The Knicks head to Detroit, and they shouldn’t need to feel like they need to prove anything, they just need to get the job done in Detroit. Win at least one, and they’re back in control of the series, winning two would be even nicer.
If they win tonight, they can pretty easily shut down any possible negative narrative about this series, so they should just do that.
Let’s go, Knicks!
15 more wins to go!
The Dylan tune is “Things Have Changed,” the Oscar-winning song from The Wonder Boys soundtrack.
314 replies on “Select 2025 Playoff Thread: Knicks @ Pistons, Game 3 – Only a Fool in Here Would Think he’s Got Anything to Prove”
Brunson is too smart, I’d bet on him trying to involve his teammates more, at least in the first half.
LET’S GO KNICKS!
This is a blowout loss coming:
-Zarba always fucks us
-Thibs has no answer for C on Hart and wing on KAT or we’d have seen it by now
-KAT every bit the playoff choker we thought Randle was
-We’re slow and small. We look old.
-We suck at guarding the 3 and their shooters are due for a big night at home
-Cade is the actual best player in the series
Pistons in 5 will shock everyone but Pags
You know what would be cool? One of those statement games where we blow the doors off someone like we’ve done a few times this year. Like Knicks by 33.
If we don’t start this game with fight…. We never will. LGK!
And then when you’re wrong, you’ll still keep coming back here and posting stupid shit like this, because what you do here isn’t actual basketball discussion. You do an obnoxious shtick. It’s the one trait that unifies all of the shittiest posters in KB history: doing a shtick instead of participating in discussion.
Even if you’re “right” this time, you’re still a troll and you will always suck.
Time to man up!
Let’s kick some ass!
Let’s go Knicks!!!!!!!!!
Already looking better!
The refs are already working hard, KAT mugged repeatedly with no whistle.
Well KAT seems to have taken various critiques to heart
Towns nice and chippy, love it.
Detroit complaining about screens is a joke
Gooooo Knicks! 🧡💙
Knicks defense locked in, great to see
Feed the KAT!!
Mr KAT is “engaged” this evening…
jalen went on a kobe strike and it’s working
Bridges crashing the defensive boards early on.
That’s the way to do it boys!
Let’s get physical too!
I like motivated Towns. He’s gonna own this city, Mo-Towns if you will
It made me laugh out loud so it literally was.
4 quarters of this KAT and we’ll win.
Move the players move the ball, fuck yes!
Sharing the ball. I like it.
I loved how they attacked Cade with that OG cut.
Also love KAT setting so many screens.
what are you doing with that double og
Why do we keep doubling off Hardaway?
Doubling Duren and Thompson leading to wide open 3s is so fucking stupid.
If that’s a flagrant I’m turning this game off…
Dumb foul JB, it’s gotta be a flagrant…
Jalen has become the Trae Young of Detroit
Put on man pants and shoot the 3 fts
What in god’s name was Brunson doing
Hardaway typically alternates between really sucky games and good games so this isn’t that surprising
Bullshit call….
Knicks dominating early on and 3 absolutely fucking stupid defensive possessions pisses it all away…
This is fucking ridiculous…
Brunson just put the Pistons back in the game with that foul…
The numbers on that ref don’t seem random after that flagrant
That’s not straight up Alan
That’s it!
Move the ball
Almost every Knicks fan watching KAT right now: “that’s what I’m talking about!”
Bob: “No, you should be in the post!!”
I’m glad we swapped out KAT’s shitty identical twin from Monday for the real guy
Great response by the Knicks.
Then the Knicks miss 2 wide ass open 3s in a row…
Matching their energy with good rotations by Thibs
Moving the ball and we’ll be fine
At least the offense is back
Why not put towns back in here?
The Schroeder and Hardaway show smh
Knicks losing this series because they’re get torched by veteran retreads is something.
Hands of stone anunoby
There you go
Edit: maybe? Not sure what foul call is coming
I’m loving the Knicks’ energy, but I’m also stunned by how well the Pistons took the punch, ya know?
Reed drank too much espresso!
KAT has Mitch’s back!
Let PJ Tucker pull a Rempe to end the quarter
100% sure Mitch would annihilate Paul Reed
I wonder how many times Miller can say “playoffs” or “playoffs basketball” in a single broadcast.
Don’t expect the Pistons to back down
It’s a 48′ battle
that is fucking crazy
That’s some bullshit
Holy crap, that ref really is on the take
Reed instigates, the one player without a T
BALL DON’T LIE!
So when you intervene to stop a fight it’s a technical?
