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New York Knicks Face Potential Playoff Gauntlet – Sports Illustrated
04/07/2025 11:00:00
Knicks Bulletin: ?It was good to have everyone out there again? – Posting and Toasting
04/07/2025 11:00:00
Delon Wright Ready For Different Role With Healthy New York Knicks – Sports Illustrated
04/07/2025 11:00:02
Knicks fans react to Devin Booker comments after his 40 point performance at Madison Square Garden, feel very optimistic – NBA Analysis Network
04/07/2025 11:00:00
OG Anunoby drops 32 points, Knicks’ fans credit Suni Lee – The Express Tribune
04/07/2025 09:00:00
Phoenix Suns vs. New York Knicks: live game updates, stats, play-by-play – Yahoo Sports
04/07/2025 08:48:00
The New Normal – Substack
04/07/2025 09:02:54
Pete Davidson and Elsie Hewitt Enjoy Courtside Date Night at Knicks Game – Us Weekly
04/07/2025 07:56:10
Celtics vs. Knicks Prediction: Expert Picks, Odds, Stats and Best Bets – Tuesday, April 8, 2025 – Bleacher Nation
04/07/2025 08:07:32
N.Y. Knicks 112, Phoenix 98 – Greenwich Time
04/07/2025 07:03:05
Pete Davidson & Girlfriend Elsie Hewitt Sit Courtside at New York Knicks Game After Scottish Vacation – Just Jared
04/07/2025 06:03:11
Knicks Notes: How Jalen Brunson fared in return from ankle injury – SNY
04/07/2025 05:13:43
Jalen Brunson returns as Knicks beat Suns – Newsday
04/07/2025 04:16:53
Knicks? OG Anunoby continues ?unbelievable? offensive tear to capture career-first mark – New York Post
04/07/2025 03:50:00
Pacers spoil Knicks plans to clinch East?s No. 3 seed on Sunday – New York Daily News
04/07/2025 03:25:12
Jalen Brunson back after sprained ankle a month ago as Knicks get healthy for season’s final week – Huron Daily Tribune
04/07/2025 03:08:02
Knicks? Jalen Brunson assesses return from ankle injury: ?Could be better, could be worse? – New York Daily News
04/07/2025 03:33:03
Fans React to Suni Lee?s Appearance at Knicks-Suns Game – Athlon Sports
04/07/2025 03:35:36
NBA postseason tracker: Four West teams tied for two playoff spots – ESPN
04/07/2025 03:31:00
Jalen Brunson back after sprained ankle a month ago as Knicks get healthy for season’s final week – Idaho State Journal
04/07/2025 03:00:57
24 replies on “Knicks Morning News (2025.04.07)”
Zzzz… Me the morning after recapping a Sunday night episode of TV without a screener is how it must feel for you lunatics who stay up to watch the West Coast games.
White Lotus Spoiler Alert
The Knicks need to win it all for Chelsea.
Hopefully the spell is cracked and I don’t have to look normal human beings(whom I generally like) in the face who are “singing” the opening song to that endeavor, thinking they are sharing a joy with me, but are sctually flicking a tiny painful pimple right on the inside of my nostril acquired during this horrible flu/norovirus/allergy season. I saw a meme comparing White Lotus to Ryan Murphy excepting it for people who can read, and while that may be, or not, The Normal Heartwas profoundly moving for me so I dunno.
OG Anunoby is a physically gifted man who might be figuring it out…
Still hard to believe it’s been so long since we had back-to-back 50 win seasons. Even though I remember the years in between Checketts and Leon painfully well.
I would really love it if he can do that against the Cavs and/or the Celtics. The increased variety and effectiveness in his game has been wonderful to behold, but it hasn’t been against the toughest of defenses.
He seemed pretty steady against the Cavs in that last outing. That eurostep around Allen was cute. The three ball was fluid.
Crazy part this is only the 15th time Knicks win 50 games out of 79 seasons. 10 of them have come since 1989 with the other 5 all belonging to Red Holzman although I was surprised that his final 50 win season came in 1981, didn’t realize he coached the Knicks into the 80s.
If OG can sustain this level of versatility and efficiency, even if it’s on slightly lower usage when Brunson is back to 100%, he’s underpaid. He’s playing at an all-NBA level.
It also opens the door to not worrying about keeping one of either Brunson or Towns on the court all the time. This OG can be a main option with the bench unit at times (as can the recent Mikal).
I still think a lot of what happens in the playoffs hinges on the defense (Towns and Brunson and what Mitch can add), but the offense should hum once we are at 100% as long as we are moving the ball.
Well we are finally approaching the “show me” time that most of us felt was necessary to truly judge this team and its full potential. Just about every important question leading in to the playoffs about the physical makeup of the team has been answered, and just about all of these answers have been positive. I suppose the biggest remaining question mark on the physical side is KAT’s health in relation to 100%. How much is his knee and assorted fingers/thumbs actually impacting his game? But Mitch is back and looking close to 100%, OG has fully recovered from that scary foot thing, Hart is looking pretty close to 100%, Brunson looks good, Deuce looks good….
