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24 replies on “Knicks Morning News (2024.11.26)”
And Elfrid Payton had 14 points on 7-for-11 shooting, 7 rebounds, and 21 assists last night. Weird.
No, I’m not wishing that we still had him.
He was not. Nor were any of the good players released or sent to the minors. These decisions only make sense in the context of the movie’s original ending, in which we find out that the owner actually loves the team, but was left in a bad financial situation by her late husband, so she basically invented Moneyball to find undervalued players with upside, and acted the part of the villain to motivate them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5td3yRTgkrI&t=7s
It’s certainly a much more enlightened ending than the one where she’s just a rampaging rhymes-with-witch, but test audiences hated it, so it got cut and they shot new material with her growing increasingly upset throughout the tiebreaker game with the Yankees.
Also? Go Knicks!
First of all kudos to KBA for watching the game live (it started at 3 AM here in Italy), sometimes jet-lag is useful… 😉
How’s your house search going?
Very nice rebound game after the egg in Utah.
It may sound crazy but, like last year, we match up well with the Nuggets, their pace and style of play are well suited for us (and they feel Gordon’s absence).
Fantastic offensive performance overall, career high in points for OG, career high in assists for the Captain and tied franchise team record for assists, plus Hart couldn’t miss, KAT could barely do it and the Cam/Deuce couple from the bench did a good job.
We know JB well so I foresaw a strong reaction, same for KAT who was pissed at himself last game.
Bridges on the other hand looks like he has taken some bad habits in Brooklyn and apparently he doesn’t care about losing so he had another lousy game.
I watched with the Nuggets’ broadcast on, here’s a couple of KBlogger-like takes from their announcers team (Scott Hastings is surprisingly good):
“Bridges is the only Knick starter who didn’t shoot well… And anyway his shot looks broke to me”.
“What if one of their starters get injured while up 30 in the 4th?”.
Headline reads “Michael Malone calls out effort in blowout loss.”
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/42617295/michael-malone-calls-nuggets-effort-blowout-loss-knicks
This is at least the third time this has happened after a big win. Giannis said his teammates “didn’t compete” and Bickerstaff had the same lament as Malone when we blew out Detroit.
Seems like when we do have it going, it has a demoralizing impact on opponents.
(And yes, fyi, I am aware that OG looked like he is very properly paid.)
Is OG the new Kawhi Leonard? Many people are saying this.
If he’s actually the new Kawhi he might be underpaid.
I feel bad for the guy. He signed that new contract and just a few weeks into the season he’s already underpaid. 😉
If he’s new Kawhi we’re going to be very happy with that contract for the next 4 years as long as he doesn’t get injured for 2 of them.
Can you imagine this team if Bridges ever gets going? And with Mitch at the 5 providing rim protection and KAT at the 4?
A man can dream, right?
The Knicks’ ORtg is now a ridiculous 123.2, just 0.4 behind Cleveland. If I had to guess, they will be take the #1 spot in the next two weeks (Dallas is a tough defensive team, but the schedule opens up after that, and Cleveland is unlikely to continue to shoot 41.5% from deep – though the Knicks might regress a bit too from their 39.8% mark, #2 in the league).
The difference between the Knicks’ ORtg and the #4 team is the same between the #4 team and the #21 team.
Now if only they could get the defense to the #10-#15 range (they are currently #22), they’d be cooking. If they had the #15 defense (currently the Bucks), their net rating would be in the Celtics/OKC/Cleveland stratosphere.
It sounds like Precious is almost ready to go so we can see if Thibs is willing to try some two big lineups
This is the thing. I refuse to believe that this is the real Bridges. So he will get going. And then, to quote a wise old man of television… sweet fancy Moses!
For those lamenting just two days ago that Thibs is a dinosaur and is the wrong coach for this team (really tired take, if I may be blunt…), this from Macri:
“In Thibs’ first season as coach, New York got to 30 assists just once in 72 games. They have now topped that number nine times in 17 contests. It is as stunning a turnaround in offensive execution and philosophy as there is in the league this year.”
This is not to throw shade at Thibs, but getting assists is much easier when your teammates can shoot.
Absolutely no shot at Jordi Fernandez, who is doing an amazing job, but as we’ve seen a number of times over the years, it’s one thing coaching a bunch of eager young dudes without a ton of egos. Making the transition to the next step is super, super tricky.
This is very true, but you still need to set up your offense to throw those passes.
I think Thibs is much more flexible than people give him credit for. He adjusts what the team does depending on the personnel.
The OG game!
Bridges will be fine — he’s just working through things.
Thibs seems to have adapted his offensive system to the talent he has, which is great, and we also need to give props to Jalen Brunson as a leader. The guy was getting MVP votes going on scoring rampages, and has toned down his own production and ramped up the assists to integrate everyone else.
Like many, I think the team is much better off with Brunson acting as a facilitator most of the time, and only going Full Brunson when the defense is cutting off the ball movement. The mere threat of him deking his way to the bucket opens up so many possibilities for him as a playmaker. Luka is still the best offensive player he’s played with, but being in a lineup with KAT, and with guys like Hart, OG, Deuce, and (theoretically) Bridges, who can cut and shoot, etc., is allowing him to do things he never did in Dallas, nor here prior to this season.
Neither last night nor Utah changes my feeling that we need more games before the team coheres. 20 games may not be enough. If we’re still above. 500, 40 or 50 games would still be fine. Let’s get into January and get everyone healthy (knock on wood) and give time for whatever Thibs is trying to implement on defense to manifest. Because you know he isn’t happy with the D right now.
Also, belated props to AlSep! That was cool.
Honestly when I do that, I don’t see much changing.
I have never doubted that Bridges will get going. I doubt that getting him going will move the needle. When he gets going, then OG or Hart just become the guy who is less involved.
Maybe getting Bridges going and moving Hart to the bench with Deuce is the secret sauce, but I still think it’s going to take a player who isn’t currently on our roster.
“Maybe getting Bridges going and moving Hart to the bench with Deuce is the secret sauce, but I still think it’s going to take a player who isn’t currently on our roster.”
Or maybe who isn’t currently in our rotation, such as Precious and/or Mitch.
I’m gonna have to start calling Anunoby, “Who Knew”…sheesh! It seemed like no matter how clunky some of his moves were, everything still went in. Contested..uncontested..drives…shit was crazy. Now..I don’t expect him to keep this pace up offensively, but it’s nice to see so far. Maybe he does continue to average career highs on offense and it helps Bridges rediscover his shot. But really- Thibs needs to have him play with the 2nd unit alot more with Anunoby’s emergence. This team is gonna be awesome once Mitch and Achiuwa are healthy- provided Anunoby and KAT stay relatively healthy. I’m always worried about Brunson and Hart staying upright, but they don’t have a deep injury history- so long as Thibs doesn’t continue to play them more than 32 minutes in a game-long blowout 🙄
OG probably won’t keep this up (though, hey, prove me wrong), but if he maintains even 75% of it he’s all-star caliber and, yes, likely underpaid.
Given the respective play of OG and RJ Barrett of late, there’s someone we probably won’t be hearing from today. In any event, that trade is looking like an absolute heist.
Now we just need the guy we traded five firsts for to be good.
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