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2026-27 Game Thread: Knicks vs. Magic: Too Much of Nothing

The Knicks have too much of nothing, as they still have zero wins after two games.

The Spurs are also 0-2. People are trying to make it seem like that matters. It does not.

The Knicks will be fine.

Their owner is a piece of shit who deserves every negative thing anyone ever says about him.

But the Knicks will be fine.

But hey, it would be nice to win this one!

Let’s go, Knicks!

121 replies on “2026-27 Game Thread: Knicks vs. Magic: Too Much of Nothing”

Gotta say that I ripped off my Jets jersey at 4:15 pm and donned my Knicks stuff. Only the Knicks can wash away the stench of gang-green.

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Didn’t love that second shot by Brunson. He can make everything, but seemed a little too early to give up on finding something easier.

Almost dunk by Drummond. This game has everything (except Alvarado, unfortunately…).

First 2 games I’ll give the Knicks a pass, but losing to this Magic team would be inexcusable

Is Wiseman in because Drummond can’t get back on defense fast enough? Or are we just giving him a couple first half minites each game?

Kolek played very solid NBA minutes.

Fun watching Wiseman on defense. Runs around like a fiend, but I’m thinking he might have no clue where he’s supposed to be…

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is Wiseman’s contract fully guaranteed?

Not till January 10. No guarantee, we can cut him for nothing.

Wiseman does a good job sinking into his defensive stance on the perimeter. Not sure he’s good at anything else.

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I don’t care how the Knicks “look” in October. Ask me again in March. But they team is playing pre-season caliber hoops. Good to see both Kolek and Wisemen get some burn.

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I don’t care how the Knicks “look” in October. Ask me again in March. But they team is playing pre-season caliber hoops. Good to see both Kolek and Wisemen get some burn.

The starting 5 feels similarly. The team roller coasted last year and now, knowing they won the CHP, its even harder to get motivated for regular season. Plus hangover of post Chp activities.

“josh hart gets a clean look”, seems to be a fairly common refrain during the game…

hopefully jalen starts being able to make baskets from behind the arc again…

Wiseman does a good job sinking into his defensive stance on the perimeter. Not sure he’s good at anything else.

he does occupy a lot of space that way…

Would be nice if the Knicks can take total control of the game and pull away right now.

Here i am… and the daylight savings gets me once again. We are 4h apart when we do the daylight savings in Europe, for a week or so, i think.

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we are looking a little better today cyber, or, it might be that the magic are a little worse than the first 2 teams we played…

I’m going for the former. 😉

Hart 3P will be downgraded to a 2P, right? On the replay his foot seem to be on the line.

Anyone else booted off of NBA.com?

Yeah, if i refresh, it goes to the beginning with players doing warmups. And it refuses to play the game live.

It’s working again, Raven.

Edit: i guess not, it just lasted a few seconds in the LIVE version, now it went to the warmup again. :-/

I feel like the KAT package would work a lot better if we had more cutters with OGs size and finishing ability. Instead, we have a bunch of 6’4″ guards.

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It’s the stream “In Arena” that has a bug, i switched to “Studio Show” and it works.

we were the best 4th quarter team in the league last season…

I think we won the 4th quarter in the first 2 games, Geo. The problem was that we were trailing more pts than we recovered.

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So when do we wake up from our championship hangover?

That is a very good question. Let’s hope it’s right now and we finish this.

Could we get our pick back from Brooklyn this year? How is this draft class?

Ideally you want Bridges to take more shots to help out on offense . If Brunson wrist is still a mess he should pass more

Last year we had a net rating of + 6 when our backup center played. This year we have a net rating of -21.

Even with a hangover, we’d be 3-0 if we were winning those minutes like we used to.

Last year we had a net rating of + 6 when our backup center played. This year we have a net rating of -21.

We’d be 3-0 if we were winning those minutes like we used to.

This may be true but seems like a “correlation is not necessarily causation” kind of problem. Our starters are playing like dreck and probably would still be playing like dreck even if friggin’ Kareem Abdul Jabbar was the backup center.

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Brunson is currently shooting 39 % percent from the field

A starter in the Boston game didn’t score a point

The players on the team playing better would help

Vibes have been awful since the 1st day of training camp and its only gotten worse since.

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The Jalen Williams injury looked a lot like that Gordon Hayward injury that kind of derailed his career. Hopefully JDub has a better outcome.

Josh Hart was a plus 3. Has been a plus in every single game so far this season.

Deuce was a plus 1 and scored 1 point.

The math suggests — and quite clearly — we’d be 3-0 even with the starters playing like dreck if we were winning those minutes instead of getting crushed during them.

Swing the margins like that and it makes a big difference.

“Our starters are playing like dreck and probably would still be playing like dreck even if friggin’ Kareem Abdul Jabbar was the backup center.”

Especially since Kareem is 79 years old.

Maybe the Knicks are purposely missing FTs down the stretch as a symbolic message to Dolan that they are pissed about losing Mitch.

Maybe we’re going for the more games to get a win after being NBA Champions record. 😛

I guess my point is that this year, we probably wouldn’t be winning those minutes even with Mitch in tow, even with last year’s Mitch in tow. Even if he was playing great, pretty much everybody else wouldn’t be.

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The starters will play better. We know that.

But the backup centers might not. If you get killed in those minutes like we’re getting killed, the starters need to increase their net rating by 15-20% just to break even. That’s a tall order.

I’m tracking the injuries around the league this year. With the tanking removed and teams across the league being better every night its going to take a toll on the body . Many injuries already.

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Was sitting behind the Knicks defense in the second half and boy do we need a defensive big. Holy fucking moly.

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crazy cool nickname though: tony orlando…

may be we can all tie some yellow ribbons all over the place ’til our team returns…to winning…

Yeah that’s an interesting quote from Mike Brown there.

Wiseman was not good in this game. In fact, he stunk. But I said it during preseason, and believe it to be true: if Wiseman is going to succeed, it is going to take him a while to get up to game speed. You can see some raw talent, you can see the size and athleticism, but you can also see that everything moves way too fast for him. Wiseman still has good wheels for his size even after his injuries, and he has the great standing reach, but unfortunately just cannot seem to be in the right place at the right time on defense. I felt genuinely anxious for him watching him play in this game.

But maybe they are indeed seeing something interesting in practice, maybe he’s making some baby steps. It didn’t translate in this game, but maybe Brown feels like he can develop Wiseman. Obviously this is not a real vote of confidence in our boy Drum, but I’m at least somewhat intrigued. This is not a Jericho Sims/Hukporti type that was drafted in the 50’s. I’ll take it as a positive sign that Brown liked what he saw in practice enough to give Wiseman some minutes, even if it didn’t work out in the actual game.

Kareem just doesn’t get enough respect. As soon as I heard the trivia question I suspected he was one of the answers, but Clyde and Mike didn’t think of him.

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wilt was pure explosive power, kareem did everything so smooth and graceful…hakeem super skilled, shaq back to explosive power…wemby, hakeem-like, with a handle, and a 3 point shot…hakeem probably would have excelled at that too though…

no way would wilt or shaq ever be shooting a 3, in any era…

don’t remember kareem’s jump shot, any chance he would have been good from behind the arc?

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