Knick quasi-nemesis, Pelle Larsson, is out for this one. That’s nice. And Herro remains out.
So no excuse to not get this double u, Knicks!
Let’s go, Knicks!
Feeling great about 58!
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Knick quasi-nemesis, Pelle Larsson, is out for this one. That’s nice. And Herro remains out.
So no excuse to not get this double u, Knicks!
Let’s go, Knicks!
Feeling great about 58!
130 replies on “2025-26 Game Thread: Knicks vs. Heat”
Bounce back OG and JB !!
edit-Tyler too
I guess to honor Heat fans everyone is shoeing up to the blog late?
LGK!
9 guys on cruise control and josh hart
God no. I’d rather watch Chalamet try to identify 45 more random Knicks from the ’00s.
Regardless of why Dart sucked, it seems pretty clear to me Mara needs to get a new GM in here ASAP and trust that GM to evaluate Dart vs the QBs at the top of the draft. We shouldn’t be locked into this guy if we can draft someone who is demonstrably better.
And frankly the biggest reason for that is not his performance today or this season. It’s that he can’t be trusted to go down or step out of bounds, even after coming back from a concussion.
that was a bargnani stint from kat
Jeez, I go to a strudel party for a damn minute and everything goes to hell.
LGK!!
Mitch needs to block all their 3s but at least Diawara did a thing
I guess the Invisible Sixth Man doesn’t work on Sundays
i mean seriously what is wrong with kat tonight
So I guess whoever cools off from three last, wins.
Or whoever remembers to play defense.
Here i am… let’s win this! 🧡💙
That Kolek swivel inside for the layup was so Brunson there should be a lawsuit.
I’m sure glad we won that meaningless game in December that definitely had no impact on our team as everyone else had a week and a half off.
I feel like I cursed OG by complimenting him the other day…
It’s like we have a complete inability to guard any of their players one on one.
And KAT needs to wake the fuck up
Kat looks like he has zero idea what he’s doing….on O and D.
I will say that nearly everything the Heat are throwing up is going in…
Guys, stop complaining, we’ll be the first team to win the Cup and the Championship in the same season. How cool is that? 😉
Way too much Diawara.
Easy, start complaining about him right away. 😀
diawara has really taken yabu’s spot call him robespierre
Put up the banner before we forget we used to be good. 🤪
kolek-o-vision back to prime viewing
Diawara effective defensively.
Mikal came to play!
Well this is a little better.
KAT and OG a combined 0-5. At least OG plays defense…
Bridges en fuego
Kolek is a bit lucky, that was clearly not a goaltend by Jaquez and that pass to Jalen in the corner should have been a turnover. But still looking better than vs. Sixers.
Speaking of no defense, the final score of the Hawks Bulls game was 152-150.
In regulation
Very smart from Kolek to call Mitch for the pick and roll, but then passing to Brunson because the Heat were all reacting to the pick and roll they thought was coming.
OG= Offense Gone
Mitch now 9-9 on foul shots.
Max Peter Patton
Mitch is making so many FTs, that it’s easy to know it’s Christmas time! 😀
I’ll have whatever Mitch is drinking…
What’s the math on hack-a-Mitch now that he’s a 90% free throw shooter?
Hack-a Mitch might soon go the way of Hack-a-Steph, Hack-a-Bird, and Hack-a-Barry…
Brunson 🥵
Can’t watch the 2nd half, hang on to the lead, guys! 🙂
Brunson more than halfway to an average Wilt game in ’61-62…
KAT+OG=0
It’s amazing that we scored 66 points and 2 of our starters were MIA
Wow, that errant pass by OG was breathtakingly bad.
OG is in disarray…
check that, OG back in array.
At least OG is playing D
We forgive you OG if you forgot how to score you can still defend like a mfer
Then OG promptly has a block party and a dunk.
We got this, cyber!
Always liked Norman Powell.
Maybe KAT should sit for a while
Ware developing into a serious player.
Jacques is such a punk.
Kobe Powell killing us
Another precariously close ( home ) game. Mitch with 0 O rebounds, credit to ware
Ware is destructing us…
Ware and the refs.
I wish Kel’el would go back to Krypton
Brunson cooking, the D is on ice
I thought that was Christy Turlington…
fire powell he’s destroying our economy
ten for ten
That has to be AI…
More like Swishes Robinson amirite
Mitch is now unstoppable. What’s the fewest minutes an MVP has ever played?
We should let Mitch walk (directly to the hall of fame)
These refs blow
He really is. That play on OG was reckless.
imagine if kat started actually playing
I love KAT and all but he really should sit the rest of the game
If I did the math correctly, three games ago Mitch was at 22% from the foul line. Yesterday evening he was at 37%. Right now he’s at 42%.
yes tyler
Clarkson taketh, and taketh away.
You get a foul. And you get a foul. And you get a foul.
Would anyone even trade for Towns rn? I guess Sacto would.
pete patton is a shaman
Among the many great things Kolek is doing, his rebounding has been pretty damn good recently.
HART ATTACK!!
Thank God, Hart!
Hart hitting 3s and Mitch hitting FTs… start saying your hail marys because the end is nigh
just awesome
I don’t know, it feels like 27 FTAs is ridiculous.
