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Knicks Morning News (2026.05.07)

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  • 7 replies on “Knicks Morning News (2026.05.07)”

    As his strongest defender here I’m happy I was right. People are way too influenced by recency.

    I think you could power a small planet on the sheer ironic power of those two sentences.

    And then have enough left over to power a spaceship to Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite.

    Re OG, assuming it’s a hamstring strain (and it looks like nothing but that):

    1. If it’s a Grade 2 (Luka), he’s done for the playoffs. Luka was told “eight weeks” the day after he strained his and it looks like it’s going to be something like that.

    2. If it’s a Grade 1, that’s what Jalen Williams did (allegedly anyway). He injured himself April 22 and still isn’t back yet. That’s 15 days, and he’s still “not in high-intensity workouts,” according to Daignault. Fifteen days is a massive best case, which would put OG at a May 22-23 return, or roughly Game 3 of the ECF. That scenario is highly unlikely.

    3. He wasn’t even in the same stratosphere as “ready” when he played those few minutes against Indiana in Game 7 two years ago, 11 days after the hamstring strain there. So he’s not going to be ready for a Game 7 here if it goes that far and if you use that data point, reasonable speculation would be something like three weeks from today, or something like Game 4-5 ECF.

    I don’t speculate on hamstring strains and the bullshit bad luck and timing of this led me to exercise good Moneyball form, and take profits at the current +800.

    Couldn’t watch last night, trying to read the box score tea leaves today… it seems to be telling me they did the wing-on-KAT / center-on-Josh thing and we struggled with it again… is there more to it than that?

    Re OG, assuming it’s a hamstring strain (and it looks like nothing but that):

    I don’t speculate on hamstring strains

    That was nice of you to power up Jupiter for Strat’s landing.

    Couldn’t watch last night, trying to read the box score tea leaves today… it seems to be telling me they did the wing-on-KAT / center-on-Josh thing and we struggled with it again… is there more to it than that?

    KAT mostly dominated but couldn’t play enough minutes due to foul trouble.

    Sixers had to play Barlow due to their own foul trouble, and he ended up being the best defender on Brunson. They were switching P&Rs and he held up one on one leading to long 2s. George bothered KAT a bit with a steal, and I think it made them go away from KAT as the focal point.

    It wasn’t crisp. But I think their rhythm was affected in a major way by the crazy calls in the first half and then they had to play less aggressive.

    Also, they couldn’t hit anything from downtown.

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