Comments on: 2024-25 Game Thread: Knicks vs. Hornets – Don’t Let These Hustlebunnies Hang Around

By: clydefraziersblazers

clydefraziersblazers — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 08:00:40 +0000

Postgame show talking about the starting five having more points than any other starting five.

Let’s ponder why that might be… could it be that nobody else but the starters actually play?

The highest 5 man minutes is of course the Knicks starring five. (As per NBA advanced stats)

By: Donnie Walsh

Donnie Walsh — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 05:53:57 +0000

Ewing might be the best Knick ever, but how many other teams would he be the best player ever on if he’d played for them instead of in New York? Maybe the Hawks?; maybe the Pacers?. I dunno, was Ewing better than Pau Gasol? (Is Gasol the best Grizzle ever?) Regardless, the answer is “not too many, if any.”

By: geo

geo — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 05:32:34 +0000

one thing I’ll say about the minutes (and I’m with you, it’s crazy) is that apparently the team is never practicing, according to James Edward III, so they are not accumulating minutes on off days. Basically they are getting a ton of rest between games.

James Edwards III did a pod with Macri and emphasized several times that one counterintuitive thin about Thibs is that he doesn’t have the team practice much between games. Seemed to be saying that Thibs believes that game play time is incrementally more valuable and so he just just goes with the numbers.

interesting info, reference rotations and minutes played…wow, that sounds hard on the other 8 or so guys on the roster…how do they get better?

i guess they’re just waiting for one of the top seven to eventually break down…

hey thibs – respect my authority – so sez the minutes police…

By: Wayloncash

Wayloncash — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 04:01:24 +0000

Ewing was absolutely great-no debate. But to me greatness is not just measured over time, but in the moment, like a photo. Cases in point. Willis, Clyde and B.

By: Z-man

Z-man — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 03:59:00 +0000

Ptrick Ewing is the most talented and individually accomplished Knick ever by a mile.

He is nowhere close to being the Greatest Knick Ever.

By: BigBlueAL

BigBlueAL — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 03:57:02 +0000

I understand the championships but objectively speaking just looking at the stats Ewing is the greatest Knick ever and it really shouldn’t even be a debate. We all know he never won a championship but his teams were pretty damn good too. Not to mention the heavy burden he had to carry considering he didn’t have any HOF teammates while the entire Knicks starting 5 from the championship years are in the HOF.

By: Wayloncash

Wayloncash — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 03:43:54 +0000

Clyde was an amazing player. I turned 68 today and I am so lucky to have watched him and the 1969-1973 Knicks play. Beautiful music. This team has a chance, but they need to turn up the bass. While they can still be really successful, it can’t be all offense. It needs to be a mix. As an aside, Pags, I am sorry your legal career was stressful and full of regrets. However, you should not lay that on youngsters that may be motivated to enter the profession. That is unfair to the youngins and myopic.

By: Z-man

Z-man — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 03:43:44 +0000

I could just see Thibs in place of Red back in the day: “Willis is a little nicked up…”

By: BrunsonPeroneusLongus

BrunsonPeroneusLongus — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 03:35:59 +0000

Imagine how many minutes Wilt would have played if Thibs coached him for a decade…

Thibs must have a shrine to Wilt’s minutes somewhere.

By: BrunsonPeroneusLongus

BrunsonPeroneusLongus — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 03:34:10 +0000

I think Tom Thibodeau has some sort of brain damage, like he sustained a massive head injury at some point in his life

This is the best explanation I’ve heard so far….. forceps delivery….