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So one of the issues that has plagued the site over the last few years has been the lack of free space. For the most part the drive has been 92-95% full. I actually was researching other hosting options to see if I could get more space for the same/similar price.

Just last week I got below 88% and this was after cleaning out as much junk as I possibly could. However once that happened, some backup tasks now had enough space to write large files, and they started filling up the drive with these large files, taking up all space and filling it up to 100%.

So I dug around and this morning I found 9G of log files, some from years ago. I had a hard time removing the files, but just destroyed the top folder. After rebooting, I now see 68% space used. I created an alert to let me know when the drive gets close to full, so I should be able to see when there is going to be a potential issue. It is possible that something else fills up the drive, but now that I have enough wiggle room, I should be able to sort them out quickly enough.

I’m thinking this discovery should make the site operate much more stable going forward. Fingers crossed & sorry for the headaches.

Also I didn’t watch game 1 (listened on the radio), but I went out with my friend to watch game 2. My friend pointed out that every time we go out to watch a Knicks game, they lose. I won’t be going out to watch game 3, so the Knicks should win handily. I’ll try to stay home for the rest of the series, so I fully expect them to win in 5.

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Thanks, Mike, for both fixing the site and for sacrificing nights out to help the greater Knick cause!

From Jared Dubin’s “Last Night In Basketball” newsletter”, in a section titled “Out Of Towns”:

You’ve surely already heard a bunch of the stats about Karl-Anthony Towns’ lack of involvement in the offense in the Knicks’ Game 2 loss to the Pistons. He had 0 points on 0-3 shooting after halftime. He didn’t attempt a shot in the fourth quarter. He had just 35 total touches for the game, his second-fewest in any game all season.

You’ve probably heard some of the stats about his lack of involvement in the first two games combined. He’s taken only 25 shots while Jalen Brunson has taken 54. Even Mikal Bridges has taken 27 shots and OG Anunoby has taken 28. Brunson has apparently only passed Towns the ball 12 times all series.

Some of this is a credit to the Pistons. They changed the matchups from the regular season, stashing Jalen Duren on Josh Hart and using Tobias Harris or another big wing to guard Towns more often than not. They’re switching the Brunson-Towns pick and roll and taking away the easy pass.

But the Knicks are also doing some of this to themselves. They’ve only even run 21 Brunson-Towns ball screens through two games. They’re at around 17 of them per 100 possessions. During the regular season, those numbers were at 14.4 per game and 27.5 per 100. That’s a dramatic decrease in volume.

Some of that is surely because the Knicks have played Towns and Mitchell Robinson together more often than usual. That duo played 9 minutes in Game 1 and 6 more in Game 2. Having Robinson out there means he’s the primary screener, which turns Towns into a floor-spacer and occasionally (too often) a bystander. They’ve also run a bunch of pick and rolls with Hart as the screener because having him away from the ball also cramps the spacing.

Brunson himself has been FAR too willing to indulge the Pistons in exactly what they want him to do. Isolate against one defender while the other four guys on the floor also train their eyes on him. He is playing much too slowly, from walking the ball up the floor to waiting for a screen to then pulling the ball out to go one-on-one. He needs to speed things way the hell up, and get both the ball and himself moving more often. Brunson taking 50-something shots in two games isn’t ideal, but it isn’t necessarily a problem in and of itself. The process through which it has happened, though, is a major problem, and one at least in part of his own (and the Knicks’ own) creation.

Some of this is also on Tom Thibodeau. Thibs has to refocus some of the offense on getting Towns the ball. You don’t acquire a guy like this to turn him into one of the Brunsonaires that watches Jalen play isolation ball all night. You acquire him to supercharge the offense and he can’t do that if he never has the ball or is not near the primary action.

And some of it is on Towns himself. We’ve seen him disappear from the offense in playoff games before. This isn’t new. He has to be more assertive. Set drag screens in transition. Get yourself in position for duck-ins. Go down to the post and demand the ball if you haven’t touched it in a few minutes. Crash the offensive glass. Do something other than turn into a bystander.

Brunson himself has been FAR too willing to indulge the Pistons in exactly what they want him to do.

I think the team as a whole has been guilty of this. The idea that KAT should go to the post every time Harris is on him is not one I agree with. If I told you, for example, that by putting Deuce McBride on Cade Cunningham, Cade would stop doing what makes him special and post up Deuce every time down the court, wouldn’t you be thrilled with that outcome?

