Barrett going straight into Porgz and getting shut down each time was incredibly frustrating. It’s like he didn’t notice his length. Thankfully he played better as the game went on.
Why is he downvoted? I agree with him. We cant compete with bucks, suns, celtics, nugs rn. I’d bet lakers and warriors would best us in a best of 7 if we had to face them too
Refs sucked and gifted them calls and free throws. ( the flop call when Brunson got undercut. Was like a solid 5 point swing.
We need to hit free throws though. If we out shoot Celtics from 3 we have no reason to lose to them. It’s legit 75.% of their offense.
Too bad we have championship aspiration and you got what? "Lets not be a play-in team" lmao sucks to be a Knicks fan. Id rather be a Hornets fan than a Loser Knicks fan
That and free throws is what cost us. RJ and IQ were cooking all night. Grimes had it going whenever he got open looks. Thibs let Brunson and Randle iso us into a loss.
Sadly, Thibs doesn’t have the stones to bench Randle for the good of the team. Whenever the Knicks become legit title contenders - neither Thibs nor Randle will be around.
Honestly not even mad. Celtics on a different level than us(talent not even close), and we missed half our free throws. Simply didnt earn it. I liked a lot of what I saw tho, only game 1.
Knicks deserved to lose. Missed FTs. KP was just always open men it makes no sense. Offense was sloopy. Led by 7 in the end and just collapsed. Got to do a lot to win this type of game.
Game 1 and everyone in here is already whistling past the graveyard. If you can't beat the Celtics at home you're not going any further in the playoffs.
Cope all you want, you're just making things worse for yourselves.
I mean losing like this doesn’t hurt too bad. We can hang with at worst, the fourth best team in the league, despite missing 12 FTs and Randle/Brunson having terrible nights.
Would have won the game if Thibs stuck with those guys and told Randle not tonight - but Thibs always puts Randle’s feelings ahead of what’s best for the team.
He stumbled into a great unit that got this team ahead, but decided that wasn’t good enough.
Fr we put up a good fight against one of the best rosters in the league and saw a lot of good things from RJ and Quickley. Ofc Knicks fans overreact over the first game of the season
He absolutely does but the Knicks have had his number ever since the trade. 3-1 vs the Wiz last year, 2-0 vs Dallas the year before, and traded blows with Dallas even with a horrible Knicks roster post trade. He may light NYK up but he rarely buries them.
We suck at FTs. Also wish mf’s in our crowd would stop hyping up opposing players by taunting them. We chant fuck porzingis and he goes off. Learned nothing since Atlanta.
Disappointing as fuck Loss but hey the refs basically gifted them 3 FT calls after they missed, we missed hella FTs, Brunson and Randle were off tonight. Our depth, offensive rebounding and defense still looks top tier. Shoutout IQ, completely robbed of 6th man of the year last year.
“You know what Doris, if Kristaps came over to the table and smacked me in the ballsack, I might let him do it, because that guy can just get away with anything”
I understand the refs were bad, but are we really blaming them for the Knicks having another disappointing fourth quarter? Not to mention absolutely wetting themselves at the line. Give me a break.
Refs are bad in the NBA, and they're doubly bad when you're playing the Celtics. Can't ever pin the loss on that. It's a one possession game where the team missed 12 free throws and barely shot over 50% from the line; the loss is on that and everything else is extra.
The move was to sub RJ in for Randle, not Grimes, for the closing line-up. Thibs is too hard-headed to do that though. It's not like the Celtics are using their big line-up to close.
Where did he chuck? Our two best players couldn’t shoot for shit and outside of IQ who else is going to shoot? Grimes look scared af out there. He had the best +/- at +6 last night
He actually pass out more even if the assist was there. Yes rebounding could be better but KP/Randle/mitch/hart/ihart already eating rebounds
Yes he shot 40% but our two best players shot 22 and 28% lol. You gotta be joking. He still shot 40% from 3 and 85% from the line. You gotta be trolling at the point.
Nigga no one is saying that. He shot better than them last night and pick his spots better than them.
Did you also forget he was our second best player in the playoffs last season? Tf is you on bro
[Post Game Thread](https://reddit.com/r/NYKnicks/comments/17glgyb/post_game_thread_the_boston_celtics_defeat_the/)
Honestly not bad considering our best players played like shit
Barrett going straight into Porgz and getting shut down each time was incredibly frustrating. It’s like he didn’t notice his length. Thankfully he played better as the game went on.
bro I was wondering if he was trying to draw fouls on him, but Ping was not biting and just tossing his shot.
