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2024-25 Game Thread – Knicks vs. Raptors: The Weather Outside is Frightful, but the Knicks are so Delightful

So let’s go, let’s go, let’s go!

Knicks, that is.

Hopefully they kick the Raptors’ ass as a nice warmup for the Spurs on Wednesday.

Let’s go, Knicks! Winning 58 will feel real great!

140 replies on “2024-25 Game Thread – Knicks vs. Raptors: The Weather Outside is Frightful, but the Knicks are so Delightful”

purty wonderful 🙂

hopefully RJ’s better enough not to get anyone on our team sick…other than that, hopefully we can run this team out of the gym, or at least win…

No fartin’ around tonight, just blowout this shitty team and get our bench savior Landry Shamet some PT

has anyone ever wore cowboy boots, and found them to be comfortable?

Do camperos count? Once upon a time I loved them 😉

I need to accept that every game the first few mins are going to frustrate and annoy the shit out of me.

Sorry EB, I have to call bullshit on your analysis. Minny won 56 games and went to the conference finals with KAT at the 4. He obviously improved the Wolves chances of winning in that role. I don’t see how that can be disputed.

You seem more concerned with improving KATs individual stats than improving our record.

Embiid had a tantrum after getting called for an offensive foul and got ejected, the coaches had to push him off the court

well those are pretty cool there max 🙂

maybe for like two hours, after that a twisted ankle and/or achy arch are following along pretty quickly…

okay, full disclosure, these days i rarely put on any kind of shoes, the sandal thing is working for me…

Every game against the Raptors is a rock fight for no apparent reason

Great defense that last posession I’ll take Scottie Barnes contested turn arounds all day

I fucking love Payne, such a fun player to watch even when he’s throwing up stupid 3pt attempts.

if we would have had OG instead of charles smith in that game under the hoop…we would have won it..

From now on I think I’ll just skip 1st quarters and start watching in the 2nd quarter, would make for a much less frustrating experience!

I’ve always tried to convince myself Smith was fouled but every time I unfortunately watch that sequence it looks clean to me.

Damn I’m going to miss Cam Payne when someone signs him to a three year deal with a team option

First time I have heard Jamal as an announcer. I’m enjoying it. That was a great story about the ref’s worst call.

No exaggeration, I don’t think I’ve seen a team that can pour it on this hard since the peak Warriors. Weak competition, but this offense is legit.

Now get into the top 10 on defense.

By the way, does anyone think Charlie Ward is the answer to the trivia question?

@knicks fan

I figured it had to be Ward, given the eponymous curse…

Twitter is really into Dick jokes also.

Cant watch the game but I am glad OG is percolating…

It really does feel like this team has a switch they turn on in some quarters where the intensity goes all the way up. They’ve been very good at just finding the hot hand whoever it is, and today it was Payne, he just changed the game.

OG doing all the small things on full display today too, just relentless.

Sorry EB, I have to call bullshit on your analysis. Minny won 56 games and went to the conference finals with KAT at the 4. He obviously improved the Wolves chances of winning in that role. I don’t see how that can be disputed.

You seem more concerned with improving KATs individual stats than improving our record.

They improved because of the 4x defensive player of the year they traded 4 picks and Walker Kessler for.

KAT moving to the PF position happened at the same time. He was less effective at the 4 as an individual and his impact on the offense was cut in half.

I fell asleep just before the game. I just woke up. It looks OG is out of his shooting slump. This Knicks team keeps showing that one of their key players can have a bad game but they have so much talent it doesn’t matter. Brunson without a field goal in the 1st half…..means little. hahahaha

I get it’s the Raps, but if Cam Payne is letting it fly like this then I don’t see what any team is doing to stop it.

This team has a ridiculous amount of talent in the starting lineup. If Boston is better than us, it’s not by a lot.

Towns going back to Precious like a QB trying to build his receivers confidence and Precious took an even worse shot lol

Raptors playing harder now down 30 than they were when the game was still somewhat close.

Embiid’s ejection worked well for the Sixers…

And hat tip to the feisty Magic who beat the Celtics for another surprising win…

Cheerleaders weren’t very good lipsyncing that Mariah Carey song but their cheorography was on point.

KAT is a lowkey genius. The only way he gets to sit out in a laugher is by fouling out.

🤣🤣🤣

All of this fouling is worst thing a team up by 19 points with around three minutes to go can do. Just sit them down, Thibs!

Knicks have played so pathetic this quarter I’d also force the starters to finish this game for how bad they’ve played past few mins.

The Knicks have a tendency to take their foot off the gas in these blowouts or their defensive rating would be a tad better. They only play defense for 3 quarters in blowouts.

Thibs ends up in a self-fulfilling prophecy. He doesn’t want to play his bench because he fears the Raptors are mounting a run, but they are making the run because the regular rotation is giving them points by playing lax due to fatigue. You see it in the lack of foot movement and handsy fouling on defense.

Raptors scored 43 in the fourth quarter, and you know it was because the team quasi-mutinied on Thibs by not giving a shit and/or being tired for most of that quarter. He really needs to stop playing them so much in Laughers; at least mix dudes like Shamet or Sims more.

Nice easy win with some fantastic basketball here and there, good job…

This team’s firepower is really impressing.

Someone named Trevelin Queen scored 17 for Orlando tonight against the Celtics

I remember digging his aunt from way back the 1970s, Dancing Queen. She was so young and sweet, only seventeen. She used to have the time of her life.

How the fuck Bulls get destroyed at home by the Bucks who were missing both Lillard and Giannis.

Jamahl Mosley better get some consideration as coach of the year, because the Magic are just routinely playing above their talent level and getting serious contributions from some of the most random role players.

Shitty part for Orlando is even after they get Banchero and Wagner back they’re still not getting out of the 1st rd.

Embiid cursed out that ref on purpose to get kicked out. He doesn’t want to play. Nobody’s acting this crazy on a charge in the 2nd qtr of a game after blatantly charging into their defender like he with Wembyama. He hit him with his elbow too.

Embiid doesn’t get that charged up to win important games. LOL

I always liked Queen, but he never really got a chance with his teams (until now hopefully). And now that he stuck it to Boston, even better.

I’m starting to think Embiid is having mental health issues. He’s obviously been struggling with physical problems for much of his career, but his behavior is getting progressively more erratic.

Maybe Embiid is melting down because he can’t do it anymore like he thinks he should be able to. My impression is he seems to lash out one way or another when he’s frustrated (like with twisting Robinson’s ankle)

If not Santi Aldama, how about Jake LaRavia? He’s a little undersized, but he’s tough, and he does a lot of different things. A burlier Josh Hart.

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