DLeethal wrote:

LivingLegend wrote:OG needs to get his 3 pointer fixed —- looking Josh like out there but the D is all-world.

Tbf he’s wearing an elbow brace his mechanics are gonna be limited

Ill take his defense and ability to cut back door even if he can't stick the 3, but give him a few games to get the form. If he can hit the corner one alone it will be huge.

WP76 wrote:Mitch needs to shoot about 1000 FTs per day. I have a feeling that'll decide a game or two in the playoffs. 35% FTs negates the advantages he brings.

He’ll get to the FT’s but focusing on 1,000 3’s per day right now and 1,000 between the leg dribbles.

I think if I was designing a workout for Mitch I’d have him catching passes all day from all angles and in traffic — his hands are like paddles.

NYStateOfMind wrote:Beat the Bucks 2 in a row, let's go Knicks. Beat the Bulls and we're good.

We have a tiebreaker disadvantage against Indiana, Orlando, and Milwaukee but the advantage over Cleveland...do I have that right?

DLeethal wrote:Worst thing we can do is get the 2 seed now I hope they are smarter than that. We’ve been so beat up I would rest final 3 games before I fought for 2 seed.

Please explain why we don’t want 2 seed.

I don’t agree and doesn’t look like team does either - are you afraid of a specific team because they are all tough and you have to play 3 of the best to get to finals.

LivingLegend wrote:OG needs to get his 3 pointer fixed —- looking Josh like out there but the D is all-world.

We are lucky to have him back at all. He has a bad elbow. He will probably have much worse shooting percentages than normal for the rest of the year but his defense is so good it will easily makeup for that.

LivingLegend wrote:

DLeethal wrote:Worst thing we can do is get the 2 seed now I hope they are smarter than that. We’ve been so beat up I would rest final 3 games before I fought for 2 seed.

Please explain why we don’t want 2 seed.

I don’t agree and doesn’t look like team does either - are you afraid of a specific team because they are all tough and you have to play 3 of the best to get to finals.

Because playing a team that’s on a 65 win pace as a 7 seed is not good for the Knicks.

I’m not expecting a undermanned Knicks team to make the Finals. I just want to give it hell and try to win as much as we can. Playing Philly round 1 because we think we’re tough is unwise and we can avoid it as a team who’s been playing guys 40mpg for months and could rest a few of the final games.

I wouldn’t say team agrees or disagrees. We just lost 4 of 5. We had to win a couple of the final 5 games to avoid play-in. We will see how they handle it once we lock in 3-4-5 seeds.

The fact that ORL plays MIL twice and they both own tie breaker on us might make it impossible for us to get the 2 seed which is good. One of them will likely be guaranteed to get it.

LivingLegend wrote:

NYStateOfMind wrote:I've seen this movie before, a lot in the last 5 games. No secondary scorer, getting killed in the paint, I'm not sure I see this 48 minutes of terror d with the Mitch/iHart combo. Mitch needs to go. I fear if this continues, Randle will get traded for KAT and his ridiculous contract.

OG needs to be more offensively aggressive.

Was thinking something similar on Mitch and then he started cleaning shots and Bucks seemed to shy away from driving for a key stretch. Was screaming for I-Hart because Mitch was gassed but he sparked us for 2-3 minutes tonight. Need to get him on stationarbike for about 12 hours a day,

NYStateOfMind wrote:I think they have tanked some games, but they tried to beat us tonight.

DLeethal wrote:

VDesai wrote:

DLeethal wrote:This win basically sealed top 6. If Indy can hold on to 6 we have all good matchup scenarios.

2 seed is a kind of a hot potato if you end up playing Philly with Embiid

I’d tank out of 2nd before I willingly faced Miami or PHI.

Probably although that was some second half meltdown on their part.

LivingLegend wrote:

DLeethal wrote:Worst thing we can do is get the 2 seed now I hope they are smarter than that. We’ve been so beat up I would rest final 3 games before I fought for 2 seed.

Please explain why we don’t want 2 seed.

I don’t agree and doesn’t look like team does either - are you afraid of a specific team because they are all tough and you have to play 3 of the best to get to finals.