defense here or are the Bucks just Doc Riversing this one away so far?
It’s a heady mix.
I have not been watching the game but the boxscore indicates that Jericho Sims threw the ball into the basket once
Brunson is singlehandedly keeping the Bucks in the game.
Sims definitely not embarrassing himself so far tonight.
Brunson is just off and it’s getting in his head. He’ll come around eventually.
Maybe the foul shots will help Brunson unlock his shooting touch.
… he said in response to marechal (not).
That’s as nifty as I’ve seen Bridges look
Re: defense, it helps that the Bucks look to be one of the slowest teams in the league.
I don’t want to jinx nothing, but the bucks look more out of sorts than us…
I can’t wait to see jalen and mikal put it together in our backcourt…right now, not so great…
I can’t for the life of me understand why Doc played Lopez rather than Giannis on KAT.
Can someone tell the players to not bite the fake passes?
Three or four shots in a row there that barely made it to the rim.
Geez…this unit is not good…
WTF kind of shots were those taken in the final minute.
KAT the only Knicks who hit a three pointer in the 1st quarter…
Deuce went from world b free…to a poor man’s Emmanuel mudiay
The Cavs are mauling the Warriors…
Mikal dies on screen, Lopez rolls to basket, easy layup
KAT clowning people again.
Josh Hart doing the “Marcus Smart on Porzingis” thing there
Yeah…bridges better get better…I’m not seeing what i thought I wuz gonna see from that dude…
KAT is a fucking incredible offensive player… the rest of the team has got to step up to his level on that end.
Is Doc Rivers one of the five worst coaches in the League?
(My vote is “yes”)
Knicks defense has been pretty good so far tonight.
Brunson needs to get off the Podcast
Mikal needs to hit the weight room
Kolek looks like he is 12
Towns is basically unguardable. I think we should move him to shooting guard.
And yeah, the pace feels much more controlled than in Atlanta
The Bucks haven’t yet figured out that a Brook Lopez high screen is an automatic basket
Mikal needs to hit the weight room
Bridges looks like a marathoner out there.
League seems to have figured Brunson out. It’s a fine line between the 2nd best PG in the league and the 10th. With guys like Lillard and Morant getting back on form, he’s looking less and less like a tentpole every day.
Still think we should have sold high on him and kept on accumulating.
Kolek!
This dude is simply worth getting and then figuring the rest out
Kolek!!
League seems to have figured Brunson out. It’s a fine line between the 2nd best PG in the league and the 10th. With guys like Lillard and Morant getting back on form, he’s looking less and less like a tentpole every day.
Still think we should have sold high on him and kept on accumulating.
Max
The Knicks could get a lot for Brunson if they wanted. He’s 28 on a team friendly contract
I love Kolek
OG on defense is so much fun….
The 12yo is playing ok 😉
Best stretch of play for Kolek so far this year
Just to clarify, I didn’t say that about Brunson, it’s an Educate’s copy and paste mistake 😁
Steve Novak announces for the Bucks???
Me like Towns much.
KAT is already the best player on the Knicks.
Without Trent or Middleton, how can the Bucks win any games? They don’t have any shooting besides Dame!
Towns quarterback! 😀
Maybe our tentpole guy is Towns
Jolie doesn’t play like a 12 year old at least!!!
KAT putting on a show.
Brunson is really a usage/efficiency paradox right now
Spurts like this that we’ve seen so far this season is what keeps the high hopes alive.
Being able to score when Brunson is playing like shit is a welcome development
The Bucks haven’t yet figured out that a Brook Lopez high screen is an automatic basket
No help, please.
Not sure why OG is in there with three fouls, 5 minutes left in the quarter and a 15 point lead
Towns is just ridiculous on offense! Top 3 offense here we come!
Defense looks better tonight but it could be the Bucks.
That Deuce pull-up jumper looked like 1982. So sweet.
The Bucks need to fire Doc Rivers right now.