Same. Pistons are good.
Nice first Q
3 more like this
Lol, well I feel a lot better after those last 5 seconds
Knicks dominated the boards in the 1st quarter.
Nice finish by Mitch and OG
Ugly call on the technical, rewarding the instigator is so bad.
We should try at all cost to avoid the game to morph into a free for all.
Playoff Mitch
Let’s keep playing this way and we’ll win.
Deuce mimicking iso-Brunson to perfection… except for the basket
Pass the ball, Deuce
Tonight I have no problem with Thibs playing all the starters 40+ minutes
They don’t realize Mitch is not KAT
Having depth looks cool. Someone tell Leon about it.
We’re going to win the challenge, right? Right?
Wrist, not hand
incredibly bad challenge
Good for Timmy Chalamet for showing up to this one
JBickerstaff with the good stuff!
Harris looked like he knew he fouled KAT, what an awful challenge by Detroit but great for us since now they’re out of challenges.
Curious if Pistons players will keep asking Bickerstaff to challenge, to pressure the refs. Because they can’t do it from now on.
These fucking Pistons 3s are ridiculous.
Cam Payne with the offensive spark!
No Payne No gain!
Bridges with two terrible mistakes… 🤦🏻♂️
Maaaan Bridges with Charles Smith vibes all over on that sequence
put jalen back in
feels like every time the ball starts rolling and bouncing around the court the pistons find a way to pick it up…
pistons came to play – again…
Both teams trying out for the Generals
Damn I don’t want Tobias Harris in foul trouble
Losing the non-Cade minutes to the Pistons scrubs is not a recipe for success
Knicks offense back to being awful in the 2nd quarter.
And there goes the lead, never to return
That sequence is not something I have ever seen in a playoff game
This is embarrassing.
Brunson broke his self imposed Kobe strike and it immediately paid off… for the Pistons
Dumb brunson… Dumb
Need to reset
Maybe something is up with the rims in Detroit
upsetting to get threed by timmay. hopefully not sustainable
Detroit 4 for 16 from 2pt range but 9 for 17 from 3pt.
Can we try putting a smaller defender on Hardaway to get him to stop shooting threes?
Timmy’s always been a streaky shooter, we know him well.
Some of KAT’s fouls are mind numbingly dumb
Detroit being carried by older players who have no future with them is super annoying.
So uh, Mikal Bridges gonna do anything?
“Beasley just pushes Bridges”.
No call.
We’re back!
That’s more like it
Chances are slim.
Knicks doing a good job keeping their poise so far.
Whiners
getting tired of reggie miller complaining about the knicks getting to the foul line…fuck reggie miller…
I thought that was Cheryl miller
He was clearly moving, if the refs are serious they’ll reverse the call
That was a horrible decision by Brunson but hopefully the challenge bails him out. Also Bridges has been great on the defensive end tonight.
This hips defense is the verticality of 2025
He turned into Brunson, gotta reverse it
We’re winning the challenge war – one really stupid, one smart
And Thompson bumps guys all over the court
Odd explanation for the overturn, but ok.
Would love if we continue to play like we won’t get any calls. Mostly not foul hunting tonight.
yep 2 stls and a block by mikal in first half = good needs to score more but like the 5 bounds
WTF OG, why such a stupid foul?
coach challenge delta is massive
Com on Og…
Bickerstaff is annoying
og is playing hard and has made some nice plays but holy shit has he had a spastic half
it’s ok og on fire being aggressive as he likes to say a lot
Great steal and fastbreak Mikal
Edit: and then a three!
Mikal heard you, Noble.
great way to end the half refreshing
Bridges with a “middle finger” steal and layup and a 3!
Being up 14 right now feels crazy but I’ll take it
I actually meant to write “chances are, slim.”
That was such an awesome end to the half. Fuck off, Detroit!
Our boys came to play great finish to the half
OG doing everything.
That’s a great half
great second quarter defense
Nice reaction and a hell of a run to close the half.
Not baaaaad honey bunny!
I’m sorry guys but Bridges has been great tonight.
mikal kat jb og hart in that order had a great first half
I’d it weren’t for hot games from ancient vets (Schroeder, Hardaway) we’d be crushing them. This is more like it.
Bridges shutting me up
Great way to end the half
Co-sign
3 stls 2 blocks mikal go go go
The good news is if we can get rid of those six KAT 3PAs and just turn them into offense-stopping post ups in the second half we might be able to turn this into a 2 pt win.
Now we need them to not relax, they have to keep the same intensity until the end.
thought we were clamoring for kat to take more 3s
hunter to browns carter to jints
And the Giants didn’t fuck it up!!