Thanks Mike! 🙂

And if we win game 3 you have to take down the site for each game even if it’s just for a few minutes, because game 1 -> site crash -> W, game 2 -> no crash -> L. 😉 😛

I listened to a bit of media last night and I still hear people perpetuating the idea that the Knicks have so much more talent than Detroit. This is largely being used as a stick to beat Thibs with. But I don’t think it holds up to scrutiny.

We have two of the three best players in the series, for sure. But beyond that…

OG vs Ausur Thompson is a lot closer than you think. Our guy can shoot but doesn’t rebound. Their guy rebounds but can’t shoot. Defensively they are both menaces. Shooting trumps rebounding so it’s an edge to OG but it’s not a huge one.

Jalen Duren matches up with Josh Hart, and that is at best a wash for us.

And here’s one that people are just being lazy about: Tobias Harris doesn’t suck, and is maybe more cromulent than Mikal Bridges.

In depth, Detroit’s advantage is huge:

Beasley > Deuce
Schroeder > Payne
Hardaway > Shamet

I’d take peak Mitch over Stew and Reed but right now that’s about equal.

There’s really no huge talent gap here. Our biggest advantage is two aces (Brunson & Towns) vs 1 (Cade). And one of those aces was taken out in game 2. It’s incumbent on the trio of Brunson, Thibs, and KAT to make sure we are playing both aces. Because when we just play one, there is no talent gap.

Speaking of which, the site could use a refresh maybe even a name change since blogging is barely even a thing anymore (might as well call it KnickerMySpacer.net). Any budding designers out there who would want to work pro bono for Mike?

Speaking of which, the site could use a refresh maybe even a name change

As Saxon Ratliff would say:

What? What? No!

I think the team as a whole has been guilty of this. The idea that KAT should go to the post every time Harris is on him is not one I agree with.

How about trying it a couple of times and see if is more effective for the offense on the whole than KAT shooting the ball 3 times in the last 24 minutes and Brunson pounding it into the floor relentlessly? Try throwing it into the post and see if your most skilled offensive player can A) score with high efficiency vs a guy he has 5 inches an 30 pounds on, B) force Detroit to double team him and allow KAT to throw the ball out and attack the defense in scramble mode, enhancing ball movement, or C) force Detroit the defend him with Duren, which gets Duren out of ‘free safety’ mode when he doesn’t have to respect Hart?

Speaking of which, the site could use a refresh maybe even a name change

I’m not averse to changes, but i have to say i like the blog/website this way. It’s simple and focused on what matters – the comments.

Fred Katz wrote about the Knicks, the piece is titled “Knicks must stop trending away from Karl-Anthony Towns”.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6300629/2025/04/23/knicks-karl-anthony-towns-touches/

Lots of interesting things, one quick bit:

If Thibodeau were to replace Hart with Miles “Deuce” McBride, even if the adjustment were just making McBride-for-Hart the first substitution of the game, the choice to guard Towns with a wing wouldn’t be as intuitive. As constituted, it works because the Pistons can put their center on Hart or backup center Mitchell Robinson, who has played next to Towns during this series. Neither will hurt Detroit from deep. But place a center on McBride, Brunson, Bridges or Anunoby and prepare for open 3s aplenty.

The starters minus Hart, plus McBride barely played this season, only 160 possessions according to Cleaning the Glass, but annihilated opponents when they did, besting them by 43.7 points per 100 possessions. It was the top lineup in the NBA among the many units that played as many possessions as they did.

Also from Katz’s piece:

The end of any close Knicks game is a declaration that this team is Brunson’s. He is the Knicks’ crunch-time engine. When games are within five points with five-or-less minutes to go, his usage is three times Towns’. In Game 2, Brunson took it to the extreme, and not just late.

The ball went into and mostly stayed in his hands. He ran 17 isolations against the Pistons, which would have tied his regular-season high, per Second Spectrum.

All the while, Towns remained a nonparticipant.

Julius shooting is his first two playoff games in Minnesota away from the Thibs show

Game 1- 6-11

Game 2- 9-17

i guess one good thing is that we have not heard any rumblings from kat re his lack of participation then again maybe it is not a good thing at all if he is totally ok with it eithr

The starters minus Hart, plus McBride barely played this season, only 160 possessions according to Cleaning the Glass, but annihilated opponents when they did, besting them by 43.7 points per 100 possessions. It was the top lineup in the NBA among the many units that played as many possessions as they did.

