The Knicks have been handling the Raptors easily this season. Let’s hope it continues!
Let’s go, Knicks!
Winning four in a row is half of eight, and that’s pretty great!
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The Knicks have been handling the Raptors easily this season. Let’s hope it continues!
Let’s go, Knicks!
Winning four in a row is half of eight, and that’s pretty great!
104 replies on “2025-26 Game Thread: Knicks @ Raptors”
Should be an entertaining game! Go Knicks!
A 4-game winning streak would feel pretty good right about now, no matter how ugly it be.
if things go south, the laker/cav game looks like a good one…
This might be worse than the Detroit game…
so tired of watching 5 on 4 defense…
Wonderful.
I don’t feel good about this…
I’m thinking if this as a loss already
That was some rag-tag play.
We need Huk.
oh no, don’t need jalen diving in to the stands just to fire up this lifeless squad…
time to hit the bench MB…see what tyler, huk, and mo can do…
OG, mikal, and KAT all need to sit for a while…
Fantastic defense by the Raptors, Knicks wandering around like they’re grocery shopping.
oh shit, we actually won that challenge…
0-7, three turnovers, one bad challenge, first 2+ minutes.
Maybe we’re just getting the bad juju out early…
Okay, revised, one good challenge, FOUR turnovers.
less passing it to our center to create – beyond the arc…what is that???
Only way the Knicks are winning this is if they run HARD without the ball. Raptors are just smothering them. Run hard, let the bench run hard.
Ooo, Tyler alert!
okay, maybe jalen is the problem…just kidding…
Make me proud, Huk…
Sigh.
All the youngns now…
strangely, I do not hate this line up at all…
let’s see how it works though…fuck, here comes yabu to mess with the vibe…
huk gets the quick hook…
Yeah, two quick fouls. Needs to clean that up.
ESPECIALLY as it leads to Yabu.
In anticipation of this Knicks Raptors game, I went to both Marcus King sets at the Blue Note last night. MonoNeon played bass, Chris Dave on drums. Some of the best non-baseball entertainment LA has provided me in a long time. Hope you were in the room, JK.
Who’s going to score with this lineup? (Hart, Shamet Yabu, Diawara and Kolek being on the court now).
Someone get Dick!!
Bridges cannot dribble tonight.
down by 20 at the half would equal a pretty stress free loss…
shamet injury didn’t look great. groin strain can last a while if that it’s
Won’t win many games shooting 20% from 3
lucky to be down 10. shooting 30%, getting outrebounded and 6 TOs. Lack of hustle on that play where Raps got like 3 O rebounds
calling mikal for running someone over is like calling jalen for goaltending
Shamet back. Phew
kAT has, like, no hops. 7-footer in a crowd, lacks the explosiveness to just dunk. He plays below the rim.
He vexes me.
We’re one raptor run away from it being night night
I actually have Marcus King’s phone number. I once got hammered with him at the Surf Lodge and he invited me to Greenville. After he realized what he’d done he gave up drinking.
They’re just standing around. It’s inconceivable, as is said in The Princess Bride. Move, you loads of lard!
No, they just stand there, watching the guy with the ball…
this team just does not look like they’ve played together for a year and a half
Knicks need to move like that. They’re a lesser team playing half court
Towns’ whining bothers me but I maintain he’s got a point about his whistle. Any theories as to this generally, whether as to its accuracy or the explanation?
Aside from rebounding Towns is comatose
I used to be sympathetic, but he’s so discombobulated that he ends up hitting defenders all the time. His limbs move in weird directions.
Noble, I think it’s true, but at least part of it is that he’s slow and ponderous, meaning his man can stay with him and whack away (and help can arrive for more whacking). He also drives into and through traffic more than anyone I’ve ever seen — just bulldozes his way to the rim.
I don’t even know if there are a lot of fouls, but there’s a ton of contact every time. A ref with a quick whistle could call it almost every drive.
Frank O.’s out on KAT meter: 12 out of 10
So Brown kept Huk in for offense instead of KAT in that last possession. They are so done with him.
