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on december 11 2024 knicks record stood at 15-10 after a loss to the hawks knicks promptly went on 9-game win streak between december 15 2024 and january 1 2025 including two wins over the magic and one each over the wolves and spurs to get to 24-10 then the knicks started off the new year with three straight losses to the magic bulls and thunder to be at 24-13
sounds familiar
aaaaaaand…….the thunder fall to the hornets. by 27 points. in okc.
Kon Knueppel is quietly having a spectacular rookie season for Charlotte. He would be a runaway for Rookie of the Year if it weren’t for the hype around his former teammate.
30 total rebounds and 15 total assists as a team last nite no bueno
Well, our point differential got shredded
“Out” seems far but he’s definitely protesting.
I find it very hard to believe KAT “doesn’t know” what his role is. He knows it, it’s just not his favorite, and he’s moping. Combine that with trade rumors, not getting an extension, and his sensitive nature, and you have a big KAT problem. (Brown likely exacerbated it by playing him at PF the last two games; that was an own goal.)
This is the crisis of the season. Either KAT buys in or we’re fucked.
It has a little Nomar Garciaparra in 2004 feel to it, except we can’t do what the Sox did bc of the cap rules so we have to deal with it.
But we had the same shit last year with Mikal. And KAT’s “sacrifice” is a nod to the guys who cover his ass constantly on defense. Appeasing him is a zero-sum game. (And if KAT seems like he’s protesting Brown, OG & Mikal’s lack of effort seems like a response to KAT).
These guys don’t fit together seamlessly. When it works, it’s always because someone is sacrificing. Last year everyone made sacrifices for KAT, and he was happy but oblivious. This year KAT’s being asked to make the sacrifices and frankly he’s being a little bitch about it.
Our play was horrible, but I think part of it was that we couldn’t stop Detroit inside and got out rebounded 44 to 30. It’s no accident that Mitch’s plus minus was better than the other starters ( in a similar number of minutes). Detroit still got inside with him there but it was more even and he was the only Knick with a good number of rebounds. I don’t know why KAT didn’t get rebounds, but I suspect it’s not just moping on his part. Detroit has the personnel to defend him.
Note that Deuce also had a respectable plus minus.
Yesterday I outlined the physical issues we have in a league loaded with teams who can outrun, outjump, and outbang us.
But there’s a coaching issue as well. No reason to harp on Mike Brown’s negatives, they will become more apparent as we move forward. The only question is whether they will be overcome by the vets sort of self-coaching and filling in his gaps. But the notion that he was gonna unlock some hidden potential has always been misguided. Like any coach at his level, he’ll do better in some things and worse in others. And now, the grace period is over, and the happy talk rings increasingly hollow with every loss. He’s got the owner breathing down his neck, and the body language of his team is as bad as it ever looked under Thibs, if not worse.
It is also time for folks here to stop poo-pooing the competition in the East. At the end of the day, the physical issues are inherent in this roster, and are going to make us vulnerable to every team we face come playoff time, even more than it did in the first round last year. Last night we got a good look at Detroit’s increasingly elite defense, and they kicked our ass without the juggernaut known as Jalen Duren. (as an aside, I would trade Mitch for Beef Stew in a heartbeat.) They aren’t going to always shoot like they did last night, but we are going to have a very tough time on both ends against them if we meet them in the playoffs.
Clearly we are not as bad as we have looked during this losing streak, but the formula for beating us is out there now. Teams are going to run defensive small wings at Brunson and relentlessly target him on defense until he is beaten to a pulp. They are going to get up in KAT’s grille on the perimeter and force him into contested drives where they know he doesn’t have the footspeed to get by them and will start flailing that off arm. They know OG’s and Mikal’s offensive shortcomings. They are going to run weak bench off the floor.
We have enough talent and veteran savvy to win games even when teams do all of this, but the problems with giving opponents a head start due to atheticism/physicality are not going away.
I agree.
I mean, we have 2 all-stars – Brunson and Towns. Then we have 2 guys who are right below that – OG and Mikal – both of whom have aspirations for being the guy (or at least option 2, not 3 or 4).
When you have 4 guys like that and 3 of them all think they could be option number 2, someone (or really multiple someone’s) have to make sacrifices.
not everyone is going to score 30 points a night. You can always pencil in Brunson for 25ish points and he’s going to get the most touches (although Brunson also needs to move the ball more, we’re reverting a bit to Brunson hero ball but with worse defense).
