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fishmike
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5/2/2025  11:39 AM
blkexec wrote:
Philc1 wrote:Only way Thibs gets fired now is if Celtics sweep us and even that probably won’t be enough.

He has too many ties within this organization to get fired. But getting out of the 1st round is another feather on Thibs hat. Leon will ride this ship until the wheels fall off.

Thibs and JB are cornerstone pieces.

JB loves... LOVES Thibs. So does Josh. OG just had a career year under Thibs. KAT has been open about how high he hold Thibs. He's just not going anywhere.

The imaginary moving goal posts Knick fans judge coaches on are just that.

Thibs is still checking all the boxes. We likely lose to the Celtics. They are the champs, they are 61 win team and picked to win the east. It will NOT STOP the unrelenting "But Thibs should have done..." posts and "we cant win with this..." and "maybe you are OK with the second round but I want more..."

"winning is more fun... then fun is fun" -Thibs
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5/2/2025  11:47 AM
blkexec wrote:
Philc1 wrote:Only way Thibs gets fired now is if Celtics sweep us and even that probably won’t be enough.

He has too many ties within this organization to get fired. But getting out of the 1st round is another feather on Thibs hat. Leon will ride this ship until the wheels fall off.

Thibs and JB are cornerstone pieces.

Agree, last night basically guaranteed 0% chance he gets fired
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5/2/2025  12:33 PM
Thibs shouldn’t be fired—getting to the second round three years in a row is no small feat. That kind of consistency deserves credit.

That said, the rotation issues have been there all three years, and they’ve come back to bite us every time.

Of course Josh loves Thibs—he never comes off the floor. But we can’t ignore the fact we got bailed out late by a generous call and by Brunson’s heroics, against a team missing both Jaden Ivey and Isaiah Stewart. This series shouldn’t have been that close—we were lucky to escape.

All we need is a semblance of an offense. When Brunson was out, OG and Bridges were thriving—so why not build a few sets to keep them involved even when JB’s back? There’s room to find a balance.

And what’s the harm in letting Precious guard Duren for 12–15 minutes? Or throwing Wright on a wing for a few minutes each half? We don’t need to be running guys into the ground again. It’s avoidable.
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5/2/2025  12:58 PM
WE had the 5th highest rated offense
This team is not without its flaws. We started the season on paper with the flaws.
One can say Detroit has role players but they have a bonafide star in Cade and perhaps Duran who is jut 21 really played in his lane and did a great job. Beasly and Timmy are snipers. Its their job. Dallas went to finals last year with Timmy. He is not a star, but he contributes. Perhaps we have opinon that on paper would should have one more comfortably. Its a valid view, but its not the reality of what happend. Detroit is better than what is on paper. Notice Ron Holland got pulled. Detroit played 8 guys last night also.
Tobias Harris "sucks". Yet he gets paid a lot, has for years, and has been on many pretty good teams. He is inconsistent at worst. I could see him as knick on a Thibian team. Defensively he is solid. He is paid 25mm per. Good investment for the season they had. Precious made 6mm. We got our monies worth. So did they.

I might add on paper we should be better. The game is not played on paper.

Thru the game last night we had leads, we had easy buckets, we looked damn good. Then Detroit comes on and it sucks. Happened about every game. Same script. But its not them, its Us or Thibs? Their young guys start making good defensive stops and if the Snipers are on target they are dynamic. Schroeder? A very good back up. Better then Cam Payne? Appears more consistent. Played the obnoxious antagonist role very well also. Not as good as Payne.

Knicks in 6. Brunson was incredible. Enjoy it.

A different coach might do worse than what Thibs did. If you can't imagine this, perhaps its just an emotional reaction to a close series and easy to paint.
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5/2/2025  2:06 PM
I think Thibs was OK this series. Not great but not awful either as some make it out to be. Sometimes we forget the other team and HC wants to win too. There is a reason why our offense looked like **** at times and it was mostly due to the Pistons defense and physicality and our inexperience as a team in this situation. But we scored when we needed and we won the series. It's never going to look perfect.

I did like how Thibs allowed Payne to play the majority of the fourth in game one. I liked how he adjusted the gameplan and got KAT the ball in game two and three. I loved how focused we came out last night to start the game and how poised we were when we lost the lead twice including down 7 with 2 minutes left. We also finally won the third quarter. And I know it's a heavy Iso offense and I don't like it at times either but we have the best scoring PG in the league so it will be a big part of our offense and it should be. And when we needed that big bucket, we DID have a play called. Bridges faked a screen which confused Thompson and that's why Brunson was able to crack his ankles and create space for the game winning 3!
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5/2/2025  3:00 PM
SergioNYK wrote:I think Thibs was OK this series. Not great but not awful either as some make it out to be. Sometimes we forget the other team and HC wants to win too. There is a reason why our offense looked like **** at times and it was mostly due to the Pistons defense and physicality and our inexperience as a team in this situation. But we scored when we needed and we won the series. It's never going to look perfect.

I did like how Thibs allowed Payne to play the majority of the fourth in game one. I liked how he adjusted the gameplan and got KAT the ball in game two and three. I loved how focused we came out last night to start the game and how poised we were when we lost the lead twice including down 7 with 2 minutes left. We also finally won the third quarter. And I know it's a heavy Iso offense and I don't like it at times either but we have the best scoring PG in the league so it will be a big part of our offense and it should be. And when we needed that big bucket, we DID have a play called. Bridges faked a screen which confused Thompson and that's why Brunson was able to crack his ankles and create space for the game winning 3!

Thibs was TERRIBLE against Detroit, in particular offensively. Great breakdown on how bad he was.
We were a superior team and that series could have easily went to Detroit.
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5/2/2025  5:57 PM
blkexec wrote:
jaydh wrote:Looks like thibs will get another year

What if Celtics sweep? 4 straight blowouts?

I believe we have the talent to win. I don't believe we have the offensive system to win. Since our defense is the weakness, our offense needs to be the strength. Right now we are riding on the individual talents of key players.

I think most people outside of NY expect that to happen. So no, he will get another year. IMO, they need better bench coaches.
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