That’s basically what I posted yesterday. Deuce has had a highly positive impact. I love Hart, but he’s not in his proper role.

Well I’m sure we’ll make lots of adjustments and change things up for game 3.

Wait, who’s our coach again?

Thibs plays Hart with the starters because he wants to be competitive in the rebounding battle, but he sacrifices spacing the floor.

Well I’m sure we’ll make lots of adjustments and change things up for game 3.

Wait, who’s our coach again?

This is the entire issue in a nutshell. It is clear, “Houston… we have a problem!” We shall see if the guy in charge is flexible enough to craft a solution (of which there may be multiple reasonable options). If not… Off with his head!

I was hesitant to call for it for a few reasons and hardly think it’ll be a panacea, but Katz’s article did bring me above 50/50 when it comes to putting Deuce (or Shamet, I might prefer him actually due to size) in the starting lineup for Hart.

I still think people are way too flippant and dismissive regarding Hart’s contributions. We struggle to put any serious pressure on the rim without him, and he gets plenty of rebounds that don’t fall into the “well someone was gonna get it” category. We need him.

But he can still get 25-30 minutes off the bench, preferably in lineups without Mitch, and right now it sure feels like the priority needs to be figuring out how to weaponize Brunson/KAT optimally. It’s hard to imagine the Pistons guarding Deuce or Shamet with a center, so it’s worth at least bringing one of them in for Hart early.

Julius shooting is his first two playoff games in Minnesota away from the Thibs show

Game 1- 6-11

Game 2- 9-17

I think these are good numbers. I didn’t see the first game but in the second one the defense was so intense the final score was 94 to 85. Randle scored 27 points on his 17 shots too. That’s almost a third of the Wolves’ points.

I think these are good numbers. I didn’t see the first game but in the second one the defense was so intense the final score was 94 to 85. Randle scored 27 points on his 17 shots too. That’s almost a third of the Wolves’ points.

Yeah, Randle is playing well. On pace for his best playoff series

I’d rather have mitch in the starting lineup over deuce…definitely agree though that josh should be coming off the bench…

Thibs is not taking Josh Hart out of the starting line-up.

We’ve had the exact same starting line-up the entire season. The time to tinker with that has long passed.

But what Thibs can do (and hopefully will) is play Hart less minutes.

In addition to all of the things we’ve discussed, I also think less minutes for Hart means you get the optimal version of Hart when he does play.

I’d rather him play less in the first half and 3rd quarter and then be able to go all out in the 4th down the stretch.

Mitch did play 20 minutes in game 2. You probably shouldn’t play him TOO many more minutes but you can probably safely up that to 25.

McBride/Cam should get more burn too. We need their shooting.

Wait, who’s our coach again?

Well, the coach said the problem was the refs, so it can’t be his fault.

The problem was clearly the officials and rebounding — not the offense that shot 42% from the field and 29% from 3, and had sub-20 assists for the game …our strong suit, or the undisciplined defense creating all the fouls. SMH.

We have no business winning any game, much less a playoff game where we shoot those %s and log 15 assists and only 9 stocks (including just 1 block) as a team. Frankly we were fortunate to not be blown out, because of the absolute horrific shooting from 3, by the Pistons best 3P shooters who were often wide open.

I really hope Fred Katz is not the only one that sees the problem that’s so obvious to everyone watching

Thank you Mike!

I don’t need a refresh, except on the back end if that helps reliability.

I love how this place makes me feel like it’s the Aughts again, the internet’s greatest era.

The Piston bench is quite a bit better than the Knicks’ even now; if they had Ivey and Stewart it wouldn’t even be close.

I’d rather have mitch in the starting lineup over deuce…definitely agree though that josh should be coming off the bench…

Agreed, Geo, but that’s why I want Deuce for Mikal. Let him start for appearance’s sake, but get the most minutes you can from

KAT
Mitch
OG
Deuce
Brunson

I think that’s our Death Lineup. But we’d hardly know, since they hardly play together. (This lineup with Mikal for Mitch has gaudy offensive numbers as well, as noted above, but this group would be better on D.)

How about trying it a couple of times and see if is more effective for the offense on the whole than KAT shooting the ball 3 times in the last 24 minutes

It’s pretty much all we’ve tried with him. 20 of his 25 shots (80%) are from 2. Bickerstaff couldn’t ask for more.

