The Knicks begin a big West Coast road trip with a visit to Denver to take on a walking wounded Nuggets team that still has Jokic and Murray, so they’re still a team that you need to pay attention to!
Let’s go, Knicks!
58 is still theoretically possible, which is great!
I would really like the Knicks to at least finish 2nd in the East!
127 replies on “2025-26 Game Thread: Knicks @ Nuggets”
So is Monica doing the announcing tonight???
She is! Interested to see how it goes.
The timeout at 4-2 in interesting. Not sure what that is about
Yeah, there is a thing called ‘defensive rebounding’…
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Well, we look terrible.
This crowd is vor-ciferous (as Clyde would say)
Yet another game in which the starting lineup falls behind.
At some point they should stop trying this over and over.
It works with bad teams, but good teams exploit it too easily.
Hart just kills this offense
Add paint penetration…
Add energy…
OMG, we started really bad.
Nice take Josh. He’s done some good stuff too
We may need to win the bench minutes. Looking at you Mo
KAT has done his dumb thing for the night
That is a great Mitching
I know I’m a broken record, but I truly don’t get trading for KAT and then never playing 5 out. Like, why are you spending 60m/year on him?
And he hasn’t helped the defense either.
If Hart is leading the team in FGAs, you know you are doing exactly what the other team wants you to.
MITCH
Three alley oops to Mitch
Where has this been all my life?
I wonder if that was the first successful OG to Mitch alley oop?
Mitch!
Mitch is going to go for 40
Mitch looks engaged
I’m fine with the score, given we started poorly and still haven’t entirely found rhythm. We got this Denver team. We just need to impose our game.
WTF was that?
That looks like a cheap shot to me
Love the adjustment of attacking Jokic on D, who is def cheating off Mitch to help on the paint.
Knicks have the worst whistle in the league. My god
You are allowed to grab the other dude’s balls and it’s a common foul?
Great drive Shamet. Been doing that a lot
Love this response by the Knicks
Bit of a momentum killer
Bullshit call AND tech on Mikal.
Ball don’t lie.
BS technical there, if they gave a double foul on Towns earlier.
Ball don’t lie
Knicks gonna have to stay composed because refs are on one tonight
I say this every time I see him but Jonas Valanciunas remains the last guy you wanted to see coming off the Viking longboat first
Getting in the bonus is great
Check outside if the world is still ok. KAT got a call!
I love how they are defending Murray. Not one inch of space.
we are in it to win it so far…
Love the way this team is competing
Yeah, I felt there were a few tacit admission of fault calls there to make up for the nut-tap
Second quarter adjustment. Kudos to the coach on this one. He was getting lose a lot early on.
It’s amazing how getting a good defensive player (Jose), giving minutes to another one (Mo) and not playing a terrible one (Clarkson) as well as bad ones (Kolek) has made this defense better. Everyone else stepped up too, but the personnel change made a difference.
I am so happy I don’t have to watch Clarkson
What a shot by Jokic, incredible
So many fouls.
OG does this once a month and I love it so much
He will be 1-8 next game but whatever
Keep shooting, OG.
OG the killer
just prior to the start of a recent game mikal was bouncing around the court doing different elaborate handshakes with different teammates…
when he got to OG, OG like half heartedly raised his fist to give him a simple dap…
OG is just on another level of cool…
My main takeaway so far is we cannot under any circumstances lose Mitchell Robinson
I don’t remember the Knicks looking for Mitch as much as they are doing today.
These betting ads are so fucking annoying
Every time we get a clean fast break bucket like that I think about the twenty years between 2000-20 when we didnt have a single fast break bucket.
Their defense is not great
That’s not an offensive foul.
Not even close to an offensive foul
Nuggets are cursed. Murray gets hurt the day Gordon comes back? Geez.
How do you not get the basket there?
yay, that’s one for the good guys…
OG is having himself a game…great defense on joker…
KAT has given up his shooting to power up his rebounding.
Brunson with 2 points Knicks up 13
Up 13 at the half after that lackluster start? I will certainly take that.
Especially with Jalen being 1-8.
On pace for 72 combined FTAs this game. Refs, can you chill a bit.
kind of bizarre halftime event…
proves the point, something doesn’t have to be all that good to grab your attention…
probably a lot cheaper than a red panda performance too…
So now we can just trade baskets with Joker. He gets 60 we win by 13.
It will take a 38-23 quarter every day of the week and twice on Sundays! We clearly outhustled them and imposed our game. Jokic is our biggest problem. If you double him, he’ll pick you apart anyway. Pick your poison. Also, they shot 21 free throws in two quarters. We got to clean this up.
