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  • Mikal Bridges? playoff defense lends physicality to Knicks – The Athletic – The New York Times
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  • Kylie Jenner Shows Knicks Love in Revealing Outfit – Athlon Sports
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  • NBA Analyst Calls Out Pistons Coach for ?Awful Decision? vs Knicks – Sports Illustrated
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  • Knicks can?t afford an inconsistent Karl-Anthony Towns against Celtics – New York Post
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  • Should the Boston Celtics be worried about the New York Knicks | Speak – FOX Sports
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  • A look into the Celtics upcoming playoff round against the New York Knicks – WHDH
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  • The Mikal Bridges idea that helped the Knicks turn around their third quarter woes – New York Post
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  • A homecoming and a reunion lead the storylines for this Knicks-Celtics showdown – New York Post
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  • There?s no better chance for Knicks to prove they truly belong than now – New York Post
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    • 62 replies on “Knicks Morning News (2025.05.03)”

    when okc went up 3-1 on the 73-9 warriors in his third season, steven adams had already won four playoff series. sunday he goes for #5. the knicks won one playoff series in 22 years before jalen. complete list of teams that won a series in all 3 jalen years: celtics. knicks. maybe the nuggets. ring the bells that still can ring. or in this case, probably can’t.

    So happy to not be stressing over a game 7 on a Saturday. I had predicted the Knicks in 6 but didn’t expect the games to all be nail-biters.

    Great tweet, Owen! And yet sort of unsurprising that JB carries almost the entire scoring load for the team in the clutch?
    …
    Saw today that LeBron has a team option and imagined (for fun) what our lineup would look like next year if 41 y/o LeBron took a team friendly deal with the Knicks.

    It’s not a good thing exactly, but Jalen is.

    Although that stat about him being the worst defender left in the playoffs was sobering

    You know LeBron has won pretty much every award imaginable but he has not won 6th man of the year. Take a team friendly deal with the Knicks to be our super 6th man for the next two seasons. Without it going back to Cleveland or riding the coattails of OKC, we would be his best chance to get another ring. And if he helped bring a title to the Knicks after a 50 year drought he would cement his goat status. He could also start and you move hart to the bench but hart could still carry the minutes load for most of the regular season to keep him fresh for the playoffs

    I know it’s a pipe dream but it would be just the kind of rabbit out of the hat move that Leon needs to make in order to take us to the next level.

    I mean, it’s so freaking cool that they’re in the second round, ya know?

    You never know until the games happen how a series will turn out. The Knicks could totally surprise everyone and win this series, and wouldn’t that be hilariously awesome?

    I mean any player can win a poker tournament in theory but old man coffee plays a strategy that forecloses even most kinds of extreme luck as an avenue to win. Unfortunately that’s who coaches this team…

    I mean any player can win a poker tournament in theory but old man coffee plays a strategy that forecloses even most kinds of extreme luck as an avenue to win. Unfortunately that’s who coaches this team…

    Dan Harrington did quite well with an OMC strategy for decades…

    I mean any player can win a poker tournament in theory but old man coffee plays a strategy that forecloses even most kinds of extreme luck as an avenue to win. Unfortunately that’s who coaches this team…

    Oh sure, the odds aren’t good, but even being here is awesome. 22 other NBA teams would love to be here.

    Dan Harrington did quite well with an OMC strategy for decades…

    Harrington played standard tight aggressive, OMC plays weak tight. Plenty of players have won playing like Harrington over the years, none have won playing like Thibs

    Harrington played standard tight aggressive, OMC plays weak tight.

    Harrington’s strategy would never be considered TAG by today’s standards, He seldom bluffed without equity other than a standard squeeze. He never 2X or 3X bluffed rivers when his opponent’s range was capped.

    A really great screenwriter once told me that the only real movie magic is movie stars. We know how every story ever told is going to go. Usually after page 3. The enchantment is in the way it’s played this time.

    Harrington’s strategy would never be considered TAG by today’s standards, He seldom bluffed without equity other than a standard squeeze. He never 2X or 3X bluffed rivers when his opponent’s range was capped.

    Harrington’s heyday was 30 years ago. These are modern strategies that no one was using back then, they are not the dividing line between TAG and OMC.

    As with Thibs, perhaps the game has passed him by seeing as the guy is 80. But he was absolutely not OMC in 1995.

    So..I had the most random thought about Sinners.
    *spoiler alert for those who haven’t seen it yet*

    I wonder why Cornbread just didn’t sing his song when he was trying to convince them to let him back in the jook joint. You know:

    I’m the Rashiki smokin the lick-licky
    10 freaky girls inside the Chin Tiki
    When you see me girl, you better believe me
    This ain’t a game and pimpin ain’t easy
    Anything goes when it comes to hoes
    I’m the kingpin when it comes to flows
    You better ask someone if you don’t know
    When you see me girl, say “What up doe?”
    Ten freaky girls
    Ten ten ten freaky girls

    Ok I’m gone lol

    Have a great Saturday

    Oh sure, the odds aren’t good,

    The title odds are +4600, which equates to 2%. Not exactly “a puncher’s chance.”

    The Celtics are perimeter bombers, owners of the league’s second-ranked offense during the regular season. They take more 3-pointers than any team has, ever — nearly 50 a game. And while the Knicks were one of the NBA’s best defenses at restricting long-range attempts during the regular season

    This was pretty surprising to me but it might be because of the psychological impact of the blowout losses to the Celtics

    Thibs needs to take a long look at video from the Magic series. Boston averaged 31.2 three point attempts in that series vs. 48.2 in the regular season. Not that Orlando shut them down or anything, but limiting the Celtics’ 3 point shot attempts should be a major focus of the Knicks coaching staff.

