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Panos
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1/5/2026  9:33 PM    LAST EDITED: 1/5/2026  9:37 PM
Missed the game, just checked the Boxscore.
WT actual F?!
Starters played 25 mins? OG + KAT + Mitch = 10 total shots? 3 for 10????! WTF??? Including Bridges, starters outside of Brunson shot 33%?

Brunson ZERO assists, Kolek ONE?
McCullar lead with 3 assists. Man, I am NOT going to watch this. I may break something.

There better be a team meeting after this one. Knicks need to look themselves in the mirror tonight.

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1/5/2026  9:34 PM    LAST EDITED: 1/5/2026  9:34 PM
Wtf happened? I haven't seen the game yet, but it looks like they ripped us a new one
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1/5/2026  9:36 PM
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1/5/2026  9:38 PM
That sucked.

We got punked.

Detroit took this game more seriously. Nothing is working right now. The defense is broken and KAT looks lost and disinterested. Brunson is trying to do it all by himself too. Overall the team just looks tired and bored. Maybe winning the Cup was enough satisfaction for some of them?

Leon might need to start making some trades if this **** continues. We got some wiggle room with the record and I know losing streaks happen but this effort overall is unacceptable. We aren't losing games either. We are getting blown out! We look like **** ever since the Champagnie game.

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1/5/2026  9:39 PM
martin wrote:Great

'Knicks focus should be on players that have grown up playing soccer or cricket' - Triplethreat 8/28/2020
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1/5/2026  9:40 PM
martin wrote:

KAT won the Cup and got engaged and stopped giving a ****. Sometimes it really looks like he doesn't like basketball and doesn't want to be here.

And my patience is running out!

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1/5/2026  9:41 PM
ramtour420 wrote:Wtf happened? I haven't seen the game yet, but it looks like they ripped us a new one

Nothing happened.

We beat the Pistons in the playoffs because of some Cam Payne heroics, and two lucky shots by KAT.

The Pistons are better than us.

Oh good lord... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XkmGrX7O0lQ
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1/5/2026  9:42 PM
On the bright side, at least we stopped playing our best basketball in the middle of the season.
Hopefully we get healthy and get hot when it counts.
'Knicks focus should be on players that have grown up playing soccer or cricket' - Triplethreat 8/28/2020
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1/5/2026  9:46 PM
ToddTT wrote:
ramtour420 wrote:Wtf happened? I haven't seen the game yet, but it looks like they ripped us a new one

Nothing happened.

We beat the Pistons in the playoffs because of some Cam Payne heroics, and two lucky shots by KAT.

The Pistons are better than us.

Believe we also had a better cheerleader to volleyball ratio that game!

'Knicks focus should be on players that have grown up playing soccer or cricket' - Triplethreat 8/28/2020
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1/5/2026  9:53 PM
HofstraBBall wrote:
ToddTT wrote:
ramtour420 wrote:Wtf happened? I haven't seen the game yet, but it looks like they ripped us a new one

Nothing happened.

We beat the Pistons in the playoffs because of some Cam Payne heroics, and two lucky shots by KAT.

The Pistons are better than us.

Believe we also had a better cheerleader to volleyball ratio that game!

There’s only so many pics on the interwebs. Here, I found the very last one…

Oh good lord... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XkmGrX7O0lQ
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1/5/2026  9:56 PM
This looks a lot like last year where we couldn’t beat the elite team until playoffs. We will see if it’s the same again this year. Knicks didn’t look good though.
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1/6/2026  12:37 AM    LAST EDITED: 1/6/2026  12:38 AM
KAT blamed his performance on having to adjust to a new system.

He said this a month or two ago too. Wakandasheet is this? This guy is not a winner

Sometimes pressure makes diamonds, sometimes it makes a man go "meow"

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1/6/2026  2:05 AM    LAST EDITED: 1/6/2026  3:43 AM
Pretenders

That’s what I started writing out of frustration at this loss. Then I realized I was being emotional. I breath in and out. I then just focus on what the team is trying to say about themselves…

Pretenders

Oh, ok…

This is the first time I fully feel like a coach has zero responsibility. With Thibs, I was sometimes frustrated and thought he could do something differently. Earlier it was the same with Coach Brown. But this loss and the poor play since the calendar turned to 2026 just reminds me of something I really hate about this modern iteration of the team: from time to time, they are a bunch of slackers that believe they can turn it off and on whenever they want to, like if they are a team that has already made it. There is never an excuse not to try on defense, no matter where your offense is. Everytime, there seem to be a couple of teams that seem to be more focused, more aligned. I thought it was the coach, but this team, many of the players are just insufferable.

Pathetic loss part of a pathetic stretch where the coach wondered out loud if they were going to show what they were made of and they probably just are.

