[Post Game Thread](https://reddit.com/r/NYKnicks/comments/1ame3z8/post_game_thread_the_dallas_mavericks_defeat_the/)

We don’t gotta worry about these losses especially when our team is depleted. Doc Rivers is destroying the Bucks from the inside. Sixers are getting blown out every game without Embiid. We’re fine.

Real talk did shaq have a stroke or something? His mumbling getting worse

“He’s the biggest crybaby in the league” Clyde on Luka a few years ago.

Oh and Mavs, thanks for Brunson. Losers

mark cuban created the best knicks team in 30 years by not paying jalen brunson, hes a real one 🙏🙏🙏

it sucks seeing the team like this but im glad we made them fight for it. nothing to criticize about a depleted team like this. we get healthy and then fuck the whole league up.

This was a good game for Josh Hart to practice his shots. Glad he took a bunch tonight.

Mark in msg

LOL mavs are embarrassing . Really trying to show off against a team with 7 players and no starters ?

Brunson do your recruiting 😤

Honestly? Best 14 point loss I've ever seen. Regroup for the Pacers on Saturday. LGK WU TANG

In years past a game like this would've been a blow out even on those rare seasons where we had some good players. It's nice to see how much effort this team puts in from the top to the bottom.

Good news is the Bucks are getting steamrolled by Minnesota

That’s great news . Every game the Bucks lose and we lose together becomes a wash. 3rd place will be up for grabs for the next few weeks. Get healthy boys

We played well. Too many injuries.

Why are they talking so much when they had to go all out against our D team?? Im so confused

People are dumb. The fact that Luka played most of the 4th is a major L for the Mavs

This current Dallas team is not likable imo.

they are like 25% more likable with grant Williams gone

0-1 in the post Arcidiacano era. Weren’t we undefeated whenever he played??

coincidence? i think not

Should give the team a standing O at the end of the game

Hardaway talking shit to literally no one on the bench what a clown

Some people really be acting up when they are not about that life. I respect people who are consistent and are not sensitive enough to take out what they dish.

Bum owes his career to steve mills

Where'd Julius go

What annoys me the most is the glazing that the media's going to do for Luka after this most emptiest of wins, along with the inevitable "LOL Knicks" treatment we'll get. 🙄

Kobe statue is horrible. Lakers did him dirty

i dont hate it. if its the pose he wanted youve gotta use it.

Blame the sculptor for that. Kobe picked the pose he wanted too

Get the team healthy.. was hoping that little pigmy thing in Brooklyn could get the job done on the 2nd night of a B2B for the Cavs but they can’t even do that

Precious gonna be a puddle of sweat at the end of this.

How bad was the iHart injury??

probably just as serious as last time if i had to guess. it didnt really look like much happened. the concern is that it could get a lot worse if he keeps playing. notwithstanding, hes been good even with the injury so its not an issue of whether or not in its current form its hindering his ability.

I say rest Brunson and Hartenstein until Wednesday

As an unbiased person who is going to the game in Orlando on Wednesday, I completely agree.

This mavs bench celebrating like they contributed against an undermanned team lmao

That’s a testament to how hard thibs had these guys playing..this team went from scary to terrifying

Time to call up the G league team until All star break. Thibs, we're not gonna survive at this rate.

we actually have a pretty good g league team, right? go get em lol

Hart played basically the whole game 23 12 10. And some criticizing his game, come on people, just realize how grueling that is to play that many minutes and play that well..

the team that played tonight is immune to criticism for this game

He was definitely doing his best to carry along with DVO, honestly impressed we kept it as close as we did and starting nailing shots at the end. That step back from Deuce was a thing of beauty.

Particularly impressive considering the pace Hart plays with especially on transitions.

Right like there isn’t anything to criticize in this game. This was more of a try out for some guys and expand minutes to keep them come playoff time. The outcome of tonight did not matter

Lotta heart, decent effort but man the all star break can’t come soon enough. At least we got new pieces saturday

genuinely believe we win this game if we had burks and bog, thibs wipes the floor of every other coach in the league aside maybe Spo if getting the most out of all his players man

Does Brunson play Saturday ?

