As for Precious, his hands were awful. He looked bad at times. IN Thibs defense, I don't go to him unless I Have to.
He had to.
Precious stepped up when we needed it. He shines on defense and the rebounds. Lets not blast iHart too much,, he wore out Embiid and got his ready to be served up to OG.

Knicks with healthy Randle and Mitch would be true contenders. They were magical in the January.
But he not here.
Its all working in the here and now. Yes, enjoy it guys. This is a tough series.

Our two 7 ft centers were out of the game against a taller team with their MVP-level center - no prob, we proceed to out-hustle and out-rebound them the rest of the way.

The brand of defense this team plays is really different from the Patrick Ewing Knicks - those Knicks dominated with size, muscle, and toughness. These Knicks are so quick - we're a little undersized but we have tough guys that play larger than their heights.

Tweet was deleted or there was problem with the URL:

https://www.twitter.com/nba/status/1784654502634627546

Nalod wrote:

nycericanguy wrote:

joec32033 wrote:

gradyandrew wrote:Kind of crazy the cheers the Knicks were getting during the game. I was surprised the announcers didn't make a bigger deal about it. Brunson had multiple MVP chants throughout the game. Knicks were able to feed off the crowd.

The announcers were pro Philly the whole game. In the first quarter when -I think-Brunson got fouled and the announcer said he only saw "marginal contact" I knew what we were in for.

that was nuts... i agree.

and that old lady in the front rows was so tacky and annoying. glad we shut her up.

Caught the line as "Sarcasm".
Im not a Richard Jeff fan but he called it pretty good for both teams. They called out the dirty stuff.

Knicks wore out the 76ers. Plain and simple. Philly was exhausted and knicks were sharper. Im going to guess that was part of the plan. I said this morning "Rope-a-dope".

Knicks did go into Embiid and he was effective, but he wore out.
Philly got fatigued and you make mistakes when that happens. Don't discount that.
DDV did not have it tonite and Deuces defense on Maxy was excellent.
Maxy got the looks but got tired.

Credit all the Knicks thru 4 quarters and a game plan that worked.

Maybe towards the end. At the beginning, the "marginal contact" line and the "50/50 call" lines were meant to tweak knicks fans. I didn't know it was Jefferson so I am speaking from a real 3rd party perspective on just listening to the announcers.

martin wrote:Yessir

Tweet was deleted or there was problem with the URL:

https://www.twitter.com/thestrickland/status/1784622114680553496

Awesome

If Randle had gotten surgery the day after the injury, would he be ready to come back now?

Lu et al. performed a somewhat similar study comparing return to play in NBA athletes suffering an instability event. Fifty NBA athletes were evaluated for injuries sustained from 1999 to 2018. In those treated nonoperatively, athletes who sustained shoulder subluxations returned after an average of 3.6 weeks, compared with 7.6 weeks in those who sustained a shoulder dislocation . Players who underwent operative management returned after an average of 19 weeks. Athletes treated operatively were found to have a longer time interval between a recurrent instability event (70 weeks vs. 28.5 weeks) .

Panos wrote:

NardDogNation wrote:

Alpha1971 wrote:

Rookie wrote:

DLeethal wrote:

Tweet was deleted or there was problem with the URL:

https://www.twitter.com/krisplashed/status/1784691766689403198

Love to see it

Embid is a man child

League enabled.. him and Luka

There is no comparison. Luka is every bit as irritating with his complaining but Embiid is flatout dirty (Luka is not). If his team had any degree of post-season success, he'd be considered worse than Draymond.

How fun would it be after all the drama of the JB signing and the draft tank and the still going KP analysis if Knicks met Mavs in the finals?

I think our best Finals matchup would be Minny or OKC. Mavs have sort of had our number. I like a matchup where OG can neutralize their best player.

martin wrote:You know you wanna watch it!

I did watch it!!!

"Why don't other teams do this".......
Well, you need players that can handle this coaching this. Miami is good like this. Spo does it well. You need attention to detail and a "Culture" where players come in and will not get offense touches and we all know thats how you get paid in the NBA. So perhaps thats why Thibs gets a bad rap by many in the league. They don't want to expend the energy on defense and then get called out for offensive production decline because of it. Cam could not adapt. Obi. It happens.
Guys like Josh do get paid. iHart will get paid. Duece spend three years offensively challenged but he had the defense down.
Do it right and you get paid here.

One more time......That defense wore the 76ers out. Had to just keep it close enough then go for the kill.