GustavBahler wrote:Even with Precious coming back, and Ryan just getting signed, I think we need some legit instant offense, who can knock down a 3, or get to the rim. Its a long season, and we want our starters to be as healthy, and as fresh as possible foe a playoff run. I put this loss more on our anemic bench more than anything. Hope we make a deal at the first trade deadline, and throw in Sims!

Precious will help as you said.
Team did ok eating up the lead with Sims last night. Can't say when Huk gets the call, and it might not be this season but as it stands Sims is still the back up.
If Ryan can give us the quality time off the bench it will be a nice plus for our wings.

Deuce had an off night. Odoka had a nice defense to slow KAT who only took 2 3pt shots. Brooks defended him well on the parimeter and made him work inside. Thibs will have to counter if this is a thing going forward.

Postitive? Kat grabbed 19 boards! "soft" is what many said and "were do we get the rebounds from"? The kid is avg 12.5 in 6 games which thru 6 games is 4th in NBA leaders. Josh with 9 per is 22nd in the league. By contrast, Bam is 25th at 8.5!! At 22nd, with 8.7 is James Harden, LOL!!!!

But, lots of teams have injury issues. Some more than others. Our starting core is healthy for now.

VDesai wrote:

WP76 wrote:Hanging tough but can't get the lead. Sengun is killing us.

Need help over the top from Towns if OG forced him baseline like that. Need a few defensive stops to take this one.

Thibs absolutely refused to double Sengun until late - even with some poor shooters on the floor for Rockets. Sengun is a TO machine - should have had OG/Mikal/Hart digging down on his prolonged dribbles in the post.

LivingLegend wrote:

Panos wrote:

BigDaddyG wrote:On the bright side, we can say OG is officially out of his slump.

How many times did OG fall down last night?
I noticed one point where he fell down twice in one possession under the basket then again on the other end. Is it me, or do players fall down a lot more than they used to?

Jesus - yes - he can't stay on his feet ---- same with Kat/Brunson when they drive --- they are always on the floor under the basket as other team heading the other way.

OG is so scary he is almost always crumbling to the floor on plays where no other player in the league does this - very odd.

He is always falling because of the way he plays. He steals the ball by getting low. You see him just the ball off the dribble bounce.

NYKBocker wrote:

LivingLegend wrote:

Panos wrote:

BigDaddyG wrote:On the bright side, we can say OG is officially out of his slump.

How many times did OG fall down last night?
I noticed one point where he fell down twice in one possession under the basket then again on the other end. Is it me, or do players fall down a lot more than they used to?

Jesus - yes - he can't stay on his feet ---- same with Kat/Brunson when they drive --- they are always on the floor under the basket as other team heading the other way.

OG is so scary he is almost always crumbling to the floor on plays where no other player in the league does this - very odd.

He is always falling because of the way he plays. He steals the ball by getting low. You see him just the ball off the dribble bounce.

Rough game. I saw him falling but they were hitting him pretty hard. It’s one of the issues with running him at PF is he can get bodied where he has a real size advantage at SF. It’s the Hart conundrum. He displaces Bridges and OG from advantageous positions.

DLeethal wrote:Not too worried about this one. Rockets were an elite home team last year and we are 2-1 on our road trip. We can finish 3-1 with a W against the Hawks and that's a great trip. Rockets out toughed us though, we are not the same kind of team we used to be, but the Rockets will out tough most teams in the league. Senguin is a stud, it was sad to see him just pick KAT apart in the post. Love the rebounding from KAT though. Brunson had a good game but still not the same Brunson and he made some bad plays down the stretch to stymie the comeback. We are still ahead of schedule IMO.

Precious coming back will be huge for this team and if we can incorporate Matt Ryan as the 9th guy that will also be huge. Eventually Shamet comes back as well. Right now depth is a problem and we are riding our starters really hard. That should ease up soon.

Oh and it was glaringly obvious why this team has been interested in Tori Eason over the years. Rockets have some nice wings. They are a solid team, I appreciate the way Udoka and the FO is building them up. Reminds me of the Knicks of a few years ago. Surround the young guys with tough minded vets.