    The title odds are +4600, which equates to 2%. Not exactly “a puncher’s chance.”

    Buster Douglas was 42-1 vs Mike Tyson, and we all know how that worked out…. the quintessential puncher’s chance. 🙂

    Buster Douglas was 42-1 vs Mike Tyson, and we all know how that worked out…. the quintessential puncher’s chance.

    Right! All we need to do is replicate the biggest upset in the history of a sport that goes back hundreds of years. Should be no problemo!

    Actually, Buster had BETTER odds than the Knicks do against the Celtics. Which makes sense, actually. It’s a lot easier for the extreme longshot to have one good night than it is to have four good nights out of seven.

    The title odds are +4600, which equates to 2%. Not exactly “a puncher’s chance.”

    The title odds in betting markets are generally overstated for teams like ours with large fanbases. See: the Lakers having probably the 4th best odds coming into the postseason but losing to the 6th seed in a gentleman’s sweep. Basketball-Reference does it purely based on SRS and gives us 0.7%.

    That’s with us going all out to win in the regular season and Boston cruising, so even that figure is overstated. There’s also the factor that our SRS plummeted as the season wore on so it’s further inflated by our 2024 success. Real title odds are probably somewhere between 500-1 and 1000-1, with our winning cases involving things like injuries to multiple core players on each opponent.

    Even then we would be lucky to win any upcoming series. Even losing Tatum + KP would leave BOS a lot stronger than DET and a lineup of Pritchard/Holiday/White/Brown/Horford would destroy us easily by simply putting Brown on KAT, hunting Brunson every possession on offense, and making more threes than we even attempt.

    Right! All we need to do is replicate the biggest upset in the history of a sport that goes back hundreds of years. Should be no problemo!

    The title odds in betting markets are generally overstated for teams like ours with large fanbases. Basketball-Reference does it purely based on SRS and give us 0.7%.

    You fellas are pretty funny, After spending five years parsing the definition of a “mezzanine”, now you want to argue what a “puncher’s chance” is? Fine…. have at it!

    You guys are using title odds to beat the Celtics. We don’t win the title if we beat the Celtics.

    Based on FanDuel and a no-vig calculator, the Knicks have a 14.34% chance to win the series

    I think all of us agree we are not very likely to beat the Celtics.

    The Great Clown Pagliaccisays:
    October 22, 2024 at 14:02
    Repost: 45 wins and a first-round or play-in exit. Bonus props:

    -For no single game in the entire season will this team’s top six players all be healthy.
    -One of OG or Towns will have a significant injury by Thanksgiving
    -Bridges will shoot under 35% from 3 with reduced volume and will be handily outplayed by DDV.
    -Hart will be under 8 PPG per36 and under 33% from 3
    -Our defense will be below average due to lack of reliable rim protection or PF/C depth

    Don’t take betting advice from this guy!

    The title odds are +4600, which equates to 2%

    I pretty clearly used title odds to state our title odds.

    The title odds are +4600, which equates to 2%

    Hmmm…it’s a non-zero chance.

    I’m going Nuggets, but my prediction track record isn’t good.

    I guess I’d like the Nuggets to win because they beat OKC twice this season. I like both teams though, I don’t really have a rooting interest

    because it’s not the lakers, I’m okay going with the hometownish clips…

    with the added bonus of a clippers’ win including all the nonsensical talk about which nba team reigns supreme in LA…

    I turned on the game in time to hear the announcers give props to Jeff van Gundy for how he has helped the Clippers defense.

    If only we had an asst coach for the offense who could get similar props ….

    Since I’ve been watching the NBA using Tencent i see the break activities in the various arenas since Tencent doesn’t show American ads. To my amazement I’ve started noticing the choreography of the dancers. Knicks are good. Denver, at least this time, pretty boring. I also noticed that all the Lakers dancers seem to have figures like a young Jeannie Buss. It’s amazing what oddities my mind comes up with during breaks.

    If only we had an asst coach for the offense who could get similar props …

    I wish.

    Clips had a chance early to get a double digit lead…missed some easy ones…

    I hope we can see from KAT vs. Boston what I just saw from Jokic when Batum tried to guard him.

    When he’s healthy and has everything going, Jamal Murray is as offensively entertaining to watch as any guard I’ve ever seen.

    I’ve been touting the Clips since the beginning of the playoffs, but I forgot about James Harden’s highly dubious post season track record.

    35 year old Game 7 Harden at altitude I’m kicking myself for not putting money on Denver

    Knicks Fan, the Knicks City Dancers have consistently been heads and pointy toes above all the other NBA dancers out there. This year I’ve actually been disappointed — one of the better things about them is the choreography has usually been spectacular, and this year it’s pretty rudimentary, more like a high-end college dance team. I’m also not a fan of them all looking like sexed-up tweens, which seems to have been a conscious decision this year.

    Z-man I don’t think Denver has the depth to stay with OKC

    Denver’s lack of depth beyond Russ is a big problem for them…but that starting lineup+Russ is very tough to stop.

    Well, turned it on and Russ was celebrating. Not the best look but good for him I guess.

    A team with James Harden as the leader?

    And on another note, its Ty Lues birthday

    clips only have to pay harden for another season (36 million)…

    worked out okay with them playing well this year in their new arena…

    the mezzanine is a hard ceiling for players like james…

    Its Hardens personality, It’s like Towns in a way. Very talented player, but zero dog 🐕

    Raven, I agree, the Knicks city dancers aren’t as interesting this year. Also, the costumes used to be more interesting. So I agree about the costumes too.

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