we were a luck shot and bad reffing from being up 3-0

a little rest and recovery will do magic. We know what to do to win, and need to get back to it

Chandler wrote:to all the chicken littles who say the season is over, you should start your vacation now.

we were a luck shot and bad reffing from being up 3-0

a little rest and recovery will do magic. We know what to do to win, and need to get back to it

I am with you. Is a best of 3 series now and we have home court advantage. Our guys have proven to be gritty. Determined.

EwingsGlass wrote:

Chandler wrote:to all the chicken littles who say the season is over, you should start your vacation now.

we were a luck shot and bad reffing from being up 3-0

a little rest and recovery will do magic. We know what to do to win, and need to get back to it

I am with you. Is a best of 3 series now and we have home court advantage. Our guys have proven to be gritty. Determined.

yes they have. I like our chances if we go seven.
Given our injuries, we might have home court but we are now underdogs given our injuries.

martin wrote:

SergioNYK wrote:I think we all should get a shirt that says 'I survived the Mothers Day massacre'. This was just brutal. I don't think anyone saw it coming. I certainly didn't. We weren't ready to play. That's on Thibs and the Nova trio as leaders. It's the playoffs!

Now it's a best of 3 with 2 at the Garden. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't concerned. I don't see OGA coming back. He's not the type to rush back from injury and he's entering free agency. I do think we can beat these Hicks without him IF we had Brunson at his best but he's clearly not. Brunson is a wounded animal right now. I have a ton of respect for him for what he's done and how he's not making any excuses. I just hate if this is how it ends this season. Cause if we had Brunson at his 40 ppg best, we'd beat these hicks easily imho even without OGA.

I'm in opposite world and we all saw it coming from like miles away as if Destiny was met by men with singles to spare and she started off in a Knicks jersey and looked fiiiiiiinnnneeee!

I had thought we would get blown out in Game 3 and play a close one in Game 4

nycericanguy wrote:all this talk about tired, but Jalen, DDV, Jhart have all performed. the one guy that was huge against PHI and has disappeared is Deuce and that is what has really hurt us most outside of injuries. And I dont think it has anything to do with fatigue with him, he's just slumping at a bad time.

This has been a bad matchup for Deuce. He is a guy who's calling card was defense and he's struggling against TJ. But he has to make his 3s on offense the way his role works out. I think the small lineup works if you have Deuce and DiVo bombing 3's. Then you can live with the Pascal matchup on Hart because you have this shooting to fall back on. I'm not ruling him out just yet, but he has to turn it around. Amazing that he's a key figure in the 2nd round of the playoffs when he started the year without a role.

nycericanguy wrote:all this talk about tired, but Jalen, DDV, Jhart have all performed. the one guy that was huge against PHI and has disappeared is Deuce and that is what has really hurt us most outside of injuries. And I dont think it has anything to do with fatigue with him, he's just slumping at a bad time.

Yea when we experienced 2 new injuries in this series on top of the 2 we were dealing with already, Deuce's importance magnified even more as really our only bench guy at times, going against a team with an elite bench. Him scoring 12-14 points is such a lift for us.

VDesai wrote:Bogdonavic was scoring 10 ppg in 20 mpg. He wasn't playing up to his standard, but he was 6'8", you had to defend him and he created his own offense. For a team down Randle and lacking in bench scoring this was an important player. Basically means the only guy on the bench we have that is capable of scoring points is Deuce. Now Burks has at least come back, but its a lot of pressure on Deuce.

I think Burks can fill the Bogs role well enough.

Deuce is the guy that's kind of irreplaceable, his development made the OG trade make more sense.

Chandler wrote:

Nalod wrote:

Chandler wrote:to all the chicken littles who say the season is over, you should start your vacation now.

we were a luck shot and bad reffing from being up 3-0

a little rest and recovery will do magic. We know what to do to win, and need to get back to it

about every poster here is inspired and in awe of what they have done in the face of adversity dealing with injuries.
I don't see any "Chicken LIttles" here. Nobody is irrationally pessimistic. Thats the tale of "Chicken Little".
One might say overly optimistic in Magic and rest might itself be foolishly delusional itself.

when an acorn falls on Foxy Loxy's head he too then thinks the sky has fallen.
If the knicks don't win this series then the sky fell.

you're the president of the chicken little club. either embrace that or stop acting like they lost already

every champ has been knocked to the mat. the difference is the champ gets back up. You have to be able to take a punch. Sometime things in life don't go the way you want. might be your fault. might be someone else's or no one's. Just get back up and keep swinging

wait for the season to be over before starting with how happy you are they outperformed etc.

right now it's time to root for them; there's a lot to like. they're smarter and tougher than their opponent and 66% of the remaining games are at home