You don’t necessarily need to make drastic changes based on a single loss, and a lot of the problem was the FT discrepancy, but even a couple small changes would make a big difference. It’s all so frustrating.

The problem is they have basically been able to contain Brunson. 12 for 27 is not good enough to put any pressure on Detroit to do anything other than basic coverages on him.

The problem is they have basically been able to contain Brunson. 12 for 27 is not good enough to put any pressure on Detroit to do anything other than basic coverages on him.

Which is why it’s on Brunson/Thibs to get others involved, especially KAT, and especially early in the game. Get KAT, OG, Mikal, etc…involved and get them going early and then it becomes easier for Brunson to do his thing later in the game.

Sharing is caring and Brunson should be wracking up assists and hockey assists in the first half and then going for the jugular in the second half.

Yeah, Randle is playing well. On pace for his best playoff series

Facts. We needed to make the trade and we still won it bya huge margin. Can you picture having Simms play 36 minutes for first 60 games?

I listened to a bit of media last night and I still hear people perpetuating the idea that the Knicks have so much more talent than Detroit. This is largely being used as a stick to beat Thibs with. But I don’t think it holds up to scrutiny.

I think this is basically true. We have a talent advantage but it’s not as big as people say.

By actual EPM this past season:

KAT/Cade 3.4
Brunson 2.6
Ausur 2.4
OG 1.8
Beasley 1.6
Deuce/Payne 1.3
Bridges 1.1
Hart 0.7

We have a distinct advantage but none of this 5/6 crap.

If you go by expected, which is supposed to be more accurate, we have an overwhelming advantage but not 5/6 and this likely underrates the younger players because it includes past seasons, and may not update to their current talent fast enough:

Brunson 3.2
KAT 2.7
OG 2.5
Cade 2.4
Thompson 1.9
Harris/Deuce 1.1

Frankly we were fortunate to not be blown out, because of the absolute horrific shooting from 3, by the Pistons best 3P shooters who were often wide open.

Spot on. Role players shoot much better at home so you can book a buch of those tomorrow.

The teams feel pretty evenly matched to me. Whoever posted that number about the Pistons being a little better than us since Ivey broke his leg, I think that makes sense.

I kind of feel like we aren’t putting our best lineups out there too. Quite a common sentiment.

Facts. We needed to make the trade and we still won it bya huge margin. Can you picture having Simms play 36 minutes for first 60 games?

Possibly getting bounced in round 1 while Towns is a decoy doesn’t seem like a huge win to me.

Sims also seems more like a Thibs guy. Thibs most likely wishes Towns wasn’t traded here because he doesn’t know how to best use his talent and rim runners work better for him. The coaches refusal to play 5 out lineups with Towns defeats the purpose of trading for him.

You don’t necessarily need to make drastic changes based on a single loss, and a lot of the problem was the FT discrepancy, but even a couple small changes would make a big difference. It’s all so frustrating.

F/T discrepancy at some point was something like 20-4 or 24-4, I think. It was incredible. Only in the fourth quarter did the Knicks get calls. Also, we literally got destroyed on the boards and lost the possession battle. This is uncharacteristic of a Thibs team and unacceptable when it happens on your home floor. Thibs was correct on calling the team out on that.

This is not to wash the horrible offense. Too much iso-Brunson, not enough KAT, no movement, no spacing, and so on, all those are being discussed when it comes to offense. What is not discussed enough is that our defense was inconsistent. There were a lot of breakdowns and confusion, particularly at the point of attack, and the paint often had no protection. Nihil novi, unfortunately. Our defense looked much better anchored, tidy, and reliable when Mitch was on the floor (not necessarily with KAT). It is deceptive to think that defense was ok just because Detroit only scored 100 points. First, the pace was very slow, and second, the Pistons bricked plenty of open shots. It could have been much worse.

There’s plenty of changes to be made on both sides of the ball. Everyone take it easy! We have a twice NBA coach of the year on the helm and eight (!) assistant coaches, all professional basketball minds who examine the layers and layers of defense and offense, the Xs and Os, the gains and tradeoffs of any in-game or between-games adjustments. They see what we see and much-much more. Give them their own and we will judge at the end. If you think that you change the coach and suddenly KAT makes threes and layups pretty much unimpeded, scores 40 points each game, our defense gets all the rebounds and so on, independently of tradeoffs and how the opposing team counters, you may want to at least be modest and not aggressive in your posts.