Being able to score when Brunson is playing like shit is a welcome development
+1
Doc raises the question of whether a coach can lose a team he never had.
Towns really has ICBM range. It’s incredible. And effortless.
KAT’s offensive talent is sublime…
But raise you fucking arms! 😃
But raise you fucking arms! 😃
LOL
Baby Brunson is definitely a thing
Brunson isn’t scoring tonight but he’s playing way smarter.
The way Towns owns the top of the key feels pretty unusual to me. Never seen a guy who uses that area better.
That was a really enjoyable half.
If the Cavs go 82-0 we can brag about how we almost had them
Brunson isn’t scoring tonight but he’s playing way smarter.
doesn’t seem to be forcing things as much tonight…
Brunson can shoot like shit if he’s gonna pass like this.
The Cavs are destroying the Warriors
Fantastic half by KAT, Josh played well, the Bucks are a two players team with a bad coach.
Halftime in Cleveland: Cavs 83 Warriors 42. Not a typo.
pretty awesome that Matt Violinist had that surname.
If the Knicks can win when Brunson can’t hit the broad side of the barn it’s a very good thing.
Towns at the 5 is a beauty, defense be damned. He might be back to his >5 BPM days pre-Gobert.
This is kind of the opposite of the Atlanta game. Knicks are shooting 7-24 from deep and are winning by almost 20.
Matheson may be starting to get it.
Agreed with many, even if the shots aren’t falling JB has played better tonight, moving the ball and finding the open guys…
Did a double take when I saw the Cavs score
Do we really want Precious clogging the lane?
That was a really enjoyable half.
We were in need of that, after the horrendous last game.
In contrast to Julius and even to Brunson in some respect, KAT looks like he can and will do this anytime day or night. I hope I’m right.
Agreed with many, even if the shots aren’t falling JB has played better tonight, moving the ball and finding the open guys…
Absolutely. 7 assists in a half is excellent for him. The shots will fall eventually. It helps that the Bucks are pretty bad defensively.
3/5 GSW starters are scoreless at the half. wowsers
Damn…went to cook dinner and missed all the good shit
Let’s go Knicks! Just need to get the captain going 👍🏾 Bucks are fucked as long as Doc is there
That Brunson shot that went in will be the new 6 pt shot of the future, “from inside of your 3 pt line” 😀
Nice
I think Darvin ham is on the bench next to doc…he’s already contemplating what offense he is going to run when he takes over
Budenholzer has the Suns playing well and Atkinson has the Cavs playing great. Doc, well, forget about Doc. Coaching matters.
Why does it seem like Alan knows the stats better than that Knick Asst. Coach?
Also. I just don’t Fucking Get it. Up 15. Towns obviously limping, but Thibs: Nah.
Towns can have my knee
Towns can pass even better than we hoped
The delta between KAT’s agility on offense and his agility on defense is enormous
He is the kind of offensive talent people said Melo was (but he wasn’t)
Giannis came to play in the 2nd half. We can’t let them back into this.
Towns hurt?
No way we make it 10 games with both him and OG intact
he was shuffling.. so obviously it will go against us… oh wow
Team coaching matters taking a huge W this season, the Cavs get a competent coach and are suddenly unbeatable, the Bucks keep Doc and are a dumpster fire…
A dumb challenge at a stupid moment by Rivers? Nah…
ahh..yes…hopefully neptune stays in that other thread all night..
Yep… because the hive mind’s valuation of KAT is so spot on….
No way we make it 10 games with both him and OG intact
Do you ever smile? 😃
Team coaching matters taking a huge W this season, the Cavs get a competent coach and are suddenly unbeatable, the Bucks keep Doc and are a dumpster fire…
Cavs were a good regular season under Bickerstaff and now looking great this season. I still need to be fully convinced they are elite come playoff time.
Trivia…jokic…giannis…Anthony davis…embiid
Cavs 104 warriors 68 with 4 mins left in the 3rd! 😳
I love bridges!
Bridges is really automatic from the corner.