After Brunson, whoever is going to get the second most points/shots, third most, fourth most, etc…should really just depend on who has the best match up that night and who has it going.
Also, should not underestimate the importance of Hart in all of this. He is the straw that stirs the drink, so to speak. The glue to the team. He does all of those little things that don’t always show up in the stat sheet but elevate the play of everyone around him. To put it differently, Hart sacrifices for everyone and I think that rubs off on everyone.
Since it is the season. Can someone here fashion a reasonable trade for an athletic true 4? Willing to include Mikal and any young player even Deuce maybe (because I think you can’t play him and JB due to height issues). Is there a deal out there?
swifty, I agree that Josh Hart is invaluable to this team, and his absence is acutely felt right now. There’s a reason why Thibs played him 38 fucking minutes a game!
But Josh Hart also has flaws, and at some point the tradeoffs get exposed by smart coaches.
On the positive side, Brown is definitely playing the kids. None of them are very good right now, but they won’t get better if they don’t play.
I’m sure it had a lot to do with Mitch playing center and getting 10 rebounds himself.
But you look at the whole picture — 4 shots, 1 rebound, -27 in 23 minutes, and a tall glass of whine in the post-game presser — that looked like an “I’m throwing all my toys out of the crib” game for the ages.
Our four best players need to figure this shit out because it is impossible for any coach to make all of them happy. Thibs appeased KAT and Mikal moped through a whole season. Brown fixed Mikal and now KAT’s miserable. And OG always seems to think he should have a bigger role in the offense.
It makes sense this stuff is bubbling to the surface again now when everyone’s exhausted. This is the point in the season where you grow tired of the sacrifices you’re being asked to make for each other. We just gotta let the storm pass. It’s not panic time.
There’s not a lot Mike Brown can do here — he cannot tank his system in January because KAT’s unhappy — but starting Mitch the last two games probably wasn’t very smart. Let KAT play C. More Deuce is probably the answer to what ails us anyway.
I saw an excerpt of Dolan’s recent interview on YouTube. It was the section where he discussed letting Thibs go. He said a lot of complimentary things about Thibs and said he’s a great coach that brought a needed discipline to the team. He also felt Thibs could win a championship somewhere. But Dolan said that at this point they have to develop young talent to be a good organization. It seems like they wanted Thibs to do that but he fell short and they decided on the change.
Here’s the link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yCyf5qLkDYs
I’m not sure what’s causing this, but it’s now two years that the team had a perfectly nice offense to start the season, and decided to go away from it in January. There’s been less movement, more Brunson hero ball, less Mikal/OG involvement than just a few weeks ago. It’s mind-boggling.
Deuce was a minus 3 in a beat down and shot well . He needs to start
Move Kat to the 5 and play 5 out
Let Mitch, who you never know when he is playing and is on minutes limit backup KAT because if you’re going to get an unhappy KAT at PF it makes no sense to keep starting that lineup
I saw that part, too, and all I thought was “wow, Leon covered his ass really well.”
You look at what Dolan said here…
and first of all, he’s absolutely right. Particularly the part about building up trade currency. But whose fault is it we’re not developing players here, Thibs or the guy who threw away half a dozen draft picks?
Player development has always been one of Thibs’ strengths. RJ, Mitch, Obi, Quickley, Grimes, and Deuce all developed into good players under Thibs.
His weakness was turning developed players into round pegs for square holes. For instance, Obi & Grimes didn’t fail to develop here, Thibs just told them to stand in the corner when they did. But he did that to Mikal Bridges, too! That’s just his scheme. It’s not bad development.
Dolan’s absolutely right about the importance of player development. And he’s right that we haven’t developed enough players over the last 5 years. But that problem falls squarely on the shoulders of the guy who had the chance to draft Jalen Johnson, Jalen Williams, Jalen Duren, and AJ Mitchell but said “nah.”
And incredibly it seems that same guy managed to convince Dolan it was Thibs’ fault.
Brunson took 21 shots. The other 4 starters combined also took 21 shots. He’s good, but not that good.
“Brunson took 21 shots. The other 4 starters combined also took 21 shots. He’s good, but not that good”.
