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My recap of yesterday’s game: yikes!
Can’t find a positive thing to say about it, just forget this game and (try to) be a lot better on the next.
Our team is a battering ram, and it takes time for a battering ram to get going. We’ll do better in the middle of the season than at the start.
Glad I missed the game. Sad that the reason I missed the game was that I had to write about the death of Matthew Perry, dammit.
😢
Thank God my daughter and 2 of her friends had me at a haunted cemetery thingy all night and I missed the game. Because APPARENTLY- Randle had 8 turnovers after I praised his caretaking of the rock? Sheeeeesh! I will say this about the team- with the amount of fight and camaraderie that this squad has, we should be looking pretty damn good once the shooting goes back to normal. You know it’s fluky when RJ is practically the only one shooting well lol. Hopefully once Brunson, Randle, and Grimes get their shooting back to normal, RJ can maintain this level of efficiency. But we really need to keep Mitch & Grimes involved on offense- especially when Randle is so willing to get shots for other guys. If we’re still shooting so inconsistently after 5-7 games, I will start to be concerned. Still sucks to have lost last night while putting no real pressure on Zion and Ingram- especially after the latter disappeared during FIBA *shrugs*
Some shit just catches you way off guard. This was one of them. I was in line at the haunted thing when it popped up on my phone. Sheesh. Only 54. Rest well, Matthew Perry
I do not recommend LOL
I clearly underestimated how loud 3 11 year old girls could be. Yal know how the dark rooms in haunted houses will have loud noises? Yea..they drowned out those noises with their screaming lol. I literally had to drag them through the buildings. I don’t think my arm works anymore. We had a blast though
We knew it wouldn’t have been easy and there would be a lot of plausible justifications for a loss, it was a back-to-back on the road less than 24 from the end of the first game, but honestly this left me with more bad taste that I imagined.
We were never really in the game (2-0 was our only lead) and our last chance for a comeback, we cut the lead to 6 twice in the closing moments of the 3rd, was smothered by a bad call.
Next: Round-one of the absurd home-and-home BTB with Cleveland.
At least the two teams will be more or less in the same conditions (small advantage Cavs, who play the first at home and will wait sleeping in their beds).
I’d really like to know which narcotics the NBA’s chief of schedule is taking.
Thoughts:
– The first part of our schedule is tough and 3 games are not enough to make a fuss.
– After a great showing in Atlanta, the ball movement and ball security aspects turned sour. AST:TO ratio is a paltry 19:19* with Randle’s 8 TOs standing out as a sore thumb.
* One of them is a “team turnover” while Deuce and Windler had 1 assist apiece.
– The Pels’ size disrupted our offense and dwarfed our defense.
Ingram and Williamson, in different ways, toyed with their defenders all night long and we didn’t have a realistic weapon against their height/lenght (BI) and size/quickness (Zion), but they weren’t alone in exploiting our weaknesses.
– In a related argument that’ll probably refrain all year long, we’re going to look small against a lot of teams and when the shooters are cold we’re vulnerable on defense no matter how many rebounds we get.
At times we sported a 6’2″-6’2″-6’4″-6’4″ plus Center lineup that isn’t technically smallball (as Poindexter Jenkins correctly wrote yesterday) but I’ll call “gnomeball” from now on.
– After 3 games Mitch has probably been our more reliable player, while RJ, at least to me, lead the “better than expected” category.
– FIBA competition may have been good to RJ but it looks like it didn’t help JB and I-Hart, energy levels and mental clarity looks lower for both guys.
– Fournier has officially changed his name to Henri Charrière and his next tattoo will be a butterfly on his chest.I hope he escapes La Cayenne before the trade deadline.
Play(s) Of The Game:
3rd 56.1 Josh Hart makes 26-foot three point jumper (Immanuel Quickley assists) NY 66 NOP 72
3rd 32.1 Brandon Ingram makes 21-foot jumper (Dyson Daniels assists) NY 66 NOP 74
3rd 10.1 Immanuel Quickley makes 8-foot two point shot NY 68 NOP 74
3rd 7.1 Immanuel Quickley personal foul
3rd 2.1 Brandon Ingram makes 20-foot two point shot NY 68 NOP 76
3rd 2.1 Josh Hart shooting foul NY 68 NOP 76
3rd 2.1 Brandon Ingram makes free throw 1 of 1 NY 68 NOP 77
We were trying to close the 3rd on a high note, but Brandon Ingram and a bogus call on J-Hart put a damp to our comeback, Valanciunas (!!) fueled a 10-1 run to start the 4th and the game was over.
