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I saw something yesterday about how Charles Barkley predicted the Knicks would win the East before the season, and, like, so the fuck what? I think almost everyone who followed the NBA thought that the Knicks were the best positioned team to win the East before the season. It’s so dumb to be, like, “Wow, Chuck called it even then!” This isn’t like saying, like, that the Pacers would win the East before last season. THAT would have been an amazing pull. But not predicting the Knicks to win the East. As I have noted from the beginning of the season, the Knicks were clearly the team that SHOULD win the East, and I think I would have found this season to ultimately be a disappointment had they NOT won the East.
Luckily, no disappointment for Brian this year! Just all NBA happiness! And it’s fucking awesome!
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I definitely want to play the banged up Thunder.
I definitely don’t want to play the Thunder with a recovered Williams and Mitchell. But that team really doesn’t seem like it’s coming back any time soon.
If Mitch misses some/all of the games, I feel like the Thunder become a somewhat better matchup for us than the Spurs. Or maybe not, because Mitch’s absence would force Brown to do more of OG at the 5, and OG seems uniquely well-suited to confound Wemby.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/48909492/sources-mitchell-robinson-pinkie-plans-play-nba-finals
Kind of anxious for game 1. It’d be great if we could steal 1 of the first 2 and get back to MSG all even.
I’m really torn about who I prefer. I think the Spurs are more likely to feel like their championship was beating OKC, but they are just so physically formidable. OKC is banged up but their strengths match up well with us and they have experience and continuity, especially if they get healthy.
Sort of a coin flip, I guess.
Surgery…no bueno.
“Kind of anxious for game 1. It’d be great if we could steal 1 of the first 2 and get back to MSG all even.”
What?!?! No sweep?!?!
Spurs looked formidable yesterday, but teams always look unbeatable when they win like that. SGA won’t have many of these games.
From birds eye view this SGA thing is really pretty interesting. Huge social media and regular media pushback on his flopping – and he goes from 17 FTA to 3 FTA. If this holds — meaning the refs will stop giving him the nonsense fouls — then maybe I’d rather play OKC?
I know Mitch wants to play, but that seems quite optimistic/aggressive given he had surgery.
Well it would be quite a turnaround if he dominates game 7, his TS% through 6 games is an abysmal .520
ESPN says Mitch plans to play. Hope Huk is ready for some action though
The Spurs have won every game when Wembanyama showed up big, but the fact that he has only been his dominant self in 3 games tells me he’s still figuring out his conditioning and the level of aggression he needs to play with. They’re still very scary because they seem to be figuring things out so fast in the playoffs, but there’s definitely inconsistency to be exploited with the Spurs.
It’s going to be a huge challenge either way, but I maintain I would rather face the younger team in the Spurs that is more likely to be exhausted emotionally after winning a game 7 on the road against their hated rivals.
Mitch is playing. It is his pinky finger which bears the smallest load of any of the fingers. Depending on the type and location of the fracture they either insert a pin or make an insision and use a plate to approximate the fracture. They’ll then strap it to the ring finger and off he goes. He isn’t Steph Curry who needs fine control when dribbling through traffic or hoisting up 30 footers. It would have been much worse had he broken his index finger or others.
Calling Dr Ronnie Lott for a pep talk 🙂
Read someone mentioned that this surgery typically means missing 2 weeks so hopefully at worst Mitch misses first 2 games but returns when the series goes to MSG.
I don’t know if they will actually tape the pinky to the ring finger. They may just heavily tape/splint the pinky on its own so that the ring finger stays free. Similar to what they did with Josh’s middle finger.
When the injury was first reported, Macri speculated in his newsletter that it could have happened from Mitch goofing around away from the court. So it’s at least a relief to hear that it came against the Cavs, rather than Mitch being Mitch in his downtime.
Perfect face saving reason to try the granny free throws, right?
One thing I’m glad about is that they have all of this extra time to figure out how to optimize/maximize what is going on with Mitch’s finger. This is *exactly* why having all of this extra time between series can potentially be so important!
Yeah Alan, I distinctly remember Mitch holding what I thought was his wrist in lots of pain, but it seemed like he shook it off.
I am pretty confident that he will be at or near 100% with this injury. He’s gonna get hack-a-Mitched a lot anyway, so it’s best to get Huk ready to play 5-10 minutes. I’d rather Brown tries that than risk blowing out OG’s hammy…it was in a game where both Mitch and KAT were in foul trouble vs. Philly that OG was on his way to playing 40 minutes before pulling up lame.
The main thing is will Mitch still be able to grab rebounds, block shots and play good defense with this injury. I’m fairly certain he will. Can he catch an occasional lob for a dunk and get some easy put back points too? A little less certain. Will it affect his free throw shooting? Maybe it will improve it!
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