TheMTL wrote:Our defensive rotations are trash and there's always a second guy over helping. Stay on your own man!

Yup, Thibs defensive scheme is good for the 90s but trash for now since everyone can shoot 3's.

VDesai wrote:This game turned on a challenge and non-challenge. Knicks were gaining momentum and the Hawks won a challenge on. Josh Hart play - then we didnt challenge a tip on the FT that was on the cylinder. Big momentum swing

Refs were beyond horrible. If Silver wants to know why ratings are down 28% maybe it’s because nobody not named Lebron or Steph gets calls. JB and KAT need to start getting calls. KAT was getting hacked, elbowed etc and he himself almost fouled out

As grating as it is losing to Trae and company, its good to have real rivals. Young looked less frenetic out there, less Kamikaze, more in control.

When Brunson wants to be a floor general, he's a damned good one. The more we see that part of his game, the better.

Definitely still need work on D, and improve our bottom of the league bench scoring. Hopefully Precious will eventually help in that dept, but I still think the FO needs to make a move before the first trade deadline.

SergioNYK wrote:Embarrassing.

What an absolute **** show ——-

- horrid decision making an ball handling by entire team
- putrid D by EVERYONE but most specifically Hart, Brunson and Bridges (who specifically let Young go all over)
- Brunson played awful and his D was non existent
- OG and Kat — how many times are you going to get stripped/blocked when going to the basket (holy ****)
- WONDERFUL REBOUNDING
- Harts D has been piss poor all year.

And can someone please tell me why instead of collapsing our D, going under screens and making Trae Young beat us with 3’s that we continue to go over and get completely torched as Trae goes downhill into lobs and floaters?

How many times did we leave a corner shooter wide open to rotate onto a worse shooter on the wing resulting in wide open corner 3?
How many times did we completely leave the lob guy free all game?

Meanwhile Hawks throw 50 lobs and we may have thrown 1.

DISGUSTED and stop whining for fouls - get tough and draw some legit fouls and stop falling down looking for whistle.

SOFT TEAM against good D.

TheMTL wrote:

Philc1 wrote:Games like this make me realize Mitch should rest the entire season so we have him available and healthy for the playoffs

Perhaps because We need Mitch more than ever. He's absolutely necessary

We f***ed.

LivingLegend wrote:

VDesai wrote:This game turned on a challenge and non-challenge. Knicks were gaining momentum and the Hawks won a challenge on. Josh Hart play - then we didnt challenge a tip on the FT that was on the cylinder. Big momentum swing

That’s very optimistic position that ignores brutal d, getting obliterated on glass and just piss poor everything

Was a major momentum shift as we were gonna go up 10 there. Wheels came off after for sure. Thibk Thibs is too conservative on using the challenge - teams have made momentum shifting challenges on us all year

There are times we look amazing - and then we lay an absolute disgrace like tonight.

We are not winning a championship. Not with this assembled group.

I assume we’ll get past the first round, but after that, I can’t see anything definitive with this group.

I wish Thibs would try different line ups.

It’s getting pretty tedious watching Bridges go for 40+ every night and Hart go for 40 and OG big minutes.

This is going to catch up with us and if OG goes down, this is a 400 level team.

VDesai wrote:

LivingLegend wrote:

VDesai wrote:This game turned on a challenge and non-challenge. Knicks were gaining momentum and the Hawks won a challenge on. Josh Hart play - then we didnt challenge a tip on the FT that was on the cylinder. Big momentum swing

That’s very optimistic position that ignores brutal d, getting obliterated on glass and just piss poor everything

Was a major momentum shift as we were gonna go up 10 there. Wheels came off after for sure. Thibk Thibs is too conservative on using the challenge - teams have made momentum shifting challenges on us all year

For me if it’s not the last 2-3 minutes you’d better be 100% sure before losing your challenge—- we’ve seen Thibs trust guys and blow the challenge early as well but I get your point.