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Good morning, all! Josh not playing tonight. I know we won’t need him , but I’ll miss watching him play:
Expected Lineup
PG Jalen Brunson
SG Landry Shamet
SF Mikal Bridges
PF OG Anunoby
C K. Towns
MAY NOT PLAY
F Josh Hart Out
G M. McBride Out
Expected Lineup
PG Nolan Traore
SG Drake Powell
SF Z. Williams Ques
PF Danny Wolf
C Nic Claxton
MAY NOT PLAY
G B. Saraf Prob
F Z. Williams Ques
F N. Clowney Out
F M. Porter Out
Also:
@IanBegley
Mike Brown said Miles McBride has progressed to taking contact in his rehab from sports hernia surgery. The Knicks say McBride is doing on-court work, taking contact and progressing well. No reason at this point to think McBride won’t be fully ready for the postseason.
7:27 PM · Mar 17, 2026
There was a funny comment in response to Begley’s post. It said “When is Bridges cleared for contact?” 🙂
The way Luka is playing now he may have me eating some of my past words about him soon. He looks physically fit and imo is playing better on both sides than he has in awhile. I predicted the Lakers would have a top 3 offense (when healthy). But I didn’t think they were good enough defensively to win it all. Now they look a bit better on D than I expected. They won’t be an easy out for anyone with Luka playing like this.
I think the move when everyone is back is to put Bridges with the reserves and start either Deuce or Shamet. Will Brown do it? I feel like we’re past the optics point of things, so it’s more about whether the benefit to the starting group will outweigh any chemistry issues stemming from Mikal’s hurt feelings.
Mikal’s shooting is such a disappointment – hitch is totally back after looking smooth to start the year.
Non-Knicks material – but has anyone seen what Ty Jerome is doing in Memphis? I know it’s March when numbers get whacky (see: Obi Toppin) but….
22 min per game
per-36 averages of 32.5 points, 9.2 assists, 5.1 rebounds, 1.7 steals
Shooting 48.5/42.7/87
63.4 TS on 33 usage
OBPM 8.9 (this is Jokic territory)
looks like last year was not a fluke.
he’s in the first year of a 3 for 27.7 contract
Meanwhile – I had no idea but he’s from New Rochelle and went to Iona Prep! local kid.
I’d leave everything alone for now.
IMO Bridges is going to be fine. People whined about Towns endlessly when he was slumping and now he’s playing better on both sides. The same will be true of Bridges. Then we’ll start whining about OG or Hart or whoever else is not getting enough shots or slumping from 3.
The more interesting issue is Hart. I think we need his playmaking and rebounding in the starting lineup, but his unwillingness to pull the trigger at times when he’s not shooting well can cause issues. I can see experimenting with Deuce or Mitch instead of Hart depending on the matchups and what we need on the court.
In mean time, I’d do nothing.
Deuce is the straw that stirs our drink.
In addition to Hart being out…
Hope all is well with him. KAT has been through way too much in his personal life.
That’s really funny (and sad at the same time)
I’m hoping for extended minutes for Alvie, Mo, and I guess even Clarkson tonight. I wish Cap would sit this one out again, but I also understand why he wouldn’t.
Hey Alan – there is something I’ve been meaning to ask you for a while and since today might be light on Knicks news/recaps I figure I’d sneak it in.
Like all here, I really enjoy reading your work and it’s evidently clear to me that your brain processes/consumes media differently than mine. But I’m curious how you’re able to separate the art from the artist in some respect. For example, I’m not a fan (at all) of Jason Segel’s work. Between his work in movies and shows, I see him as a guy just “trying to act” instead of it coming across naturally. It prevents me from immersing myself in the experience because of this and his jokes/humor/portrayals don’t land. It’s what has prevented me from watching Shrinking – despite the rave reviews.
Perhaps I’m wrong but, I imagine, you must have someone similar that triggers this kind of response. How can you objectively write about a show when going into it your “hate boner” is beeping?
Between him and Donovan Mitchell Westchester has a really good backcourt in the league
Oh and by the way, Liam Neeson and Russel Crowe are perilously close to this status. It’s clear that they’re just there to collect paychecks which is a damn shame considering their early work.
I thought that Segel was pretty damn good in this one. He and Jesse Eisenberg play really well off of each other, IMHO (rest of this message from AI, but I agree with the statements made here):
Jason Segel delivered a critically acclaimed dramatic performance as reclusive author David Foster Wallace in the 2015 film The End of the Tour. Segel portrayed the brilliant but troubled novelist during a 1996 five-day interview with a Rolling Stone reporter, highlighting themes of loneliness, fame, and mental health.