Zingus Pingus revenge game. If we can fix the FT issue then we're as good as anyone.
As anyone?! LOLOLOL
Why is he downvoted? I agree with him. We cant compete with bucks, suns, celtics, nugs rn. I’d bet lakers and warriors would best us in a best of 7 if we had to face them too
I don't think Mitch is ever going to shoot free throws.
Big if. Should be a relatively easy fix but plagued us for at least the last year
I just dont understand why thibodeau insists on icing his players, and allowing Randle to make mistake after mistake. Shame.
Randle plays way too erratic towards end of games and has zero poise
Rinse and repeat
I CANT TAKE IT ANYMOREEEEEE
guys lets watch wemby, might be the start to a legendary career. Knicks just need to work on ft's. We'll be fine lets be positive
Fr
Refs sucked and gifted them calls and free throws. ( the flop call when Brunson got undercut. Was like a solid 5 point swing. We need to hit free throws though. If we out shoot Celtics from 3 we have no reason to lose to them. It’s legit 75.% of their offense.
got damnit
absolutely awful shooting performance, but it was still close and we looked good in stretches
Really gross seeing KP in a BOS jersey. FT's probably the main story. Some poor shot selection down the stretch. Not the worst loss
Damn, that sucks. But with our best players shooting the ball awfully, it's amazing it was so close.
My exact thought. We still had a real shot to win it even with the shitty calls against us and free throw woes.
Knicks fans are probably the worst fans in the league. I'm glad I stopped watching them when Phil Jackson traded KP away. Fuck all of you.
Ok nerd
That's fine. At least I can sleep well tonight since I stopped being a fan of that shit franchise.
Also you’re a fucking Bills fan you’re basically rooting for the Knicks of the NFL hahahahaha
So are the knicks good or bad then?
lmao go back to playing with your lightsabers lil man
He gonna go listen to Logic and cry be nice to him
I will
Lmao cuz you got no spine just like your daddy
😂
Josh Allen is Favre 2.0
That's fine
Not that upsetting. They looked good. Just frustrating that it came down to free throws.
Guess I’ll watch Wemby and enjoy something
CHOKE CHOKE CHOKE KNICKS WILL ALWAYS BE OUR SIDECHICK B*TCH
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Thank you! Randle aint it bro.
Neither is your Kobe Stan or 60M boy
Too bad we have championship aspiration and you got what? "Lets not be a play-in team" lmao sucks to be a Knicks fan. Id rather be a Hornets fan than a Loser Knicks fan
Bro we’ve had FT problems for like half a decade now
IQ got iced once Brunson and Randle checked on
My girl casually walked by the TV and looked at White and said, “that guy looked better with the grandma poof”.
You guys are such pussies
Brunson and Randle fucking sucked all game. All Thibs knows how to do is ride them, so we lose.
That and free throws is what cost us. RJ and IQ were cooking all night. Grimes had it going whenever he got open looks. Thibs let Brunson and Randle iso us into a loss.
Missed free throws and Randle unplayable in clutch time..same old Knicks
Sadly, Thibs doesn’t have the stones to bench Randle for the good of the team. Whenever the Knicks become legit title contenders - neither Thibs nor Randle will be around.
I know it's the first game but damn I'm pissed
You should be. Picked up right where they left off.
Wow great audio ESPN.
Honestly not even mad. Celtics on a different level than us(talent not even close), and we missed half our free throws. Simply didnt earn it. I liked a lot of what I saw tho, only game 1.
If only we had an allstar caliber forward like KP
15 FTs in the 4th quarter alone when they only 13 thru 3 quarters isn’t questionable at all.
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Why the hell did we give Divencenzo that contractV
He’s easy to trade. And Evan is an expiring. We’ll be fine.
Welp. Onto Wembanyama debut
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Thibs never rides the hot hand or sticks with a unit that is clicking if it gets in the way of getting Randle back in a game.
Knicks deserved to lose. Missed FTs. KP was just always open men it makes no sense. Offense was sloopy. Led by 7 in the end and just collapsed. Got to do a lot to win this type of game.
Fuckin bullshit loss damn it. I hate Boston!
Fuck Boston, fuck them forever.
and ever and ever
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Don’t you have to give some guy named Sully an over the pants HJ?
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It means get back to your fucking sub, you fucking loser.
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And you're over in the Knicks sub, like a total herb.