TNT guys all over the Pistons, no credit to the Knicks.
Guess I shouldn’t be surprised
Keep the STOCKS up! Great fight and mental focus on defense, and unselfishness on offense. Need to stay focused on Schroeder, hardaway and Beasley behind the line in the 2nd half
go g-men…nice to see an early defensive pick…
Giants manage not to f*ck up their first pick, and the Knicks end the half strong, with a healthy lead. I’m on a flight back to the U.K. from Washington and really need to go to sleep. So what do I wake up to… epic knicks collapse and the giants trading all their picks this year and next to take Sanders in the top ten, or an easy knicks win and giants keep their powder dry for tomorrow?
41 bench minutes for Detroit vs 24 for Knicks. Not trying to be minutes police here but in a game this intense it might behoove Thibs to make sure his guys aren’t exhausted by the end.
I hear you Hubert but our bench guys were atrocious in the first half
Only deuce was objectively bad. Shamet didn’t do much and Robinson and Cam gave good minutes
I forgot how horrible the Knicks start 2nd halves when they have a big lead at halftime…
Timmy open BAD
Emergency Time Out GOOD
Lazy start
jeanty to raidrs jk47
Josh Hart just farted his brain
Brunson is killing us right now.
Welp 4 minutes in, lead gone
Well not a great start to this quarter
Pretty good trade for the Browns.
Weird that Brunson & Hart are our worst players
and mikal travels
Did anyone see a travel there?
Wait too long to make adjustments and I. have no idea what the hell is going on at halftime.
I’d have put in Payne for Brunson
KAT’s patented Swan Lake move…
Great KAT spin!
KAT bringing it tonight – just about everyone except Brunson, really
KAT moved 50% faster on that move than I have ever seen him move before, possibly
8 minutes for Mitch is bullshit.
Josh with his typical yes/no game
Let’s be honest, Jalen Brunson is playing like shit.
Edit: now wait for him to score 45.
I thought the 3rd quarter of doom was a thing of the past, but I guess not.
Brunson is almost singlehandedly blowing this game for the Knicks.
Hoping Clutch Player of the Year shows up in the 4th quarter because he’s been garbage so far.
Have we been actively getting KAT switched onto Duren or did Detroit just abandon their plan? I keep seeing KAT blow by him but haven’t noticed how the matchup came about.
i like that mikal kat pnr
Great response, keep it up!
Knicks keep responding brilliantly.
I feel like we got lucky Towns didn’t pick up his 4th during those few minutes
Feed Mitch
Not Deuce’s finest game
@Hubert,
probably they changed assignment because Harris is (and was) in foul trouble.
Deuce getting his shot back would be good.
jalen needs to attack those mitch screens hard and use the roll as a real threat
Josh Hart Hustlebunny
Knicks defense has been awful this quarter.
Deuce McBride is not a PG.
DEUCE
Just turned it on, not sure how the Knicks scored 91 pts on this defense so far, it looks hard core
I hear some Deuce from the crowd.
He’s like our version of Darryl Johnston on the 90s Cowboys
Big shot by Deuce
It’s a little too much Mitch 1.0. You grew beyond that kind of block-hunting, bruh…
Josh at the buzzer for the double digit lead!
Let’s finish this
yes josh
10p up
Let’s not fuck up this one
Hart doing alot of Hart things in a good way.
Every starter playing great except Brunson, which actually bodes well for the 4th quarter. Big minutes coming up for Deuce and Payne.
Pistons played hard pressing D at the last mins of the 3rd
We seemed gassed
Thankfully the shots went in
Big shots from Deuce and Josh there in the last couple minutes
Now’s Beasley on KAT
Beasley is a dope celebrating down 8 and then 2 dumb fouls
Beasley is dunking and playing D, definitely the playoffs.
three fouls already
Mitch is killing the offense.
There’s that playoff midrange…
we found the antonym to stockton to malone and it’s og to mitch
Twin Towers lineup and Paul Reed gets an offensive board?
Get Mitch out of there.
Reed beating our twin towers?!wtf!
come on mitch wtf
Get Payne out of there.
Schroeder is on that list with Trae – just kind of want to punch him
Love to see Mitch do that
jalen back early is the right move here
Jalen gonna do his thing down the stretch, count on it
Brunson forget all the shit I said about you the first 3 quarters just take us home in the 4th and all is forgiven.
Mitch still got it.
Lol
We looked terrible without Jalen there. No idea what the offense was supposed to be doing.
