And the 4th quarters… How are we letting this become such a thing?! It’s cardiac Knicks for a full quarter? Noooo man…

VDesai wrote:

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Good for him to end that way, but alarming during most of those minutes, especially with the lead dwindling down. We need him to play like one of our top players on both ends, especially on a night without KAT and Deuce.

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LivingLegend wrote:

NYStateOfMind wrote:Why TF is Payne taking that 3? He is 2-6 on them.

One reason is our clear #2 option with Kat/OG on the bench (Mikal) was running away from the ball and refused to even shoot down the stretch. His decision making is scary primarily because he looks scared.

They were doubling the ball handler and instead of coming towards the ball we had guys camping out across the court. Knicks need to watch that tape, bc the way the handled that double was atrocious. Ball kept ending up with Cam. He took 2 bad 3's, but the one right off the offensive rebound wasnt a good decision as we needed to kill some clock in that situation.

Yes agree but why not have Cam or Hart bring the ball up quick and get into some action - rather than the Brunson 16 second dribble up into a double team

martin wrote:

franco12 wrote:Guess who our next game is against?

The refs again?

Jesus I mean even outside of every reviewed call --- felt like 90% of calls were whack against us

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This is what I saw and it was worse than ZERO stats - just the way he acted like the ball was a hand grenade.

LivingLegend wrote:

VDesai wrote:

LivingLegend wrote:

NYStateOfMind wrote:Why TF is Payne taking that 3? He is 2-6 on them.

One reason is our clear #2 option with Kat/OG on the bench (Mikal) was running away from the ball and refused to even shoot down the stretch. His decision making is scary primarily because he looks scared.

They were doubling the ball handler and instead of coming towards the ball we had guys camping out across the court. Knicks need to watch that tape, bc the way the handled that double was atrocious. Ball kept ending up with Cam. He took 2 bad 3's, but the one right off the offensive rebound wasnt a good decision as we needed to kill some clock in that situation.

Yes agree but why not have Cam or Hart bring the ball up quick and get into some action - rather than the Brunson 16 second dribble up into a double team

Every time I start even thinking about criticizing Brunson, I take a step back and look at his stats. He’s facing double teams across the board and maybe forcing a some shots, but he is still putting up ridiculous numbers. I like to think of it as him getting his practice in the double team in.

Now, letting Brunson play through the press actually leaves the defense out of position and not set when they cross half court. Brunson found Bridges at the top of the key with a 4 on 3 and they missed the open look. But if letting Brunson fight through the press results in 4 on 3, I think you recognize he is taking one for the team fighting through the trap. And he is skilled enough to break it by himself.

Now his rotations need work. He’s slow on getting to the corner. But, they will figure it out.

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Harsh. That was a weird 10 minutes. But yeah, but would have been nice to see more impact.

Chandler wrote:Two comments

Defense needs work. Then thus-far underwhelming Atlanta rookie looks like an allstar against us. The good Cam Thomas looks like Superman. No adjustments?

What the hell is up with Clyde. I had to turn off the volume. It was like he wanted them to lose w his droning on. Love the guy but sheesh

They took a while but Thibs switched OG onto him and put him on ball denial. Then the refs attacked OG.