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61 replies on “Knicks Morning News (2025.03.14)”
Anyone remember Brook Lopez being on the Lakers for an entire season? I don’t.
I barely remember when his brother played for the “good” guys.
I actually recall when Brook, the all-time Nets leading scorer was traded to the Lakers for current Net DLo Russell and OAKOAK Timofy Mozgov.
ps Clarence- as a big Sterling K Brown fan, I enjoyed Paradise.
Yeah, we liked Paradise, too. GF liked it more than I did, but I liked it well enough.
Replayed the last three minutes of regulation and OT of Blazers game for her last night, as she hadn’t seen it and didn’t know the outcome. She actually called “three from Mikal” going into the last play. She’s getting good at this.
Still fuming over Thibs’ TO utilization in both regulation (shouldn’t have taken one) and overtime (should have taken one.)
OTOH, I thought the play call on the Mikal shot was excellent. Thibs anticipated that Chauncey would want Hart to take the last shot, and that the plan would be to put Clingan on Hart and let him receive the ball well away from the basket, forcing Hart to either dribble and pull up or pass to aa rushed shooter. However, by running Hart hard to the inbounds and putting Clingan in the action, Clingan ever so slightly overran the play, leaving no one to hedge the screen or crowd Mikal as he went around Hart and took the dribble hand-off. Mikal had a direct run to the 3pt line and Clingan was unable to recover to effectively contest the 3 (although he actually came close!) It was still a fantastic shot by Mikal, as he was falling left but adjusted the shot perfectly to keep it from missing left.
I think Paradise is dumb but mostly fun. The seventh episode was genuinely good, in a disaster movie kind of way. And then the finale really screwed the pooch.
Glad you wrote that about the last episode of Paradise, Alan. I found it pretty unsatisfying, but I wasn’t even sure why. Just empty calories.
You can’t tell a season-long murder mystery story and have that person be the killer, Doogie. It violates the whole point of a long-form whodunit if the audience has no chance of figuring out who the killer is before their identity is revealed.
I hate when there’s no Friday night Knicks.
The Robert Randolph song is streamable, Strat, if that’s your concern.
Is it a mood swing for Mikal? Did he get loud because he’s been so quiet and KAT is either unwell enough or not alpha enough to carry the team while Brunson goes into the hyperbolic time chamber? He certainly demanded better play of himself by speaking up.
Bunker broadcasts are all the rage for whatever reason. Watched the first episode while packing. Love a gratuitous shirtless scene up front. Wondered whether it was worth sticking around…Sounds like fun making dinner watching. Or doing laundry watching. Or doing my mobility routine watching.
Clinging had no business being on the court for that final play. He makes KAT look mobile. That was on Billups.
Clinging. LOL
I thought Dolan’s comment about the team essentially being complete and him not seeing any major change coming was interesting. He said Towns was the final piece.
I thought they were going to take a good look at the Mitch/Towns combo before deciding.
If that works well on both sides I can see the team as done with Josh Hart going to bench.
But if the offense suffers with Mitch at C due to lack of spacing as much or more than the defense improves, then we have an issue to think about.
It already looks like Towns at C with Brunson is a problem on defense. I still love Hart, but there are definitely some issues when the defense is sagging off him and he can’t make them pay.
I can still see a scenario where if Towns/Mitch is not working there’s a big trade.
We *already* have an issue to think about. There’s no way in hell that Mitch can be thought of as any kind of reliable long-term answer. I hate to say it, but we’ll have to consider ourselves very fortunate if he is still on the court in our last game of this season’s playoffs.
Doogie pulls a full-on Pags with an ironclad statement of doom!
Sorry Pags, we don’t need you anymore…
I wouldn’t really take anything Dolan says seriously. I don’t think he really runs the team at all and, in his mind, the team probably is “complete” but that doesn’t mean there couldn’t still be a move to be made this off season.
I thought that in this particular case I was only stating something that is fairly obvious to everyone (or at least to the vast majority of us). That’s not at all what Pags does.
I love Mitch and what he brings to the table…….but the man’s sustained availability is nothing on which we can realistically hang our team’s hopes.
I’ll get my Friday night fix from St. John’s. 🙂
I know he has a checkered past, but I have to root for Rick Pitino. Years ago I was at Saratoga racetrack with a professional gambler friend of mine. We went to Siro’s after the races. Rick Pitino was there. I’m not sure if he still is, but at the time Pitino was into racing. He owned a couple of very good horses. My friend went to school with him. He introduced me and my girlfriend. We all hung out for awhile and Pitino bought us drinks and was really nice to us.
I read it as Clingan in gkhenmans’s post, based on context. Doogie what do you make of this one?
Obviously he meant Donovan Clingan. The context easily tells that to anyone who knows anything at all about the game against Portland. I just thought that it was a particularly humorous typographical error.