Maybe the Bucks just stink but this looks like much better team basketball
That was a really funny foul by OG
It’s incredible how different Bridges drills corner 3s compared to bricking above the break 3s.
25 assists so far…
With only 3 TOs!
You know the Bucks have fallen when I just said out loud in complete seriousness “it’s hard to know what to make of this against a team like Milwaukee”
Bridges makes some pretty nice passes.
Giannis plays bigger than anyone since Shaq
oh no
Jalen turning it up a notch with KAT on the bench.
Let’s go Jalen, finally heating up a bit.
Mikal’s shot still looks a little broken at times. From the corner maybe he’s more confident and it impacts the delivery a little.
Mikal’s shot still looks a little broken at times.
You mean when it doesn’t go in?
Mikal’s shot still looks a little broken at times.
Yeah, I don’t like that Markelle Fultz comes to mind ….
Yeah, my worry is that Brunson is a bit of an efficient Iverson who struggles without absolute ball domonance
ISM really working hard in this one
When was the last time Lillard hoisted 2 UFOs uncontested?
OG has to work on finishing at the rim. He so damn strong but he doesn’t finish well unless he dunks.
Knicks communication on defense along the perimeter has been excellent tonight.
An above the break 3 from Bridges!
Even Bridges was like “FINALLY” after that one went in. Hahaha.
If you could measure vibes, this Bucks teams would be an all-time rancid vibes team… even Giannis looks like he’s had enough and he’s typically a 100% effort type of guy.
We do look better though, it’s been fun.
OG has been the primary defender on Giannis and has done a great job. A guy like Giannis is going to get his, but OG has not allowed him to take over the game.
Doc is in a stupor…
What a pass from Towns
The Celtics 2008 title has done irreparable damage to multiple franchises at this point…
Our defense is awesome when the opponent doesn’t know that you can set a screen and get easy looks.
Yeah, was gonna say the same about OG. The shot hasn’t been there, but he’s played a solid game otherwise. 5 bounds, 4 assists, 3 steals, 2 blocks. 8 minutes left.
The Bucks are a joke right now. Fire Bud, trade Holiday, eventually hire Doc…. Are they still paying Bud? 😂
Milwaukee emptied the bench, time to do the same…
I knew KAT as a good passer but he’s even better then I expected.
We want Huk! We want Huk!
oh thats why the bucks are so bad… Nannis was playing (according to Clyde)
But seriously, how is a Giannis/Dame team this bad?
Yeah Cyber!
We want Huk! We want Huk! 😁
Yeah – the fact that he hasn’t emptied the bench is criminal
Is Sims the kind of guy who plays up or down to his competition. I’ve seen some fire in him every once in a while in a big game, but — right now — he should be clocking the Bucks second team hard, but he looks like he’s a duffer at the Y. I just don’t get it.
PS — Kolek knows how to inbound. Haha. And shoot the three.
huk for sims (clyde hasn’t brought out the matador d for him surprisingly)
Kolek-Deuce-Ryan-Dadiet-Sims
Let Dadiet cook.
Look at that bench groove!
While you suckers are watching the Knicks cruise, I’m watching the Celtics sweat.
OG was really excellent defensively today. Bridges was good too.
Matt Ryanovak
Hart had a really quiet good line: 11-9-7 in 5 FGs, 0 TOs.
Nice win! KAT was definitely a supermax player tonight!
Only caught garbage time, but holy shit the Bucks must suck. Turns out it was good to trade that Bucks pick because it’s gonna end up top-4 and not conveying.
Overall that was a fantastic offensive performance. That A/to you don’t see too often
It’s kinda ironic that Sims worked so hard on his shooting during the offseason but is totally paralyzed whenever he is open…
Doc is a dead man walking.
Hart was effective in this game I thought. Played well on the defensive end and took the offense that was available to him. Kolek looked pretty good in that non-garbage patch he played earlier in the game, made a couple of nice passes with good feel, had the lefty layup, swished a 3.
Big win Knicks back in 3rd seed.
