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Knicks Morning News (2025.01.18)

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  • Poor-Shooting Knicks Lose in Emotional Return of Duo with Timberwolves – Athlon Sports
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  • Anthony Edwards, Timberwolves pummel struggling Knicks as woes deepen – New York Post
    01/18/2025 06:11:42
     
  • Knicks Notes: Three-point defense trending in wrong direction, Mitchell Robinson update – sny.tv
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  • NBA Insider reacts to Knicks’ losing at home to former teammate Julius Randle and the Timberwolves – sny.tv
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  • NBA Final Score January 2025: Minnesota Timberwolves, 116 Defeat New York Knicks, 99 – Canis Hoopus
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  • Edwards leads Timberwolves to a 116-99 victory over Knicks – News-Press Now
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  • Timberwolves thrash Knicks, with Anthony Edwards scoring 36 and Karl-Anthony Towns sitting out – Star Tribune
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  • Knicks? perimeter defense torched again in rough loss to Timberwolves – New York Post
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  • Julius Randle receives standing ovation, gets win against Knicks in return to Madison Square Garden – MSN
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  • Anthony Edwards with 36 Points vs. New York Knicks – NBA.Com
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  • Edwards has 36 points and 13 rebounds to lead the Timberwolves past the Knicks 116-99 – ABC News
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  • Anthony Edwards torches Knicks in 116-99 Timberwolves victory – New York Daily News
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  • Julius Randle receives ovation in Madison Square Garden return, reflects on Knicks tenure: ?I had a tremendous time? – New York Daily News
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  • Julius Randle on getting traded from Knicks: ‘It sucks, I guess we’ll never know what could’ve been’ – Hoops Hype
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  • Knicks Fall to Timberwolves, Anthony Edwards – Sports Illustrated
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  • Knicks’ offense struggles to keep pace in 116-99 loss to Timberwolves – sny.tv
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  • Anthony Edwards Wows NBA Fans as Wolves Beat Jalen Brunson, Knicks Amid KAT Injury – Bleacher Report
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  • 28 replies on “Knicks Morning News (2025.01.18)”

    Greetings from the 16U volleyball MLK Kickoff Challenge in beautiful York, PA.

    Great, have fun! And good luck to your kid! šŸ˜‰

    Not much to say about yesterday, they had some luck with some crazy shots, the refs were bad again, but we didn’t do as much as we should to try and win the game. We must look to ourselves, because right now there’s a lot to improve… but i’d start with defense, we must be better at defense, sometimes we look like a GLeague team defending the pros. And that’s unacceptable.

    David Lynch dying puts a real cap on a shitty 2025.

    Yeah, one of my favorite directors of all time. A great loss! šŸ˜¢

    How are you and the family holding on, Donnie?

    Greetings from the 16U volleyball MLK Kickoff Challenge in beautiful York, PA.

    If you like horses… and a lot of horses…. travel 20 miles down St Rd 194 towards Maryland to Hanover Shoe Farm, where they must have 1,500 horses on the property.

    I’m pretty much with Cyber, it was actually an entertaining game, and most of the Knicks played decently. Except for Payne who was unconscious. OG actually had a double-double, for those who think he’s a shitty rebounder (I’m in that camp, but there you go). A few questionable plays by Brunson late, but I don’t think they lost us the game.

    We just got ‘dunked on’ by three-pointers. Not smart enough to say for certain we’re doing something wrong, but there does seem to be a tendency for opponents to do well there on a basis too regular to suggest we can’t improve something. I’ll also point out that the Knicks shot 41% from three, so it’s not like the Wolves were doing something significant on D that we were not. Except they made even more threes than we did.

    I’m smiling at the ‘Mitch is our Lord and Savior’ position, but in fact there’s an iota of possible truth to that, as a real rim protector could provide the defensive spacing to allow folks to stay out on shooters rather than (over)helping and leaving someone open.

    I do think not having our 25-14 guy makes winning harder. So I feel this was more of a ‘can’t win all 82’ than a referendum on the season. I’m sure we’ll see posts to the contrary later today, however…

    The Knicks are 26th in the league in 3pt% allowed, so I donā€™t think ā€œthe opponent just hit some crazy shotsā€ is really operable. Sure, they DID hit some crazy shots. We are also a bottom 5 team in defending three pointers over a large and growing sample size, and thatā€™s factorial. We donā€™t defend that shot well, and it doesnā€™t appear that weā€™re going to be defending that shot well in the future either.

    I donā€™t want to be Debbie Downer here, but Iā€™m bearish about this teamā€™s prospects over the second half of the season. The schedule gets a lot tougher, our guys already seem to be fatigued at the end of games and have played massive minutes loads, and our injury luck is due to run out. Iā€™m not loving our chances to hang onto that #3 seed.

    ‘I donā€™t want to be Debbie Downer here’

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    Mostly kidding, JK. It’s a very reasonable take, although I’m less likely than you to project out to inevitable disaster.

    It’s so interesting and bizarre to have such a good team for once and to struggle to stay positive about any of it. Not sure if that’s just being a fan (Knicks have rarely been good during my tenure, certainly since I’ve been at this site, so I wouldn’t really know what it’s like to talk about a good team) or if there is a real quality to this team that is different than every other team out there.