The Mike Brown defense is very legit,
Brown with a very quick hook on Mo, he clearly wants this fucking game
OG is doing great, and his drives are terrific!
Some ugly turnovers. Just make the Jokic minutes neutral, guys.
OG is a freaking menace tonight
First KAT trailer in a week.
Man, our defense was good there
Oh yeah OG
OG keeps forcing the nuggets to call a timeout…
OG is no RJ!
That defensive sequence had serious Charles Smith vibes
What an awesome OG game. He also has 6 boards, 5 assists, 3 steals.
I’m ok with Jokic scoring – Nuggets become dangerous when the others are scoring.
We need Denver OG in the playoffs
ISM loves Denver too
Let’s see how Mo does
Love them Nuggets! 2-24 from three, 16-24 from the line!
At some point early on this team used to be the best offense in the NBA.
The Nuggets are 24-33 from inside the arc.
don’t wanna jinx nothing, and I know the nuggs played last night – but holy shit are we whipping that ass right now…
Up 19 and Jalen has 4 points
Sweet tip by Mo
Kid has got gears!
Brunson stripped Jokic twice one-on-one.
Apparently we are very good.
O fucking G
Ooh good dunk OG
Yummy
There was a period many years ago when we couldn’t win in Denver for over a decade and a half. We seem to have their number these days.
Jokic sits now. Let’s keep him on the bench the whole 4th quarter, please.
How do we transfer the Denver air to New York? Cuz OG plays so different lol
ha, KAT dogging mo all the way to the bench for not heaving an end of quarter shot…
That OG dunk was EPIC
With 0.02 on the clock a catch and shoot can never count.
KAT does stupid stuff, but the refs also hate him, lol.
Build good habits and a killer instinct! We are up by a lot, but the defensive let down since the end of the third quarter is not good at all. I like Mike Brown’s timeout.
[edit: I was wrong! He just emptied the bench! Lol!]
Imagine if Brunson had a good shooting game!
Wow, bench emptied with over 8 minutes left…
definitely willing to give mo the benefit of the doubt for being aware of the situation – i know though that KAT had no clue 😀
I don’t know when we became a defensive juggernaut, but all props to Mike Brown. This is a completely different team on the defensive end
(And damn I wish we had had Mitch against OKC on Wednesday)
No pass by Clarkson, then no defense by Clarkson.
Very Clarkson.
This is a great win.
We won’t have to worry about that (b2bs in the playoffs) because we load managed him during the regular season.
Haha, Dadiet.
Can’t recall a larger and louder Knicks contingent in Denver in the decades I have been watching this team.
Is Dadiet developing?
It’s funny how well the Knicks have played against Denver these last 3 years.
You guys still want to give up on 20 yr old Dadiet for a 15th man on the roster?
forget sometimes that dadiet is 6’9″ and about 210 lbs…
This is a great win. Let’s keep this kind of play up
43 assists!
Our end of bench appears to be better than their end of bench…
Up by 41 in Denver! I never thought I’d live to see that, and it comes against a Jokic team!
Kolek with 8 assists in 8 minutes…
Great game for the Knicks SRS!
I think with that point difference the Knicks might now be 4th in net rating.
Dadiet is over 20ppg in the gleague this year. It’s nothing terribly remarkable and his 3p% is still garbage, but it’s a heck of a lot better than last year.
Heh heh heh
OG was a supermax player tonight.
Also, I think there is a chance they start the day tomorrow as #5 in DRtg via basketball-reference. After facing the best offense in the league. Crazy.
An interesting development these past few games is that Brunson and KAT, while not having huge scoring games, are still contributing in other ways that is leading to a more balanced offense. This will pay dividends in the playoffs, provided Knicks remember we have others that can score and don’t have to play hero ball when the going gets tough
I like the way Brunson is playing lately. If the shot is not there he’s moving the ball better.
Kolek 8 assists in 9 minutes.
Serious question:
At what point does this stretch become better than January 2024?
Marechal, I had just said to my wife that this is the best we have played since that time.
Good question. That 2024 stretch was short lived and hard to draw conclusions from, but it felt more forceful and dominant. I was in Europe for a week or so and had to stay up until 5am to watch a few of those games! But the feeling was that we became the best in the NBA. By the end of the second quarter, as far as I can recall, it was obvious that, no matter what the score was, nobody could beat us. The opponent knew it and we knew it! This current stretch is longer but with letdowns like the bad loss against Detroit, and two days ago the loss against OKC, no matter how hard we fought, which still raise questions about who we are and how far we can go.
watching inside the nba and trying not to let the return of jayson tatum ruin this feel good nuggets drubbing…
That was awesome to see the Knicks just beat the shit out of them.