I rested for last night’s game ahead of this one.
The Knicks host the suddenly kind of healthy Oklahoma City Thunder at the Garden in a possible NBA Finals advance pairing.
It’ll be fun to kick their ass!
Let’s go, Knicks!
58 is still possible, which is great!
165 replies on “2025-26 Game Thread: Knicks vs. Thunder”
life is long, gotta pace yourself BC…rest management is a key component in life…
2/5 odds Dort starts some shit tonight.
That’s how to win this damn game. Get Shai into foul trouble early.
I actually yelled out loud when Hart missed that layup. First I’ve seen him miss in I can’t even remember.
Get Hart outta there!
Better way to win this damn game would be to stop missing wide ass fucking open 3s.
Why would you keep leaving the one guy who’s scoring open?
Mo D 3 !
Mo hahahahahahaha…
Mo hahahahahaha…
Bullshit on the moving screen call.
Looks like we’re playing 8 on 5.
Diawara has me fantasizing
I hope the crowd tears the officials to pieces on the court.
I think I’d prefer playing Jemison over Huk at this point.
We aren’t winning this game
This is painful.
Huk is awful
Hulk doesn’t seem like he’s improving at all and seems very uncoordinated
The non-call reeked of “well shit, we can’t call 3 on SGA”
Huk plays hard, but Mitch would have come in handy on a few plays already.
worth suffering the rookie mistakes by Mo D to give him the experience for the playoffs.
Knicks definitely came to play tonight, its a shame they missed so many open 3s early on that put them in a hole but they’ve fought back.
It was expected that their ferocious defense would disrupt our offense. But I like the fighting spirit of the Knicks. As long as we keep our defensive effort and keep their scoring low, we will be in this one.
MO
It’s totally that. Particularly annoying given the cheap ass stuff that SGA also gets.
Presti left his seat to start writing up the Mo D max offer
We’re actually doing extraordinarily good considering we can’t get a call and OKC gets ones that don’t even exist.
Look, I’m turning into BBA…
Chet is killing them
Knicks defense though has been atrocious tonight…
What if someone told you before the season that Diawara would get switched onto SGA and you’d feel ok about the whole thing?
I’d say Frankie Smokes is real!!!
OMFG
If KAT had been an OKC player on that last drive of his, the refs would have called TWO fouls on the Knicks.
What is that call?
That is some Argentinian soccer bullshit
Alvarado has not been shooting well other than that one game when he went off from 3.
huk with 3 turnovers, i’m ready to see what jemison the third can do…
I miss Deuce.
What the hell are these refs
And how the heck is Lu Dort Steph Curry
Disarray…..counting on OG to create offense is dubious
That’s because he’s a lifetime 34.9% 3 point shooter.
I’d sure like to be Diawara’s agent…
KAT with 3 field goal attempts is not good…
Brunson is dogging it tonight
Brunson looks drunk.
They are playing hard but terrible at the same time.
Chet is something
It’s kinda hard to complain about anything from my POV…these guys might just be the best defensive team I’ve ever seen
Not sure if Hart has been worse on offense or defense.
Chet came into tonight shooting below 35% from 3pt.
Yeah TNFH, the transition defense is something else for sure. So many easy buckets just evaporate.
I think the refs have swung the game five points
the Thunder way too.
what’s wrong with the knicks:
jalen, josh, and OG are 6 for 25, KAT is 4 for 4…
why won’t they feed KAT, especially with williams guarding him…
Yes, we don’t get the calls, but the refs are not our issue. OKC defense is. They shut JB down. We scored only 38 points because we feel their pressure and we are neither sharp nor confident. OKC is more composed that we are. Glad we are still in it, but we have to get our offense going.
OKC’s defense was excellent, but we missed some easy shots, made some terrible decisions and executed poorly. Defensively we played hard but things broke down a few times and we gave up easy open 3s. Frustrating game. Refs no help. It should easily be tied right now.
Not watching. Is their D that good or are we missing shot
When you lose your confidence, composure, and rhythm, then yes, you miss makeable shots.
The Knicks are playing a back to back in another country 24 hours later while OKC sat their players. This is a good example of why players don’t play back to backs . In a league with tanking issues Silver and his team should schedule games better .
