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Knicks Morning News (2025.04.21)

  • Knicks vs. Pistons odds, prediction, line, time: 2025 NBA playoff picks, Game 2 best bets from proven model – CBS Sports
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  • Pistons vs. Knicks Game 2 Prediction, Odds & Expert Picks: NBA Playoffs, April 21 – Sportsbook Review
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  • Pistons vs. Knicks Best NBA Prop Bets for Game 2 (Predictions for Jalen Brunson, Cade Cunningham and OG Anunoby) – Sports Illustrated
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  • New York Knicks Rookie Emphasizes Jalen Brunson’s Impact – Sports Illustrated
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  • Knicks’ key to beating Pistons is stopping Cade Cunningham. Their answer? OG Anunoby – USA Today
    04/21/2025 10:08:43
     
  • Is Jaden Ivey playing in playoffs? Pistons guard’s injury status for Knicks series – Detroit Free Press
    04/21/2025 10:27:53
     
  • Detroit Pistons season hinges on the youngsters – few NBA teams survive an 0-2 hole. – Detroit Free Press
    04/21/2025 10:07:53
     
  • ‘He went and grabbed his cape’: Jalen Brunson sparks Knicks’ Game 1 rally vs. Pistons – USA Today
    04/21/2025 09:43:53
     
  • Pistons vs Knicks score prediction: X-factor, key questions for Game 2 – Detroit Free Press
    04/21/2025 10:07:53
     
  • Isaiah Stewart injury update: Status of Pistons top defender for Game 2 vs Knicks – Detroit Free Press
    04/21/2025 10:11:48
     
  • NBA Playoffs picks, odds for Monday: Knicks, Nuggets look for 2-0 series leads – The New York Times
    04/21/2025 09:00:26
     
  • What channel is Pistons vs Knicks on today? Game 2 playoff time, TV, streaming – Detroit Free Press
    04/21/2025 09:31:53
     
  • Game 1 Takeaways – Substack
    04/21/2025 09:01:46
     
  • Knicks? Jalen Brunson named finalist for Clutch Player of the Year – Posting and Toasting
    04/21/2025 08:37:31
     
  • How to Stream Detroit Pistons at New York Knicks: Live, TV Channel, April 21, 2025 – Fubo
    04/21/2025 07:35:43
     
  • No time for losers in Game 1 to sulk – Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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  • Knicks vs. Pistons Predictions, Best Bets and Odds: NBA Playoffs Game 2 ? Monday, April 21, 2025 – Bleacher Nation
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  • NBA playoffs Game 1 winners and losers: Lakers get wake-up call, Curry cooks Houston, Knicks go on awesome run – CBS Sports
    04/21/2025 05:12:02
     
  • Knicks? Jalen Brunson named finalist for NBA Clutch Player of the Year award – SNY
    04/21/2025 04:04:51
     
  • 2025 NBA playoff bracket: First-round matchups, schedule, game times as Warriors, Cavaliers take 1-0 leads – CBS Sports
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    • 16 replies on “Knicks Morning News (2025.04.21)”

    we’re not realistically worried about ivy coming back sometime during this series are we?

    @sny_knicks:
    “We’ve got to know, they’re a more dangerous team [in Game 2] than they were in Game 1”
    Josh Hart talks about the sense of urgency he expects to see from the Pistons in tonight’s Game 2

    I was worried that after game 1 we would think it’d be easy, but guess i don’t need to worry and they know the Pistons will try to improve and come at us even stronger.

    https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nba/pistons/2025/04/19/jaden-ivey-injury-update-pistons-playoffs-knicks/83162937007/

    The last Pistons update on Ivey came April 10, when they announced he had been cleared for basketball activity.

    “He will now enter the beginning phase of a re-conditioning progression along with a continued progression of court work,” the Pistons’ statement read.

    The Pistons said Ivey, who turned 23 in February, would be re-evaluated in two weeks, which would be this coming Thursday — the same day as Game 3.

    It seems unlikely Ivey would return for the first-round series, but theoretically, the longer the Pistons-Knicks series goes, the better chance he’d have to return. A potential Game 7 is May 3.

