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All of the Knick starters yesterday were between +18 and +28.
[Extremely fake Strat voice, done with love]
That’s because Brunson’s been holding them back all this time! TRAID BRUNSON!
We’d probably have to hire Nico Harrison to pull off that trade, but I’d volunteer for the job as long as I’m guaranteed safe passage out of the metro NY area and put in the witness protection program. 😉
For who? Any Top15 player coming our way? This is getting silly.
How about to Toronto for IQ & RJ?
Min for DDV & Randle?
The options are endless!
Lol! Good morning laughs!
I know it was the undermanned Pacers, but last night threw me for a loop. The offense was great with a PG who prioritizes getting everyone going..yet again. But when Brunson plays, he’s off ball alot. Even then it feels like the ball sticks too much with Brunson in comparison to games like last night. I’m not quite sure how to feel about that. Was the offense more open due to poor defense? Or was it due to the mindset and role of the PG’s who played in Brunson’s stead? I know both Kolek and Alvarado are more of the passing type PG’s, but they do it differently. Kolek is more of a probing type PG, whereas Alvarado is the highly communicative guy who just moves the ball..and calls for it so he can move it some more to exploit certain parts of the defense. Is it possible that Alvarado is more of a true PG than Kolek? I still think Kolek by far has the better court vision. But I love how both those guys play and now I’m afraid that we will have to choose between the 2 next season, unless Deuce is used in a trade. Sheesh..now that I’m thinking about it- we are probably on Shamet/Deuce/Alvarado/Kolek watch for next season, and I’m greedy. I want all of them back lol
Jalen Brunson is the Knicks’ Trae Young.
I felt the need to post that last night even though it is so heretical it might get me banned, but sometimes one has to do a comedic bit and take one’s lumps.
I am, of course, kidding. But I also had a vision before sleep overtook me of Brown playing Jose and Kolek for the first three quarters, and then Brunson gets the last 12 minutes of every game… Close, Cap!
I’m not being serious.
I’m 67 and have been a Knicks fan for close to 60 years. I’m old fashioned. I like traditional PG play. I like when the PG is more of a quarterback looking to direct traffic, keep the ball moving, penetrate, draw doubles, find the open man and create high quality shots for others with elite court vision and passing skills.
The game has evolved a bit. PGs are now more often the primary scorer looking to create for themselves. The quarterback part of it is secondary.
In any event, I don’t dislike Brunson. He’s a high quality scorer and great finisher. I just like the way the offense functions better when Alvarado or Kolek is making plays. The offense may not be as good because we need more scoring, but it functions better.
Makes me nuts Indy’s gonna get a top pick though.
Strat is entitled to his aesthetic preferences but I personally don’t like it when Brunson leaves the floor and our offense goes from one that would be the best in the NBA to one that wouldn’t make the top 12.
One of the things I like about load management is that you don’t have to deal with the, “how are they going to replace 25 points a game” with player X out.
That was such a thing when Melo was here. Then we had Linsanity.
Ruru, where are you? We miss you.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7127499/2026/03/18/knicks-mike-brown-changing-starters-josh-hart/
Edwards making the argument that some others have: if Brown makes a change to the healthy starting lineup, Bridges should be the one to go to the bench, not Hart. To hell with the optics.
They need to do something. Their 1st quarter numbers are just not good right now.
Understatement of the day to say “not good right now.”
Are we going to talk about the fact that Mo only got 6 minutes last night? What the hell? Only thing I can think of is that they are “hiding” him and taking him off the radar screens of other teams. But in the meantime, we don’t get to use him?
“Traditional point guards” don’t exist anymore. Go ahead, try to name one. There aren’t any.
The league leaders in assists per game:
Nikola Jokic
Cade Cunningham
Luka Doncic
Jalen Johnson
James Harden
This is like lamenting that your favorite football team doesn’t have a Larry Csonka-style fullback.
I miss Larry Csonka-style fullbacks!
Your point is well taken, though, JK.
The thing I want is to find a way to meld the free-flowing play that existed when Jalen was out last year (and OG averaged 27 pt/g among other things) with Jalen actually on the court.
Brown has been tinkering a lot. I’m not gonna overthink Diawara sitting for longer. We’ve seen how good Kolek can be, so if he’s getting minutes then I’m fine with that.
Mo hasn’t exactly been playing that well lately it seems.
I liked my fullbacks more similar to Keith Byars.