They are doing it right. And they have a ton of young pieces and assets to trade too. They are going to be all-in on 1 or 2 next level guys.

DLeethal wrote:Not too worried about this one. Rockets were an elite home team last year and we are 2-1 on our road trip. We can finish 3-1 with a W against the Hawks and that's a great trip. Rockets out toughed us though, we are not the same kind of team we used to be, but the Rockets will out tough most teams in the league. Senguin is a stud, it was sad to see him just pick KAT apart in the post. Love the rebounding from KAT though. Brunson had a good game but still not the same Brunson and he made some bad plays down the stretch to stymie the comeback. We are still ahead of schedule IMO.

Precious coming back will be huge for this team and if we can incorporate Matt Ryan as the 9th guy that will also be huge. Eventually Shamet comes back as well. Right now depth is a problem and we are riding our starters really hard. That should ease up soon.

Oh and it was glaringly obvious why this team has been interested in Tori Eason over the years. Rockets have some nice wings. They are a solid team, I appreciate the way Udoka and the FO is building them up. Reminds me of the Knicks of a few years ago. Surround the young guys with tough minded vets.

Maybe call a time out and get Brunson's head right or call a play? At some point Brunson stopped trusting his teammates and that can't happen. Thibs needed to step and coach that ****

martin wrote:

DLeethal wrote:Not too worried about this one. Rockets were an elite home team last year and we are 2-1 on our road trip. We can finish 3-1 with a W against the Hawks and that's a great trip. Rockets out toughed us though, we are not the same kind of team we used to be, but the Rockets will out tough most teams in the league. Senguin is a stud, it was sad to see him just pick KAT apart in the post. Love the rebounding from KAT though. Brunson had a good game but still not the same Brunson and he made some bad plays down the stretch to stymie the comeback. We are still ahead of schedule IMO.

Precious coming back will be huge for this team and if we can incorporate Matt Ryan as the 9th guy that will also be huge. Eventually Shamet comes back as well. Right now depth is a problem and we are riding our starters really hard. That should ease up soon.

Oh and it was glaringly obvious why this team has been interested in Tori Eason over the years. Rockets have some nice wings. They are a solid team, I appreciate the way Udoka and the FO is building them up. Reminds me of the Knicks of a few years ago. Surround the young guys with tough minded vets.

They are doing it right. And they have a ton of young pieces and assets to trade too. They are going to be all-in on 1 or 2 next level guys.

Didn't they make that crazy trade with the Nets to get the Suns pick this summer. They are definitely going big game hunting if the opportunity presents itself

LivingLegend wrote:

Rookie wrote:Sims +/- has to be epically bad in this game

? - he had the highest +/- (+14) on entire team tonight.

By the way - I thought he sucked in his minutes ---- rarely makes an impact play when plays are right in front of him.

I agree with this. There are long stretches where he does not look like an NBA player despite the crazy athleticism

Unrelated to the above, but will say anyway, i found it maddening how Knicks were either unwilling or unable to attack Houston's weaknesses. Houston's defense is good and physical with the glaring exception of Sengun and i was not seeing a lot of Knicks punishing him on defense

Chandler wrote:

LivingLegend wrote:

Rookie wrote:Sims +/- has to be epically bad in this game

? - he had the highest +/- (+14) on entire team tonight.

By the way - I thought he sucked in his minutes ---- rarely makes an impact play when plays are right in front of him.

I agree with this. There are long stretches where he does not look like an NBA player despite the crazy athleticism

Unrelated to the above, but will say anyway, i found it maddening how Knicks were either unwilling or unable to attack Houston's weaknesses. Houston's defense is good and physical with the glaring exception of Sengun and i was not seeing a lot of Knicks punishing him on defense

They are very quick and athletic with lots of length. I'm curious to go back and watch how they hid Sengun on defense. I'm not sure how Sims can have a +14 without even scoring. I guess I really don't understand how the stat works. He isn't a good defender, very slow to react even though he has good feet. He is not good in pnr defense and has stone hands on offense. If our plan is to pump up his trade value by playing him I don't see that working. He's already to old to be a project