Stats Of The Game:
19:19 The aforementioned AST:TO ratio. At one point it was 14:17 making me very disappointed 🙂
7-37 (18.9%). Three point shooting is volatile and tired legs won’t help.
Grades:
Brunson D+
He missed all his shots in the 1st half and was targeted on defense all game long. After 3 games the shot’s coming and going but in my opinion the real difference so far stays in his (in)ability to orchestrate the offense compared to last year.
Randle D
Utterly brutal. We were one temper tantrum away from the perfect Bad-Julius game, luckily it didn’t happen.
And no, I don’t care about his 12 rebounds, not in a 4-15 FG, 8 TOs, Zion-Clowns-Me night.
Barrett C+
By far the best of Lefty Stars, he lost steam as long as the game progressed, but isn’t the main culprit.
Grimes C-
Literally invisible in the 1st half, a little more active in the 2nd but still irrelevant. I hate watching him standing in the corner without moving most of the times, but it’s not his fault.
Robinson A-
15 rebounds (10 on offense), 2 blocks, 1 steal. Game’s MVP and season’s MVP so far and maybe it’s something to think about.
Quickley C+
He’s showing small improvements in his game, but has to do more to earn the expected big paycheck next summer.
Hart C-
Only his 10 rebounds save him from an harsher grade. It’s nowhere near last year’s form or impact on team play, maybe he’s still tired from a summer of USA team work.
Hartenstein C-
The usual experience, he wows you with a play and let you frustrated the next one. I’ll never complain about his effort but it’s the tally between good and bad things that makes the difference and this time it wasn’t good.
DDV C
Dear Donte, I love the energy you bring (2 steals) and the bravado you show (teach Grimes something about it please), but why do you reverse every single layup?
Jeffries/Mc Bride/Sims/Windler NA
Nice to see you guys.
Thibs C-
Even the rocks know what I think about our offense and coaches go where their stars bring them.
A half grade penalty because I worked for assholes in my career and I despise the way he treats Evian.
If anything concerns me it is how wretched Randle looks given his history of alternating good years with bad. 5-22 opening night, 8 turnovers last night… not good, Bob.
Thus far this season, of our rotation players:
-Only RJ (0.2) and Brunson (0.1) have positive BPMs thus far. Brunson got a lot of BPM mileage out of those 8 threes vs. ATL.
-Six of our rotation players have a BPM of -2.0 or less, including Mitch (-2.0) Randle, DDV and JHart are below -5.0.
-Mitch has a TS% of .412. He also had an entry for most pitiful post moves of the millenium in the first Q last night. His FTs seem to have even less arc than last year, if that’s possible.
Max, was very much looking forward to your review, and I think you were spot-on. No disagreements throughout. Well done.
Two Julius observations/hypotheses, both perhaps made up. First, it seems like he’s doing a lot of Jokic-like top-of-the-key offensive orchestration, which I don’t really remember from years past (previously he’d get the ball there and immediately go into his whirling dervish act, now he seems to be pausing to look for a passing lane to open up).
Second, I wonder if the injury is limiting his explosiveness so far. He’s not often looking for his shot, which on the one hand is kind of pleasing, as sometimes bad things happen then; but it seems like much of the time he knows he can’t take someone off the dribble so he’s not (yet) trying. Seems to fit what I’m seeing more than my usual “dial down the meds, J” story line.
Hart and DDV look like crud so far.
When you look at the schedule that’s coming up there are not a lot of gimme wins on there. It would not surprise me at all if we’re at .500 for a while. We don’t really have a soft spot in the schedule until late November.
Randle has taken 23% of his shots within 3 ft of the rim. He’s made 0 of those shots according to BKRef
I honestly would give JHart a couple of weeks off. He’s clearly gassed from the summer, and when his energy level isn’t at its peak, his value plummets dramatically. Add also, the wings can’t get in rhythm, because there are too many of them in the rotation. So let him rest, use Deuce a bit to spell guys, and then let Hart get back to doing Hart things.
Sometimes a person will tease you into thinking things will be different going forward, he’s changed etc.. .
I think the truth about Randle revealed itself last night.
He hasn’t learned anything. If he was missing open 3s or other high quality shots I could easily ignore that early in the season. But what he was doing was barreling into the defense, putting himself into impossible positions, and then either taking a terrible shot or turning it over. Those are the actions of someone that still doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing.