OG is 2-9, Hart is 2-8, Jalen is 1-8.
Meanwhile Towns is shooting 100% and has gotten 4 shots.
Yes, we gave them a few cheap points, no defense is perfect, plus SGA gets the whistle. Fine. But at the end of this half they scored only 50 points. We have them where we want them! We just need to continue playing intense defense and find a way to get our offense going.
We might well not break 80 tonight. Hard to win that way…
This is the last Detroit game all over again.
think i’ll watch the score from afar for a while…at least the hornets are putting it on the celtics tonight…
Jalen’s on percocet…
We aren’t going to beat anyone shooting 25% from 3 and giving up 44%
Down six…
As soon as Alvarado came on I turned the sound back on…
Can’t question the Knicks effort level tonight at least.
Team was missing my support… here i am… let’s win this!
It is weird that the NBA scheduled what everyone knew could well be a Finals preview before the season as a back-to-back for both teams
TNFH OKC sat their players yesterday against the crappy Bulls so it really isn’t a back to back for their top guys..
Gonna have to somehow survive the Huk minutes…
Shameeeeet
Daryl Morey gift wrapping these guys McCain was criminal
And it’s a tie
Shamet the unsung hero tonight!
Let’s go!
I’m +8 , gotta talk to Leon about the extension! 😀
Shamet really does it all now.
We became the aggressor, got the calls, imposed our will, and it’s 72-72. If not for the first few sluggish minutes this quarter, we could be in front right now. Let’s hope we continue like this.
Brunsooon
Huk is too unbridled
Cmon Huk
Oh Dear, Sochan’s coming in…
And it was OG, not Huk.
JB being in the referee gathering was funny
Really love their intensity.
Mikaaaaaal
Never mind my comment about maybe not getting to 80…
40 point quarter against OKC. Insane.
Nice!
Not gonna lie I yelled out fuck yeah after that Bridges 3pter.
Sochan was..a choice, but his defense was pretty solid!
Holy shit.
Defense has been excellent. Thunder got most of their points from the line.
I’ll cop to recency bias, but best quarter all season considering the opponent.
I complain when they don’t move the ball, but I’ve seen a few possessions where a player had a decent shot, made a pass that he didn’t need to make and we wound up with something worse.
You, me, and all Knicks fans 😉 😀
They did what they were supposed to do this quarter. They have twelve more minutes. It’s up to them to close it out. Lay it all out there!
1st half (without Cyber) 40 pts, 3rd quarter (with Cyber) 40 pts… don’t need to look for more explanations! 😀
Great pass from JB to KAT. Keep doing it, please.
WE ARE THE BEST TEAM!!
Seems like brunson must be pissed at the cheap shots he’s taken and doesn’t want to come off the floor
Losing the non SGA mins to start the 4th quarter is a huge problem.
Very good effort
Yeah this isn’t looking too good right now…
Good effort but they better start making some 3s. Can’t beat this team shooting 29% from 3. Defense playing well
“Anunoby has point-blank range”
Worst shot in the NBA…
The missed ( contested) bunnies not helping the cause either
They should have sat Brunson for a bit to let the Alvarado-KAT lineup get some time.
Yeah, we need to get back at putting the ball through the hoop
The game long strategy of allowing OKC to shoot a shitload of wide open 3s is beginning to bite Knicks in the ass.
OG made a layup!!!!
Thought it would go the other way
Oh shit challenge
It still might…
Of course, after all the calls, the Knicks are going to lose this challenge.
edit: I guess the defender moved his left foot, is that being set?
He’s moving his arms, i don’t think they are overturning this. But i’ve been wrong before. LOL
Booooooo
I am satisfied we are good enough to challenge this team in the Finals as long as we have different refs
Hard to watch these refs.
Tim Thomas looks like he could still help us. 😀
Fuck
That was a ridiculous call, OG grazed him and he threw himself on the floor.
Was that not a foul on Bridges?
I give up on this game. We can’t beat playing 8-5.
Ooooh Geeeee
OKC exploits referees on both sides of the floor. Ultra-aggressive defense, exaggerates contact on the other side.
Plus, super dirty team. Dort in particular.