Candidate for Best Post of the Game Thread, from Max:
‘Milwaukee emptied the bench, time to do the same…’
Detroit beat the Hawks and is actually eighth in the East at four and six. I’m kind of rooting for them to be decent.
Risacher 2-7 for 7 pts in 25 minutes, 0-3 from three.
Detroit beat the Hawks and is actually eighth in the East at four and six. I’m kind of rooting for them to be decent.
Maybe root for the Wiz instead since we could potentially get their pick.
Just met a dog on the third floor of my building named Kobe Knowledge. Remy’s cool. She’s young.
I just got whooped in nba2k by an 11 year old…
Maybe root for the Wiz instead since we could potentially get their pick.
That makes sense and I’ll root for that. But I went to graduate school in Michigan and mostly all their sports teams were long suffering, so I sympathize. .
But seriously, how is a Giannis/Dame team this bad?
I honestly think we could easily be this bad in a year’s time if we swapped Thibs for Rivers today. Ill-fitting rosters demand lots of work and our guy for all his faults puts it in. Doc just shows up.
Giannis doesn’t play defense like he used to was something I was thinking last night…
It’s not that he isn’t capable I suspect….
From Ian Begley (according to Twitter)
“Doc Rivers on NYK: “I know the Knicks coach and I know that he’s going to get it all together. I’m sure of that. Tom’s a phenomenal coach. And they made changes. They made changes to their core guys. And you don’t just…. chemistry is an amazing thing. They had it last year and they’ll get it back. You don’t just wake up and have it. It takes time. It will come for them, I guarantee it.”
188 replies on “2024-25 Game Thread: Knicks vs. Bucks – I Mean, Come On Now, This Has Gotta be a Win”
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Let’s Go Knicks!
Game threads are free zones for hot takes, so here’s mine:
the Bucks have the two best players in tonight’s game so… don’t panic! 😀
Well, Wally likes Towns. So there’s that…
Gooooo Knicks! 🏀🧡💙
Hmm… I think we definitely have the 2nd & 3rd best players, Max
I’m with Hubert there (big electronic hug…)
KAT!! Hands up!! Hands up!!
Easy loss here as Giannis gets to the rim uncontested 20 times and Lillard bombs 10 threes off simple screening actions that send Bridges sprawling.
To me we have the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th best, maybe even the 7th 🙂
But the hot take is a hot take because if you go with this year’s numbers Dame’s playing better than JB… 😉
The Bucks are paper thin after the big-2, with Lopez getting older and older Portis is their third best player.
Clyde and Breen are something all Americans can agree on. I’d like to think Robert Randolph is in that category but not sure….
Towns ability to shoot over people from three is quite beautiful
By the year 2050, will anyone still be taking 2-point shots?
I can’t decide if Doc Rivers is slowly morphing into a rhinoceros or a hippopotamus.
And the Knicks Kids Dancers might be better than most teams’ adult dance groups.
How the hell do you reverse that foul call?
Lopez fouled KAT like 3 times on that drive.
KAT is even better offensively than I thought and I already knew how good he was on offense.
Knovak-Anthony Towns
Mikal needs to get his act together.
If I had known KAT makes all his shots I would have been more excited.
Lane is nice and open so far tonight
I really love Breen laughing at Prince.
They will run out of defenders to throw at Giannis.
By the year 2050 there’s a new 4-point line that Steph would’ve liked existed when he played. 😀
Sims…resurrection
Won’t be able to tune in for a bit. Are we playing some actual defense here or are the Bucks just Doc Riversing this one away so far?
Sims!!!
So I guess putting a long defender on Brunson full court is the new normal.
Refs missed a 3 second violation that lasted 6 seconds.
It’s a heady mix.
I have not been watching the game but the boxscore indicates that Jericho Sims threw the ball into the basket once
Brunson is singlehandedly keeping the Bucks in the game.
Sims definitely not embarrassing himself so far tonight.
Brunson is just off and it’s getting in his head. He’ll come around eventually.
