Hated how we played in that first half. Brown is right. They punked us. We spent more time arguing with the zebras, even though they were terrible and one sided. Orlando shot 10 more FT's (33 total) and KAT especially got mauled on several drives to the paint and only shot 2 FT's which is crazy. It is what it is. No excuses. We didn't play our game. We can't get into a wrestling match with teams like that. First time in a long time we saw a player own OG like Wagner did. Give them credit though. Magic played like it was Game 7.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was Kolek.

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LivingLegend wrote:Did not realize Hart was benched entire 4th and was also on bench for 4th the night before. Also didn’t realize Mikal was benched for most of 4th.

It really was an all around piss poor effort capped off by Brunson injury very late in blowout.

Liked that Brown basically pointed fingers at our guys for whining about fouls in 1st half and saying we were in fact fouling because I was unable to challenge anything.

It’s games like this where we are exposed for our offensive limitations when teams force us to create rather than knock down wide open looks.

We still need creation with skill BADLY (not against most teams but against teams with talent and defense)

- OG can’t dribble without a fork & napkin and every drive is potential season ending injury or fall
- Every Hart shot leaves you breathless and how many times he going to lose a cutter or not box out
- Deuce shakes and bakes but can’t stick fork in dribble.
- Kat can’t put ball on floor without committing offensive foul.
- Mitch is literally only capable of kicking ball out after rebound - literally can’t even bounce ball without an oopsie
- Clarkson can’t seem to just take simple shots
- Yabu rear-end grows like Pinocchio nose
- Mikal looking like he’s dribbling against 4 guys but when you blink you only see Franz guarding him

That sentence speaks to me. Definite Knicks weakness

Also why was Brunson in attacking the basket down 16 with less than 2 minutes left? I thought this coach fixed that also?

Sigh... would have been nice to see Brunson vs the Heat in a cup game Friday. So it goes

Nalod wrote:ESPN blocked by Youtube so I did not see the game.
What did that injury look like? Bad?
Boot is not a good look. Maybe after PhilC sees the MRI he can tell us what's the diagnosis is?

Probably the 100th time since he's been here that he fell on someone's foot on a drive. Problem was that the speed at which it happened gave it a bit more twist. He reacted at first waiving off the coaches like it was fine, but he limped to the FT line and missed the first FT. Then he made the 2nd and then immediately gave a foul to get out of the game and went straight to the locker room. Same ankle he injured last year.

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