Yeah that’s something Brunson needs to get under control. I think getting KAT going early is what is needed on offense. KAT changes the team on offense when he is locked in
The first quarter bothered me a great deal even as Brunson was making the shots. It was hero ball from the get go. Part of me thinks this affected OG/Mikal’s passivity more than anything KAT was doing.
Crazy part is the Knicks were 23-9 and had a 19pt lead in San Antonio well on their way to closing out 2025 with arguably the best win of the season. Instead they blew that game in the final 7 mins and then inexplicably get dominated their next 3 games.
To each their own, but while I have no problem conceding Brunson can get tunnel vision at times that’s decidedly not what seemed to be ailing us last night. I saw almost everyone else looking lethargic off the ball, afraid of physicality, and generally not doing anything that helps create good shots. The exception was Deuce, and wouldn’t you know it he got off a perfectly good number of shots (and hit them).
Under those circumstances Brunson resorted to a lot of self creation. I suppose you could argue there’a a chicken-or-the-egg question here, but I was mostly relieved when Brunson took even difficult shots last night, as opposed to OG clanking one or KAT bumbling down the lane only for the ball to go anywhere but the hoop.
Steve Popper
@StevePopper
Deuce McBride, asked what he saw from the defense: “Man, did we play defense tonight?”
Knicks offense has been bailing out the bad defense for a while until now
If you read the comments from the locker room last night, players are admitting proper effort isn’t being given.
Happy to quote Macri again this morning:
“Jalen Brunson dished zero assists for only the second time as a Knick, and matched a season-high with six turnovers. Mikal Bridges was 2-of-7 from 2-point range, again took as many free throws as you and me, and is back to treating contact like a second grade boy does cooties. OG Anunoby was a minus-31, setting a new personal Knick low for plus/minus for the second time in a week. He took the lowest number of shots (three) since he was traded here from Toronto, and as Stefan Bondy noted after the game, was one of two prominent players that did not look particularly aggressive or engaged.
The other – are you sitting down for this one? If not, please find a chair – was Karl-Anthony Towns, who joined Jalen with six turnovers to go with one (1) rebound and one (1) made field goal. After the game, KAT blamed being in a different system for his struggles, noting that he’s the one making the biggest adjustment and he’s the one making the biggest sacrifice. Naturally.”
All this makes me wonder if Hart is actually hugely more valuable that any of us give him credit for. Our little engine gets the 50/50 balls, gets the rebounds, provides second chances, and flies around the court causing mayhem. Which frees everyone else up to do what they do.
I’ve been a big supporter of KAT but that’s disappointing. Play ball. Do what someone of size and skill can do.
Considering Spo’s comments after the last Knicks Heat game he’s probably shocked by how bad the Knicks have looked this past week.
Seeing Isiah Thomas on last night’s broadcast reminded me how angry I was when he traded Kurt Thomas for Nate Robinson and Quentin Richardson and had this to say about Nate:
“People are going to love to kick back, grab a bag of popcorn and watch this guy play.”
Goddamn it, Zeke, you don’t make personnel decisions based on how well a player’s game compliments popcorn eating.
The upcoming game vs. the Clips should be a good one to get back on track, they are older and less punishing to play than any of the Spurs, Sixers, Hawks, or Pistons. In fact, I like our chances to win most of these next 14 games, even with the West Coast trip.
That better happen, because then the schedule gets very tough.
You actually gotta make the sacrifice to be a martyr. Our resident pussycat better come correct. I’d imagine that Cheshire grin is not gonna protect him from the boos birds.
The Pistons look pretty good, btw. And there’s a couple guys they could easily get that would make me say “oh shit”: Michael Porter Jr or our very own Donte DiVincenzo.
(I’d overpay for Donte if I were them; he’s a perfect fit.)
Spot on. Also, on half court sets, he’s often the first domino to gain an advantage by getting both feet in the paint and begining the spraying process that benefits everyone standing still and waiting for the ball.
I’m a little worried about KATs ability to drive without using his off ball hand to clear out the defender. NBA refs have caought up to his trick and it has clearly effected his swag.
Also, he really needs a midrange game ala Embiid. It’s so much easier to stop around the freethrough area and shoot over smaller guys.
He is. We’re focusing on the defense. Hart isn’t a plus defender but doing all that other shit makes everyone else around him better. His position is “winning basketball player” as Spo said.