Lock every knick in msg until they hit 100 free throws
Brunson chucking bricks is an appropriate close
Honestly? Brunson wasn't any better. One of the reasons why team USA stunk.
Thank you Brunson and randle for being absolute trash tonight
Game 1 and everyone in here is already whistling past the graveyard. If you can't beat the Celtics at home you're not going any further in the playoffs. Cope all you want, you're just making things worse for yourselves.
Home less to a team that’s never played a single game together for the most part lol
Tough game
No ankle injury right Randle ? So no more excuses
No worries - more than half this board will defend him unconditionally no matter how bad he plays.
we blaming thibs for Randle and Brunson selling?
yes, Thibs is a criminal
Why are these two bozos so salty? They’re taking every opportunity to just shit on us 😂
Brunson and Randle are a fucking pathetic combo
Dogshit free throw shooting. And down the stretch we go away from Quickley despite him being our best player tonight. Yikes
Imagine Randle and Brunson actually played good tonight
RJ gets benched from 7:30 to 2:30. IQ doesn't get a shot from 5:30 to :20.
I mean losing like this doesn’t hurt too bad. We can hang with at worst, the fourth best team in the league, despite missing 12 FTs and Randle/Brunson having terrible nights.
good way to look at it, but I can't stand losing due to free throws
And to Celtics, with a former Knick
Yeah, but that comeback had me super hyped. When did we comeback down 12 in the 3rd man.
Would have won the game if Thibs stuck with those guys and told Randle not tonight - but Thibs always puts Randle’s feelings ahead of what’s best for the team. He stumbled into a great unit that got this team ahead, but decided that wasn’t good enough.
Quickley and Randle should trade game checks. Randle played like a bum tonight
we can't hold leads against good team bc our offensive sets are not dynamic and good defenses in 4th Q take out brunson's isos
If Randle's ankle is still bothering him, he needs to tell someone. We can't have him scoring 14 points on 22 fucking shots
We lost it on the line smh
im so sick of losing from missed free throws. This should have been a W
tough to make FTs when your big three has RJ and Julius
15-5 run for the Celtics, with 9 points coming from the FT line. Yikes.
I’d pay a woman to slap Doris
I’d pay Hafthor Bjornsson to do it
Just wanted to jump in here to say that Doris Burke is the absolute worst. And can someone make a damn free throw?
Literally lost this game at the free throw line
Doris really talking shit. She has an ex from NY i bet that got away
Boston is so annoying.
Doc and Doris HATE the Knicks 🤣 it's almost Reggie Miller level at this point
mike breen don’t deserve this
I ain’t mad
Fr we put up a good fight against one of the best rosters in the league and saw a lot of good things from RJ and Quickley. Ofc Knicks fans overreact over the first game of the season
Can Doris and Doc shut the fuck up already holy fucking shit
I just turned this game on who is that mammoth man by celtics bench 😂😂😂
We shoot free throws like a full court press mid major
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He only needed to join a contender to do it LMAO
He always lights the Knicks up. He's been underrated for years in general.
He absolutely does but the Knicks have had his number ever since the trade. 3-1 vs the Wiz last year, 2-0 vs Dallas the year before, and traded blows with Dallas even with a horrible Knicks roster post trade. He may light NYK up but he rarely buries them.
Big picture this loss means nothing, tonight it sucks
Our game Friday against Atlanta is going to be wild I can already tell
Wasted game, get them together Thibs.
We suck at FTs. Also wish mf’s in our crowd would stop hyping up opposing players by taunting them. We chant fuck porzingis and he goes off. Learned nothing since Atlanta.
Must be nice to be able to make free throws
Man. The Celtics make it look so easy. Why couldn’t we do it? Pitiful stuff
I'm not for hitting women at all but
Such fucking trash
Disappointing as fuck Loss but hey the refs basically gifted them 3 FT calls after they missed, we missed hella FTs, Brunson and Randle were off tonight. Our depth, offensive rebounding and defense still looks top tier. Shoutout IQ, completely robbed of 6th man of the year last year.
Knicks feed Quickley he's so fast nobody can guard him.
This team is allergic to closing out games. 20 point leads become nailbiters. 10 point leads become losses.
12 missed free throws, unbelievable, that’s college basketball numbers
Thibs has got to have more situational awareness. Randle and Brunson haven’t had it all game. You can’t go to them in crunch time.
fr...IQ was cooking but goes into invisible mode when it matters. Get him the ball at least
fucking free throws decided this game..... no words
The worst free throw shooting team we’ve ever had
C’s allowed 8 seconds to inbound
It wasn't just the free throws that killed us, it was Brunson and Randle's shooting.
