NardDogNation wrote:

BlueKnickers wrote:This team is

STOOPID

Brown is stoopid

Brunson is stoopid

I'd rather have a Yakuza gang bukkakke on my face than watch that first quarter again

How does this fckng tard PG not get KAT any touches in the first quarter while ATL is whipping their stoopid asses

And how does Brown keep playing Jose as the backup PG when he is just a cnt hair north of useless?

Fck this team

Hawks in 6

Sir, I need you to Google "bukkake" again before committing to this comment. That's a sticky situation to be in lol

blkexec wrote:Bye bye Mike Brown
Great guy but wow. Thibs is somewhere doing pushups right now.

NO KAT NO RINGS

If JB don’t pass, NO BLING

It's already over for Brown. He's toast.

Brunson's reputation will be under major reevaluation this off-season if he keeps this up.

You can't build a championship team around a short defensive liability that doesn't make his teammates better as your # 1 player.

I doubt Brunson will ever change his game enough to matter.

Unless Brunson has an awakening on the road to Damascus and becomes a team-oriented PG the Knicks are never sniffing a ring as long as he is the Knicks PG.

You read it here first.

martin wrote:

Knixkik wrote:Mike Brown took way too long to find what worked. And it was too late. Coaching change will have to be made after all of his weird panic lineups. He’s coaching for his job the rest of the series.

Brown has been hunting all season to find what works and still not there.

After a whole season. He looks lost but trying to pull his best car salesman face in order to not look like he’s drowning.

I’m done with him, fully believe he isn’t the one to take us anywhere, but I’m sure management will keep him because of the contract. This will be like an Aaron Boone situation with the Yankees. No rings.

Brunson’s reputation is crumbling at a terrible time and the Brunson mafia is losing points in the popularity contest. Brunson, after Randle, really brought us back, but his inability to play with KAT says more about him than about KAT. The fact that he is also the main reason we made the worst trade ever in bringing loser Bridges hurts his case. I love Hart, but I’m almost done with this iteration of the Knicks. I’d rather root for a talent-challenged crew that works hard and gives it all every time than this bunch of talented but clueless bunch.

This team is too easy to hate. They are my team and have been for years. They will remain like that because I’m a fan and we’ve gone through worse, of course, but I can’t help but hate this crew. There is a really rotten mentality here and I’m really souring up quickly on Brunson. It’s just impossible for a guy so talented and so smart as him to now work effectively with KAT and even have such an underwhelming impact on Bridges. Mikal is not even a shadow of his former self. One thing is to sacrifice for the team, but the guy doesn’t even bring constantly his trademark defense.

This team is a disaster and even if they somehow pull this series out, they will be doing what they always do: underachieve until winning one and either in round two or round three run out of steam because they are a freaking nut job of a team.

I’ll keep rooting for the orange and blue, but this team doesn’t represent NY. I hate this iteration.

blkexec wrote:I’ve said this early in the season. Deuce needs to start. JB uses so much energy on defense, it kills his offensive touch and he still gets done on defense. At least deuce can guard most PGs and allow JB to hide on a scrub. Hart should be benched. Most will say Mikal but deuce for hart gives us two things instantly:

1. 5 and out starting group. 5 players who you have to guard. All 5 can shoot. With hart that’s an easy double team on JB
2. On defense Deuce is our best PG defender. You hide JB on the next non shooter or lower offensive impact player.

Hart off the bench can be that lead guard giving you all all around play on both ends and dominate that second unit. We need Mikals 2way play more than harts 1 way play.

McBride has been mostly ineffective this series other than a short period where he hit some shots. CJ is scoring at will over him. I think we need Hart to cover CJ. He did a great job on him

That said, if we played smarter and moved the ball these games wouldn’t be close

KAT came up with some HUGE defensive plays and was a team best +22... those two things were NOT on my bingo card, so kudos to him. because despite us losing these last 2 games, if KAT plays like this we can still come out of the east.

Still think we win this series and win the next 3, because if we don't, we are going to be facing a game 7.

Mikal... can't even point to defense in this game, probably his worst game as a pro. Disappointing. And I think Kolek still needs to get some run.

Ultimately we didnt shoot well enough 43/29% isn't going to win on the road unless your defense makes up for it.

DLeethal wrote:Putting McBride on McCollum was such an awful decision for that last play. McBride is 6’1. He had no chance to contest that shot at the level it needed to be contested. We knew the ball was going to CJ. Put McBride on NAW in the corner.

agreed. at least we finally got Brunson off CJ for alot of this game, that took way too long. But CJ even made the "too small" gesture earlier when he easily shot over Deuce.