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SergioNYK
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11/13/2025  9:11 AM
Fingers crossed the Cap is OK but if he has to miss a few weeks, so be it. It happened last season too and Brunson missed a month and we survived going 9-5. OG went on a scoring tear if you remember so we'll be fine record wise.

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.

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11/13/2025  9:11 AM
felt like offense was coming too eeasily, we needed that wake up call.
martin
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11/13/2025  10:24 AM
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

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VDesai
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11/13/2025  10:29 AM
I have a lot of questions about who starts if Brunson is out.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was Kolek.

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11/13/2025  10:51 AM
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fishmike
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11/13/2025  11:13 AM
martin wrote:
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

its almost like the last coach knew this and when the open 3s were not there for us we attacked the post and went ISO.

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

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Nalod
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11/13/2025  1:53 PM
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?
VDesai
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11/13/2025  2:38 PM
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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11/13/2025  3:45 PM
VDesai wrote:I have a lot of questions about who starts if Brunson is out.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was Kolek
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I'll be surprised.
I'll expect Clarkson

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11/13/2025  5:04 PM
Shams reporting Grade 1 ankle sprain.
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VDesai
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11/13/2025  5:40 PM
Grade 1 is good news I think - usually 1-3 weeks.

I think Kolek could start bc if you see Clarkson as a bench scorer and Kolek as a true PG it keeps people closer to their optimal roles. Clarkson (and Deuce) will play more, but I could see it play out like this. It's why Sims would start over Hartenstein with Mitch out

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11/13/2025  7:43 PM
martin
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11/13/2025  9:24 PM
BigDaddyG wrote:Shams reporting Grade 1 ankle sprain.

When you chase after the OG in Woj, injuries happen. God speed to a quick recovery.

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martin
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11/13/2025  9:36 PM
Just not a good look

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11/13/2025  9:48 PM
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