After a tough loss at home, the Knicks head down to Miami where they hope to, you know, beat the Heat.
Bam is an interesting matchup for Towns. I’d love to see Towns kick his ass.
Let’s go, Knicks!
Things will be great when we hit 58!
After a tough loss at home, the Knicks head down to Miami where they hope to, you know, beat the Heat.
Bam is an interesting matchup for Towns. I’d love to see Towns kick his ass.
Let’s go, Knicks!
Things will be great when we hit 58!
197 replies on “2024-25 Game Thread: Knicks @ Heat”
I’d love to be feeling optimistic about this game, but…….
change your name to “downtown debbie downer brown”…
Bam’s off to a trash start.
Wally just said Mikal is 6’9″ lol.
My first game this season. Be gentle, naysayers. And can we get a friggin’ pick and roll going tonight?!
It’s been said before, but I’ll say it again anyway: I fucking hate the Heat.
Let’s Go Knicks!
I second KBA’s desire, gimme some pick ‘n rolls baby!
Cavs beating up on the Lakers. So far.
I didn’t realize the Jovker started for Miami now
Yep, all three games.
Wow. Even the game thread is quiet.
Ehi, he’s Scott Foster!
P.S.
OG’s handle’s still clumsy…. 🤨
ball don’t lie jovker
neither ball is playing in this game
Yes, KAT. Do that.
We obviously need to be careful of Herro’s 3-point herroics.
Brunson has a baby this year, it might be a rough season for him
“This would be a goaltend in the rucker tournament”
-clyde
Hart is so funny. He should be in bed in a dark room with a cold compress over his eyes next to a bottle of pain killers. Instead he’s going to get multiple digit rebounds again.
KAT playing well + Bam still on the floor = Jericho Sims
Maybe it’s a conditioning thing…
Bam really looks out of sorts. That’s too bad.
Bad Adebayo
ISM absent so far this year, guess we can’t afford him under the apron
Bam.
okay, not Bam.
Bam Adebado
herro is going to get 50 tonight
Sims is so, so, so, so bad. Unwatchable
I think that’s going to be the normal rotation, OG & KAT out early
that’s all ball
Is precious coming back soon, sims killing it
Jerich-no
Surprised he’s in over Hukporti. Guess Thibs wants to give him every chance before benching him for a rookie.
Can we not give up gimme layups every possession?
What’s Herro’s career high? Just asking
josh hart step back 3
Looking discombobulated on both ends.
Our D sux.
How that’s not a foul on KAT?
Our defense is the bad kind of bad.
KAT has been bad near the hoop on offense.
Defense was pretty good for like half the quarter and then it collapsed
Towns got mugged there and should also finish stronger through contact
Not terribly excited by the Cam Payne Experience.
Funny was reading somewhere that CP3 taught him how to point guard. I guess he’s mostly forgotten it.
Also when KAT gets underneath and the other team gets the rebound, he’s super slow getting back. A lot of 4 on 5s. Sorta reminds me of that Julius fellow.
And it’s nice seeing Alec Burks.
It’s going to take a while for me to adjust to the total lack of interior defense.
Ok, I am never going to make that adjustment
I do love me some Deuce.
So I guess the new defensive system is: pray they airball..
Deuce is our best offensive player so far this year and it’s not close.
Deuce rising in my rankings quite rapidly
Yeah I love KAT as our #2 option, and he’s been good tonight, but the lack of rim protection is alarming.
Freddie Freeman didn’t hit a HR in the 1st inning
We have troubles finishing fastbreak, Towns should at least raise his arms on defense and his moving screens are annoying, but he’s been good on offense so far…
Our expensive wing duo is 2-10 from three so far.
jesus jalen
Judge!
This is the worst basketball I’ve seen in a long time
Judge, finally!
We need to hit a lot more theees. Problem is…we can’t hit threes.
Drew Smith is killing us. He was eating Payne’s lunch, and has been a problem for Brunson now.
Jalen isn’t playing well… 🤔
My O/U win total strategy going forward will be based entirely on who has a newborn. Brunson looks like garbage.
Jazz yard!
I just hope last year wasn’t a 20 year peak
We need Edey
Oh well, at least the Yankees look good (no jinx).
no he is not…he’s thinking way too much out there…
McBride is really balling
OGs drives look terrible but good things seem to happen more than bad things… and now he throws a terrible inbounds
Is it time to trade Brunson and start Deuce? 🙂
Not breaking any major news – Brunson needs to play like a star, not a bench player
we are putting hart in the corner way too often
Finally decided it was worth looking up: 41pts
It’s fine. Just give Deuce his minutes.
Renegotiate and extend deuce for the max
KAT and Deuce are the offense so far…
No one is the defense
Is Dru Smith the Heat’s latest undrafted find?
Finally some PnR/Alley oop action!
that was josh setting the stack screen in that spain pnr on the lob to kat. way better spot for him.
