Nalod wrote:ATL is flat out just better than us. Been they have more talented roster.
RJ and Randle either choking or being Neutralized.

A little bit of both. He's panicking and not allowing the game to come to him. I wouldn't care as much if his scoring is down if he was taking smart shots, recognizing reads better and making good reads. Teams make adjustments all the time. Julius was able to slow down and make the solid pass. Not necessarily the assist, but the pass that led to the assist. Now he looks clueless, spastic and coked out. Next game he should focus on getting RJ and Reggie off first.

JesseDark wrote:The Knicks are at a talent deficit against the Hawks. We are also missing Mitchell Robinson. His alley oops and style of play would negate all that Capella is doing for them. Add to that Julius Randle playing his worse all season and ice cold shooting from everyone else except Rose and thats why we are losing. The coach can’t put the ball in the basket for you.
We really need another all star caliber player at point and more dead eye shooters.

Agree completely. Add to the fact that, like Capella, those floaters/lobs from Trae wouldn't be as high % w/ Mitch patrolling the paint.

knicks1248 wrote:

sealy wrote:

JesseDark wrote:The Knicks are at a talent deficit against the Hawks. We are also missing Mitchell Robinson. His alley oops and style of play would negate all that Capella is doing for them. Add to that Julius Randle playing his worse all season and ice cold shooting from everyone else except Rose and thats why we are losing. The coach can’t put the ball in the basket for you.
We really need another all star caliber player at point and more dead eye shooters.

Agree completely. Add to the fact that, like Capella, those floaters/lobs from Trae wouldn't be as high % w/ Mitch patrolling the paint.

I disagree 100%, Taj and Noel have done a good job patrolling the paint. Hawks are shooting lights out from deep,

Ridiculous shooting % in game 3 for sure. You don't think the Hawks getting buckets inside or having the ease of penetrating and kicking out has nothing to do with those %s?

Capella diverts plays inside and many on the outside too. Pretty sure most of our runs have been when he's on the bench. To me, he's been more disruptive than Trae.

Taj has played very well this series, but he's not a Mitch/Capella type defender. Noel is dinged up and, even w/ his great season, I still Mitch is far superior on the D end.

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Vmart wrote:I think Frank needs to get more time if the Knicks are to get past the Hawks. I hate to say it but Hawks backcourt is killing the Knicks. Tibs has done nothing to stop that. He needs to insert Frank and tell him to basically play defense On Trae and take the open shots.

This. We have a premier on ball defender. We are going up against a premier perimeter player. Makes too much sense

Thibs never playing Frank ever unless it’s the last possession of a half is obtuse

He’s basically admitting Frank is his only Guard that can competently defend Trae. Why not play him more? I have no idea

knicks1248 wrote:

sealy wrote:

JesseDark wrote:The Knicks are at a talent deficit against the Hawks. We are also missing Mitchell Robinson. His alley oops and style of play would negate all that Capella is doing for them. Add to that Julius Randle playing his worse all season and ice cold shooting from everyone else except Rose and thats why we are losing. The coach can’t put the ball in the basket for you.
We really need another all star caliber player at point and more dead eye shooters.

Agree completely. Add to the fact that, like Capella, those floaters/lobs from Trae wouldn't be as high % w/ Mitch patrolling the paint.

I disagree 100%, Taj and Noel have done a good job patrolling the paint. Hawks are shooting lights out from deep,

They’ve been fine but they haven’t been the shot blocking force Mitch is.

If we let Mitch walk or trade him it will be us repeating the Marcus Camby f up of 2001

MS wrote:So Bullock is exhausted chasing around Trae Young all game and takes away our only viable three point threat because of it. Rose is breaking down because of over use. I still can’t comprehend why he doesn’t give Frank the minutes to start the game to keep the bench fresh and our big advantage. If Julius and RJ can’t carry the load we are ****ed anyway, so why not give the guys a breather.

We don’t have a point guard on the roster that’s looking for people, that’s really the biggest weakness. Obi has been wide open for dunks all seasons and someone is dribbling and not looking for others.

Thibs needs to change up some looks out there. Randle at the 5, get in the post more and have Obi exploding towards the cup.

Our shot blocking has been taken away. Noone on the Hawks drives for layups. Trae is perfectly fine taking the floater to make Noel useless. Randle has been trying to feed Noel who either fumbles the ball or has no way to take advantage of his deep position when he does catch it. Randle to Obi should be quite potent.

On to the next step completing the rebuild. Talent aquistion phase