Borgen is an excellent series, one of the top 10 for me. It’s Danish, so you’ll have to deal with subtitles.
Right but you’re the one who caught it. I didn’t.
But I do that for a living, and you don’t. I honestly don’t see how you could miss it, but if you are also being honest when you write that you didn’t see it, that’s the only thing on Earth that I could possibly think of as a reason. I’m sure that I wouldn’t be any good at whatever you do for a living, either.
I honestly didn’t see the typo, or slip of the tongue. Some people catch these details. Others miss them because focus and context comes first. Check the experiment I linked to above.
IDK, Strat, I always root for St John’s because they’re local, but the article in today’s NY Times about their billionaire “benefactor” Mike Repolo was kind of nauseating. The guy has bought St. Johns back to prominence by essentially paying players to transfer under the N.I.L. rules.
And he seems like kind of a dick, sorta like our beloved owner
Yeah, I easily saw the gorilla, and figured that they would ask about it at the end.
I figured you would. I didn’t on the first time.
I don’t mind him being out there, but he should be told to just stand near the three point line, and for the love of god, don’t chase anyone! The only way they could lose was for a Knick to hit a three, your center has got to make shooting a three as difficult as possible there, not chase Josh fucking Hart.
In that situation, I don’t have a good feel for how often teams “go for the win” by shooting a 3 (that was obviously the only plan that we had the other night with 3.4 seconds left) versus just trying for an easier shot to force an(other) overtime period and only passing it back outside for a 3 if nothing is there. Wonder if there are stats on that somewhere.
I didn’t read the Times article, but I know a lot about Mike Repole. He’s HUGE in horse racing and quite a public character. He has a bit of that love him or hate him persona. I think he generally means well, is a good family man and a good guy. I congratulate him on all his business and racing success, but when I listen to what he says I sometimes come away thinking he’s more evidence that the US must be the “land of opportunity” because apparently anyone can become a billionaire. 😉
I don’t make ironclad statements of doom. I project what is likely based on known facts. It’s a fact that Mitchell Robinson has played in 43 of our last 160 NBA contests. It’s also a fact that despite being a clear plus player on the court, he has never been able to sustain playing 30 minutes per game due to poor conditioning, which generally correlates with durability.
Mitch is basically the mirror image of KAT — he’s elite in some areas and terrible in others, only his excellence is on the defensive side of the ball. I do like what he brings to the table and feel he measurably improves our team.
But it’s laughable to look at his availability track record and conclude that predicting he’ll be hurt again before our season ends is just being a big negative Nancy. It’s clearly his most likely outcome.
With 3-9 seconds left in the game (https://harvardsportsanalysis.org/2017/01/analyzing-nba-team-shot-selection-when-trailing-by-2-points-with-time-expiring/):
Shoot% Win% Win% (on Make) Sample Size
3 Pointer Attempted 21.97% 18.94% 65.52% 132
2 Pointer Attempted 41.40% 21.87% 37.32% 343
Yeah, I know, it’s from 8 years ago. And this stuff can’t be made to line up in a more useful manner.
it would be interesting to know those percentages depending on who was trailing (home vs away team)…as conventional wisdom i believe says the road team will try to end it in regulation versus the home team is ok with going to OT and hence trying to tie it…not sure if that is really how coaches think though..
Hadn’t thought of that. It’s an interesting wrinkle/variable, to be sure.
Also highly relevant would be the likelihood of drawing a foul, which I assume is significantly higher on a 2PA.
Outside of that it seems like FG% on 2-pointers there is shockingly low relative to the 3FG%, especially considering the massively different payoff of winning the game vs. a coinflip to win in OT.
It’s especially surprising given that you’d expect defenses to try to take away the three above all in this scenario. Maybe it’s just really hard to do so — I guess that’s what Donovan Clingan was trying to do the other night, he just wasn’t ‘Clingan’ hard enough.
hopefully mitch and the team have gotten smarter in regards to his availability…
learning about statistics and probabilities has been both a boon and bane…
ignorance is a bit of bliss, and you don’t even need to be all that wise to enjoy the benefits…maybe one of humanities greatest traits is to fool ourselves in to believing and achieving almost anything…
mitch is worth a lot, besides for him being a good guy with family, friends and a bunch of pooches…perhaps the folks who can impact the situation have learned “lessons”…
here’s to hoping mitch plays out this season and is ready to go for the next…
we need him, a lot…I hope he gets put in to the starting lineup soon…
Desmond Bane has nothing at all to do with any of this.
