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29 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.
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