Comments on: Knicks Morning News (2026.03.31)

By: TheRant

TheRant — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:30:36 +0000

What annoyed me wasn’t only SGA getting more foul calls than Mitch had rebounds. It was all of the OTHER extracurricular action as well.

This play was so egregious, when Lou Dort plowed into Josh Hart and the call was an invisible offensive foul on Hart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY67PhiGjkw

Even worse, the female ref was standing ten feet in front of Josh Hart, saw everything. She made a reasonable no call (though it was a foul on Dort). Instead, another Ref, who had no view of the action, comes running in from twenty feet away to call it an Offensive Foul on Hart. Glaring.

How to say you have bet money on the Thunder without saying you have bet money on the Thunder. The League needs to stop this nonsense.

There was another one, I can’t find it on YouTube, but it was on national TV. Chet Holmgren grabs Brunson and pushes him out of the way, to get an Offensive Rebound. Ref calls Brunson for a foul.

Ridiculous.

By: Z-man

Z-man — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:56:28 +0000

DEUCE IS PLAYING TONIGHT!!!!!!

By: Director NYC

Director NYC — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:41:19 +0000

The Knicks can totally still win this division. They just really need to beat the Rockets tonight.

Must win game on the road against KD and Houston, no love lost from Knick fans from either, to win the division and host the 2nd round of playoffs…let’s refocus with what’s important and in front of us.

LET’S GO!

By: Raven is a Big Black Bird

Raven is a Big Black Bird — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:46:32 +0000

Since it’s all hot takes for me today because Tuesday, I’ll just mention that it sure seems like Tiger’s had real dependency problems for going on almost two decades now. That’s one crappy entourage he has.

By: BrunsonPeroneusLongus

BrunsonPeroneusLongus — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:55:21 +0000

I obviously don’t know, but it seems very likely at least some of his problem stems from pain due to all his inuries and surgeries. He should just totally stop playing, get his physical and mental health in order, do something about his spiritual health and enjoy his 1.5 billion another way.

Narcissists gonna Narcissist…

By: Donnie Walsh

Donnie Walsh — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:50:26 +0000

NBA.com has SGA second in FT attempts per game (Brown again), with Deni down at like 16th. Which kind of does suggest star treatment, since Deni is heading into the pits more than SGA and getting way fewer calls.

In real life, though, Doncic leads the league by quite a lot with Shai a hair ahead of Avdija.

But the conclusion is the same either way: guys who are good enough to get to the basket tend to get fouled, whether it’s called or not. You can’t give a guy a quota just because he’s good.

By: Z-man

Z-man — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:29:01 +0000

Shay probably earns 80+% of the calls he gets. The problem with Shai is that he just doesn’t miss any clean look inside of 20 feet. And when someone is that good, you have to get up into him to effectively guard him. And once you do that he is so crafty that it is inevitable that he will cause the defender to reach or lunge or get to the spot a split second late.

He is possibly the best scorer between 20 and 5 feet I have ever seen. If you change the rules just for him, it would be unfair. If you change the rules for everyone until he doesn’t get those calls, then it is going to hurt lots of players, including Brunson, and the likelihood is that foul calls will be even more contentious.

By: Raven is a Big Black Bird

Raven is a Big Black Bird — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:22:13 +0000

Meanwhile NBA.com has SGA second in FT attempts per game (Brown again), with Deni down at like 16th.

Which kind of does suggest star treatment, since Deni is heading into the pits more than SGA and getting way fewer calls.

By: Raven is a Big Black Bird

Raven is a Big Black Bird — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:20:07 +0000

Deni averages almost 26 pts per game and is second in the league in # drives to the basket, just behind Jaylen Brown and just ahead of SGA.

So yeah, he probably gets a ton of foul calls.

By: Donnie Walsh

Donnie Walsh — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:50:37 +0000

Shai doesn’t even lead the league in FT attempts per game. And he’s tied with Deni Avdija, who I’ve never even seen play in my life. That’s star treatment?