I give Hukporti all the credit for that fake comeback.
i think kat is hard to officiate because so few players try to continue their drives when they don’t have one shoulder past the defender as he does
Raptors shot 31% in the 1st half…
18 FTs allowed in a half is way too much. Toronto is shooting 14-45, it’s the OREBs and FTs that have kept them ahead.
Knicks should hit more 3s.
All in all, I’ll take it.
Raptors tallest player is 6’9
7 foot all star Center
4 points . Didn’t score until the 2nd qtr.
KAT being failed yet again…
I think Towns often gets mugged and gets no call, but he often initiates contact in an uncontrolled manner making a correct call a bit tougher to make. I don’t know if there’s any basis in fact on this, but when you complain a lot I think it turns the refs off and they just tune you out after awhile. They may also be a bit unintentionally biased against you.
Taking a quick moment to appreciate that I can ask a question here and immediately get multiple answers more intelligent than anything you can find elsewhere. The Knicks might not be all that but this place remains great.
That he looks like he’s in slow motion, his limbs fly everywhere, and he regularly continues drives every other player would recognize are doomed all probably contribute to it.
Play to his height and dominate his defender . When smaller guys constantly shut you down . You’re not that good
I don’t know if this was directed at me but it’s not what I was getting at. He remains by far the most culpable party for his own struggles. I mostly just find it somewhat curious, especially after being subjected to the Embiid show again recently.
Here i am… let’s win this! 🧡💙
Enough with this starting lineup. How much more data do you need?
Beginning to think Hart and Brunson should’ve also sat out tonight.
went to check the knicks’ score to see if halftime had ended, saw the current score of the seemingly competitive game I was watching, and going back to the knicks…
We like slow starts
Getting better
Hart scores the kind of fast break buckets we didn’t see for about 20 years
Hart also continues drives that most other players would abandon. But then he makes the shot.
Diawara IN
1pt game
Go Landry go
Pure shooter
Clyde tried but only got to Mamukelli…
This would be a helluva gutsy win.
Gritty and gutsy
mo is just soooooo long, and rarely leaves his feet…
him and huk make a lively front court defensive pair…josh has to get all the defensive rebounds, but…
And we have the lead
I will never quit OG
Bench mob rules
OG is tormenting them…
OG just fucked the Raptors up
Love the grit!! OG showing out
Kolek forced Mikal to go to the rim… nice! 🙂
You can see why Toronto is only 18th in offensive rating.
Oh Geez
Towns may suck, but he has SEVENTEEN rebounds already.
oh kat that was nice
Wing stop on fire
It’s amazing to me how Bridges and Hart are so adept around the hoop. OG has to go for the dunk or it’s not going in, but those guys just have the touch even at full velocity.
That was some run. Loved the defense.
Holy shit what a play by KAT!
Great assist from KAT
Perfect palate cleanser from KAT there
Make that 18.
And Kolek has 5 assists in his short time on the court.
How are we gonna trade for Giannis when we have to send the Nets even more picks in the interests of fairness?
When we play good, we’re really really good. The hope is that they’re waiting for the playoffs to play like this the full 48 mins.
out on KAT meter substantially subsides…
OG is eating their souls on defense.
tyler the creator >>>>>>> than some guy with the last name dick
Where is this bridges every night?
E’s right, who needs JB?
What the hell is happening? Is it November?
OG and Bridges earned their wing stop nickname that quarter.
wow, what a third quarter…that was some pretty uplifting stuff right there…
OG paining, Mikal draining…
It’s games like this where OG’s defense is just so valuable.
Gotta close out the 4th tho. Don’t want a repeat of Philly game
The wingstop that was promised.
It feels like this team can throw down a 35-19 beating in almost any quarter on almost any team when they’re on
LOL
As said, play Kolek with 4 starters and he’s fine. I thought Brown understood that in the first half, then he brought in Diawara and Huk and Shamet and…wth, man. Hopefully this run in the third helped make it clearer.
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