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2024-25 Game Thread: Knicks @ Wizards: The Year’s End Celebration Begins

The Knicks head to Washington D.C. to take on the shitty ass Wizards in what will presumably be two easy wins to close out the New Year’s.

Thanks, weird ass schedule!

Let’s go, Knicks!

105 replies on “2024-25 Game Thread: Knicks @ Wizards: The Year’s End Celebration Begins”

By the advanced metrics the Fellowship was heavily favored. Sauron went all in on redundant orcs, inefficient killz, and defenders who couldn’t stop the backdoor cut.

Sauron is Isiah Thomas.

Cam hasn’t played much these last few days, would’ve been pretty partial to just letting him cook the Wizards. Alas, Tom Thibodeau giveth, and Tom Thibodeau giveth his players every damn minute they can handle.

Poole is out for the Wizards

If we don’t enter the new year with a top-10 defensive rating after 2 games against a Poole-less Wizards I’ll be disappointed.

I don’t know nothing about this year draft, mainly because we don’t own a first round pick, so my question to the well informed is:

How good is Cooper Flagg?
Who is he comparing to, as an unanimous first pick?

Frodo = Brunson
Sam = Hart
Merry = Deuce
Pippin = Payne
Aragorn = Towns
Legolas = OG
Gimli = Bridges
Boromir = Hartenstein
Gandalf = Mitch bc he got taken down by a balrog (Embiid) and has been presumed dead. Look for his coming on the 5th day. At dawn, look to the East.

Reminds me of that Friends episode…

Ross: didn’t you read LoTR in high school?

Joey: no I had sex in high school.

It must be so deflating for home team fans to be drowned out by Knicks fans.

Happens in so many arenas.

KAT’s fouling is the main thing about his reputation that has really showed up lately.

Towns has made more dumb fouls in the last three games than Tim Duncan in his entire career…

Brian, can we talk about comic books instead?

Knicks as Avengers:

Nick Fury: Leon Rose
Captain America: Brunson
Iron Man: Bridges
Hulk: Mitch
Thor: KAT
Hawkeye: Hart

I know he was around since forever, but Greg Gumbel felt younger than 78 years old. He seemed far more youthful.

Good thing the Wiz were missing Poole tonight, we held the rest of their high powered offense to 60 points in the first half

Let’s win this in the 2nd half. And please, let’s defend a little better, i don’t want to allow 120 pts from a team like the Wizards.

I’m curious which commercial on MSG/Gotham Sports you guys find the most grating. I’m torn between Tullamore Dew and Anthony Edwards as Santa Claus.

The Wizards have droves of skinny long-armed projects who should be annoying to play against in a couple of years…

Champaignie for my real friends
Real paignie for my sham friends (aka Knicks)

This game is highly annoying, we’re making it look difficult to stop the fucking Washington Wizards offense

The Wizards have droves of skinny long-armed projects who should be annoying to play against in a couple of years…

IF… they develop! 😉 😛

6-26 from three and not giving a fuck on defense all night long can make for a game like this…

Real payne for my shamet friends?

Now we are talking.. oof this team is frustrating

This game seems like Exhibit Z in the argument for tired legs being a major cause of our lackluster defense. Hopefully the adrenaline of a close game can coax a better 4Q performance.

If they’re gonna shit the bed against this Wizards team they deserve to play 40+ minutes tonight.

Thankfully Towns seems to be waking up.

Reviving the time honored Knicks tradition of letting the absolute most random scrubs have career highs against us.

This isn’t even the sligthly less shit Champagnie who plays for the Spurs, this is inexcusable.

Usually we say it’s nice to win when our best players are having off nights.

Tonight our 2 best players are putting up big numbers and somehow we’re losing

This intentional foul to prevent the 3 shit needs to be regulated out of the fame for making an otherwise exciting finish into an unwatchable slog.

There’s gonna be a lot of bitching about this game but it’s a really long season and these games happen, especially on a back to back

Take the W and move on. And we’ll probably kick their ass on Monday

Ridiculous game.