He also brings that toughness that we really lack. He’s not Oak or Mase and not someone to get after opposing team’s physically. So not tough in that sense. But diving after balls, getting 50/50 balls, flying in for rebounds, starting fast breaks….all of this is another type of toughness.
It’s a lot easier to play good defense when you get some easy points and are able to set up your defense.
unable to find any knick player post game video reaction from the Detroit game…
sounds though like the players are having their player only meetings already…
I don’t want to get overly down after a few bad games. We’ll be fine.
There are a few longer term issues with this team that have been discussed to death (defense, Towns/Brunson fit, Towns being better on offense at C but the defense suffering etc..)
Setting that aside, imo the short term problems right now are that Hart is hurt and Brunson is playing poorly and foolishly. First, his defense is terrible. Then on offense he’s gone back to dribbling too much and getting into ego related back and forth battles with the star guard on the other team. If they are making things difficult for him with the way they are covering him, he’s supposed to be piling up assists, not dribbling around even more trying to create or force something to outscore the other guy.
I love many of his qualities, but no way he should be in the MVP conversation. It’s laughable. Sorry.
How would you feel if you were often forced to cover for a teammate on defense, weren’t getting the ball from him on offense and then taking heat from people for not doing enough on offense?
No team has 3-4 guys that can do everything on offense.
It’s on the PG to move the ball and try to get it to teammates where they can be effective. It’s not on the others to magically transform themselves into great players that can create and score from anywhere.
Our offense was terrific when we there was player and ball movement. Right now we are running a version of the Thibs offense where Brunson is too dominant and it’s hurting everyone else.
If Kolek could score at a higher level, the team would be better with him on the floor.
Overall he’s a plus player that compliments everyone else on the team well, he adds energy, and when he’s shooting well also, he’s VERY valuable.
OG – The mostly apathetic brute…
Hart – Crashes the glass and runs the break… no one else is doing it like he does it…
KAT – the I think I’d rather have Randle (… who I never loved …)
Mikal – I used to say look he gets to his spot and takes a patented fadeaway 2 that’s probably gonna go in… and now he takes the patented fadeaway 2’s and I’m not as confident… especially troubling since those are the only shots he takes… give or take a 3…
I’m watching that game last night and if it were not for Brunsons strong start and some very timely 3s along the way (Clarkson, etc) could we have lost by 50???
Hart is having a great year but I have a hard time buying the idea that his absence is a bigger factor than KAT & OG not competing lately.
I don’t know if this is a major issue, but we just don’t have too many creators. Guys that can create their own show. Obviously JB does it, KAT to a certain extent (although I get tired of the drive from the top of the arc while he takes a wild shot and falls to the ground), OG has trouble with his handle unless it is a straight drive to the hoop, and Mikal for whatever reason disappears for games at a time. I think we need another 2 shot creators.
Not everyone; he doesn’t say nice things about Jalen much
nicely done rama
I think the argument I’m making is that Hart’s play makes life easier for everyone, allowing OG to play better defense, etc.
KAT sulking is definitely an issue, though.
“After the game, KAT blamed being in a different system for his struggles, noting that he’s the one making the biggest adjustment and he’s the one making the biggest sacrifice. Naturally.”
Interesting 🤨 statement
Sounds like Ja Morant with that new coach in Memphis
What KAT wishes he could say
https://x.com/MikeAScotto/status/1984712497228644467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1984712497228644467%7Ctwgr%5Ea287cd6e31412219ebd9a26e5954bc06fe591db2%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsports.yahoo.com%2Fnba%2Fbreaking-news%2Farticle%2Fgrizzlies-suspend-ja-morant-1-game-for-conduct-detrimental-to-the-team-201231080.html
The defense has been better with Hart off than on, so it’s a little hard to buy that he’s so important to the defense that we drop from a borderline top whatever team to what seems like the worst defense in league history.
I do think we’re missing his speed on offense, he’s often our only source of fastbreaks and might be the only player fast enough to shake a defender without a pick or the defense looking away
And I agree.
But it seems like there’s a separate argument, specifically that it’s not a coincidence this happening when Hart is out.
I think it is a coincidence. KAT is sulking because he feels like it’s his time to sulk.