I remember one of our local “pundits” calling out Rick Pitino following St. John’s loss last month for not being creative or something. That same Rick Pitino who, if I remember well, just two weeks later won the NCAA Coach of the Year award. 😂

@IanBegley:
Tom Thibodeau was asked a few questions about adjustment/scheme. After a question about defending Cade Cunningham, Thibodeau said: “I think when you look at it in totality, the game is 97-94 & Mikal has an open 3 with 11 seconds to go. And he shot it great, it just didn’t go in. It was a great play by Jalen to Mikal; Mikal did a great job moving without the ball. So if that shot goes in, we’re probably not talking about the other stuff. But that’s playoff basketball. And then, what do you learn from the game and how do you re-set and get ready for the next one? And I think all that stuff is important. Each game, take what happened in the previous game, study and get ready for the next one.”
https://x.com/IanBegley/status/1915086267286524009

This is the entire issue in a nutshell. It is clear, “Houston… we have a problem!” We shall see if the guy in charge is flexible enough to craft a solution (of which there may be multiple reasonable options). If not… Off with his head!

The most Thibsy outcome is that Thibs adjusts when we’re down 3-1 as he did by benching Elfrid Payton in the ATL series in 2021.

And the way this is going, we are gonna be down 3-1. If this is how we are gonna use KAT, we indisputably lost the trade. I’d rather have Randle and DDV over both KAT AND Bridges right now.

iHart/DDV/Randle >>>>>>> KAT/Bridges and that’s why last year’s team was our peak for this decade, as I’ve been saying.

Minny has been leagues better than us in 2025 as has half of the NBA. Without that sugar high playing horrible teams in 2024 before OKC figured out this one weird trick to completely neutralize our vaunted offense, we’d be under 45 wins.

Each game, take what happened in the previous game, study and get ready for the next one.”

This is an interesting quote coming from Thibs.

Mike maybe a managed solution can help with these headaches? Seems like AWS has something.

Yeah I looked at a few options. Although I went from getting everything on Amazon — to not purchased anything from Jeff Bezos in a few months. So I would need a company that doesn’t cozy up to Nazis.

Also when I do migrate I tend to lose things and make more headaches for myself. Last time I moved the ol’ blog I lost all the user accounts and a half dozen smaller things that I had running. So it’s not ideal to switch to anything if possible.

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So just for fun I closed my eyes and thought, based on many of the super-hot but not-inaccurate takes the last few days, what my idea would be for the right number of minutes per player, vs. what really happened last game. First row is me, second is Monday’s reality.

Hart 30 40
Jalen 36 43
Kat 35 33
Mikal 32 37
OG 40 42
Mitch 24 20
Deuce 22 13
Payne 15 4
Shamet 6 5

What is buried in there, of course, are the actual line-ups — twin towers, no Hart if Mitch is there, etc.

What I took from this is fairly obvious. Lean heavily on OG minutes to control Cade, play Jalen and KAT a lot (not a little, not too much) because they’re our best players, and be situational with everyone else but try some ‘new things’ in there.

But what Thibs can do (and hopefully will) is play Hart less minutes.

Here are the odds on HubieDuel:

– Thibs changes nothing, encourages better effort: -1000

– Thibs makes an adjustment, but it’s towards addressing the size and rebounding issue (i.e. more Mitch with Towns and Hart): -200

– Thibs plays Deuce more but Bridges, not Hart, sees his minutes reduced, maintaining Detroit’s tactical advantage: even

– Thibs digs his heels in, Towns gets even less touches: +150

– Thibs plays Hart less than 38 minutes to get 5 shooters on the floor: +10,000

12 for 27 is not good enough to put any pressure on Detroit to do anything other than basic coverages on him.

Gk, the real number is his TS%, which was .561 – good, not great. But better than the shot profile would suggest because of his ability to get to the line. If he started hitting his threes he’d be his usual self.

If I owned this steam I’d hire Nico Harrison for a summer consulting job with orders to fire Thibs and trade Towns and Brunson for players that play on both sides. Then I’d quickly head to the Philipines (without anyone knowing it) and spend the off season working on my pool game with Efren Reyes.

I’m just realizing what an idiot I am for not realizing Thibodeau blows a lot of smoke out of his ass.

