martin wrote:I only caught glimpses of the game and felt the same way.

The O-K-C chant sounded lame to me

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So how can the make the "Aura" better?
At the end of the day its a basketball game.
Twitter people are not authority. Nobody likes anyone but Breen and/or tilt to "The good old days".
What was wrong? thousands of midwest white fans in same color tee shirts standing thru the game being happy bothers people? Stand in the front row making every behind you stand is "Support".
I gets its awful, but is it that the arena does not have proper lighting? MSG and staples center used to darken the crowd lighting. Same arenas but not for Clipper games. it felt different!
But how did the finals not "Feel right"? Lakers or Celtics not there?
Or we just feeding dissent because social media likes to click negativity?
What a great game that was on the court!

LOL: "Blames" is the name of poster !!!! No wonder it got me.

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Nalod wrote:

martin wrote:I only caught glimpses of the game and felt the same way.

The O-K-C chant sounded lame to me

Tweet was deleted or there was problem with the URL:

https://www.twitter.com/blames_/status/1930973094765547844

So how can the make the "Aura" better?
At the end of the day its a basketball game.
Twitter people are not authority. Nobody likes anyone but Breen and/or tilt to "The good old days".
What was wrong? thousands of midwest white fans in same color tee shirts standing thru the game being happy bothers people? Stand in the front row making every behind you stand is "Support".
I gets its awful, but is it that the arena does not have proper lighting? MSG and staples center used to darken the crowd lighting. Same arenas but not for Clipper games. it felt different!
But how did the finals not "Feel right"? Lakers or Celtics not there?
Or we just feeding dissent because social media likes to click negativity?
What a great game that was on the court!

LOL: "Blames" is the name of poster !!!! No wonder it got me.

You know it when you see it

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They looked quite on par with OKC in my view - not overwhelmed by depth, physicality or quickness of OKC.

But it seems like it's Indiana's year. Every so often there comes a team that isn't the most talented but everything just breaks right for them and this is what is happening with these Hicks. I'm very jealous.

martin wrote:

Nalod wrote:

martin wrote:I only caught glimpses of the game and felt the same way.

The O-K-C chant sounded lame to me

Tweet was deleted or there was problem with the URL:

https://www.twitter.com/blames_/status/1930973094765547844

So how can the make the "Aura" better?
At the end of the day its a basketball game.
Twitter people are not authority. Nobody likes anyone but Breen and/or tilt to "The good old days".
What was wrong? thousands of midwest white fans in same color tee shirts standing thru the game being happy bothers people? Stand in the front row making every behind you stand is "Support".
I gets its awful, but is it that the arena does not have proper lighting? MSG and staples center used to darken the crowd lighting. Same arenas but not for Clipper games. it felt different!
But how did the finals not "Feel right"? Lakers or Celtics not there?
Or we just feeding dissent because social media likes to click negativity?
What a great game that was on the court!

LOL: "Blames" is the name of poster !!!! No wonder it got me.

You know it when you see it

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I did not watch the beginning so there was no Epic open with historical content?
Nice highlight reel. Add Haliburton's game winner if Pacers win the series. Those were epic moments. Perhaps Pacers just added one.

martin wrote:Pretty amazing

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They just play a No F’s Given when there is still time on the clock because they know the other team will tighten up and just hope time runs out.

They are disruptors. They are talented and they can beat you straight up on a good night, but on many others, they just thread water and stay close enough to finally say: f-it, let’s steal this. Like, REALLY steal it.

It sucks because they played their cards right and we could’ve done the same and still win the series, albeit to the limit. But we were too inconsistent for that.

LivingLegend wrote:I’m rooting for Pacers for a couple of reasons and yes I hate them.

- don;t want to start OKC dynasty
- don’t want to hear Mike/Doris/Richard on their collective knees sucking off SGA and Thunder
- I do think Pacers playing OKC tough does reflect better on Knicks vs a 4-0 OKC sweep would

Agreed about the pacers playing better reflects on the Knicks better. It tells us we were really close. A crazy Haliburton bounce that misses gives us a game 7 which we are the favorites in. I know it means nothing, but we were close enough to think about those hypotheticals. The pacers currently have the nba cheat code it seems, and even okc is switching up their successful-season game plan and not playing their centers much. Pacers have completely flipped the script and forcing great teams to make adjustments to them.

Carlisle adjustments after a loss is truly incredible

Somewhere (either on here, Reddit, or Facebook maybe) I noted that the Knicks miscalculated a bit by carrying 4 development players - rookies - on our roster. Four roster spots were taken up in Kolek, Dadiet, McCullar, and Hukporti. While all of those guys had their moments in the G-League, they were sort just stashes deep in the roster.

I think the key learning for the Knicks and Thibs is that every roster spot counts for winning a championship.

The Pacers play a LOT of combinations - some less optimal than others. But those guys got burn. The team collected a a lot of data (whether through behavior or perceptual!) by plugging in players in real game situations, and got real world feel of how things might work out.

There are lots of benefits to this: scenarios have already been practiced in the real world. The role players in particular feel comfortable in the spotlight. They've gotten used to the discomfort of irregular rotations on D. With the big rotation, players come in with a lot of pep to their step. Less talented, but fully rested players can play at a higher level than a tired but talented line up. They have the energy to make the effort plays - while the tired vets are practically have to will themselves to make their bodies move.

Thibs and the Knicks went down a different path - how we make the most of our top 5, how do we design plays so our stars can be at their best. While this works reasonably well, it lacks flexibility and discounts the benefits of fresh legs, and the energy of young players trying to prove themselves.

I too am having a hard time watching these finals, but I did catch bits of yesterday's game. The Pacers are beating OKC the same way they beat us. This style of going 10+ deep of fresh players is tough to plan for. You can plan to stop Haliburton and Siakim, but it's nearly impossible to plan to disrupt the Pacers offense.

Knicksfan wrote:You get talent, you develop it and strategically give them chances.

It’s one thing I didn’t like about Thibs: not using his bench strategically while planting the seeds of possible impressive games from guys on the bench. To be fair to him, especially after hearing the Dadiet interview, I think he does a good job in training the basics to youngsters: discipline, defensive awareness, etc. But it is equally important to award good effort with playing time.

I think our bench was more talented than it showed this season and especially in the playoffs. Nobody perfect, so everyone comes with their weaknesses, but the skills they bring is good. Kolek with his amazing court vision and talent distributing the ball, Huk with a solid balance of competent offense and solid defense, Dadiet with a nice stroke, active body and tenacity on defense, the kids had tools to help us. They aren’t fully ready for heavy minutes, of course, but we have seen how important can a good 10-15min stint off the bench be to a team.

OKC and Indiana are prime examples of teams that develop and keep all their players active and engaged, making sure everyone is ready to help off the bench and maybe play more than they think. They are reaping the benefits from that in already being in the Finals.

I think that our next coach has to bring this mentality to the team. The front office needs to make sure we have talent everywhere and so far they have done that. These aren’t the times of not knowing who the 13th-15th guy is. It’s more about knowing that you have weapons that can help you maneuver a given game. We already have a solid starting lineup, especially when correctly aligned. And we have talent on the bench. We just need to better plan our season-long attack to reap good benefits once we get to the playoffs.