    One thing i read on Twitter/X that has got me thinking:
    “Do the Knicks need to better define Mikal Bridges’ role?”

    I haven’t looked at the numbers myself, but someone told me that Mikal’s numbers are much better when he shares the floor with Payne (or, I guess, the other PGs) than when he plays with Brunson. This whole thing continues to be strange to me. Remember last season when Mikal guested on Roommates and Hart jokingly called him “Squidward,” invoking the meme of Squidward sadly watching SpongeBob and Patrick having fun? Maybe he really is the Squidward here: the guy who resents the other Villanovans and can only enjoy himself when they’re not around?

    Obviously, some of this is also on Thibs. But it’s baffling that none of Jalen, Josh, or DDV (who was still here when the Mikal trade happened) seemed to realize that this could be a bad fit. Or maybe they knew and Leon didn’t ask/care?

    thanks for the update on dets other sg (ivey), alan seems that even if he somehow appears late series he wouldnt really be ramped up enough to take minutes from beasly at the bench spot guess i won’t worry about it.

    I think alot of the Bridges hate is way over the top. He averaged 17.6 ppg with a 58.5% TS% while being 3rd on the team in assists with almost 4 per game. He was an iron man as usual playing in all 82 games while leading the league in minutes. What else did you guys expect?

    To me one of the benefits of getting Bridges was when Brunson is out we’d still have someone like Bridges who can pickup the scoring which is exactly what he did. I understand the 1st rd picks will always be an issue for most but I thought for the most part he was as good as expected.

    The Pistons played much better after Ivey left the lineup — more for Beasley and Thompson to do — they were under .500 with him and almost .600 without him. Seems like a guy you should worry about not returning.

    definitely did not realize that but good point wonder how much of that improvment was because of ivey not being in there with his usg or if they just gelled better over the season unlikely we’ll have to find out though

    Mikal’s 3pt% was substantially below his career average, his 3PAr was way down, his free throw rate collapsed to nothing and shot chart changed drastically for the worse. In the age of dunks and threes, Mikal became a guy who mostly shot from 10-16 feet. He shot well from that distance, but if somebody described that player to me, I’d say “no thanks.” He was also not a difference maker on the defensive end.

    If he has some sort of personality quirk that makes him turn into a middling nonentity when he plays next to Jalen Brunson, then obviously he needs to go. A regular normal Mikal Bridges who averages more than one made FT per game and shoots .375 instead of .350 from 3pt would have been a useful player. The Mikal Bridges we actually got, not so much.

    Bridges was fine I guess if you ignore the cost, but he also wasn’t particularly good

    Bridges was 30% on 3s above the break – not great – and a mediocre defender, when what we needed was a premium defender. The cost factors into the disappointment, but those two issues were far more significant.

    Really, if he defended as well as he did when he came into the league, I’d have no complaints. But…he did not.

    mikal rookie year defense was not great but next three years all in phoenix were quite good almost elite started going downhill as soon as went to nets and has not fixed itself since

    In the age of dunks and threes, Mikal became a guy who mostly shot from 10-16 feet. He shot well from that distance, but if somebody described that player to me, I’d say “no thanks.”

    I think this is way too simplistic of an analysis.

    If you don’t like guys who shoot the majority of their shots from mid range, you would never like “Playoff Jimmy.” You mentioned he underperformed his 3 ball career shooting for this season by 1.7%, you didn”t mention he tinkered with his shot in the off season and shot 29.3% in december, and then shot above his career rate for the rest of the season.

    Bridges problem this year was on the defensive side of the ball as he didn’t get over a single screen the entire season. It was almost like he was playing a different system than Thibs wanted, and I wonder if that is the basis of their mini-schism.

    I find it hard to believe he cant play with Brunson and Hart since they managed to win big in college.

    Not sure why we’re assigning arbitrary endpoints to Mikal’s shooting. He went on a heater in December and that made his season line look a little better, but after that he regressed again. He shot .347 from 3pt over the last 50 games of the season, which includes that hot streak in December.

    a mediocre defender, when what we needed was a premium defender.

    Agree 100%. I wonder if his need to play in every game, and Thibs having him play more minutes than ever in his career, hurt his willingness to fight on D.

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