Comments on: 2024-25 Game Thread: Knicks vs. Thunder: Payback Time

By: hubert

hubert — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 05:30:02 +0000

When people respond to 26 pt blowouts by unironically suggesting we were just 25 pts away from a respectable result, it’s pretty clear there’s a fundamental misunderstanding of 3 pt variance.

50% from three doesn’t always mean lucky. It can just as easily mean lots of missed rotations, poor POA defense, bad rim protection, and wide open looks.

And 16% from three tonight wasn’t bad luck. The Thunder fucked up our whole offensive game plan and we never made a positive adjustment to it.

By: geo

geo — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 05:08:57 +0000

hopefully we can catch the bucks still waking up on sunday…while they look to catch us in the standings…

wow, we play 4 games from sunday through friday…

that’s not good…what happened to the good knicks…

By: Raven is a Big Black Bird

Raven is a Big Black Bird — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 04:49:43 +0000

Rough, maybe you’re right, but as I said, if we had a ‘normal’ three-point shooting game we lose by one to what many are saying is the best team in the NBA shooting over 50% from three.

Why we can’t have normal things is a question I’m not able to answer…

By: d-mar

d-mar — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 04:36:12 +0000

Honestly, I’ve been watching NBA basketball for a lot of years, and I’ve never seen a player go from “Bridges shot is completely broken” to “Bridges never misses” to “Bridges shot is completely broken” in a span of 39 games

It’s mind boggling.

By: Rough

Rough — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 04:16:47 +0000

It’s more than just the shooting slump, unfortunately. It’s that we are so clearly not in the contenders league. The way we are now constructed, I am not even sure we are much better than last year.

By: Early Bird Writes

Early Bird Writes — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 04:07:36 +0000

We won’t always shoot 12% from 3 and they won’t always shoot 50%… I said for the 3rd time that week.

By: Rough

Rough — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 03:56:08 +0000

Unfortunately, all those years of tanking did not produce a superstar for us through the draft. KP came and went, RJ came and went, and this team had to be built through trades. The front office did a very good job overall. Afterall, it’s not their fault that their predecessors drafted Knox instead of SGA! Some of their signings were brilliant, such as Brunson and Hart, some others were bad, such as Kemba, Fournier, and Reddish. I am afraid that the Bridges move will go down as the worst by far. Bridges is a very good player, don’t get me wrong, but spending five (!!!) first rounders for a player like that was not only unprecedented, but it also totally tied our hands. It might have worked if everything else had been in place and that extraordinarily expensive signing was the last piece. One would then say damn the picks; we have a great team! But then I-Hart walked, everyone panicked, whatever capital had been left, along with Randle and DiVo, was spent on KAT, and we now have a very top-heavy team with about six good players and nothing more. This is a very bad situation to be in, and I am hoping for a miracle to remedy it.

Bottomline: the front office was building so well for four years, but they screwed everything up at the end! Maybe I am overreacting. I hope I will be proven wrong, and I won’t have to wait for another decade or two before I watch another NBA finals game at MSG.

By: d-mar

d-mar — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 03:47:48 +0000

Bridges scoring 0 points in 32 minutes is …extraordinary?

By: Raven is a Big Black Bird

Raven is a Big Black Bird — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 03:39:28 +0000

If they had shot 38% from three they would have lost by one point.

But they shot 12.9%.

By: Rough

Rough — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 03:37:35 +0000

Just got out of the opera, the heroine and hero tragically died sealed in a tomb. How did the game go?

Z-man, You should feel privileged to have watched Aida even if the Knicks had won by 50 tonight. There are things more important than basketball.