Maybe the foul shots will help Brunson unlock his shooting touch.
… he said in response to marechal (not).
That’s as nifty as I’ve seen Bridges look
Re: defense, it helps that the Bucks look to be one of the slowest teams in the league.
I don’t want to jinx nothing, but the bucks look more out of sorts than us…
I can’t wait to see jalen and mikal put it together in our backcourt…right now, not so great…
I can’t for the life of me understand why Doc played Lopez rather than Giannis on KAT.
Can someone tell the players to not bite the fake passes?
Three or four shots in a row there that barely made it to the rim.
Geez…this unit is not good…
WTF kind of shots were those taken in the final minute.
KAT the only Knicks who hit a three pointer in the 1st quarter…
Deuce went from world b free…to a poor man’s Emmanuel mudiay
The Cavs are mauling the Warriors…
Mikal dies on screen, Lopez rolls to basket, easy layup
KAT clowning people again.
Josh Hart doing the “Marcus Smart on Porzingis” thing there
Yeah…bridges better get better…I’m not seeing what i thought I wuz gonna see from that dude…
KAT is a fucking incredible offensive player… the rest of the team has got to step up to his level on that end.
Is Doc Rivers one of the five worst coaches in the League?
(My vote is “yes”)
Knicks defense has been pretty good so far tonight.
Brunson needs to get off the Podcast
Mikal needs to hit the weight room
Kolek looks like he is 12
Towns is basically unguardable. I think we should move him to shooting guard.
And yeah, the pace feels much more controlled than in Atlanta
The Bucks haven’t yet figured out that a Brook Lopez high screen is an automatic basket
Bridges looks like a marathoner out there.
League seems to have figured Brunson out. It’s a fine line between the 2nd best PG in the league and the 10th. With guys like Lillard and Morant getting back on form, he’s looking less and less like a tentpole every day.
Still think we should have sold high on him and kept on accumulating.
Kolek!
This dude is simply worth getting and then figuring the rest out
Kolek!!
The Knicks could get a lot for Brunson if they wanted. He’s 28 on a team friendly contract
I love Kolek
OG on defense is so much fun….
The 12yo is playing ok 😉
Best stretch of play for Kolek so far this year
Just to clarify, I didn’t say that about Brunson, it’s an Educate’s copy and paste mistake 😁
Steve Novak announces for the Bucks???
Me like Towns much.
KAT is already the best player on the Knicks.
Without Trent or Middleton, how can the Bucks win any games? They don’t have any shooting besides Dame!
Towns quarterback! 😀
Maybe our tentpole guy is Towns
Jolie doesn’t play like a 12 year old at least!!!
KAT putting on a show.
Brunson is really a usage/efficiency paradox right now
Spurts like this that we’ve seen so far this season is what keeps the high hopes alive.
Being able to score when Brunson is playing like shit is a welcome development
No help, please.
Not sure why OG is in there with three fouls, 5 minutes left in the quarter and a 15 point lead
Towns is just ridiculous on offense! Top 3 offense here we come!
Defense looks better tonight but it could be the Bucks.
That Deuce pull-up jumper looked like 1982. So sweet.
The Bucks need to fire Doc Rivers right now.
+1
Doc raises the question of whether a coach can lose a team he never had.
Towns really has ICBM range. It’s incredible. And effortless.
KAT’s offensive talent is sublime…
But raise you fucking arms! 😃
LOL
Baby Brunson is definitely a thing
Brunson isn’t scoring tonight but he’s playing way smarter.
The way Towns owns the top of the key feels pretty unusual to me. Never seen a guy who uses that area better.
That was a really enjoyable half.
If the Cavs go 82-0 we can brag about how we almost had them
doesn’t seem to be forcing things as much tonight…
Brunson can shoot like shit if he’s gonna pass like this.
The Cavs are destroying the Warriors
Fantastic half by KAT, Josh played well, the Bucks are a two players team with a bad coach.