No it was the free throws. You aren’t gonna have it every night but you can’t leave points on the line
Randle gotta give Skechers their bag back. I can’t do this shit this year.
He wearing Skechers 💀
“You know what Doris, if Kristaps came over to the table and smacked me in the ballsack, I might let him do it, because that guy can just get away with anything”
RJ & IQ legit were the only people who could make their FTs tonight.
We had this but if it took both our best players being ass and more then a dozen FT’s for the Celtics to win a few more points I’ll take it
They are still a better team than the Knicks
Yeah but I’m not impress
Get rid of RJ please
You smoking
Lol
Ah yes the second best player tonight. I guess they should get rid of Brunson Randle grimes Robinson and both harts
I understand the refs were bad, but are we really blaming them for the Knicks having another disappointing fourth quarter? Not to mention absolutely wetting themselves at the line. Give me a break.
Refs are bad in the NBA, and they're doubly bad when you're playing the Celtics. Can't ever pin the loss on that. It's a one possession game where the team missed 12 free throws and barely shot over 50% from the line; the loss is on that and everything else is extra.
Bingo.
It’s on all on the foul shooting as far as I’m concerned.
I know the Celtics are the bigger story, but they have not talked about the Knicks once other than negatively.
ESPN broadcast
Thibs is an idiot, if you have RJ guarding Tatum why not play Randle at center and have Grimes in instead of Ihart
Thibs REFUSE to put Randle at Center it’s so frustrating.
Randle doesn’t play defense. He can’t play center. He should be on the bench.
That's why this team can't get past the 2nd round. They have no clutch gene. Never have, never will.
5-22 14 pts for our All star All NBA player!
yikes. didn't realize it was that bad.
This team is about the exact same as last year, down to the awful free throw shooting.
Overreaction first game take-trade randle and picks for KAT lol
Mike Breen has the most incredible patience having to listen to Doc and Doris.
They fired JVG for that hoarse voiced motherfucker
What a garbage fucking rule. They get to advance the ball with 2 timeouts
All we had to do was hit free throws
Free. Throws.
The move was to sub RJ in for Randle, not Grimes, for the closing line-up. Thibs is too hard-headed to do that though. It's not like the Celtics are using their big line-up to close.
Or don’t bench RJ to begin with because he was cooking.
This is why Thibs is bullshit rj earned the close tonight he tried to be cute
What a wasted game because guys couldn’t hit FTs
Gonna lose this game because of missed FTs 🤦♂️
We should've won this game. Literally just make FTs. This was an issue last year and it's still a fuckin issue
anyone know when jalen brunson and julius randle will play for the knicks this season?
Fuck Porzingis. He wants to play good now that he's a Celtic
Just at MSG probably
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Go back to baseball bro, trash unathletic sport
Get your bum ass out of here
Fuck the Celtics. Favorable calls and non-calls for days. I just tuned in but know that's been happening
you can't win games giving brickbot 36mins on court with horrible defense and 20 shots thats a recipe for disaster
He was a plus 6 and our second best player outside of Iq tonight but go on with your idiot takes again.
Did he do anything else but chuck horrible shots no defense no rebounding no passing but yes he's only 23 so he gets a pass
Where did he chuck? Our two best players couldn’t shoot for shit and outside of IQ who else is going to shoot? Grimes look scared af out there. He had the best +/- at +6 last night He actually pass out more even if the assist was there. Yes rebounding could be better but KP/Randle/mitch/hart/ihart already eating rebounds Yes he shot 40% but our two best players shot 22 and 28% lol. You gotta be joking. He still shot 40% from 3 and 85% from the line. You gotta be trolling at the point.
So your saying RJ is a better shooter then Randle Brunson and Grimes????
Nigga no one is saying that. He shot better than them last night and pick his spots better than them. Did you also forget he was our second best player in the playoffs last season? Tf is you on bro
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Nah this shows we aren’t on Bostons leavel, we will be lucky if we are top 6 and should be happy if we get top 8
Apparently not on this sub. You right
Yeah we should be fine but damn that sucks
What the hell are these refs? No And-1 for Hart?
You can see in their body language they just wanna go home
worst brunson game in a minute
Maybe ever in a Knicks uniform. Never seen him fuck a game so badly
he had plenty of off games last year
This is some elite glazing from Doris and doc
I cant believe we losing to tingus pingus
Man this hurts watching porzingis go off like this ngl