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2024-25 Game Thread: Knicks @ Mavericks – Thanks for Brunson, Mavs!

As we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, let us all say our thanks to Mark Cuban for being such a complete moron that he strung Jalen Brunson along when the dude was begging to sign him long term for, like, $9 million a year or some shit. Cuban was, like, “Yeah, but if I sign him to that deal, I won’t be able to trade him this season. I could easily trade him next season, but I want to be able to trade him now for a ‘star.'”

You fucking moron, Cuban.

Thank you so much!

And I’d be very thankful if the Knicks could repeat Monday night’s beatdown.

Let’s go, Knicks! We give thanks to 58 wins in the bank…s!

132 replies on “2024-25 Game Thread: Knicks @ Mavericks – Thanks for Brunson, Mavs!”

Mentally steeling myself for Brunson going 1-21

I’m preparing for OG going 4 – 15 and spending Thanksgiving debating about whether he’s overpaid and we’d be better off with RJ and Quickley.

I’m so flattered! I feel like Joaquin Phoenix at the end of the first Joker movie.

You’re more like Joaquin Phoenix in the second Joker movie.

Because no one paid attention to it?

That layup attempt was Hart’s first of his two guaranteed brain farts.

On pace for a final score of 48-48!

Shit it’s the opposite of last game, only Bridges can make a shot

The NBA should just redefine traveling. Change it to something like 3 steps without a dribble since refs seldom call actual travels. Guys shuffle their feet then take a step wayyyyy too often in the nba

That layup attempt was Hart’s first of his two guaranteed brain farts.

And now the quota is filled…

Gummy offense. Don’t even know what that means, but it’s the term that comes to mind.

They better wake up asap, I have a family funeral to attend tomorrow, I’m not in the mood to lose sleep over this shit…

Repeat after me: “first quarter leads are meaningless, first quarter leads are meaningless…”

The ball literally rolls past three Knicks who have their backs turned.

The good news is- we have the type of offense where we can say shit like “we’re only down 13” this early in the game lol

I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that Knicks aren’t putting up 145 pts tonight.

Another game we’ve lost in the first 5 minutes. Looks like we can’t compete against any decent defense

Defense is putrid. Dallas doesn’t have enough weapons out there to score this easily

Towns now 1-5 on shots he normally makes like butter, and that’s not including the and-1 he blew.

Hart borrowing from the brain fart bank.

Have we completed a single comeback this season or such an allegedly good offensive team? How do we have so little resiliency?

Never mind. After this game we’ll probably be out of the top five in offensive rating

This is why a good team needs good defense. You lean on it when shots don’t fall. We started well defensively but keep getting worse as the game progresses. We shall see. Mavs D not just decent; it is very good.

Strat said

I’m preparing for OG going 4 – 15 and spending Thanksgiving debating about whether he’s overpaid and we’d be better off with RJ and Quickley.

There goes my Thanksgiving

I may go buy a ton of liquor rather than watch this.

And I may stay off the site tomorrow.

And I think OG has used up his dunks for the year.

This team gets completely dogwalked more than most “good” teams that I recall. Seems like we just get completely throttled in most of our losses.

One thing about elite defenses is that they tend to be more consistent than elite offenses. Even elite offenses suffer from variance.

One thing about elite defenses is that they tend to be more consistent than elite offenses. Even elite offenses suffer from variance.

Good shooting comes and goes. Good defense is effort and habit.

This has been slow torture but since this version of the Mavs sucks we can still probably win. Gonna need a few more of them made shots though.

I don’t think Sims is hopeless. Not destined to be a starter, but I think a value backup big is possible.

Pretty funny that Mikal’s the only guy who can hit the ocean from a boat.

Well at least that half-court heave won’t significantly impact Mikal’s three point average…

My wife actually watched a few minutes with me. Of course I told her the Knicks had a good offense and then this.

I blame myself. Way too much positivity since the last game. I left the doom to others.

I won’t be let the tram down like this again.

Turning this one off though, we don’t do comebacks. Hello purgatory my old friend…

The Knicks never adapted to the physicality and ball pressure of the opposing defense and never got into any rhythm. Defensively, they played well at the beginning and the end of the half. Once again, the opposing team drops 60 on us before the break. Not good. Not good.

This is not our night.