He’s going to have his big nights when his shot is falling or the matchup on defense is favorable, but I’m not buying it anymore. I tolerated him last year, but I’ve seen enough after last night to know he’s clueless.
I think last night was an example of the kind of thing I’ve been talking about where the rest the league has improved and we haven’t.
The Pelicans had some injuries last year. Zion missed most of the season and Ingram missed half of it. With those two guys healthy, they are a pretty good team. I think we are going to run into quite a few teams like that where last year we had a better chance to get the win than this year.
What the hell is wrong with the league scheduling b2b ROAD games like that? And another b2b shortly afterwards?
I honestly don’t get why the NBA keeps shooting itself in the foot like this. At least the changed the stupid All-Star Game back to East vs. West…
I think playing in FIBA was a huge negative for Brunson and Hart. They weren’t the kind of very young guys that could benefit from playing time in games. They needed rest from a tough season and high energy style of play in NY. We are lucky they didn’t get injured. Very bad idea and I think both are feeling the effects.
Strat, I don’t entirely disagree, but a few points:
1. Yes that was a terrible performance last night. In the previous game against ATL I thought he played a pretty solid floor game, especially down the stretch.
2. A lot of the bad iso plays are unfortunately by design, as we are intentionally one of the most iso-heavy teams in the league. This is not a pretty offense, there is not going to be a ton of ball movement and creative play. That doesn’t excuse Randle’s ridiculously bad game, as he was forcing things despite repeatedly getting terrible results. But, you know. Iso is our thing. Sometimes it looks bad.
3. Randle was an effective player last season, and it’s not like he took smart pills last year and is now forgetting to take the smart pills. If he can match last season’s play he’s still a good value on that contract.
I’m waiting for him to hit the underside of the rim and for the ball to pop out of the top of the basket.
How hard is it to add arc?
I could change the arc on my shot on the first attempt.
Practice the new arc for a few hours and you’ll quickly know if it’s improving your results. Keep tinkering with that for awhile until you find your personal sweet spot. It should be a lot easier now because they have the technology to weigh arc vs distance traveled and other factors to help you maximize results.
This guy can’t even change the arc. I find that laughably preposterous. A 10 year old kid can do that.
JK47
I can’t disagree with what you saying, but part of what I am saying is that I am conceding he’s going to have his share of good nights when his tough shots are falling or we have a good matchup. That can make for an effective player overall. It’s the other nights that worry me. He still doesn’t quite grasp what to do. That’s partly why he struggles in the playoffs (though last the year the ankle was also an issue).
The schedule makers really fucked us this season – 2 back to backs in the first 5 games with the second two being against the same team (Cleveland). Almost impossible to win both of those. And then a road game against the Bucks.
We just have to keep our heads above water early on.
we’re not at the point where we can draw too many conclusions about the numbers but this is one of the biggest encouraging stats from RJ:
assisted 2pt%: .833
assisted 3pt%:. 1.0
where he gets into trouble is when he’s in iso and he forces up shots… or started integrating a lot of those pull up 3s a couple years ago…. it’s still happening in some instances but the numbers suggest he’s playing off of others a lot more… he’s also looking for the right pass which is indicative in the assist numbers….
all that is to say that … so far… that RJ’s mindset is starting off right where it needs to be…. and the numbers so far bear that out…. as a reminder… RJ has notoriously…. and very visibly… been off to slow starts every season and part of that is this inclination to throw up shots… and then he generally backs off as he reshapes his game for much better results…
this time around he’s getting to that better mindset from the jump.. and it’s led to good results…. and it’s happened before… summer league… a couple months every season he seems to put together good stretches… but this one does feel different… and it’s pretty cliche to say but all it really takes is letting the game come to him and i think that’s exactly what we’re seeing….
i do not buy that these guys are gassed one iota… josh hart.. is playing 22mpg…
22…..
granted it’s the nba… and i can’t seem to do anything for 22 minutes at a time anymore myself…. but relatively speaking that’s not a lot of floor time….
josh hart is a role player…. his usg even last year during the magical run… was only 12.6%… and he’s now at… 10.4%…. it’s not some wild difference to where he was… when you only shoot 5 times a game… and you don’t hit 1 shot here or there… that’s going to look like you’re invisible…
and that is the same thing befalling our other role players… or any role player… because yes they’re role players….. has anyone seen grimes at all this season? we saw glimpses of donte…. but mostly also invisible… that’s why you don’t spend 1st rd picks for the privilege of giving out 150mm in contracts for them to sit on the bench…
if you’re expecting josh hart from last year… and i assume most people weren’t… then this version of josh hart should be of no surprise… he’s probably not going to shoot this bad.. but he’s also not going to shoot as well as he did last year… and when he isn’t .. he’s going to have looong stretches where he’s playing like this….