Halftime in Cleveland: Cavs 83 Warriors 42. Not a typo.
pretty awesome that Matt Violinist had that surname.
If the Knicks can win when Brunson can’t hit the broad side of the barn it’s a very good thing.
Towns at the 5 is a beauty, defense be damned. He might be back to his >5 BPM days pre-Gobert.
This is kind of the opposite of the Atlanta game. Knicks are shooting 7-24 from deep and are winning by almost 20.
Matheson may be starting to get it.
Agreed with many, even if the shots aren’t falling JB has played better tonight, moving the ball and finding the open guys…
Did a double take when I saw the Cavs score
Do we really want Precious clogging the lane?
We were in need of that, after the horrendous last game.
In contrast to Julius and even to Brunson in some respect, KAT looks like he can and will do this anytime day or night. I hope I’m right.
Absolutely. 7 assists in a half is excellent for him. The shots will fall eventually. It helps that the Bucks are pretty bad defensively.
3/5 GSW starters are scoreless at the half. wowsers
Damn…went to cook dinner and missed all the good shit
Let’s go Knicks! Just need to get the captain going 👍🏾 Bucks are fucked as long as Doc is there
That Brunson shot that went in will be the new 6 pt shot of the future, “from inside of your 3 pt line” 😀
Nice
I think Darvin ham is on the bench next to doc…he’s already contemplating what offense he is going to run when he takes over
Budenholzer has the Suns playing well and Atkinson has the Cavs playing great. Doc, well, forget about Doc. Coaching matters.
Why does it seem like Alan knows the stats better than that Knick Asst. Coach?
Also. I just don’t Fucking Get it. Up 15. Towns obviously limping, but Thibs: Nah.
Towns can have my knee
Towns can pass even better than we hoped
The delta between KAT’s agility on offense and his agility on defense is enormous
He is the kind of offensive talent people said Melo was (but he wasn’t)
Giannis came to play in the 2nd half. We can’t let them back into this.
Towns hurt?
No way we make it 10 games with both him and OG intact
he was shuffling.. so obviously it will go against us… oh wow
Team coaching matters taking a huge W this season, the Cavs get a competent coach and are suddenly unbeatable, the Bucks keep Doc and are a dumpster fire…
A dumb challenge at a stupid moment by Rivers? Nah…
Yep… because the hive mind’s valuation of KAT is so spot on….
Do you ever smile? 😃
Cavs were a good regular season under Bickerstaff and now looking great this season. I still need to be fully convinced they are elite come playoff time.
Trivia…jokic…giannis…Anthony davis…embiid
Cavs 104 warriors 68 with 4 mins left in the 3rd! 😳
I love bridges!
Bridges is really automatic from the corner.
Maybe the Bucks just stink but this looks like much better team basketball
That was a really funny foul by OG
It’s incredible how different Bridges drills corner 3s compared to bricking above the break 3s.
25 assists so far…
With only 3 TOs!
You know the Bucks have fallen when I just said out loud in complete seriousness “it’s hard to know what to make of this against a team like Milwaukee”
Bridges makes some pretty nice passes.
Giannis plays bigger than anyone since Shaq
oh no
Jalen turning it up a notch with KAT on the bench.
Let’s go Jalen, finally heating up a bit.
Mikal’s shot still looks a little broken at times. From the corner maybe he’s more confident and it impacts the delivery a little.
You mean when it doesn’t go in?
Yeah, I don’t like that Markelle Fultz comes to mind ….
Yeah, my worry is that Brunson is a bit of an efficient Iverson who struggles without absolute ball domonance
ISM really working hard in this one
When was the last time Lillard hoisted 2 UFOs uncontested?
OG has to work on finishing at the rim. He so damn strong but he doesn’t finish well unless he dunks.
Knicks communication on defense along the perimeter has been excellent tonight.
An above the break 3 from Bridges!
Even Bridges was like “FINALLY” after that one went in. Hahaha.