Embarrassing effort. Win or lose, this effort is pathetic.

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1/6/2026  7:27 AM
In many ways this season is completely mirroring last season. If you recall, last season our offense started off the year as the 3rd best offense of all time (Cleveland and Boston were the top 2 offenses last year and all time which is kind of a joke but point remains). Their offense looked completely modern and revamped and all that, and eventually over the course of the season is sputtered into the **** we had been used to seeing through Thibs tenure. Right now, I am seeing that same offense. I'm not sure how much of that is not having Josh Hart push pace, penetrate, spray it out etc. But it looks like stagnant Thibs ball all over again.

This team was never gonna beat teams with defense. But early in the year, our defense was good enough for our offense to just overpower teams. Our offense is complete trash right now. Seems everyone is slumping at the same time, not sure where the chicken or the egg is in terms of style and results. But something has gotta give eventually.

This is the dog days of the season, teams will slump and eventually get out of it. By this time last year, Indiana was probably barely .500 and they made it to game 7 of the finals. So lots of things are still undetermined.

But we are looking again like the team that needs extra ball handler, needs more shooting, and just relies on Brunson for everything. IMO, we never *felt* like a great shooting team even when things were humming. Mikal and OG are just not pure shooters. We could really use a flamethrower like Dante in the starting lineup IMO.

Also, the Mitch/KAT lineup just seems awful now, we need to put that lineup to rest. Brown needs to settle on a rotation, I don't think the constant flipping around is good for this team. We only started winning once he stopped doing that in the early days of the season.

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1/6/2026  7:48 AM
Even when we were winning I wasn't convinced, mainly because KAT just doesn't look locked in or serious. His whining and complaining seems to get worse every game. He's not a serious player, he's not playing a high IQ game at all. Arguably his worst season coming when he has the best chance to win is not a good indicator.
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1/6/2026  8:15 AM
martin wrote:

Kat is a twat.

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1/6/2026  8:20 AM    LAST EDITED: 1/6/2026  8:23 AM
BlueKnickers wrote:KAT blamed his performance on having to adjust to a new system.

He said this a month or two ago too. Wakandasheet is this? This guy is not a winner

Sometimes pressure makes diamonds, sometimes it makes a man go "meow"

Yep - he knows full well those comments will piss off everyone in the locker room and organization.

It seems to me he is trying to both tank his trade value (if he’s hearing Knicks are trying to get off him) and in a chick-like passive aggressive way scream that he doesn’t like being 3rd, 4th or sometimes 5th option.

Problem with most of this is Kat is a stubborn F that has never worked to correct all his boneheaded fouls, to’s and crap shot selection. The drives from 3 point per line against set defenses are just maddening. Brunson ball dominance almost as maddening - same for front line inability to dribble.

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1/6/2026  8:21 AM
ToddTT wrote:
HofstraBBall wrote:
ToddTT wrote:
ramtour420 wrote:Wtf happened? I haven't seen the game yet, but it looks like they ripped us a new one

Nothing happened.

We beat the Pistons in the playoffs because of some Cam Payne heroics, and two lucky shots by KAT.

The Pistons are better than us.

Believe we also had a better cheerleader to volleyball ratio that game!

There’s only so many pics on the interwebs. Here, I found the very last one…

Jesus - Knicks and Todd with horrible night. Internet out of cheerleader pics - well has run dry.

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1/6/2026  8:22 AM
nycericanguy wrote:Even when we were winning I wasn't convinced, mainly because KAT just doesn't look locked in or serious. His whining and complaining seems to get worse every game. He's not a serious player, he's not playing a high IQ game at all. Arguably his worst season coming when he has the best chance to win is not a good indicator.

100% - not a serious player. Agree with everything you say above.

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1/6/2026  8:25 AM
Knicksfan wrote:Pretenders

That’s what I started writing out of frustration at this loss. Then I realized I was being emotional. I breath in and out. I then just focus on what the team is trying to say about themselves…

Pretenders

Oh, ok…

This is the first time I fully feel like a coach has zero responsibility. With Thibs, I was sometimes frustrated and thought he could do something differently. Earlier it was the same with Coach Brown. But this loss and the poor play since the calendar turned to 2026 just reminds me of something I really hate about this modern iteration of the team: from time to time, they are a bunch of slackers that believe they can turn it off and on whenever they want to, like if they are a team that has already made it. There is never an excuse not to try on defense, no matter where your offense is. Everytime, there seem to be a couple of teams that seem to be more focused, more aligned. I thought it was the coach, but this team, many of the players are just insufferable.

Pathetic loss part of a pathetic stretch where the coach wondered out loud if they were going to show what they were made of and they probably just are.

Embarrassing effort. Win or lose, this effort is pathetic.

Stay emotional!

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