Here’s some more about Repole and Pitino from horse racing’s perspective.
https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/283146/repole-pitino-form-winning-team-at-st-johns?utm_source=BHTW&utm_medium=social
count me in for enjoying the heck out of Paradise (hulu)…
all the leads made it a pleasure to watch, especially this season’s villian…
I’m not a monster, i’m a mom, a wife, i bake cookies 😊
that had me rolling…
as doogie mentioned it’s great couples viewing, it has a little bit of everything…
I didn’t really get the nuke thing, some other stuff, still fun show…
Geo, perfectly crackling crunchy pig skin is humanity’s greatest trait. Everything else is posturing.
Nope. No pig allowed.
Yeah, I know.
You’re right. What do I know. For some odd reason I thought hubcaps were more precious than diamonds until I was almost 20.
At that age, hubcaps probably *were* more precious to you.
Can’t speak for anyone else.
ma likes those, her dad’s from louisiana…do you use hot sauce on them?
she used to buy a bunch of that and diet Pepsi cuz she knew i wouldn’t mess with that stuff…
favorite animal skin is turkey, browned buttered and crispy – dipped in gravel…
maybe i deserve those cholesterol meds, just for thr evil food thoughts I have…
time to put the controller down and go eat…
about level 70 in gta online, “public enemy”…running owned busines missions (bounty hunting, gun and drug running) and doing solo heists…mostly staying in solo lobbies, it’s hard to do business missions in public lobbies, especially sub level 100 or so…
recently bought the oppressor mk II, it’s this hoverbike thing with missiles…
the game has a serious “pay to win” slant, but trying to make a point of grinding this first toon out…
other than “having fun”, primary goal is to see how much money you can earn on an hourly basis…
biggest challenge right now is that it seems that the combat ai for the npcs scales up as you yourself level…sure feels that way at least 🙃
yes, in fact there is nothing better than some turkey skin with a little crushed rock on it…
The skin of a well made Peking Duck is delicious.
I smoke those chicken party wings(the real small ones)…then apply bbq sauce for the last 45 minutes or so until it almost caramelizes…the skin is like candy…
Damn, no friday night knicks on msg. I thought the warriors game was tonight
Lakers-Nuggets might be fun to watch, especially if Denver pastes them.
Knicks very similar to the Grizzlies who are getting beat down by the Cavs. Grizzlies currently second in the west, but very little chance they come of the West.
wow, this is something…i know bill is gonna love going back to college…
Autocorrect got me and I totally missed the gorilla and 3 passes!
So bizarre:
Just noticed that Klay shot 2-16 and Max Christie 1-13 in the Dallas loss. That’s… not so good.
Let’s all clap for KP?
Cam reddish sighting…
Behind every great fortune there is a crime”
Honoré de Balzac
You never deserve billions, no matter how hard you work or how crafty you are. This goes without saying for the notoriously corrupt horse racing business. There is a class war going on in this country. Wealth distribution is as bad as it has ever been in US history, and over 60% of American families can barely make ends meet. No, they are not lazy and they are not losers. Something is terribly wrong with the way things are going.
Nothing but disgust toward cleptocracy, the Dolans of the world, the Repoles of the world, and so on.
They say half the people do.
Spoken like a true socialist. 😉
I have no problem with someone making billions off brilliant ideas, hard work and/or brilliant capital allocation. People that are employed by their growing businesses benefit from it. People that buy shares in their companies benefit from it. Society benefits from it. I want them to keep coming up with good ideas, keep working hard and keep investing as much as they can.
There are many reasons we are in this predicament with wealth distribution.
Here are a few.
1. Both republicans and democrats fell for “free trade is mutually beneficial” lie that even Ross Perot warned would gut US workers when he ran for office.
Free trade benefitted US corporations that left the US for cheaper labor, lower taxes & less regulation, investors that owned shares in their companies and some workers whose jobs weren’t gutted that got cheaper goods. It destroyed much of the middle class and took away part of the tax base. Part of this is also outsourcing data processing and other similar high paying jobs.
2. Immigration of both high and low skilled workers increased the supply of labor which put downward pressure on wages in “some” industries. Why train and/or pay US workers what they are worth when we can bring workers here to work for less and make up some BS about not having enough workers to do those low skill or high skill jobs. Part of this is also outsourcing data processing and other similar high paying jobs.
3. The Wall St/banking/Federal Reserve system is essentially a giant financial rape and pillage machine. The Fed provides the fuel for speculation, Wall St provides the hype, bubbles form, Wall St gets rich, regular people get scammed and when it blows up the little guy goes bust and Wall St/Banks get both direct bailouts from the govt and help from the Fed in terms of negative real interest rates. Our monetary system is not just unsound, it’s immoral.
4. Rich people use government in corrupt ways and that includes the politicians getting rich while in office.
I’m sure there are others, but those the ones that I’ve seen repeatedly in my own life. I both agree and disagree with you.