Larry Csonka and Mercury Morris were the dream “backcourt” of my youth.
Every time I saw one of the M. Morris twins in a box score my brain would always go to Mercury…
Don’t.
If you turn off the lights and say Carmelo Anthony into a mirror 3 times, you can summon him
Football hasn’t been the same for me since they moved away from Walter Camp’s T Formation.
Fullback? I prefer ones who can run, block, and catch at an equally good level. Think William Floyd, Kimble Anders, Christian Okoye, Larry Centers, Mike Alstott
I loved Okoye so much. Broke the mold with that guy.
And the Nigerian Nightmare hard to beat as a nickname.
I had a very soft spot for Jim Kiick, the receiving running back on that Dolphin team.
Some random basketball trivia I’ve stumbled on today:
Who had little Timmy Jr. having one of his best seasons at 34? Of course playing with the Joker doesn’t hurt, but still.
Speaking of age, Kyle Kuzma is 30. Not sure how that happened.
Meanwhile Bones Hyland is only 25; somehow I would have guessed in his early 30s for some reason…
KP is an unrestricted free agent next year. Just sayin… ; )
most memorable fullback for me is otis anderson…he already looked old and tired when he got to the giants – and he just kept right on truckin’…
loved how his uni was always so ill fitting looking…an improbable gem of a player…
He’d be kind of a perfect backup for KAT when healthy. But “when healthy” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. I wonder what a twin towers look with both of them would look like.
“Mo hasn’t exactly been playing that well lately it seems.”
I guess. But if ever there was a game where we could afford to use him, develop him by giving him some time, and maybe build his confidence back up, it would have been last night.
I’ve gotten this sense all season that MB is trying his best to explore as much of the roster as possible, including during games…
seems strange at times…which is all to say that I don’t think a player’s performance entirely affects their chances for getting on the court…
oh yeah, funny to see clarkson flying around now on defense a bunch, born again defender there…
JB is the best Knicks since Patrick Ewing. I don’t even like the joking around about the team lookig better without him.
We about to win ~54 games this season with JB at leadership and act like this is nothing for us…like we can easily do better without him becuase he’s style is a little annoying.
Please, – let’s not do him dirty like we did Pat and have him retire a Knick. It’s not funny. Need ot show unconditional love to the captain.
Director, the only things that get my unconditional love in this world is Lady Raven and the Lad. Having said that, I’ll reiterate with the fact that I was making a joke. And it was a joke with an underlying point, which is our greatest chance of a chip is if Brunson finds a way to unleash the dogs of war (KAT, Hart, OG, yes even sad little Mikal).
We’ve actually seen that happen now and again this season, but it’s waxed and waned and entirely disappeared for stretches. I’m not really sure why, but to me that’s the golden key.
mikal’s energy level looks all over the place during the game…
at times he’d lose his balance or run in to folks just cuz he was gassed…
other times he’s like the only guy on the team totally engaged in the play…the one block where he ran someone down was crazy, crazier that he was the only knick on defense beyond half court…
are there other players in the association that i’d rather have on the team than mikal, sure, but the same could be said for just about everyone…i’m glad to have him on the roster…need to go check his post season stats, but I trust he’ll show when it counts…
from a front office and coaching perspective, i’d find it extremely frustrating that mikal is determined not to take any games off to more fully rest/recover…
however…mikal seems as bought in on basketball, team play, professionalism and such as anyone on the team, or any other player in the association…
If we unleash the dogs of war it means the dogs are healthy. That is my only concern for the next 12 games. Remember warhorse JR going down in game 77, 3 years ago. JR, OG, and Mitch hoping to be available with 12 games to go 2 years ago. And JB recovering at the same point last year. We don’t need a particular seeding. A rested no niggling injuried Brunson combined with a defensively engaged healthy KAT and the rest of an injury-free roster can really play some impressive ball.
just checked games played for the team…
looks like OG and josh both need 9 more games to get to 65…
makes me smile to see Mo’s played in 59 games this season, tyler in 56…
3 more cupcakes wins to go…
+ beat Hornets (away 3/26)
+ beat Boston (home 4/09)
+ go 4:3 the other 7 games.
= #2 seed.
Above combination of 54 wins + Boston tie breaker will get them the #2 seed. There is plenty of games to rest and heel too. It’s wise to even through the OKC game and sit everyone.
Lol, cause he’s already a journeyman and basically went out of the league and came back already
Mere mention of Bones Hyland broke the site.