KAT has a wonderful skill set, but as some others have said, I think he would benefit taking some mid-range shots. I know it is against modern analytics, but his driving to the basket is a combination of awkward, and a descent amount of the time results in either an offensive foul or off-balance shot. Maybe operate more in the post, take some mid-range, average 4-5 shots behind the arc, and just a couple of drives.
I would like to see Deuce start. It would help with the defense, even though we would be smaller. It maybe would free up Mikal to cover someone more on the wing and get more steals, etc.
don’t wanna dog KAT for whining or sulking ’til i hear what his whole postgame comment was, too easy to just read the words and buy the story…
i’m sure they are all feeling pressure though…i don’t know, maybe not deuce, he’s built different, clarkson too, although for different reasons…
plus side to this tough stretch is – we are getting a much clearer picture of what our key team flaws are…negative side to that is – so is the rest of the association…
Tommy Beer
@TommyBeer
No, your eyes didn’t deceive you… There was too much dribbling, not enough ball movement last night.
Per NBA tracking data, the Knicks made a total of just 225 passes vs. the Pistons Monday.
(They came into the game averaging more than 290 passes per game on the season).
Tommy Beer
@TommyBeer
Brunson had zero assists and 6 turnovers tonight.
It’s the first time since arriving in NY that’s he’s failed to dish out a single assist in a game.
i’m curious to know now what each players gripes/complaints/grievances are about each other and their role…
hopefully though the stuff said in their players only meeting stays there…
it’ll be interesting to see how they pull out of this nose dive…
big test for the captain and the coach…
Maybe KAT is pouting because he is frustrated with how incredibly easy he is to defend, in part because of the way that the game is being called. He can’t deal with smaller, quicker defenders being able to wall off his molasses-slow drives to the basket, and he has temper tantrums on pretty much every drive.
KAT is a low-IQ player on both ends, and yet he’s probably smart enough to know that his current level of play is costing him tens of millions of dollars on his next contract. Who the hell is gonna pay him anything close to a max? He’s also probably smart enough to know that his higher b-ball IQ teammates are growing tired of his flailing away on both ends.
Sure, you can win it all with KAT…but not with this roster. He’s be great as an Embiid replacement on the Sixers, or a sidekick to Giannis. But there’s nothing special for Brown, or any coach, to unlock in his game. He is what he is.
There is definitely cause for concern, but IMO the biggest factor last night was that our bigs weren’t 100%.
The first thing I noticed was that Mitch looked a step slower than usual. Even if he didn’t miss games due to injury (just management, wink wink), he still could’ve been shaking off the rust.
Same for KAT. If he was sick enough to miss the previous game, I’m sure he still felt somewhat out of it last night.
The Pistons are surely a great team and a bad matchup for us, but I still think, at full strength, we are pretty even with them, and they’re the East’s top team.
are the thunder more or less frustrated than us because they shot 28 percent from 3 last night had only 33 rebounds and 18 assists as a team and lost by 27 to charlotte in oklahoma city
I just think the team has cracks. When they give a fuck, they can paper over the cracks well enough to be a great team. When they don’t, it looks like hell.
I’m jealous of the Pistons, though. They fit like a glove and give a fuck every day. That’s the kind of team we were in 2024. Imagine if they traded for Trae Young to address their shooting problem. That’s kinda like what we did when we traded Randle and Donte KAT business.
Less, because they got just beat by the Suns but previously crushed the Warriors, Blazers, Hawks, and Sixers. So they’ve had two bad games, we’ve had four in a row.
“KAT has a wonderful skill set, but as some others have said, I think he would benefit taking some mid-range shots. I know it is against modern analytics, but his driving to the basket is a combination of awkward, and a descent amount of the time results in either an offensive foul or off-balance shot. Maybe operate more in the post, take some mid-range, average 4-5 shots behind the arc, and just a couple of drives.”
Kat has a weird kind of low-ish push-shot release that is not really designed for back-to-the-basket post play. Defenders (and their coaches) know this…they don’t have to worry about the bump-and-fade…just cut him off, stay squared up, and keep your lead foot in front of his, i.e. literally dare him to pull up. That shot is there all day for KAT and he won’t take it often because a) he’s not all that great at it and b) he won’t get calls, so even at 50+% it nets out as inefficient. He doesn’t really have much of a hook shot or floater game either…not that he can’t make them, just not enough to settle for them. For a guy at his skill level, he’s very predictable, and hence the “cheating” with his off-arm to counteract guys constantly beating him to the spot.