In terms of quality of play, with the caveat that Brunson and Deuce need some reps to get right, OG and Mikal both look like their peak versions, would be hard to expect more…KAT has cooled off in the second half, but that could be injury-related, Shamet has picked it up, Payne had given you all that you could expect…Precious and Delon give us some situational depth…
Asssuming that nothing problematic happens in the next week, you really couldn’t ask for a better situation, both health and performance-wise, going into the playoffs. We won’t have to engage in what could have been conversations about “if only Randle was available and at 100%, etc. We won’t have to engage in conversations about whether we should purposely lose games 81 or 82 for the purposes of seeding. There’s really nothing left to wonder about!
There are a few games left and Thibs is the coach. 🙂
“…didn’t realize he coached the Knicks into the 80s.”
It wasn’t continuous…he tried to retire and Willis Reed was briefly the head coach in 1977-78. Then Willis was fired 14 games into the 1978-79 season and Red took over for a few more seasons.
Surprised the Hubie Brown teams with a healthy BK never won 50 games, they only won 44 and 47 games although they did win a playoff series each year.
There are very legitimate questions about whether this team was worth the asset expenditure, and I imagine much of the offseason will be spent litigating them, among other things (unless we win a championship in which case such talk is banned).
But I have to admit, for Knicks fans of my generation who rarely saw back-to-back 40 win seasons until recently, back-to-back 50 win seasons means something. YMMV.
OG post-Brunson injury watch:
16 games, 23.8 PTS, 5.3 TRB, 2.7 AST, 1.9 STL, 0.9 BLK, 49/42/87 shooting, .626 TS%, 109 personal DRTG.
We may have finally gotten revenge on Masai.
Yeah Z-man I should’ve remembered that, believe Knicks drafted Cartwright which lead to the 50 win season in 1981. I only remember Cartwright as a Bull but I know he was a 20ppg scorer early in his Knicks career.
So the non-Brunson stretch worked out exactly as I’d hoped, or nearly so, in that both Mikal and OG really spread their wings and flew.
What remains to be seen over these next few games is whether their wings stay spread as Brunson gets back into the flow. It’s a really different pace when Brunson slowly brings the ball up and dribbles in place while figuring out what to do, so it’ll be very interesting to see if that has a negative or no real impact on the flow of the team.
Also, they really need to utterly erase the ‘stupid stretch’ they showed early in the fourth last night when they took terrible shots and rushed things and basically played like shit and let the Suns back in. Didn’t matter in the end against the Suns, but even five minutes of that against a team like the Celts or Cavs could spell doom.
Having said all that, yes, 50 wins sure is nice…
I still think it’s a bit premature to pull the plug on this roster after only 1 season together.
Re: tomorrow night vs. Boston – part of me wants them to play their starters normal minutes and see how we measure up, and part of me is hoping the Celtics rest a few of their starters or have them play minimal minutes.
I don’t think I could stomach another Boston beatdown, so I guess I’m hoping for the latter
OG has been on a tear since returning from his injury:
TS% .609
eFG% .566
USG% 23.0
TOV% 7.4
BPM 3.4
If you look at his stat line for the season, it looks like a good OG Anunoby season, not a massive outlier or anything. So maybe this is a case of some positive regression to the mean.
Unless the playoffs are a full blown humiliation, I think this core has already earned the right to take another shot at it with some bench tweaks and the like. Even teams in the low 50s are pretty much always just a solid move or two away from being able to hang with anyone, even if they’ll never be the odds on favorite.
Some admitted cherry-picking that I think is bullish for the core:
-If you simply look at the 2024-2025 Knicks in non-Precious Achiuwa minutes, they already have what would be the 3rd best offense and 4th best net rating in the NBA
-With Mitchell Robinson on the floor, our defensive rating is 108.9 (would be 2nd in the NBA) and our offensive rating barely suffers at 118.6.
-Brunson, OG, and Deuce lineups have a 122.6 offensive rating (would be 1st) and 107.9 defensive rating (would be 2nd) in 369 minutes.
To be clear, these samples are all way too small to answer any serious questions, but I do think the numbers paint a generally accurate picture of a core that has the pieces to throw out excellent lineups on both ends. So if the playoffs don’t go well…I’d take a look at the coaching before the roster.
And in doing so, you’ve saved me from wasting 8 hours of my life, and so I thank you for your service. Now if only I could get back all those bad Knicks seasons…
Unless we somehow are able to flip KAT for Antetokounmpo we should keep the roster. All the main guys are in their prime between 27-29 years, we cannot expect much improvement, but we can expect them to keep this level for time to come. And we can always find that sideways move that takes us to the top. And that sideways movement might well be Mitch getting more playing time.
In 3-4 years time, then yes, we should worry about not doubling down on players that will be 33+, but now we have to keep them together for a few seasons.
Stared watching Kleo on Netflix, it’s pretty good. Killing Eve with a more coherent story so far.
Two things that annoy me this morning:
Reading this: “In the end, Guerrero accepted a deal for $265 million less than Soto.” I mean, what?
And that the Lakers have a non-zero chance at winning the chip.
I don’t think I’ve seen a player dislike being interviewed more than OG. Not a criticism, just an observation.
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