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2024-25 Game Thread: Knicks @ Jazz – Suck It, Ainge!

There’s no real animus between the Knicks and the Jazz, so I will settle for them beating Danny Ainge’s team. Now…will that just help Ainge tank? Yes, but…well…it still feels good to beat Danny Ainge!

So let’s go, Knicks! I am feeling great about 58!

119 replies on “2024-25 Game Thread: Knicks @ Jazz – Suck It, Ainge!”

Deuce still out and Jazz getting back Kessler and Clarkson for this game. Not expecting a blowout just win the game.

Oh good, was afraid after that last thread that I’d be in here all alone, talking to myself. Good to see y’all — and Go Knicks!

Oh good, we got Jamal again. My first time listening to him. After the accolades, I’m looking forward to it.

Tonight I had to choose between the Utah’s announcers and the italian ones and I went with the latter…

First comment was “if you play drop with KAT your defense suffer” and the second “only on the NBA Markannen can do that and not be whistled for traveling”….

No doubt they had a better start than the Knicks… 😀

Yeah as I feared Knicks have come out not giving a shit and Utah is playing their asses off.

Imagine how good our offense would be if we learn to hit bunnies and layups…

And they’re killing us under our glass…

They’re huge. Two seven footers and John Collins is like their small forward at 6’9″.

Clearly let OG shoot the threes today, not Mikal.

Kolek in super early.

6-0 edge in turnovers in that quarter. The Jazz turn the ball over a lot in general and we don’t, so let’s hope this continues.

I wonder if we could get 5 second round picks for Bridges now. 🤮

Role players will never be worth 5 first. Just got to hope he ups his play if they ever want to deal him for good value

I’m a fan of Bridges, but he’s a comedy of errors out there. It’s like he’s hung over.

Nobody is playing well today. We will probably get it together and win this game eventually but once again this does not look like a team that is well coached.

The word “bum” is starting to become a fair description for Mikal Bridges.

We’re taking a lot of threes and making barely any of them.
Then OG makes one. Way to screw up my point, OG.

What the hell Knicks?! I was expecting to be ahead by a healthy margin when I turned it on.

I’m convinced we can get 5 Knickerbloggers together and we’ll put up 120 pts on the Knicks.

Cam Payne won’t ever be my favorite player

Why do I feel like E will turn out to be 6’7 with a pure stroke

The ESPN Bet commercial was filmed at Devocion in Flatiron

OG looks good.

Mikal’s trifecta form is barely this side of “Abandon hope all ye who enter here” territory, if in fact it actually is.

I’m convinced we can get 5 Knickerbloggers together and we’ll put up 120 pts on the Knicks.

i just tripped over an eight year old

Worst loss of the season?

I love it when I check the score to find we’re down 6 and then find we’re down 12 buy the time i even get the game turned on

We should be able to clamp down and get some stops against this horrible Utah offense. Thibs is screwing the pooch this season, this team just can’t defend at all.

We should be able to clamp down and get some stops against this horrible Utah offense. Thibs is screwing the pooch this season, this team just can’t defend at all.

Thibs without rim protection has lost his defensive rep

Sometimes you can just tell a team showed up to the gym but didn’t come to play. Maybe they were overconfident. Hopefully Thibs will read them the riot act at halftime and they can get back into it, but this one may have already gotten away.

The Knicks best defensive wing duo might be Dadiet and OG. They need to play more minutes together

Remove OG from the equation, and the Knicks are shooting 15.7% from three. On 19 shots.

Ain’t gonna win an NBA game like that.

Fire the coach. You want to win anything with this roster, fire the coach. His defensive approach with this personnel sucks.

oh man, missed the start time, for some reason thought it was later today…

i see the score – so um, instead of “start from the beginning”, thinking i’ll be joining live…and hope for a better second half…

Remove OG from the equation, and the Knicks are shooting 15.7% from three. On 19 shots.

Ain’t gonna win an NBA game like that.

Doesn’t excuse the defense from a defensive coach

One if the worst half of the year so far,
the Jazz made an habit of starting like cannonballs and fade down the stretch but we’re playing like shit…

Also of note, I can’t survive a full season of Cam Payne, it’s factorial… ☠️

Problem is no coach is available and Thibs doesn’t have his full roster so the media will blast Rose for the move

Rose will eventually have to make a play on Thibs, but I don’t think it happens until the season ends. He put the roster together and if he thinks it’s under achieving he will have to make a move [ See Jets with Rodgers]

They showed a Ben Simmons missed uncontested layup from last night that was so bad that if I’d done that I’d just retire.

Yeah, Cyber, every time he shoots a three I think it’s a pass to the corner, but then the ball goes toward the basket. Gives me whiplash.

I have long been in the “Thibs agnostic” camp, didn’t really have a strong opinion about him one way or another. But he’s doing a poor job with this team. The measure of a coach should be whether or not he is getting a team to play up to its talent level and he’s not getting it done.

Thibs is a coach that gets the most out of teams nobody expects anything from like getting the Burks, Randle, Bullock team to the 4th seed that eventually got exposed due to lack of talent.

When he has talent, he usually comes up short in playing up to expectations

cam’s shot isn’t quite as fugly as it looks. he points his feet at an extreme 45 degree angle and brings the ball up on the opposite side of his body, but after all that the extension and release are pretty aligned and clean

In the NBA you can often make up deficits like this because of all of the three point shooting.

But not if you can never get a stop.

Jeez, I was about to give Mikal joke props for getting a rebound and then he throws it away…

Knicks should bring up Chuma Okeke from the G League team. I think Thibs would play him because he plays defense.

I think JK is right, Thibs is doing a poor job this season. Let’s hope he (and the team) gets it together.

Let’s hope you bring good luck. 😉

Guess not.

Does Mikal have a newborn this year, too? 😉

KAT stopped at the rim a few times, even with a head of steam. Don’t like to see that at all.

But I agree with Jamal. Chip away and let’s see.

Knicks should bring up Chuma Okeke from the G League team. I think Thibs would play him because he plays defense.

Probably better than having a cheerleader on the bench in Ryan.

Ok, like the Bulls, we have ’em right where we want ’em

Ha! But seriously, this game has the same vibe. Wouldn’t be surprised if they come storming back and it could go either way the final minutes.

This fire Thibs conversation is delusional. 🤪

There’s a 0% chance that makes any sense or that it will happen.

Leon will take a look at the team once Precious and Mitch are back and could make some kind of move, but the problem is not Thibs. They didn’t come to play with any sense of urgency, the 3s aren’t dropping, Utah came to play and their 3s are dropping. I’m not sure why it would happen in a place like Utah. It’s not like they were out partying last night. But this has little to do with Thibs. They didn’t come to play like this is a real game that matters. They just showed up at the arena and expected to win. They have to up the intensity.

Cam and Jericho (and Kolek and Dadiet) are playing with energy and desire, some of the starters not so much…

Lotta people in the threads hating on Payne. I don’t know the guy that well but every time I tune in, he’s performing well. The shot looks weird, but …

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