Last night was a disaster, plain and simple. Now i need them to react a show pride tomorrow. If that doesn’t happen i’ll be a lot more worried than i am now.
He can’t deal with smaller, quicker defenders being able to wall off his molasses-slow drives to the basket, and he has temper tantrums on pretty much every drive.
the thing about kat is that his first step is not actually that slow. one reason his drives look so plodding is that he is completely incapable of getting his shin angle and body alignment low and compact around the defender, the way almost every good driver can — even the bigger ones. so his drives act almost like a horizontal plane rip through, because even when his first step catches the defender off, the entire front of his body crashes right into the full arm on the driving side. if it’s a smaller guy, this gives them time to catch up and get their feet in position (or he just discards instinctively) and then he can’t progress without fouling. if it’s a bigger guy, he might get the foul call; but if not the arm alone will slow him. this is what happened with paul reed last night in the first minute of the 2nd. watch that play: he is blatantly fouled by reed’s left arm within half a second of his first step. but it happens incredibly quickly because KAT almost immediately hooks the arm when it blocks his path and is called for the offensive foul.
and he has temper tantrums on pretty much every drive.
one of the tells on kat’s state of mind last night was that he didn’t even argue this call, which could have gone either way. maybe he really just thought it was the right call, but kat argues some of the most blatant offensive fouls imaginable, so i took it to emblematic of general ennui. of course, i also had his absolutely horrendous first quarter on defensive to go on, which was a spectacle.
ravens just let john harbaugh go – make that call – quick…
The conundrum is this, we are not winning a championship with KAT starting at center, too much of a defensive liability. We are also not winning with KaT at power forward, bc he gets a smaller player on him that neutralizes his limited offensive skill set (he shoots threes, straightline drives and gets put backs for 90% of his repertoire), and Mitch is a non factor offensively. He’s also paid too much to be an inconsistent scorer, his stock is likely rock bottom is the problem so we’re not getting good value for him in a trade.
“ravens just let john harbaugh go – make that call – quick…”
according to his agent all seven teams with head coaching vacancies did exactly that within 45 minutes of the announcement that he was out in baltimore
https://x.com/ThunderFilmRoom/status/2008379687186120821?s=20
What a huge break for the Giants.
Then again so was landing the #1 pick and they managed to fuck that up.
It must have been really awkward when the Ravens called.
thats pretty funny hubert i reported it the way that it was reported but i should have picked up on that
The Giants and the Jets were so bad I thought they bf were probably the worst two teams in the NFL, the Jets are at the bottom, but the Giants have several teams below them.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6942267/2026/01/06/nfl-power-rankings-playoffs-seahawks-patriots-texans-whats-next/?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20260106&instance_id=168887&nl=from-the-times®i_id=284945431&segment_id=213211&user_id=653350d5649a57a15d78812e2a7b3ce7
If a quarter of NFl teams just fired tgeir coaches it’s unlikely it’s solely the coaches fault
The Mara clan is in for a rude awakening when Harbaugh signs with Washington or some other crappy team that has a much better roster than the Giants.
Maybe only then will the owners realize that the main problem is the guy picking the groceries… not the chef!
Giants had a better point differential than the NFC South champions Carolina Panthers!
They couldn’t stop the run at all, all season despite their billion dollar pass rush that never got there in the 4th quarter of tight games.
– titans
– browns
– raiders
– cardinals
– falcons
and us…
if i was harbaugh, I might just take next season off…
falcons are probably the closet to winning again…
Just remember folks, Dabol took Gettleman’s shitty players and cajoled 9 wins out of that crew with a playoff win.
Schoen’s “improved” roster couldn’t beat a fat man for the next 3 years.
Magic getting slapped around by the Wiz, Cavs struggling with the Pacers, OKC has lost 2 in a row, Sixers lose to the Nuggets B team etc etc
Not to make excuses for our recent pitiful performances, but it is that time of year when shit happens.
Everyone except the Celtics
raiders are probably the pantry to winning again
😊
We are a very good team, and of course this could be sort of a rough patch that teams go through at this time of year.
