Comments on: 2024-25 Game Thread: Knicks @ Nuggets – An Early Statement Game?

By: Z-man

Z-man — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 15:15:04 +0000

Meanwhile the Celts are shooting 56% of their shots from 3. At that pace, they will blow away the D’Antoni Rockets record of 52%.

By: Z-man

Z-man — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 15:08:32 +0000

Another thing that worked in our favor vs. the Nuggets is that they are 29th in 3PAr at .358.

For reference, in 2012-23, the Knicks led the NBA in 3PAr at .354.

By: Z-man

Z-man — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 14:59:25 +0000

More generally, it seems like the NBA has evolved (imo devolved) into a league where games are largely decided by which team is hot or cold from 3. There just doesn’t seem to be a way to defend 4 or 5 good to excellent 3pt shooters on the floor so that one of them doesn’t end up with a good look. Against Utah, they were hot and we were cold and that was that. Against Denver, we went 19-36 and they went 11-33.

Obviously there’s a lot more to it than that, but because effectively defending the 3pt line is crazy hard to do every night, there are games that we are going to lose no matter what. It’s those games where shots are falling at similar rates that become critical to winning. That’s where things like rim protection, point of attack defense, rebounding, free throw differential, and turnover differential become critical. But it seems like the 3 is most often the deciding factor.

By: Z-man

Z-man — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 14:47:14 +0000

It’s a great road win! That said, Denver without Gordon is sort of tailor-made for us…a relatively slow-footed, unathletic, poor defensive team, no rim protection. KAT is not physically overwhelmed by Jokic and defends him reasonably well, and also keeps him occupied on the other end. Gordon is their only answer for OG, probably would have made a difference tonight. It’s crazy how different they look without guys like KCP and Bruce Brown. I doubt that they make much noise this year, they are gonna have a lot of nights like tonight where their offense can’t keep up when team go off on their shitty defense.

Speaking of overpaid, another guy in OG’s salary range is Michael Porter Jr.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 11:34:14 +0000

It was just the statement game I wanted!

By: Hubert

Hubert — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 10:08:44 +0000

God damn. That is the kind of stat line from OG that will cause me to reconsider my priors. Please keep it up.

By: Donnie Walsh

Donnie Walsh — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 06:27:13 +0000

Jordi Fernandez might be the first coach to be fired for being too good.

(I don’t remember whether the coach from Major League was fired… maybe he was the first).

By: Downtown Doogie Brown

Downtown Doogie Brown — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 05:07:38 +0000

“I’d like to see some blood work and urine tests from the Utah game. Someone may have slipped them a “game rape” drug.”

Hmmmmmmm……. Not well said.

By: The Great Clown Pagliacci

The Great Clown Pagliacci — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 04:44:07 +0000

Gotta admit Towns outplaying Jokic handily, in Denver, in the midst of Jokic putting up arguably the greatest individual season in NBA history is pretty fucking impressive, newborn or no newborn. I saw Towns miss his first 2-3 shots and then had to watch my kid. Did he hit his next 10 shots in a row?

I still don’t get how OG has been controversial here at all. Durability aside, even I can’t find anything to complain about. If Bridges was as good we’d have a 60+ win core.

By: tastycakes

tastycakes — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 04:42:43 +0000

Free Hukporti

seriously tho, that was as enjoyable as the jazz game was miserable

Shooting 60% tends to be a winning strategy