Mo really hasn’t been good in a while. I blame Mamdani.
https://sports.yahoo.com/wnba/article/aja-wilson-to-reportedly-re-sign-with-aces-for-supermax-14-million-salary-after-new-cba-takes-effect-000814354.html best player in the league first to get a million dollar deal
Average lead margin in games tonight is, like, 30 points, even the games still in the first half. NBA has a dire disengagement complex that rivals The Yellow Wallpaper and my own teenagers. Somethings gotta give.
I always remember that Bones Hyland is the same age as Deuce McBride, because they were both second round picks in the same draft and I envisioned them as a buddy cop duo, Deuce and Bones.
Amazingly we didn’t just end up with one of them, we got the better one.
Yeah, the margin is currently averaging 17 points in the 8 games that are over or still ongoing.
aja wilson simply exudes major aura…dominance with style…
tough to admit, the fakers sort of seem like they’re dialing it in here late in this season…for some reason they’ve decided to play some team defense…
deandre ayton needs to shave his head and put on some goggles…try to channel as much old laker magic as possible…
Only if he starts playing like Kareem does he deserve to be able to do that. In other words, not gonna happen.
Speaking of Kareem
https://youtu.be/jhdY8BxrxB4?si=1d2yR95NLMVYNThF
It’s nights like these that make me happy the NBA is expanding….
There is no sign that the NBA is actually going to expand, Owen. You’re getting just a teensy little bit ahead of yourself. From The Athletic Bounce:
Is the NBA headed to Seattle and Vegas?
For years, we’ve been waiting for the great city of Seattle to get the SuperSonics back. And for years, people have predicted the NBA would eventually put a team in Las Vegas. We’ve even had chatter that maybe LeBron James will be a part of the ownership group for the Vegas team. But expansion is a long, arduous process for the NBA to consider and act on.
We learned yesterday that at next week’s Board of Governors meeting, the NBA is prepared to vote on … no, not expansion … but to formally … look into … whether Seattle and Las Vegas are viable expansion markets. This is from Mike Vorkunov and David Aldridge:
“The NBA’s owners will meet later this month to decide whether the league will move forward with plans to add new franchises in Las Vegas and Seattle, in a possible next step toward long-awaited NBA expansion.
Team governors will vote during a March 25 meeting on whether to give the NBA the green light to formally examine those cities as potential expansion markets, according to a league source.”
In the words of Bob Wiley, baby steps. Look, it’s a start. What will be funny is if we find out an owner votes against even looking into this process. And yes, that owner will absolutely be the Knicks’ James Dolan. The NBA’s biggest issues when it comes to expanding to 32 teams are 1) does it make financial sense for the league and its owners, and 2) is there enough talent to not dilute the product on the floor?
As for the economic part of it, owners probably don’t want to turn their share of the $76 billion broadcasting rights deal into a 1/32 slice instead of 1/30. But as Vorkunov and Aldridge reported:
“Industry sources have opined in recent months that an expansion fee could run as high as $8 billion per team. Team governors do not have to split expansion fee revenues with the players.”
So we might be talking about an extra $16 billion for owners to share if two more teams join the NBA. Of course, the league is also trying to get NBA Europe off the ground in the next 18 months. It’s fair to wonder if the NBA would be biting off more than it can chew with all of these business ventures domestically and internationally. And after looking into these cities, the league will still have many logistics to figure out before approving expansion outright. These are baby steps toward adding the Sonics and Gamblers (What? Is Gamblers too much? Well, is the league embracing sports betting or not?).
As Vorkunov wrote, expanding by one or two teams would have a seismic impact on the NBA. And if you think about it, the NBA’s Collective Bargaining Agreement is designed now to redistribute expensive talent as teams avoid the first and second aprons. Maybe that helps with the talent dilution question?
I’d put a lot of Bounce dollars on the NBA approving this vote to look into Seattle and Vegas expansion. We just don’t know if that actually leads to expansion in those cities, or at all.
Fair enough. And the Pelicans came back. All is well, give or take 20% of the world’s lng production going offline for a long while.
Luka to the Lakers
Thanks Silver
What did Adam Silver have to do with Doncic being traded to the Lakers for Anthony Davis?
Keep the most popular team in the NBA relevant with a mega star post Lebron
Right after that gifts the Mavs number 1 pick
Kind of explains your handle. 🙂 Sorry…….I don’t happen to believe any of it happened that way. But it’s OK if you do.