Deuce is in a shooting slump, Payne believed too much in our praises, Shamet’s just arrived, Precious is Precious.

On the second night of a back to back, against one of the worst team in the league (without its two top scorers) the bench gave us 8 points.

It’s an issue, we can’t go on killing the starters night after night.

To paraphrase geo’s dad, nobody will remember how this game was won, only that they won it.

Thank fucking god. No disrespect to Brunson’s performance, but looking forward to forgetting that game ever happened.

“I really don’t like my teammates one bit. They annoy the hell out of me.”

Jalen “Cap” Brunson, after being repeatedly interrupted during his interview…

Annoying game, but you are not going to win many times shooting 10-40 from deep, especially when the opponent shoots 17-38.

Thibs is losing his patience with the bench too quickly even for his own standards.

Was at this great Albanian place in Stamford Connecticut to break up the trip back from Boston. Yum. Annoying game to check in on. Is OG hurting or what? That’s a lotta points that didn’t need to be scored.

Towns had a very strong game. He had one stretch where he carried the offense and kept the game from getting out of hand.

Also, give the Wiz credit, they played their asses off.

Players dug deep and got the win and bail out the coach. Thibs refusal to trust/try out a bench rotation is gonna bite us in the ass. We’re one injury from a starter from being screwed.

I could tell all game Bridges and OG were exhausted (especially showed on D). For fuck’s sake man. We can get away with it against the Pelicans and Wizards of the world but against good teams you need a bench. Always thinking short term instead of long term is Thibs

Was at this great Albanian place in Stamford Connecticut to break up the trip back from Bosto

Rank Albanian cuisine for me on a scale of 1-10.

We have to figure out how to get OG out of this shooting slump. Other that one huge game he’s been shooting poorly for the last 10 games. It’s not a disaster because he’s still defending at a high level and we have Bridges rolling now, but we are ultimately going to need more efficient scoring from OG.

A solid six when scaling against world cuisine at its very best. The nature of Albanian hospitality(besa- they saved their Jewish neighbors during the holocaust) is intertwined with the eating. Large roasts with classic Mediterranean styling. It ain’t high Chinese but it’s communal food at its best. Bureka (spinach pie) at 6 in the morning with espresso in Tirana is pretty epic.

I went to that Albanian place once with my brother who doesn’t eat veal and turned out that 90% of the menu is veal. I loved it though.

In a way I think we would have been better off if Kuzma and Poole played. Neither of them is what you would call a high IQ player and their chucking would have taken the spirit out of the young Wiz players

JB a beast in the paint, and made more FTs than the entire Wizards team attempted. Hopefully we can find our 3p shot in the next set of games.

In a way I think we would have been better off if Kuzma and Poole played. Neither of them is what you would call a high IQ player and their chucking would have taken the spirit out of the young Wiz players

I have no idea who would be crazy enough to trade for either of them. There are only a few sucker teams left that think guys like them are any good. It was a mistake for the Wizards to have anything to do with them.

Started 2024 with a 14:2 month and finishing it now with 12:2 month. Dumped Randle for the best center in the conference and landed Mikal for Jackson 5. Leon had one hell of a year. Only way to top it is to flip KAT for Giannis this summer.

When Kuzma signed there, I got the sense he was happy that he was gonna finally have an offense that featured him even if they weren’t going to win much.

I think Poole and Kuzma were reasonable gambles, Washington was going nowhere anyway and both guys were parts of championship winning teams and young enough to improve. Poole was specially impressive to the point that even the Warriors thought he would be a key piece for the future before the whole Draymond thing happened.

But they really need to move on, they had a chance to trade at least Kuzma last season and didn’t, and Poole might just be untradeable at the moment.

Poole and Kuzma

Rooting for the Wiz must feel like rooting for the 2007 Knicks. You have to hold your nose and cover your eyes, hoping the laundry can muster a win, but it rarely does.

Leon had one hell of a year. Only way to top it is to flip KAT for Giannis this summer.

If Leon does this he shall feast eternally with great Knicks heroes of the past in the Halls of New York Sports Valhalla.

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