Lol you’re not wrong
Looking kind of like stale croutons.
I’m not sure if I missed it, but I didn’t see a discussion about what Scott Perry said about why they didn’t give away the asking price for Mitchell.
He more or less said he’s a very good player and all star, but not the type of player they felt they could build an entire team around. He used Utah’s lack of significant playoff success as evidence of that. I would say his thinking was similar to what we’ve discussed here other than I don’t think he mentioned fit with Brunson.
Yesterday Zach LaVine score 51 points and Chicago lost.
Is there a player in the NBA that scores as easily and consistently as Zach LaVine that has less of an impact on winning than he does?
I guess the Giants Thibs isn’t a bust after all.
Strat, you made me look this up (well, related stuff anyway) — the top five most 40+ point per game scorers in losses (still active) are Westbrook with 24, Beal and Harden (tied at 22), Durant at 19, and our dearly departed Melo at 15.
I’d call four of those empty calory scorers.
Another site trying to determine just the worst empty calory players (2021-22 season) using “scoring more than 12.15 PPG while having an actual VORP that is within 0.84 of their predicted VORP or lower” seems to have put RJ at 4th most empty. Not this year, though!
This Giants-Jets game is so, so, so bad it’s good
Daboll should give back his Coach of the Year award.
It’s incredible how every Giants head coach since Coughlin left becomes a fucking moron in their 2nd season.
I am not a fan of American football.
I do have fond memories of the winning Giants teams, from the Simms to Eli eras. Let’s just say they’re not doing a very good job of getting me re-interested in football.
The only just outcome to this game would be a tie.
How the Jets won that game is beyond me.
It really is incredible how the Giants have been to 5 Super Bowls and won 4 of them in the past 37 years yet have been an utter embarrassment in such long stretches during that same time span.
As a Giants fan it’s hard to whine and act like we’re cursed but many of these seasons have been just unfathomable to watch.
If Josh Hart is still gassed from playing in a tournament that ended 7 weeks ago, he’s not the hustle-bunny E promised.
It’s apparently not to early in the season for Jimmy Butler to already need some rest.
I don’t think it’s so much gassed as it is having the time to allow your body to heal from the accumulation of injuries and damage done during a tough season. I don’t have any data on it, but intuitively I think taking some time off to heal and recover makes sense depending on how beat up you were when the season ended. Then you slowly work yourself back into condition, work on new skills, and then camp opens. The FIBA players skipped over the recovery part of it.
Of course last night was a B2B on the road against fresh good team. That probable mattered more, but I’d rather our players not have played FIBA. Maybe it was OK for RJ.
I’m a Yankees/Giants/Knicks/Islanders fan, which I suppose means I’m only 50% committed to true suffering.
I definitely don’t feel the need to complain if the Yankees have an off year. And the Giants beating the Patriots in the Super Bowl twice is pretty much the only football memory I need.
Just got home after a 6-hour drive. Along the way we stopped for a late lunch at a bar-restaurant called Kozel’s in Ghent, NY where I watched the second half of the Jets-Giants game. We had paid the check and my wife was bugging me to leave when the Zach got sacked on 4th down with 1:33 left after the Jets had that unsuccessful challenge. I sulked out of the restaurant sure that the Jets had lost and didn’t turn the radio back for the rest of the drive, which I spend brooding about how bad of a loss this was for the Jets, all the stupid penalties, Zack sucks, etc. And lo and behold, I log on to KB to learn that the Jets somehow won?! That’s just bizarre.
I’m a long suffering Jets fan. I don’t talk about football much because I have a much more limited understanding of the sport. That was one ugly win.
Funny Jets story.
I was 10 years old when the Jets won the super bowl.
I watched it at my aunt’s house (she’s still alive at 101 and lives in the same house). There were gambling pools and betting on the game among family members that day. I bet my aunt $2 and took Baltimore. She asked why I took Baltimore given I was a Jets fan. I told her “If the Jets win I’ll be happy and if they lose at least I’ll make $2”. My whole family cracked up. When the Jets won I went to pay her with 200 pennies. She started laughing and didn’t take them.