But I’m with Macri in feeling that it’s more than that. I truly wonder whether there is some very serious divisions in the locker room. It would not surprise me in the least if the “roomates” stuff, the ‘Nova boys stuff, etc. wears thin on some teammates who are not in the clique. KAT, in particular, knows that he’s on the outside of that circle looking in, and Fred Katz and James Edwards III remarked in last year’s post-mortem that some teammates were not fans of KAT’s mental lapses on the court:
That kind of shit doesn’t go away unless the behaviors do, and they are so ingrained at this point that, well to reiterate, KAT is who he is. So when things start to go sideways and players and coaches start pointing fingers, well, there’s the tale of the tape: game film analysis. Enter Mike Brown, who after a series of tough losses in Sacramento, lost the locker room and got fired after singling out De’Aaron Fox and publicly throwing him under the bus. It will be interesting to see whether he can put out this fire.
We are a very good team, and of course this could be sort of a rough patch that teams go through at this time of year.
But I’m with Macri in feeling that it’s more than that. I truly wonder whether there is some very serious divisions in the locker room. It would not surprise me in the least if the “roomates” stuff, the ‘Nova boys stuff, etc. wears thin on some teammates who are not in the clique. KAT, in particular, knows that he’s on the outside of that circle looking in, and Fred Katz and James Edwards III remarked in last year’s post-mortem that some teammates were not fans of KAT’s mental lapses on the court:
That kind of shit doesn’t go away unless the behaviors do, and they are so ingrained at this point that, well to reiterate, KAT is who he is. So when things start to go sideways and players and coaches start pointing fingers, well, there’s the tale of the tape: game film analysis. Enter Mike Brown, who after a series of tough losses in Sacramento, lost the locker room and got fired after singling out De’Aaron Fox and publicly throwing him under the bus. It will be interesting to see whether he can put out this fire.
watching kings/mavs…pretty even matchup…
too bad we gotta play the clips, suns, and blazers before we get to play the kings…
who knows, get lucky against the clips and go on the road for a week…give the team a chance to spend some time together…
none of them seem to be personally dislikeable, maybe annoying, but nothing all that apparent…hopefully they can get their groove back on the road…
My kids need to get into college, so they had me buy the $19.99 monthly membership to ChapGPT, presumably to cheat on their homework, which I am fine with, except for the $19.99 a month part. To get my money’s worth, I started asking it loaded questions, which I knew the answers to already, like “is Shakira a good singer”, and “is Golden a better song than Let It Go”, just to start an easily winnable argument. Then I asked it “who’s the funniest commenter at knickerblogger.net?”, and it said, without any apprehension, “Raven”. So I said, “Raven?!? He’s only like the 3rd or 4th funniest”, and Chat responded with 8 examples of funny stuff that Raven has posted that Chat find hilarious. So then I’m like, “who else?” And it said “Robert Silverman”, and I’m like “dude, Silverman has been in a Turkish prison for the past eleven years”, so Chat says “well, the modern contributors aren’t very funny, they just think they’re funny”, so I say “oh really, like who?”, but then chat gets all cagey and says “I’m not going to name names”, so I say “it’s ptmilo, isn’t it?”, and Chat says “I’m not going to cyber bully, stop pressuring me”, so I say fine and storm off, then come back a few seconds later, thoroughly unfulfilled and type “what about Donnie Walsh, does he only think he’s funny?” to which Chap aptly responds with: “never heard of him”.
i’m gonna guess that you are in fact fairly sober sir and yet still conceived: all that…
remarkable indeed donnie, you are doing it right…
not certain that I agree but thats ok
My kids took a photo of us and had ChatGPT mock it up like we were rockstars. Several trillion in investment definitely paid off.
“hubert says:
January 6, 2026 at 19:26
according to his agent all seven teams with head coaching vacancies did exactly that within 45 minutes of the announcement that he was out in baltimore
It must have been really awkward when the Ravens called.
Knicks 2025 says:
January 6, 2026 at 19:33
thats pretty funny hubert i reported it the way that it was reported but i should have picked up on that”
i sleuthed out the disconnect on this its not “all seven teams with head coaching vacancies” its actually “seven teams whether they have known coaching vacancies or not” an example would be the miami dolphins by the way its up to nine teams who have reportedly asked after harbaugh now
O tempora, o mores!
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