Mostly been watching the Yankees, my friends have sent me a bunch of negative messages about the Knicks and then I turned this on and it’s all tied-Deuce and Karl doing the scoring for us?
Deuce should start
Sign TJ Warren for bench scoring
KAT clowning people.
We need to defend the three better. Problem is….we can’t defend the three.
Thomas Fucking Bryant
If Jalen Brunson has turned into Emmanuel Mudiay like Freaky Friday style or something, we’re probably not going to be very good
It’s part of Thibs defensive scheme to concede threes
Jericho Sims with an early candidate for dumbest foul of the year…
A cardboard cutout of sims could actually be better than the real life Jericho
Discuss
Need to find out who in the front office still has some high valuation of Sims and continues to allow him on an NBA court.
Sims jumped very high twice and got a rebound each time. Cardboard can’t jump.
Huk me
Brunson-no bueno
Sims – muy muy no bueno
Team dee-no esta aca
Man that Towns guy sucks
Haha. I missed it grabbing a quick dinner.
And aren’t they supposed to make rim protection an afterthought b/c no one gets there?
Overall this is sound. I would love to see NBA players’ annual stats plotted against the years with newborns at home. Haha.
Brunson is playing poorly on both sides. It’s time to move Kolek to the starting lineup. Just skip him a grade. 😜😜😜😜
Our defense sucks a$$.
Pretty much
What’s Thibs value if he needs a rim protecting Center to have a good defense while having three good defenders in his starting lineup?
https://x.com/TalkinYanks/status/1851788058816827804?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
The fan who got into in with Betts is here tonight
Thibs should take a look at Towns and the Hukster.
When Precious comes back he becomes the starting PF . Anything to help Thibs.
Cavs busting up the Lakers.
https://x.com/TalkinYanks/status/1851789656137830479?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Matsuii
Has Bronny played yet?
I’ll take that Bridges miss on the cut. Keep passing.
i’d like to see mikal with the ball in his hands more…
i had to check matsui’s age, he’s looking good…
I’m not worried. We should still at least be a play in team. 🙄🙄🙄
“Has Bronny played yet?”
Yeah, of course. He played a few minutes in the first game of the season, but not since then. (Unless he’s played tonight. I’m not following that game.)
Don’t love that we’re down 10 suddenly.
ESPN reports Bronny: Has not entered game
This is disgusting. I should be watching the Yankees
I know Bronny played opening night, it was more about tonights game back home in Cleveland. Apparently the Lakers left all the G league players back in LA and took Bronny on the trip to play him.
Stealing the ball from Mookie Betts was where it all turned around
Better.
You have to be a huge fan to choose a regular season game over the World Series
it’s crazy no team has even reached ws game 6 from 0-3
“You have to be a huge fan to choose a regular season game over the World Series”
Or, or…….one could just not be a fan of baseball.
Here we go. Last few buckets not coming from any kind of plan, but I’ll take ’em.
Build a statue of the guys who stole the ball from Betts outside of Yankee Stadium
Didn’t realize this site was called Yankeeblogger (ducks) 🙂
boone was being interviewed in game and mike breen’d the stanton hr
ha, a sport fan’s viewer remorse…
Gotta love that beautiful alley-oop on the Spain PnR we never run again
the offensive sets look better tonight
Knicks need/just got reminder: passed ball faster than dribbling guy.
Revising prediction for our defense: we are bottom five. Every perimeter scorer is gonna play like a superstar against us this year.
Should have clocked that the year Brunson had last year would have a high risk of regression with the broken shooting hand and new baby. If he’s not tentpole caliber anymore the play-in probably becomes more like our ceiling than our expectation like it is now.
I’ve been away. Did we do the win prediction thread? If not, maybe tomorrow 😉
Very Judgeian from Brunson there. Better late than never
The Pacers are a very weird team
ascetic cam payne
KAT overreacting to all the complaints he reads on here about his interior D.
Nice quarter…outworked them
That quarter looked promising…
The Celtics losing and the Knicks winning would be enough for me.
Finally a glimpse of that gritty identity from last season.
went down 10, timeout, and then came back strong.
wonder what thibs said….
Bookmarked
Bookmarked
The KAT highlight reel is getting pretty long…
Haven’t watched a second from section 409 but looks like KAT is kinda good
Towns playing with some force tonight, especially on the defensive boards. Good job of taking it to Bam this Q.
“The KAT highlight reel is getting pretty long…”
I don’t mind you doing this shit so long as you don’t mind if I trash him when he sucks, which I’m sure will be often. How do you want to proceed?
A Sims dunk is just too much now. Hahahaha.
Fucking Jaquez
Judge 🤪
Watching the Knicks and Yankees is too much torture. I’m switching to the Halloween bake-off.
JK, can you find that comment about Brunson with your bookmark?
Quite a good game all of a sudden
Yankees can’t defend now
The Yankee 🤡 show
Yankees’ defensive miscues opened the gates…
Knicks stepping up the D.
