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Knicks Morning News (2025.05.12)

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    • 16 replies on “Knicks Morning News (2025.05.12)”

    Really curious to watch tonight’s game.
    If the two teams were playing for their lives I’d bet that we’d had been down 4-0 wo much resistance.
    In modern nba where HUGE money is all over the league in a worldwide spectrum via watching and betting i’m waiting for almost Anything to Happen.
    Let’s wait and see!

    If the two teams were playing for their lives I’d bet that we’d had been down 4-0 wo much resistance.

    That sure doesn’t speak well of Boston, then, though, right?

    If they’re weak-minded enough to have lost Games 1 and 2, why not two more?

    That sure doesn’t speak well of Boston, then, though, right?

    Of Boston, of the League and of Modern HEAVY MONEY INVOLVED sports world.

    It would be nice if the Knicks had their draft picks right about now.

    Going to the game tonight, and can’t say I’m brimming with confidence. In fact it’s probably the Celtics who are, as they know they’ve dominated us in 10 out of 12 quarters.

    That’s why a fast start is so important tonight, if they start bombing away and go up 30-15 or something, oh boy, it could get ugly in a hurry.

    Was at the game and otherwise busy this weekend so didn’t fully keep up with all the threads, but I’m sure it was noted that our lack of any discernible offensive scheme in game 3, and truly the entire playoffs to this point, was, and is, palpable.

    After 91 games I couldn’t tell you what the primary goal of our offense is besides “let Brunson cook most of the time, let other guys cook the remainder of the time, and let Josh Hart pick up the scraps.”

    Our 3PAr is 15/16th among playoff teams (we eke out the Rockets by .007) and our team TS% is 14th. These are not unrelated things obviously. I’m aware there’s not a 1:1 correlation and high 3PAr teams can have bad offenses, and vice-versa, but our roster’s strengths are clearly geared towards juicing overall efficiency via 3PA, because we don’t have guys who are high-volume demons at the rim and we have a low FTr.

    To state the obvious, this just does not pencil out. You can’t forego a lot of 3s, not generate many FTAs, not be a stellar offensive rebounding team, and expect to have a championship caliber offense.

    Something’s gotta change or we’re probably looking at a 6 game series that is more of a spiritual sweep.

    It would be nice if the Knicks had their draft picks right about now.

    It’s going to be interesting to see what the Bucks get for Giannis and whether they choose to blow everything up (which they clearly should do) or try to remain competitive. I don’t think they can get much for Lillard given his age, injury and expected time to return.

    We can cry a little about going all in for Bridges with Giannis now available, but a lot of people were pushing to make a move soon and not wait around for the perfect pitch and give away years for this core, especially with the new CBA. Even if we had all those picks though, there’s still no guarantee he’d come to NY.

    If they’re weak-minded enough to have lost Games 1 and 2, why not two more?

    I think they’re especially vulnerable in a game 7. They could make that Rockets team look like sharpshooters if their sphincters get tight.

    Not to mention the “bounce effect” and the probability that their banged up guys get more banged up on the way.

    I am not optimistic that we’ll fix the offense, but I am optimistic we can win this series with our broken one.

    It would be nice for once to get a big lead early and put the presure on them to try to come back.

    The problem for any team trying to trade for Giannis is matching his salary.

    it is a very odd circumstance to be in but it sre seems like tonite is a must win for us and not for boston if we go back to boston up 3-1 most will believe we can finish it up but if we go back 2-2 most will assume that we will lose at this very moment i could not disagree with those feelings

    After game 3, I wrote here that it seemed like the Knicks simply didn’t have the same energy as in games 1 and 2, didn’t get to the Celtics’ shooters fast enough, and for once they should follow Thibs’ “play harder” cure-all.

    Well, this was stupid. Fred Katz in the Athletic explains what actually happened, and confused the Knicks on the pick-and roll. A couple of excerpts:

    The Knicks understood how to guard this during the two wins in Boston, where New York engineered a more aggressive pick-and-roll strategy than it used during the regular season. But unbeknownst until Game 3, the Knicks left their impressive verve in Massachusetts. And on this possession, the man who gets the credit for flattening them is Holiday, who didn’t score, assist or even set a screen.

    Instead, he scrambled the Knicks’ brains.

    Once Tatum dribbled around Horford, the Knicks found trouble.

    OG Anunoby began the possession on Tatum, per usual. But after he made contact with Horford, the Knicks were doomed. Towns was supposed to come up to the level of the screen. If Anunoby could not recover to his man in time, Towns should have switched, picking up Tatum. But with Holiday nearing him, the Knicks center sagged back too far, giving Tatum too much space.

    And later in the article:

    In this case, the Celtics preyed on one of the Knicks’ year-long weaknesses: erratic communication and inconsistent execution while defending screens.

    New York switched on pick-and-rolls more often over Games 1 and 2 than it had all season. Yet, throughout parts of Saturday’s 115-93 Celtics victory, Towns appeared to be in drop coverage, which is when the guy guarding the screener sags back closer to the rim, just as Towns does before the Tatum 3.

    But perception is not reality.

    No matter how it looked, the Knicks did not change their pick-and-roll strategy between Games 2 and 3. Towns and others just functioned worse than they had all series — and in a familiar way.

    Cool on ptmilo that he actually saw it during the game, and quite early:

    half the team thinks we went back to drop and the rest thinks we’re still switching

    Tonight I will make sure the AC is pumpin so I can thow my orange hoodie and orange & blue dunks on while I watch the game

    War night

    I actually don’t think we have to win tonight or even game 5. We just have to not get blown out.

    Someone said this yesterday that winning games 1 and 2 bought us time and I agree with that. We just need to win one of the next three to force a game 7 and all the pressure will be on Boston, not us. We have time to win this series.

    hauser upgraded from doubtul to questionable ruh roh i was surprised at the jrue dr evil after his 3 although we absolutely deserved it at that moment i was surprised because he is kown as a nice guy who does not taunt opponents

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