MaTT4281 wrote:The difference was that miracle Bojan 3.

Not even a miracle. He's been like that since he's been in the league.

Knicksfan wrote:

Clean wrote:You know what would have been nice? Not instantly giving the Hawks 10 pts on us because our coach likes Elfrid. Even though we won despite him in the regular season that will not work in the playoffs. As long as Elfrid gets minutes in the playoffs we will not advance.

Elfeid was bad but he’s always like that. Wanna blame someone? Our all-star and his number 2 were nothing tonight. Nothing. We were close only because Burks and Rose kept us in there, but wow, what a pathetic showing from our main guys.

4 seed my behind. Home advantage already gone. Great job.

I was blaming the coach. Like you said, everyone knows Elfrid should not be playing but the coach starts him anyway.

WP76 wrote:

Uptown wrote:can't blame Frank!! Trae had it going in the 4th. Outside of a trap, nobody was stopping Trae at that point.

Actually, I can. He had one job and he got abused.

You can't! When u never gave Frank any playing time throughout the season vs top scoring opponents guards.

Sambakick wrote:This is a wake-up call to anyone who thinks we don't need Mitchell Robinson. When Capella was moving over to double Randle and Randle was looking befuddled with his dribble that's where we could use a sure handed 7 footer in the pivot to make the Hawks pay. Instead we have Too Short Gibson and Stone hands Noel. They've filled-in admirably for Mitch but they don't replace Mitch.

Unless he is cleared, we have to play without him. We definitely can win this series without him.

We can’t if our best players don’t play their part.

Sambakick wrote:

ToddTT wrote:I have a feeling I’m gonna hate that little c*** for the next decade.

He did a lot of talking and preening. I'm glad he did it. That's the kind of stuff that you do when you win a series not one damn game.

I just hope he doesn't become for the Knicks what Chipper Jones was to the Mets.

As far as the game, there are plenty of fingers that can be pointed. That said, Julius Randle was the reason we lost this one.

Sambakick wrote:This is a wake-up call to anyone who thinks we don't need Mitchell Robinson. When Capella was moving over to double Randle and Randle was looking befuddled with his dribble that's where we could use a sure handed 7 footer in the pivot to make the Hawks pay. Instead we have Too Short Gibson and Stone hands Noel. They've filled-in admirably for Mitch but they don't replace Mitch.

Yes. You can ride Noel as a starter for a while but IMHO he is a good backup.

Kemet wrote:After watching todays game .. I come up with the conclusion ..
It look like Thibs are never gonna coach a 2nd round playoff in his career !!!

You must be joking, right?

MooK wrote:I would like to see them force Young to play D. They had him on RJ late and I wanted to see them take advantage of him in the post. Hopefully it's something they look at for game 2...

Thank you - when RJ is being guarded by Young, you have to post him up- we should simply look to attack him, get him to get into foul trouble.