I hate that I-Hart is there.
Why don’t you do that all the time OG?
Just what this game needed, another coach’s challenge!
Looks like our ball again
They are going to call this foul on KAT
Our offense stalled again. Not good. We are still in it though.
Bridges missing shots killing them
Seriously man fuck these refs.
Refs deciding the outcome, no fucking bueno
Can’t really argue with the call but it’s anger inducing
I give up, i’m from the 90s, when this wouldn’t be a foul not in a million years
Don’t miss FTs, please
Might be the most disappointing 4th quarter of the season.
Good effort. Terrible 2nd and 4th did us in. Defense still playing well. We just couldn’t get baskets
I don’t know how this team became darling of nba refs but it sure helps them win games
It’s not over, we’re fighting
Not sure about that foul on Hart but I will take it
We were due
4 pts. LJ could tie the game by himself. 😀
Give it up for Cap
Brunson should’ve pulled a quick 3pter there when he had the chance.
Alright, well, good game.
I blame Cronin
What a stupid loss considering how great they played in the 3rd quarter.
Great half, i liked it.
Man. Two A+ looks by end-of-game standards.
Gah! That was a Rocky I loss
Lucky OKC. The overturned challenges and the missed 3s from us all night gave them the win.
I love how we competed and a couple more shots go in and we pull this one out. Tough loss but encouraging.
This was a very physical hard fought game against the best team in the NBA and one of the best defenses ever. They are more used to this type of games thus us. They looked cooler and more composed than us for most of the game. They executed better out of the double teams and got cleaner shots. And they shot better than us. We slowed down SGA, but they shut down Brunson. We got some 50-50 calls, they got more. But we competed. We were right there with them. A detail here and there might have changed things. It’s not losing with our hands down like we did against Detroit. No complaints tonight.
To little towns
And the refs were awful
Zebra basketball
That non call on SGA was one of worst I’ve seen in a Knick game this year
At least Boston got blown out
The charge? Yeah that was one of many zebra calls for OKC
The OG play being taken away another ref job
KAT had 9 offensive rebounds
Meanwhile, the stretch from hell continues. Nuggets, Lakers, and Clippers coming up. Let’s see what metal we are made of.
They can beat all 3 of those teams but I hope we don’t have a big let down after this loss
They played hard but not well. You can argue OKC’s defense gave them more opportunities to do dumb things, but they should have won this game.
The Nuggets haven’t been playing well recently and aren’t the same without Gordon.
The Lakers don’t play defense.
The Clippers are not that good.
“The Nuggets haven’t been playing well recently and aren’t the same without Gordon.”
Didn’t someone say on here earlier today that Gordon is due to come back against us on Friday night?
Found it:
Alan says:
March 4, 2026 at 13:40
Amick:
Source: The Nuggets’ Aaron Gordon is targeting a Friday return (against NY) from the hamstring injury that sidelined him Jan. 23.
It remains to be seen if he gets cleared by then, but Denver desperately needs him – again.
Ugh. Teams seem to target us. If he does come back I doubt he’ll be 100%. He’ll probably also be on a minutes restriction.
It’s not about them. It’s about us. It’s a west coast trip, it is always difficult. We need to keep playing hard if we want to win. We can beat all three of them. And if we lose any game, we must go down fighting, not with our hands down.
It’s hard to say for sure they would have won tonight if they had Mitch because they won Huk’s minutes (+7), but I think they might have won yesterday and today if they went for it. Huk didn’t score and had 3 TO’s in 9 minutes. Mitch would have given us more minutes, fewer TOs, better defense and at least a lob threat on offense. At least we hung with this version of OKC.
There is absolutely nothing to hang our heads about. We played really freaking hard 5 against 8 and it came down to a last shot.
I was at the game and the fans were totally into the effort tonight. No one was pissed after the game.
“5 against 8”
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I don’t like blaming the refs, especially when we can just be happy with how hard they played. They hung with them the whole game. It was as “good” of a loss as you’ll ever see.
Ah…….is that what “5 against 8” means, your five players against the other teams’ five players plus three refs? It’s an interesting, somewhat clever turn of phrase, even though I’ve never heard it before (and didn’t see anything about it when I looked it up).
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