I did notice that a lot of our starters barely cracked 30 minutes. Was this just Brown resting players against a G-League team and giving dudes like Clarkson some burn to fill in?

I do like using Clarkson during this stretch of the season. Let our starters rest and Clarkson can play against these tanking scrub teams.

But just curious why we aren’t blowing these bad teams out.

I think this happens a lot when one team learns that the opponent is missing basically everyone. They come out unmotivated and get burned by hungry hungry scrubs

Also, specific to last night’s game, often a team playing their first home game after a long road trip comes out flat

Not making excuses, but that’s my best explanation Swifty.

Hard to believe this team is only 6 wins away from 50.

Yeah, that makes sense. People act like G-League guys can’t play basketball but these tanking teams that bring these dudes up…these are all guys looking to prove something so they can make a big boy roster next season. It’s not surprising to me that they can play well for one night.

Clarkson may play here or there until Deuce is back, but he didn’t suddenly become a good player and decision maker because he had a couple of good games against G League quality opposition. He’s still a significant negative player.

Can someone fill me in who watched the game?

Why was it so close?

I watched most of the first half with the Oscars on the main tv. The Knicks sucked in the first half. Seemed to be effort + shots not falling. Warriors just looked hungrier.

The Knicks were flat and slow. Also totally unhelpful that they couldn’t hit a shot. At halftime they were like 18% from three, while the Warriors were over 50%. You’re not going to win with that kind of discrepancy.

The starting lineup continues to suck donkey kong. I know some people want to blame Hart, but I’m struggling to see him as the real problem. I mean maybe, but when he was out and Shamet started they still sucked.

Perhaps it’s just me, but I’m quite concerned about bad habits getting ingrained. I mean sure once the competition gets better maybe they’ll just turn it on from the get-go. Or you know, maybe not.

I would very much like to see some ass-kicking in the next two games. By the Knicks, that is.

As we’ve seen a number of times over the years, when you have a bunch of young low-level guys, a good coach can REALLY coach them up a LOT.

You start to lose the effect of “coaching them up” when you get star players who, well, you know, aren’t going to do everything the coach tells them and thank them for it like young, low level guys.

Last night’s performance was certainly against scrubs. But Clarkson’s best game of the season was probably Christmas against the Cavs, in a game we definitely would’ve lost without him. I’d say we’re up to 5-6 of those, actually.

I don’t feel super strongly as to whether he should get any real playoff minutes, though given how much everyone but Brunson struggles with dribble penetration and shot creation I’m probably more open to it than most.

Very happy with the minimum signing, though.

It was hilarious when Kerr threw a tantrum at Will Richard for not catching a terrible pass that Podz made.

On the question of why that happened: the defense wasn’t really good – Warriors were getting to the rim at will. There was a lot of shooting variance in the first half (plus at least 2 fouls on 3PAs?).

I am worried about the Knicks offense. It’s taken a nose dive in the last month, not unlike last year.

You must be logged in to post a comment.

This site uses User Verification plugin to reduce spam. See how your comment data is processed.

M	T	W	T	F	S	S
						1
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
30	31

Recent Posts

Recent Comments

Archives

11 replies on “Knicks Morning News (2026.03.16)”

Leave a Reply