Ok, if Towns can start hitting from outside, maybe we get it to 10 by the 4th

It will come to down to playoff success, but I woulld take the odds on a new coach being here next season

I guess we’re not getting another 46 minute video tomorrow about how great OG Anunoby is.

Thibs just fucking sit Anunoby for a bit he’s fallen over like three times this quarter

Just play the kids for the fourth, see if they can get anything cooking. The starters are not salvaging this one

Yikes not even a fake comeback. Just a wite to wore blowout against a team missing a guy who would be the best player in the history of our franchise by far.

This team sucks.

We got our usual tariff of 120 points or more dropped on us. When our beautiful offense has it going, we can score more, win, and think we are a great team. No, we are not! Tonight we were exposed again. It’s not working folks! Our only hope is that that April is still far away. Urgency is building up. We need to make changes! We need stops! We need defense!

They’re very fortunate they beat the Nuggets and have a chance to finish the road trip with a winning record.

*Kyrie Irving is now 19-2 in his last 21 games against the Knicks

Knicks lost the 3 point line by 30 points

That’s how you can sum up wins and loses in Today’s NBA

Pacers within 1.5 games now. 5th seed, here we come. Next stop: play-in

They won’t be playing the Pels and Blazers every game

Pacers schedule from Dec 19 – 31 is brutal not worried at all

the bucks are looking much improved…

until our defense is better, it’s going to be this .500 ball with with bad losses mixed in with the regular losses…

Nets about to go 3-0 on the road vs. Kings, Warriors and a healthy Suns team

Maybe they’re the best team in NYC?

Nets about to go 3-0 on the road vs. Kings, Warriors and a healthy Suns team

Maybe they’re the best team in NYC?

We’ve guaranteed they will be for the entire 2030s so it’s so pretty shirty rhat they might already be.

A bunch of late 1st guarantees nothing. It’s a star league. Stars are usually found at the top of the draft

In b4 , but Giannis and Jokic

They won’t be playing the Pels and Blazers every game

Pacers schedule from Dec 19 – 31 is brutal not worried at all

You do realize we are 23rd in strength of schedule, right? We’ve been embarrassed in every game we’ve played against a top 10 defense.

Oh yeah I forgot, the Bucks are a lock to pass us now that they’re figuring it out. MIA is only one game back, Nets 2 games back…

Bottom half of the play-in is honestly not out if the question. CHI and DET are only a game back of the Nets

Per ESPN, Knicks were 19th in SOS before playing the over. 500 Mavs tonight

Pacers 26th

Heat 29th

A bunch of late 1st guarantees nothing. It’s a star league. Stars are usually found at the top of the draft

In b4 , but Giannis and Jokic

Weird how teams consisting of a bunch of average young athletic non-stars consistently blow us out, eh?

Per ESPN, , Knicks were 19th in SOS before playing the over. 500 Mavs tonight

Pacers 26th

Heat 29th

Bbref says 23rd. Regardless, we’ve shown that our offense doesn’t hold up against decent defenses and we’re susceptible to wire to wire blowouts against the worst teams in the league.

A contender this is not. The Bridges trade is unrecoverable, the guy just gets worse and worse.

Remaining 13 games this year:

Hornets twice, Pelicans twice, Raptors twice, Magic twice, Wolves twice, Wizards twice and Spurs

We really to need go 11-2 or at least 10-3 and get this ship back on course. No excuses.

I need to see the team with Precious and Mitch back. I think they both will help greatly with size and defense and allow Thibs to play more of his lineups. This current roster doesn’t mesh with the coach.

*Knickerblogger proves people still care about the Regular Season. James Harden needs more respect ..

This team is getting too frustrating for me. I can appreciate all the talent, but if you don’t defend, the game turns into a high variance 3 point shooting contest. You can beat or lose to anyone like that. The Mavs have a terrific team, but when Doncic is out, we are supposed to beat them. We scored 114 points and still got our asses kicked without Doncic in the lineup. That formula is not going to work. Either the defense has to step up soon or a significant change will have to be made. I have some ideas, but we know nothing is going to happen until they get a look at the team with Precious and Mitch. That can’t happened soon enough because I’m getting sick of these no D players other than OG.

I don’t think it was great defense in the first half that killed us. We missed a ton of shots, including layups, that we normally make.

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