Clean wrote:

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McBride? Who’s that?

I think the minutes stuff is over rated. Back in the day, guys in worse shape played more minutes and were able to do it. Players now should be able handle 36 minutes per game minimum when needed, unless injuries or age dictate otherwise.

I really like Randle but he is by far the most anti-clutch player I have ever seen. When the pressure is on it is either a stupid decision or a missed shot or a turnover. It has gotten to the point to me he is unplayable in pressure minutes. I expect him to screw up. He needs to get out of his own head and let the game come to him like last year.

I saw a stat that the Knicks are the first team in 25 years to blow 3 20+ point leads in a month. That says there is a repeatable and systemic problem that needs to be addressed.

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He says Thibs might be close to getting fired.

"Leon Rose- we've got inmates in state penitentiaries that are more visible than him" 😂

Something has to give, Thibs needs to surrender and just play the kids! They might still end up not winning the game but seeing the kids play is better that what we are seeing now. Sit Kemba, Evan and burks. Im sure the kids will give extra effort, just look at what Obi did in less that 10mins!

Leon Rose needs to get out of hiding and calm the knicks fans down.

joec32033 wrote:Choking those leads is on both the players and the coach. When these teams are making a comeback Thibs needs to figure out a strategy to stop the bleeding (which he never does) and the players need to execute (which they never do).

I think the minutes stuff is over rated. Back in the day, guys in worse shape played more minutes and were able to do it. Players now should be able handle 36 minutes per game minimum when needed, unless injuries or age dictate otherwise.

I really like Randle but he is by far the most anti-clutch player I have ever seen. When the pressure is on it is either a stupid decision or a missed shot or a turnover. It has gotten to the point to me he is unplayable in pressure minutes. I expect him to screw up. He needs to get out of his own head and let the game come to him like last year.

I saw a stat that the Knicks are the first team in 25 years to blow 3 20+ point leads in a month. That says there is a repeatable and systemic problem that needs to be addressed.

I like this post. It's not in game minutes that are the big issue. IF the players are getting burned out it's usually because the practices are too grueling and there's not enough time to recover.

a big aspect of this bad streak is our "best" player is a choke artist. Even last year when he was playing like a superstar you couldn't trust him in clutch moments. When he has the ball in his hands in those moments he'll dribble off his leg, or into a double team, or throw a bad pass. ANd for a guy who is supposed to be a bruiser he takes a lot of bad fallaways.

and i think it all flows from that. We need a real alpha to keep us organized and keep a fighting spirit. We don't have a guy on the team that does that at the moment.
Maybe RJ someday. Thibs to some extent tries to do that but has his flaws mostly revolving around stubborn loyalty to the vets.

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Might be too late for that buddy.

Following that gem, he also said, "minutes will be merit-based and he will not give minutes just to give minutes. If a guy is playing well, he plays and if the team is functioning well while he's on the floor he should play..."

Basically, the same **** he has been saying all year. But his actions and words are in conflict. Most if not every metric says the team doesn't function well, especially defensively with Kemba on the floor, yet he continues to play. Most metrics place us towards the bottom in 4th quarter production, yet we roll out the same lineups over and over. Alec Burks has been a train wreck for weeks....We can go on and on. In the end, I do not expect our kids (Obi, Cam, Deuce) to get a bump in minutes until we are mathematically eliminated from the 10th seed Hope I am wrong but I just don't see it...