    I mean sure, it’d be more fun to root for and chat about the current Thunder. But most other teams have glaring weaknesses of one sort or another, and I bet we’d be poking our fingers in the open wound…

    I also find it bizarre that JK knows something that the entire Knicks organization seems oblivious to. It’s not like we’re a team of Trae Youngs. There are good defenders out there. I’m sure it’s hard to institute new systems mid-romp, but holy good god damn, that’s what a coaching staff gets paid quite decent money to do.

    “Greetings from the 16U volleyball MLK Kickoff Challenge in beautiful York, PA.”

    ess-dog, that brings back memories of my daughter’s first travel tournament, which happened to be in York for her 15U team! Little did I know at that time that she would go on to play in college. Now that it’s all in the rear view mirror, I can’t tell you how much I miss it. Enjoy every minute!

    PS if you can get over to the tournament in Lancaster PA’s Spooky Nook facility, check it out. It’s the biggest indoor sports venue in the US, really cool to see. Maybe your kid will play there next year!

    Sorry Raven, I’m not Pags but it looks like we have different standard about “decent” games.

    Just for instance a 6-17 shooting night from our 3rd option, just when circumstances forced him to be the 2nd, is not what I qualify as “decent” šŸ˜‰

    I’m happy our next game is monday, I’m starting to feel detached from this team and a couple of days recovering the sleep I lost this week to watch them lose at home against the Pistons and Wolves should make miracles to my mood… šŸ™‚

    Our defensive scheme is tailored to be burned to ashes in NBA 2025, the sooner we’ll make peace with it the quicker we can try something different (do we think there’s a small chance Thibs has ever heard something about a thing called “zone”?).

    Anyway regular season doesn’t matter, if not for adding further evidence to the theory that Thibs destroys his regulars, so who cares?
    šŸ˜€

    I’ll be running errands shortly, so I’ll shut up soon. One last (ha) note. Macri just put out his newsletter, he goes through every single made three last night by the Wolves to see what happened. Here’s his summary (link below for those with access):

    So, what conclusions can we draw?
    1. For the most part, the defense was solid. I had seven of 22 makes that really bugged me, you may have closer to 10 or 12, but either way, weā€™ve seen far worse defense from New York this season.
    2. Of the seven plays that annoyed me, three had Brunson at fault, two had Hart and two had one of the centers (Precious on both, most likely). If Brunson isnā€™t going to be asked to switch for fear of overextension or fouling, he needs to be a bit more on point with this stuff. Hart giving shooters too much room has been a season-long trend.
    3. Should the Knicks help less, or trust that rotations will improve? I think a little bit of both is probably the right answer.
    4. I only counted one play where drop coverage over another coverage was to blame.
    5. Didnā€™t think the effort was an issue.

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    Were the 19th ranked defense and are dead last, 30th ranked, in strength of schedule. Our remaining schedule is very difficult. The math just doesnā€™t look good.

    Z-man, I figured youā€™d weigh in. Itā€™s no Knicks basketball, but these girls go hard. Unfortunately, our team has a shortage of big men (er, girls), but we make up for it with moxie and hustlebunnyocity.

    Would love to see some horses, BPL, but I have to stay focused.

    Charles Bassey had 12 and 9 (5-of-6 shooting) in 17 minutes off the bench for the Spurs last night.

    ess, at that time, my kid’s team was a scrub on second-level team from a pretty prominent club called Downstate. She was only on the team because two girls who thought they should have made the higher level team were cut. Because she was raw and undersized for her position (OH) (and a bit mouthy, go figure!) her coach played her sparingly. He was a nice enough guy, and would often talk about how his three daughters all played for the same SUNY school. Yet her anger at him for underestimating her was so great that she worked her ass off during the offseason (mainly via CrossFit) and advanced to the higher level team the next year. From that time forward, we spent our MLK tournaments in Lancaster.

    The point is, if the love of the sport and the competition is there, moxie and hustlebunnyocity can go a long way!

    what happened the first half of the season, is now in the past….

    we look very much like a .500 team right now…

    win a game, lose a game…seems very likely that we may stay at that point for the rest of the season…

    would be nice if we used the opportunity to work on our bench, try to build up a second unit…

    and a bit mouthy, go figure!

    ha, i got one of those myself…wouldn’t have it any other way…it’s a tough world out there, gotta stand up for yourself…

    right now daughter is going to school and doing after school teaching…educators rock!!!

    ess-dogsays:
    January 17, 2025 at 22:23
    This is no longer fun

    ess-dog nailed it at the end of the game thread. Not sure much more needs to be said. Past opponent 3p% isn’t supposed to be terribly predictive of future 3p%, so hopefully it gets better. Till then, we won’t be having much fun.

    I said it last night, the drop off from KAT being out is enormous. I’d rather have Brunson out than KAT because more minutes for Payne and Deuce is much more preferable to more minutes for Sims and Precious.

    2 seasons ago the Knicks defense was also 19th despite healthy seasons from both Mitch and iHart so rim protection wasn’t the problem. To me it’s definitely become a scheme issue for the most part especially because the 3pt rate throughout the NBA continues to climb.

    I agree that at least part of it is a scheme issue. Seems like we prioritize 2pt% prevention over 3pt% prevention, which is a bad idea.

    Also, all five of our starters are on pace for a career high in minutes played, with all of them on pace for around 3000 minutes. Weā€™ve squeezed a 51 win pace out of this against the weakest schedule in the NBA. This just all seems like itā€™s a house of cards.

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