I’m admittedly not a big X’s and O’s guy. I never found much value in me trying to out think professional coaches or being a capologist. I’m a fan and gambler. I focus on what other people may be misunderstanding about the game, a team or player value so I can find a value bet. But my cognitive bias on Thibs had to be pretty thick to not realize some of why he’s had success in past during regular seasons but less so in the playoffs, especially when a couple of people here made good points on the subject.

I still like this team a lot despite some of the issues on defense, on the bench, on the boards and even our uimaginative offense. I still think we are clearly better than the Pistons.

But I’m in some kind of very strange frame of mind for me. It almost feels like I’m rooting for the team I love to tank.

I think the probability that we make some significant changes in the off season is way higher if we lose this series than if we win it. And even if we win it, we are extremely unlikely to get past Boston the way we play now anyway.

Maybe we are better off losing?

I’m not going to root that way. I can’t. But I think it’s a legit question.

sports apathy, it’s what’s for breakfast, lunch, and dinner…

write it down a thousand times strat:

I will not let the new york knicks mess with my good vibes…

a slight variation to Donnie’s well founded: just don’t give a shit at all about that silly stuff principle…

Yeah I looked at a few options. Although I went from getting everything on Amazon — to not purchased anything from Jeff Bezos in a few months. So I would need a company that doesn’t cozy up to Nazis.

Definitely. I wish Bezos lost value as much as Musk got hit with Tesla’s brand.

Also when I do migrate I tend to lose things and make more headaches for myself.

It’s why I stay on AWS. I’m fed up them by now but the cost of moving to another cloud, mostly in dev time and bug fixes and new quirk-management would be insane.

JVG is the coach I wish Thibs was.

Miss ya, my fellow short, bald, mortician-looking, basketball loving guy.

Appreciate the JvG article. He obviously loves coaching, but I think being assistant is probably more comfortable, especially to an excellent coach like Lue. Plus he probably had kids and wanted to see them grow up, so staying off the sidelines made sense for a while.

amazing at how in just a couple of decades it’s possible to acquire global leading wealth…

tough to guess who’ll be on top in another twenty years or so…

pags, do you not dance at home, alone…

turns out the pooch is in to dancing…also, does some howling in the car if the tune suits her…

Nice article about JVG’s impact on the Clippers this season.

If we did fire Thibs, I would follow the Celtics’ model of bringing in someone young and fresh who the players know (maybe Johnny Davis?) to be head coach while paying JVG major money to be a world class assistant who can handle all the difficult shit that sinks most young head coaches

With the Braves looking pretty bad and how loaded the West is with all those teams having to face each other 13 times Mets have a great opportunity to finish as the 1st seed in the NL.

Clyde said 2 things during the game yesterday that tell all you need to know:
About the difference on FTs he said that Knicks weren’t aggressive enough.

And when knicks dribbling became annoying he talked about no movement and ball sticking.

Watching the other teams of the first round of the playoffs one can easily see the shifting from the 3 and D and the Big Stars era to 5athletic 2way players giving 100% for 48′
Even the Big Stars of the league need to Be part of that otherwise the beating is unavoidable.
The iso era seems old and a recipe for disaster.

Play D and move the fkn ball

I Love JB and consider him the Main reason for Knicks success but he has to move the fkn ball. He can’t Win by himself.

I Love JB and consider him the Main reason for Knicks success but he has to move the fkn ball. He can’t Win by himself.

The system is built by the coach. It’s become the main feature of the offense because of the coaches belief in how it works. This is why they need to move to a coach who actually runs an offense to utilize the players on the team in a proper way.

I support Thibs from the moment he came here and I’ve seen his Knicks teams play the way i like BUT… I’ve also seen them play Iso shit too much.
Especially during the Playoffs.
Sometimes it’s hidden under injuries, officiating and 3p% but other times is so obvious that hurts…

Tbh i wasn’t thrilled with the Towns,Bridges acquisitions as i preferred the previous Knicks version and wanted to run it back again but if you don’t try you’ll never know!
Now we almost know…

i thik we all would have preferred the previous knicks version but hartenstein left

Even wo Hartenstein. With a similar athletic big who can protect the paint and is smarter than Sims.
Towns in D is a BIG PROBLEM.