For those who have time to kill or a desperate need to procrastinate, good story on Zuby Ejiofor and his ‘family’ and their various life stories in The Athletic. I don’t follow college at all, but I’ll happily root for St. Johns now (actually have had a soft spot for them going back to Chris Mullin and Mark Jackson and Malik Sealy…)
…and my favorite procrastination hypothesis of the day:
Neurobiology fact: Procrastination is a survival mechanism, not a character flaw.
When your cognitive load spikes (like facing a vague to-do list), your brain registers the friction as a literal threat.
Because your brain prioritizes survival over productivity, it actively forces an avoidance response (like scrolling your phone) to protect the hardware from crashing.
Avoidance is not laziness; it is overload management. You aren’t undisciplined. Your operating system is just protecting itself.
It doesn’t really work that way for me, I guess? Or, rather, at a certain point if I clearly am never going to respond to somebody’s work (say, Taylor Sheridan’s), I stop trying. Too much content out there to write about.
There are also some showrunners and/or actors whom I strongly dislike as people, but who do great work, and some really nice guys whose work I think is usually bad. Gotta separate the art from the artist, unless you never like the artist’s art.
Jason Segel was supposedly a pretty good ballplayer back in the day. Could legit dunk.
Appreciate the insight man. I suppose it’s one of the benefits of being independent since it affords you to pick and choose.
Segel’s wiki page says he won a state championship backing up Jason Collins in high school.
He also won a school dunk contest.
Time to dump DOS and upgrade…
As an Iona Prep alum also from New Rochelle, I have been hearing about Jerome for a long time from my older brother. 🙂
I still don’t quite get just why Jerome’s market was fucked SO badly by having one bad series.
Funny and pleasant comment, Raven. Alas, it becomes the opposite if one takes it seriously. Once all kinds of issues and comments have been paraded on the forum recently, I will allow myself to indulge.
To a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Seventeenth century mathematicians believed they would explain the human mind (and behavior) based on the then newly discovered mathematical integrations. Computer programmers today think the same by pointing to their own field, and neurobiologists think they can explain humanity based on the neurophysiological mechanisms of the brain. Those irrelevant, reductionist, and deterministic approaches can yield appalling conclusions if pursued further, and they have been so pursued from various angles in the past, with 19th-20th century eugenics, Nazism, sociobiological selfish gene type theories, and so on, being just a few examples. Not to mention that human free will also goes away in most such theories.
Here is a quick philosophical response to this problem. Humans are not only a body; they are rather in a body. That little addition, that beyond the body, their thought, spirit, mind, call it as you wish, is what ultimately decides who they are and how they behave. Because they have free will. Thus, even if a body mechanism calls for certain moves in favor of self-preservation, the decision is not made by the body but by you, the human personality. This is why procrastination may be a ‘fixable’ thing even if it has neurobiological causes and not the more frequent social ones.
Fair enough Rough, and a fun set of counterpoints. I was just pleased to find that I could for a moment consider myself something other than a lazy, useless git.
I have learned a trick, though. My work style is to hop from one thing to another (ADHD, anyone?), but I try to have short-term, work-related activities lined up with which to procrastinate. Makes me highly efficient and effective, to the annoyance of my colleagues.
2026 – looks maxing and gooning
A world without free will, Raven, would be in a certain sense a very pleasant one: nobody would bear any responsibility whatsoever for the results of their actions. 😊😊😊
All sounds pretty familiar, Raven – I’m with you.
But then, that might just be what the gut bacteria that run me want me to think.
Well I think there’s a difference between thinking there’s a biological rationale for reacting to unpleasantness in certain ways, and a lack of free will. Fight or flight is a real thing, but it’s your call whether to fight, flee, or stand there quietly until the adrenaline washes out.
My uncle was a philosopher who wrote a few books on how there was in fact no free will. He actually had a strong argument, but I just couldn’t go there. Messed with my world view more than if I discovered that ghosts were real…
See, this is what happens when the game is against the Nyets. Things degenerate into Segal, free will, and gooning.
Who says we lose the first quarter?
I am roughing it an all-inclusive resort in Punta Cana so will have to miss the game tonight. Sad.
Having your life dictated by one short playoff series is a big part of what people named Jerome do, they can’t just kick it to the curb.
Z-man, This game is not predicted to be a very interesting one, and you might be better off enjoying your vacation without it. Other than that, there are plenty of free links online. I could send you one, if you wish.
Also, how can you call it all-inclusive if it doesn’t have MSG?
i went to one of those all inlcusives in the DR once…i read that they served the beer in those red party cups and since it was so hot…i figured the beer would get warm quick sitting pool side…so I thought I was smart and I bought this special beer glass that fit into an insulated molded thermos like holder…worked like a charm…the bartenders thought it was awesome…said they never saw anybody bring something like it….surprisingly it survived that trip…but I broke the glass a few years later and that was that….couldn’t believe how many germans there were down there…getting burnt to a crisp…like they never heard of sunscreen…
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