That’s funny, strat! Never thought that would be our last one…
My first real football memory was the Giants winning Super Bowl 21. My dad was more of a Jets fan but he bought me the Giants season video and I watched it over and over again. When I saw the old highlights of the Giants playing at Yankee Stadium they immediately became my team since at that time the Yankees were the only sports team I really knew about and loved so I equated the Giants to the Yankees.
I didn’t learn about the Knicks until we got cable a few years later and I would watch some of their games culminating that season with them beating Boston in the playoffs. That series along with Ewing being so great during that season made me a Knicks fan.
OKC got a reality check today.
Pelton examined FIBA’s impact on performance. Tl;dr, it’s negligible-to-positive. So I don’t think that’s what’s going on with Hart or Brunson or anyone else. I mean, for a lot of players FIBA probably isn’t even more intense than whatever offseason program they’d be doing instead.
We should probably just wait for some more games.
Speaking of Perry, he got a new gig
The quote is from heavy.com
In the 2021-22 season he had a TS% over .600 and a usage at 18% in just shy of 1800min. He can do more, but we don’t need him to do it.
Hart is shooting 37.5% from 3 on 4.4 attempts per 36. He’s actually hitting more 3s per 36 than as a Knick last year.
His “shooting” woes are actually due to his 40% inside the arc. That’s due to him having taken only 1 shot in the 0-3ft range, which he missed, equal to 7% of his FGAs. Last year he took 42% of his shots in that range.
The real question is why can’t he get to the basket? Is this noise or is it defensive schemes? I doubt he’s suddenly lost that much athleticism.
He’s currently grabbing over 10 boards per 36. I know he looks tired but I’d take that to say he isn’t gassed overall, but perhaps the extra board work is taking a toll.
“We should probably just wait for some more games.”
+100000000000
In Milwaukee right now, half way through the SECOND quarter, Giannis is +8 and Lillard is -20. Hard to comprehend how the two starters and leaders in minutes can have such divergent +/- after 15 minutes. (But Lillard’s 0-5 and 6 turnovers isn’t helping the team much).
Knicks win in Atlanta is looking a bit more impressive now.
“…….the top five most 40+ point per game scorers in losses (still active) are Westbrook with 24, Beal and Harden (tied at 22), Durant at 19, and our dearly departed Melo at 15.”
I’m pretty sure that Melo has finally retired and thus is no longer active. At least I hope so.
Trae continues to struggle from the field….maybe he’s tired from watching too much FIBA this summer?
I’m a long suffering Jets fan. I don’t talk about football much because I have a much more limited understanding of the sport
i got to work jets’ training camps as a grunt when i was in college in the 90s. incredible perk was driving pretty much everyone to the airport/hospital, including joe namath, ronnie lot, boomer esiason and art monk. also handling the giant snake that brad baxter kept on the back his mercedes (?) and driving marvin washington’s car to preseason games. was pretty sick for lifelong jets fan.
OKC and the Bucks getting trampled after looking good earlier is just the new NBA: every team is dangerous, even Detroit and Houston, and any team can stumble except maybe Denver…
Dame 1-10…that FIBA, man…
I’m watching a 60 Minutes special on the Blues….really good. Nice feature on Kingfish at the end.
Wemby on NBA TV right now…already an awesome block. Who had Jeremy Sochan at PG on their bingo card?
PG13 and Kawhi both look fantastic. Great to see!
I feel like the beginning of the season often feels this way but then the cream starts to rise.
Defensive numbers for Wemby already quite promising apparently.
Paul George has 5 steals in 7 minutes…
I’m a huge Kingfish fan. He has an almost endless supply of cool licks. When I watch one of his videos and put my mind to stealing some stuff, by the end of it I’m always a better guitarist.
I’m all over the place when it comes to Trae. I hated him out of the draft. I thought he’d become a high volume low efficiency no defense mediocrity. He was a lot better than I thought he’d be, but as soon as I started getting higher on his game, he started slipping.
Wemby getting a bit of a lesson on the physicality of the NBA in this game. He’s really being pushed around.
Blazers fans are really not feeling Scoot Henderson. The general consensus is that he looks dreadful by the eye test.
He’s going to be seeing Zubac in his nightmares for the next week. So many good players in the NBA.
He was just a -14 compared to the other starters being more than double that.
Lot of turnovers though so far.