If you could measure vibes, this Bucks teams would be an all-time rancid vibes team… even Giannis looks like he’s had enough and he’s typically a 100% effort type of guy.
We do look better though, it’s been fun.
OG has been the primary defender on Giannis and has done a great job. A guy like Giannis is going to get his, but OG has not allowed him to take over the game.
Doc is in a stupor…
What a pass from Towns
The Celtics 2008 title has done irreparable damage to multiple franchises at this point…
Our defense is awesome when the opponent doesn’t know that you can set a screen and get easy looks.
Yeah, was gonna say the same about OG. The shot hasn’t been there, but he’s played a solid game otherwise. 5 bounds, 4 assists, 3 steals, 2 blocks. 8 minutes left.
The Bucks are a joke right now. Fire Bud, trade Holiday, eventually hire Doc…. Are they still paying Bud? 😂
Milwaukee emptied the bench, time to do the same…
I knew KAT as a good passer but he’s even better then I expected.
We want Huk! We want Huk!
oh thats why the bucks are so bad… Nannis was playing (according to Clyde)
But seriously, how is a Giannis/Dame team this bad?
Yeah Cyber!
We want Huk! We want Huk! 😁
Yeah – the fact that he hasn’t emptied the bench is criminal
Is Sims the kind of guy who plays up or down to his competition. I’ve seen some fire in him every once in a while in a big game, but — right now — he should be clocking the Bucks second team hard, but he looks like he’s a duffer at the Y. I just don’t get it.
PS — Kolek knows how to inbound. Haha. And shoot the three.
huk for sims (clyde hasn’t brought out the matador d for him surprisingly)
Kolek-Deuce-Ryan-Dadiet-Sims
Let Dadiet cook.
Look at that bench groove!
While you suckers are watching the Knicks cruise, I’m watching the Celtics sweat.
OG was really excellent defensively today. Bridges was good too.
Matt Ryanovak
Hart had a really quiet good line: 11-9-7 in 5 FGs, 0 TOs.
Nice win! KAT was definitely a supermax player tonight!
Only caught garbage time, but holy shit the Bucks must suck. Turns out it was good to trade that Bucks pick because it’s gonna end up top-4 and not conveying.
Overall that was a fantastic offensive performance. That A/to you don’t see too often
It’s kinda ironic that Sims worked so hard on his shooting during the offseason but is totally paralyzed whenever he is open…
Doc is a dead man walking.
Hart was effective in this game I thought. Played well on the defensive end and took the offense that was available to him. Kolek looked pretty good in that non-garbage patch he played earlier in the game, made a couple of nice passes with good feel, had the lefty layup, swished a 3.
Big win Knicks back in 3rd seed.
Candidate for Best Post of the Game Thread, from Max:
‘Milwaukee emptied the bench, time to do the same…’
Detroit beat the Hawks and is actually eighth in the East at four and six. I’m kind of rooting for them to be decent.
Risacher 2-7 for 7 pts in 25 minutes, 0-3 from three.
Maybe root for the Wiz instead since we could potentially get their pick.
Just met a dog on the third floor of my building named Kobe Knowledge. Remy’s cool. She’s young.
I just got whooped in nba2k by an 11 year old…
That makes sense and I’ll root for that. But I went to graduate school in Michigan and mostly all their sports teams were long suffering, so I sympathize. .
I honestly think we could easily be this bad in a year’s time if we swapped Thibs for Rivers today. Ill-fitting rosters demand lots of work and our guy for all his faults puts it in. Doc just shows up.
Giannis doesn’t play defense like he used to was something I was thinking last night…
It’s not that he isn’t capable I suspect….
From Ian Begley (according to Twitter)
“Doc Rivers on NYK: “I know the Knicks coach and I know that he’s going to get it all together. I’m sure of that. Tom’s a phenomenal coach. And they made changes. They made changes to their core guys. And you don’t just…. chemistry is an amazing thing. They had it last year and they’ll get it back. You don’t just wake up and have it. It takes time. It will come for them, I guarantee it.”