This is a good time for Jalen to take over. He hasn’t been beaten up all game because he’s been letting the other guys carry the load. He’s played a good game overall.
Thibs was sleeping during the 3rd but now he’s making substitutions faster than the speed of light
According to Raven’s theory, we need some assists, stat
Bridges kinda doing what we traded for
Mikal really showing up tonight
I feel like I have waited all season for Bridges to hit that shot
Towns over Schroeder is hilarious
Hold tight gentlemen, here comes another wave…
Fucking Schroeder. He never misses
Schroeder hits every big shot so far
Paul Reed destroying us not on my bingo card
Got ourselves a Bridges Game
Knicks offense when they are trying to protect a lead is fucking atrocious.
Someone needs to teach OG to dive for the ball
He did when he turned down that contract from the Lakers
Not good for the faint of heart, we have game until the end.
The weak takes are so dumb and what is brunson doing
The playoffs are fun, am I right?
Reed killling Knicks
Insane the Dennis became Chris Paul for this series
Game over
Man I was worried that the clutch in layer of the year award would jinx Brunson and it seems to be the case.
Brunson pass the ball, feed KaT
Schröder is such an interesting case study. As a PG, his career is millimeters from that big contract. Guys miss shots when he passes to them that Nash would have gotten made. That’s life.
Man Jalen is good at that
This is a great way to lose a jump ball 😁
KAT with the Jack Sikma fadeaway!
Defense! Defense! Defense!
Iso battles started well
KAT-man-do!!
Wow KAT. Tough shot made easy
good flash by josh to draw duren off the double. kat has been huge.
Huge fucking shot by KAT.
Hot take: KAT can really score
Kat or Brunson should be taking every single shot the rest of the game.
KaT litter
We gotta keep KAT and figure out how to get the best out of him. Truly special on offense.
Fuck Duren is huge.
Cmon KAT
WOW!!!
The Clutch Player Of The Year is in the building!
Wow
hell yes jalen
Captain Clutch!
Phew!
Never ever ever doubt Jalen Brunson
Also KAT with a couple of huge plays on D.
That wide open 3 by Hardaway would have been talked about a lot tomorrow if it went in.
Another crappy game from Jalen… 26 points on 20 shots, 9 assists, 7 boards, 1 TO
Yeah maybe a little sumthin’.
Don’t we know we shouldn’t allow the ball to roll when they inbound?
Bickerstaff has an appropriate name, he’s been bitching for 48 minutes
bitcherstaff
Oy, Bridges wins the tip on a second effort and taps it right to Timmy who hits a 3. Damn.
Mitch was not dominant tonight. We need that.
Nothing easy. Feels like a poker hand where they turn four outs out of nowhere.
Credit to the Pistons. They compete.
Are we in Miami or Detroit?
Their fans suck
Definitely over and back
Dodged a bullet
Don’t foul !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did get away with that, phew
Knicks have to be the worst team in protecting a lead with under a minute left.
Jesus… 😰
I think Breen is right: that’s not over and back. Are they saying otherwise on TNT?
God Bickerstaff never stops
I mean WTF are we doing??
I mean, credit to them for not giving up, but this is brutal
KAT et al. deserve the bulk of the credit for showing the fuck up in a major way, but I’m also tipping my cap to Thibs tonight. Seems like he genuinely adjusted!
Hey, better to be lucky than good sometimes!
Glad we won
Eat shit Pags
We deserve to lose this game.
buzzer cluster fuck… Pistons have a shot
Biological clock malfunction!
5:00 oclock here!!!
Did not know that about over and back and malfunction
This is a strange one
Brunson looking at Thibs for advice and coach just standing there with a blank face as if he’s not allowed to say anything.
The fuck is this shit?
JB seriously needs to stop missing those late game fts
I drank two beers to drown out this stupid draft, looked up to see this game wasn’t over(?!?)
this is crazy
They really do handle the end of games terribly. Like, hilariously so.
This is going to be the worst bad best of all time
Detroit isn’t going to shoot like this from three again in this series.
That’s some excellent work by the buzzer guy to get them a side out
Shit decision by Zarba
Giving a chance to Detroit out of nowhere
NBA needs to upgrade the refs
let’s play the last .5 tomorrow with the next round of the nfl draft
No such thing as a bad road playoff win
Celebrate boys, we deserved this one
And yeah, eat shit Pags
Brunson missed it on purpose.
The timekeeper blew the buzzer and they earn a chance to win?
This is fucking crazy…
And they threw the ball away! FUCK DETROIT!
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