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2024-25 Game Thread: Knicks @ Mavericks – Thanks for Brunson, Mavs!

As we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, let us all say our thanks to Mark Cuban for being such a complete moron that he strung Jalen Brunson along when the dude was begging to sign him long term for, like, $9 million a year or some shit. Cuban was, like, “Yeah, but if I sign him to that deal, I won’t be able to trade him this season. I could easily trade him next season, but I want to be able to trade him now for a ‘star.'”

You fucking moron, Cuban.

Thank you so much!

And I’d be very thankful if the Knicks could repeat Monday night’s beatdown.

Let’s go, Knicks! We give thanks to 58 wins in the bank…s!

113 replies on “2024-25 Game Thread: Knicks @ Mavericks – Thanks for Brunson, Mavs!”

Mentally steeling myself for Brunson going 1-21

I’m preparing for OG going 4 – 15 and spending Thanksgiving debating about whether he’s overpaid and we’d be better off with RJ and Quickley.

I’m so flattered! I feel like Joaquin Phoenix at the end of the first Joker movie.

You’re more like Joaquin Phoenix in the second Joker movie.

Because no one paid attention to it?

That layup attempt was Hart’s first of his two guaranteed brain farts.

On pace for a final score of 48-48!

Shit it’s the opposite of last game, only Bridges can make a shot

The NBA should just redefine traveling. Change it to something like 3 steps without a dribble since refs seldom call actual travels. Guys shuffle their feet then take a step wayyyyy too often in the nba

That layup attempt was Hart’s first of his two guaranteed brain farts.

And now the quota is filled…

Gummy offense. Don’t even know what that means, but it’s the term that comes to mind.

They better wake up asap, I have a family funeral to attend tomorrow, I’m not in the mood to lose sleep over this shit…

Repeat after me: “first quarter leads are meaningless, first quarter leads are meaningless…”

The ball literally rolls past three Knicks who have their backs turned.

The good news is- we have the type of offense where we can say shit like “we’re only down 13” this early in the game lol

I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that Knicks aren’t putting up 145 pts tonight.

Another game we’ve lost in the first 5 minutes. Looks like we can’t compete against any decent defense

Defense is putrid. Dallas doesn’t have enough weapons out there to score this easily

Towns now 1-5 on shots he normally makes like butter, and that’s not including the and-1 he blew.

Hart borrowing from the brain fart bank.

Have we completed a single comeback this season or such an allegedly good offensive team? How do we have so little resiliency?

Never mind. After this game we’ll probably be out of the top five in offensive rating

This is why a good team needs good defense. You lean on it when shots don’t fall. We started well defensively but keep getting worse as the game progresses. We shall see. Mavs D not just decent; it is very good.

Strat said

I’m preparing for OG going 4 – 15 and spending Thanksgiving debating about whether he’s overpaid and we’d be better off with RJ and Quickley.

There goes my Thanksgiving

I may go buy a ton of liquor rather than watch this.

And I may stay off the site tomorrow.

And I think OG has used up his dunks for the year.

This team gets completely dogwalked more than most “good” teams that I recall. Seems like we just get completely throttled in most of our losses.

One thing about elite defenses is that they tend to be more consistent than elite offenses. Even elite offenses suffer from variance.

One thing about elite defenses is that they tend to be more consistent than elite offenses. Even elite offenses suffer from variance.

Good shooting comes and goes. Good defense is effort and habit.

This has been slow torture but since this version of the Mavs sucks we can still probably win. Gonna need a few more of them made shots though.

I don’t think Sims is hopeless. Not destined to be a starter, but I think a value backup big is possible.

Pretty funny that Mikal’s the only guy who can hit the ocean from a boat.

Well at least that half-court heave won’t significantly impact Mikal’s three point average…

My wife actually watched a few minutes with me. Of course I told her the Knicks had a good offense and then this.

I blame myself. Way too much positivity since the last game. I left the doom to others.

I won’t be let the tram down like this again.

Turning this one off though, we don’t do comebacks. Hello purgatory my old friend…

The Knicks never adapted to the physicality and ball pressure of the opposing defense and never got into any rhythm. Defensively, they played well at the beginning and the end of the half. Once again, the opposing team drops 60 on us before the break. Not good. Not good.

This is not our night.

Ok, if Towns can start hitting from outside, maybe we get it to 10 by the 4th

It will come to down to playoff success, but I woulld take the odds on a new coach being here next season

I guess we’re not getting another 46 minute video tomorrow about how great OG Anunoby is.

Thibs just fucking sit Anunoby for a bit he’s fallen over like three times this quarter

Just play the kids for the fourth, see if they can get anything cooking. The starters are not salvaging this one

Yikes not even a fake comeback. Just a wite to wore blowout against a team missing a guy who would be the best player in the history of our franchise by far.

This team sucks.

We got our usual tariff of 120 points or more dropped on us. When our beautiful offense has it going, we can score more, win, and think we are a great team. No, we are not! Tonight we were exposed again. It’s not working folks! Our only hope is that that April is still far away. Urgency is building up. We need to make changes! We need stops! We need defense!

They’re very fortunate they beat the Nuggets and have a chance to finish the road trip with a winning record.

*Kyrie Irving is now 19-2 in his last 21 games against the Knicks

Knicks lost the 3 point line by 30 points

That’s how you can sum up wins and loses in Today’s NBA

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