Ben Rice : Anthony Volpe, Jasson Dominguez :: Aaron Judge : Greg Bird, Gary Sanchez

I am mostly joking and am not out on Jasson and Volpe, but it’s funny that the most unheralded prospect of the bunch will probably turn out to be the best, again.

I still think Jasson will be the best of the trio but Rice’s bat so far has been a Godsend. Volpe’s lack of progression on offense has definitely been disappointing especially considering his bat is what made him a top prospect not his glove.

BREAKING NEWS

Jalen Brunson won NBA Clutch Player Of The Year.

Well deserved Captain!

Mazzula just had Pritchard, Hauser and Holiday on the floor at the same time.

It seems the problem with Thibs is that there is a certain way he likes to play and there are only slight variations on that way that he’s willing to try. It’s almost as if he doesn’t trust the players to learn and understand how to execute a more varied game plan.

I give him the benefit of the doubt of course that he himself understands a more varied set of concepts. Maybe he’s just not comfortable implementing them.

Thibs doesn’t ever seem to have experienced ex head coaches on his staff, unlike Lue or Kerr.

Isn’t Jonny Bryant under Atkinson now?

Maybe he’s learning some of that offensive creativity.

Top 5 MLB Teams in 2025

1. The NY Metropolitans
2. Who cares?
3. Fuck off.
4. Not the Mets
5. Did I mention to fuck off?

If I’m Leon I say to Thibs: you did amazing. You have a job on my staff. (Thibs is old btw. I believe the oldest or second oldest coach in the league). If you get another shot at an HC gig and want to take it go for it.

I have the impression that Thibs is scared of the TOs in the playoffs so he prefers more iso instead of more passes.
His knicks teams have played impressive Team Ball at times.
These Times tho ain’t during the Playoffs…

The need for game plan became more complex than let Derrick Rose/Jalen Brunson create and find the play and he’s not up to the task?

Watching these other series…it’s pretty much moot even if we advance…celts and cavs are in a different strata…

Cavs are good

But Miami finished the season 37-45 and no longer have playoff Jimmy

The Eastern conference as a whole is inferior to the West in terms of depth

The Pacers could present an interesting challenge in rd 2

The fact that we’re mostly healthy doesn’t give any excuse to Thibs.
He has his chance to make adjustments and turn things around.
Or fuck up and go home

Tatum and KP are hurt by the Magic
Three more Celtics and The Road to ECF is wide open for us!

Kerr tried to pull a Thibs and leave Butler in the game after that 3 story free fall.

So I would need a company that doesn’t cozy up to Nazis.

Good luck with that 🙂

This lineup is makeshift and can’t create a shot and Kuminga remains a DNP-CD in the series, hmmm

[edited to add: nm, he just got dusted off.]

Does anyone like Kuminga for us? I think there’s definitely a trade where we can get him, a pick, and one of Moody or Podziemski for Bridges. But when Kerr is out on a guy, I don’t really want to go in.

My take on Kuminga – he’s a very good athlete who doesn’t seem to be any good at basketball

Watching this Warrior team without Butler and the Heat – Butler has a case of MVP level impact on a team.

As Donnie Whomever The Knicks Are Playing In The Playoffs Fan, I like Kuminga a lot for you.

But as Donnie I Want My Cyber Friends To Be Happy, I’d say that I have watched a lot more Warriors games than Knick games over the last decade and have simply not understood what they saw in Kuminga. They were really grooming him, but now his job has been given to a real professional and he hasn’t played much during the Butler era, which is good for Warriors fans.

As for Bridges he would be an excellent fit on the Warriors. That’s the exact type of offense he needs to be in. Passing and constant movement.

Brian Anderson just called Jalen Green a “superstar”. I haven’t followed the league this year like I used to. But I feel that, if he’s right, the league is in a lot of trouble.

Brian Anderson just called Jalen Green a “superstar”. I haven’t followed the league this year like I used to. But I feel that, if he’s right, the league is in a lot of trouble.

He isn’t. He is having a good scoring game though.

Superstars are players like

Lebron
Luka
Curry
SGA
JOkic
Giannis
Tatum
Healthy Kawhi
Hell even Harden

The Rockets had to work pretty hard to win a game the Warriors basically conceded when Butler went out in the 1st quarter. Rocketblogger (née RocketmySpacer.net) should be in mortician-lookalike Pags mode tomorrow.

Warriors have home court, but if Jimmy is out they’re in obvious trouble

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