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Couldn’t watch last night. Seems better I didn’t.

Whatever – Knicks in five.

At least something good happened in the NBA last night….

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It was an annoying loss last night, but the post-championship aura definitely softens things.

I think we’ve experienced enough Mikal Bridges ups and downs to not be all that worried about him. He’ll bounce back in a game or two.

Drummond is not impressing. Not that Mitch is having a good start either, but the needle on the concern meter is definitely moving rightward.

Jayson Tatum looked 100% back. Good for him.

Queta with the corner 3. What’s up with that?

We were right there, Knicks style, on a small comeback in the end. We turned a 12 pt deficit in a 1pt game quite fast. But in the end Tatum made his FGs and Brunson did not. I guess that is it. I’m not worried.

I think it’ll take time, maybe 10 or 20 games, for them to take the games more seriously. Right now, i can see they know that if it was the playoffs, they’d be playing a lot better and we would win. Of course what they’re not thinking about is that the opponent might be doing the same to a degree. But hey, they’re the reigning champions, who can blame them to start like this?

Drummond is a guy who is going to be unplayable in certain matchups .

I would love to see what Towns could do with 20 shots a night when he is rolling . Seems like his FGA are always capped despite how well he is shooting.

I knew a championship hangover was a possibility (a bounce). These guys spent most of the summer partying, doing media appearances and focusing on things other than working on their games. Brunson was also recovering fom surgery. There had to be come kind of emotional and physical hangover. It’s going to take awhile before they get going. I’m not worried about the Knicks. I’m worried about how good some of the other teams look.

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Was not impressed. KAT played well (as UK said, he’s not taking enough shots given most everyone else sucks). Deuce played well, OG did okay, Hart was Hart 10-12-5 but shot poorly (despite being treated like he had Ebola). Everyone else sucked. They beat the absolute tar out of Cap but that’s both on Cap but also on Brown — happened last year but we actually figured out how to mitigate it. Hello coach? Cap also missed a bunch of easy bunnies. Mikal needs to get out of the bar, extinguish the blunt, and put his big boy pants on.

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Only two games and some inductive reasoning and eye test involved, but could very well be that the Knicks won’t be able to pound teams on the offensive boards as they have since Thibs got here.

That might not bode well, given its importance to the success of recent years, some of it smashing.

I was thinking about Knecht and McCullar Jr. McCullar was pretty well rounded snd could rebound and defend but wasn’t much of a scorer. Knecht, on the other hand, from all accounts could score but couldn’t do any of the other stuff well enough to stay on the court. I’m not saying the Knicks were wrong to prefer Knecht, just that the replacement shows what is valued in the NBA.

Oh, and I agree with E about rebounds. It’s a worry. It’s not that we are bad at it, it’s just that other teams are emphasizing it more and catching up.

Brunson is our star and has not played well on either game although a little better last night. Between the chip celebration and hand surgery I imagine he got very little practice in this summer and is probably rusty AF. That goes for the rest of the starters to a lesser degree.

I’m actually glad we’re 0-2 and have this tough schedule to start. I think throwing some cold water on the team and humbling them from the championship will be a good thing in the long run.

That being said Drummond is fine but the defense and offensive rebounding, which have been key to our success, have definitely taken a step back so far and that’s going to be a priority to figure out

Painful to see Mitch playing against the Knicks.

They need a better defense and rebounding backup 5 and if Mo doesn’t work out a backup 4.

Mitch seems like a pretty bad “got my bag, gonna phone it in now” risk. He got hurt within literal minutes of taking the floor and is rebounding like Andrea Bargnani with his thumbs cut off.

These are tiny sample sizes, but so far ooof.

the Knicks won’t be able to pound teams on the offensive boards

besides for KAT, andre and to some extent OG – it’s like were playing lilliputians out there…

it can work, it has worked, it’s actually a neat trick we can do…

looks like mitch will split center time with queta and garza…but, now maybe do back to backs…

decent way to manage his minutes…queta keeps looking better each season…

Speaking of small sample sizes, Mikal has a BPM of -13.1, and Brunson is at -5.3.

The good news is that we are 158.3 pts per 100 better when James Wiseman is on the court. OTOH, if you think Bridges has been bad, we are -24.6 pts per hundred with OG on the floor and 54 points per 100 better with him off than on.

Knicks outrebounded Philly 53-45 including 14-6 in offensive rebs and outrebounded Boston 44-37 although only 12-10 on offensive rebs.

Not sure where this rebounding concern is coming from.

We are not making shots and our offense has been pretty shoddy in general. Plenty of empty possessions.

Things that will not remain true for very long:

Brunson shooting .357 from 2
Mikal shooting .200 from 2 and .000 from 3
OG shooting .200 from 3

No amount of rebounding or defense can make up for that.

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Paolo possibly out for 4-6 weeks with a high ankle speain. Maybe we get a win tomorrow night?

Mitch gets 4 points in 22 minutes with 4 rebounds and 5 fouls. Best of luck, good buddy.

Neemias and Luka killed us however. Luka’s mouth looks like a bass.

Man the Magic have horrible injury luck.

Maybe the Knicks can trade for Goga Bitadze if the Magic fade.

petr yan and merab dvalishvili about to kick off their third contest on paramount…

2 of the best in the world at mma, for a while…yan with relentless boxing/striking…merab with constant grappling pressure…

like a lot of sports these days, they’re successful at an older age for this weight class…

2 of the best for years…

just checked they’re only like 33 and 35…both successful early, and have stayed near the top…

petr yan and merab dvalishvili

I do not know these people. I do know Sandro Mamukelashvili, though. Is he still playing for someone? I think he was last seen on the Raptors.

Anybody who can type Sandro Mamukelashvili and into knickerblogger without the help of google should be able to type Sandro Mamukelashvili into google without the help of knickerblogger.

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Hornets have an interesting market campaign. Get Duke and UNC players on the team since both those teams are popular in the area. One big trifecta.

Yeah, I did the former, but didn’t care enough to do the latter. I of course always understood that I had that option. Thanks though, Donnie.

Well, at least the Miami cHeat are 0-3. Watching them implode might bring me more joy than a repeat.

Giannis should be really glad he banked that title back in 2021, because right now his career arc ain’t exactly on the rise.

brewers are a bad ass bunch of ball players…

can’t imagine the brewers losing 4 out of the next 5 games they play…they may not lose again this season…

Our team points-per-game average is…….dead last at 101.5.

And Cisse is getting 3.7 minutes per game.

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