Loving Towns on that putback. Fire.
Holy choke job
Does any team in any sport in any year make more dumb mistakes than these Yankees?
I would be miserable if I were a Heat fan right now. Or a Yankees fan
The Yankees are producing the worse inning of defense I’ve seen since the 1960s when I was 7 playing CYO little league.
That KAT kid had a good game uh?
KAT is immense
Towns is a monster. Oh my God!
Julius who?
THE BIG PUSS!
Yankee stadium has been unplugged.
I hope I didn’t jinx the Yankees
Clyde hits it right: “That will silence the critics. For one game.” Haha.
Nice night. Go Yankees!!
“I don’t mind you doing this shit so long as you don’t mind if I trash him when he sucks, which I’m sure will be often. How do you want to proceed?”
What’s the matter EB, KAT got your tongue?
It’s an early season game but that’s a satisfying road win against a pretty decent team. Needed that to stop the panic.
Guess the way to integrate KAT is for him to just take the ball when he gets it and beclown whoever’s guarding him.
Bronny got his first NBA points tonight on a jumper. Can’t believe I got an alert on my phone about that one.
looking forward to the 27 articles on ESPN about history being made. Glad I was here for it.
Fuck the Yankees, at least I get to watch KAT in a Knicks uniform now!
Pretty nice win with a good second half on both ends, it offsets the home loss to the Cavs.
Brunson tried to involve is teammates and hit some big threes after a bad first half, KAT was a monster, others had their shiny moments.
8-men rotation, it’s playoffs time already 😉
Always satisfying as hell to beat the Heat in their own building, specially with such a great game by KAT. Straight up dominating against a DPOY candidate in Adebayo, very aggressive on the boards, games like this is why you make a trade to bring him to your team.
Not really worried about Brunson, his shooting has been putrid and he’s had some apparent small injuries here and there, but he’s built enough of a track record with us that I’m sure he’ll get back to form.
“looking forward to the 27 articles on ESPN about history being made. Glad I was here for it.”
Let’s just pray that it wasn’t on a pass from his Dad.
Unironically excited to watch the KAT highlight reel. Looks like a 15+ minute performance to me 😤
This was a big win. Brunson didn’t have a good game, Bridges wasn’t very efficient, OG didn’t do much, but we still managed to win because Towns was other worldly and Josh Hart is in playoff form.
You can see the potential on offense.
The defense has been very inconsistent. It was bad for a stretch, but they are showing they are capable of defending on a high level for stretches.
Just keep in mind that Z-Man has met all the procedural requirements and reserved his right to demand that you watch Julius’s reels!
2-2 and now an easy stretch. Gotta clean the next 3 up.
oh nice, Indy managed to blow a huge lead but win in OT over the Celtics, who I guess aren’t invincible. Too bad Cleveland is going 82-0
If KAT plays like he did tonight come playoff time, I will personally build him a statue that actually looks like him.
Other than deuce…our bench is as Clyde would say..”a motley crew”….we need to shore it up somehow
Aside from JB missing some shots inside that he generally makes the only bad thing tonight was the bench being useless outside of deuce. I guess Cam made some nice passes, but we can’t go night after night with only one guy on the bench scoring.
I don’t think the Nets got the memo that they’re supposed to suck. Especially Ziaire Williams.
Especially Dennis Schroder.
The Nets have enough decent guys to be just sort of bad until they trade most of them and go full bore tank
The bench will firm up once Precious and Mitch are back and will firm up further once Thibs is ready to start using Huk and Kolek more. I’m not sure what the story is with Shamet, but we could use one more scorer.
Gerrit Cole Legacy Game*
Well, it was a good four innings
Dodgers bullpen is running on fumes…
I’m glad we won tonight, but the Heat are not really that good, so I’m not going to draw any conclusions beyond it being a nice early season road win.
Gutty 42-pitch performance by Treinen.
Ohtani really needs to pitch the 9th.
Nice work there by Leiter Jr. under tremendous pressure.
Great drama here!
Until it wasn’t.
Walker Buehler’s Day Off
The small dose of Yankee baseball I experienced this year reminded me of the Bargnani knicks. Not sure how they made it as far as they did.
So long as I’m alive, they will always be the Brooklyn Dodgers. Jackie Robinson’s team, the guy who is memorialized in CitiField’s rotunda. If not the Mets, glad it’s them.
What a contrast between 2 teams – the Yankees played stupid baseball all series and the Dodgers executed at every turn – including 2 sac flies with the bases loaded and no one out in the 8th.
Well deserved championship
I just logged on to say that I hate life.
I’m also disavowing my baseball fandom. Going to follow competitive pickleball. Jowles where are ya?
Well this horribly depressing subway ride back to Brooklyn is a great opportunity to catch up on the game thread
Do basketball players wear ski goggles to keep the champaign out of their eyes nowadays, too? Or is it just baseball dorks?
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