Kolek with some stout D on Powell and the steal
Ware with more O rebounds than the Knicks
Kolek does everything well. Everything.
this ware character is out mitching our mitch…
Edit: and he shoots 3’s…ugh, wtf…
kat has been truly horrendous but we are small here, i bring him back for kolek and keep mitch in
Except shoot 3’s…
Can’t put these bastards away, even with a few crazy shots from Hart and Brunson
These crazy shots are fantastic, but could we just beat them handily with good defense please?
I agree with Milo, we need both Mitch and KAT, can’t seem to recommend at all
16 free throws to 33. Ridiculous.
Good call, pt.
We just needed to bring our defensive anchor back in Towns
Everything a fan wants is to watch the Heat shoot 35 FTs.
Jaime stymied
powell classic hard landing mistake
Chauncey Billups made a call to the refs before the game
Im not even saying the calls are terrible. But the watchability is terrible.
KAT’s scoring feels down, he’s holding his own though as a defensive center this year…
that’s kind of been a pleasant surprise…
The 35 FTAs is definitely ridiculous but we seem to have earned all of them
Anybody wanna order a pizza while we wait?
don’t worry i’ll have plenty of monetary policy material left for tuesday
Getting about 50 between Brunson and KAT is a solid formula
We should leave Mitch in for free throws
Well, I guess Yabu is done… finally
Nice bounce back win.
I enjoyed the Powell material, milo
Hahn just mentioned they haven’t lost two in a row since Halloween. Pretty nice.
Also, Knicks are 18-0 when leading going into the fourth quarter. I’ll have to remember to just turn it off if they’re up at the end of the third…
wish we could get off this only primarily using 8 players in a game thing…
Clippers fans definitely wish Powell had for-cause protection
Maybe Deuce is back by Christmas and they’ll play 9.
Kat owes brunson a real game after that performance. Good bounce back win! Alan Hahn with the MVP “thumbs up” comment to Brunson…. Too soon, too soon lol
didn’t make it to the knicks’ game ’til the 4th cuz the steelers/lions was so competitive and close…looks like the ravens and their crowd might be ready to test the patriots tonight…
I’m sure Brown would play more guys but Yabu sucks and Shamet and Deuce are hurt.
Kolek +16 in 22 minutes, not too shabby
tell me this wouldn’t do numbers
https://imgur.com/a/2d2FOum
It’s always nice to beat that annoying ass franchise
We play in Minnesota Tuesday and since Dec 13th (the night we played Orlando in Vegas) they’ve had 4 games in 10 days, all at home.
On the other hand, when we play Cleveland at 12pm on Xmas it will be their 3rd game in 3.5 days.
Remember that minute when the Raptors were good?
it seems the t-wolves might finally be figuring out it’s best to keep ant man off the ball a bit and may actually be thinking of adding an actual point guard to the roster…
heard ant man talking about getting constantly mugged trying to bring the ball up the court, wears him down…
they’ve been playing well lately, it’ll be a tough game for us…
“Remember that minute when the Raptors were good?”
It’s hard to win when your future HOFer goes down…
Mikal and Kolek are smooth together.
lol I just saw we get the Sixers at home on the second night of a back-to-back again on Jan 3rd
Honestly the smart thing to is to give everyone the night off for the Dec 31st game in San Antonio. No one’s watching that game, it’s a very likely L anyway, and it would be a poignant middle finger to Silver since it’s against the Spurs again.
In fact if we really want to be spiteful, we could give everyone except Clarkson the night off.
Jesus, you folks need to put the OMG ScHeDuLe Iz UnFaIr stuff to bed.
first or second seed in the conference would be great, however if it means a 8 player rotation against .500 or better clubs, maybe 3rd or 4th seed isn’t so bad…
shoot, thibs would probably only be playing 7…
the 65 game basis makes it dicey holding top players out early on in the season, in case they get injured later, and lose out on any award incentives…
it’s tough for MB, if we go hard on our starters, we have a chance to beat anyone…
maybe coaches are built to disregard the marshmallow test altogether, eat while the eating is good…
These are just the random quirks of the schedule I’m pointing out, Bob. It’s not “unfair”, just easy to predict the result.
I’m largely against sitting starters but if there’s a game to do it, do it when you’re likely to lose, not win.
howdy mister Bob, hope you are well this evening…
glad you had a chance to become aware of that first amendment audit stuff…
the therapist called it: future proofing…she had another patient struggling with anxiety and paranoia…left them in a state of constantly preparing for imagined dire scenarios…
anyways, had this interaction with law enforcement maybe 15 years or so ago that left me feeling pretty violated, it’s stuck with me for a long time…it’s sort of funny, turns out i was the wrong white guy…unfortunately I defaulted to military compliance mode after being detained…further irony, when they finally asked specific questions, after 6 to 8 hours of holding me, it was over in 15 minutes, was threatened first of course before being released…
so important to know your rights…
also important to understand the rights of others…I had just walked out from getting my mail at the condo clubhouse and saw this guy and his wife backing up in to this car behind them…
stunned me, only stuck out my hand like they should stop…they did, guy looked at me, looked back and said something like: they were dangerously close (yeah, it was him backing up though)…
only thing I could think was that they were about to commit a felony…
This was an excellent win. 20-8. Fucking awesome.
Couldn’t agree more, but I doubt you are going to get an objective lesson on Constitutional law from a YouTube video.
Constitutional Law? What are we, back in the 20th century?