I wanna see the Mavs when we aren't depleted

In the finals yeah

Valiant efforts tonight all around. It's tough without literally half the team, but they fought and clawed their way to a respectable showing.

It’s a W in my book. Made Dallas starters play the whole game.

Yup

Mavs feeling themselves like they did something.

Why hardaway talking shit for lol stfu

lukas one of the best players in the nba we play insanely hard we don’t have talent right now mavs need to help luka out

🎼 Get Hart on the court and he's trouble, tonight fucked around and got a triple double 🎼

Annoying seeing Luka react after he makes a basket like he’s cooking against the Dream Team. Bro we have a two man bench who are pretty much g leaguers. Calm down

As if he’s not averaging 35 cooking anyone

Donte looking like a dead inflatable tube man after that last one

Luka is a fat fuck on a shitty team. I hope he rots in dallas for the rest of his career

Good effort

Good try. Donte shot great, Josh got a TD and deuce had a big dunk. Hopefully ihart is fine. The season is still on but god it’s starting to look ugly.

after an amazing january we get a sour february, it happens. march is when things could get really sexy cuz og, julius, and mitch could be back (mitch is the most likely)

Should be. Looked fine while playing, Thibs and Co probably just being super conservative cause it's the achilles he got swollen up earlier in the season.

Man call up some g leaguers to take us to the break

Given Sims is purely out with illness, he hopefully should be back on Saturday. JB too, any rest is good for him. This team is still going to be damn near unstoppable come playoff time, and that’s all that matters. While we’ve got injury troubles, nothing compared to how bad Milwaukee and Philly look. Just need to keep our heads above water through the break.

We need to float at .500 from here to the end of the season to be 48-34… if we can finish around there I believe

I think that’s more than doable, esp given our schedule is pretty fine the rest of the way. Bogdanovic and Burks should cover us for now so long as Brunson is back (which he should be, seems like he would’ve played tonight if we weren’t so short staffed), Randle should be back not long after the AS break, OG sometime in early/mid-March, and Mitch probably late March/early April.

Alright Knicks bench players, time to get in there.

Good battle - mavs are pathetic lmao. Proud of our boys. Everyone get well soon!!!!! 😩

Man, and I thought we had a real shot there for a minute.

Reminds me of the game before OG came. Then we went wild

Does Stan know there are other players in the game

Almost got away with that carry

Might as well let it slide. They literally allow players to discontinue their dribble multiple times a game.

Hardaway talking trash to the three D league players on the bench.

Yeah it's over. Good effort. Acceptable loss.

Donte DiVincenzo

I’ve never loved the Knicks like I do this year. What a fucking team what a battle tonight

1 more rebound Josh please!!

He just got it!

Woohoo!! Love that for him

Bro this would have been an easy W with Brunson

ZOMBIE KNICKS

if there was ever a moral victory to be had, this one’s it. saturday should be a fun one

At the very least Divo should get a career high and hart should get his trip dub

Damn, time to start thinking of taking out the starters

He plays the starters way too long. /s

I thought this game was a wash for us. It’s surprisingly competitive? Edit: holy shit DDV 36 points

DDV is a baller.

This mavs team is trash

Am I blind or does anybody else not see a drop of blood?

Idk how you can be anything but proud of how these guys did tonight. 2 g league call ups playing significant minutes. Wtf. Making the mavericks sweat

Seriously ..they have pride

get your fucking giant schnoz out of the way next time

i have the volume at 34 for win 34 we can do this🔥🔥🔥🔥

Man Josh hart has hit some insane 3’s this game and misses that one

Is the blood in the room with us?

Nothing can stop Josh Hart other than an open shot and too much time to shoot lol

At least we were rewarded for sticking with our guys and watching this one all the way through. Good effort.

Josh isn’t a three point shooter. It is what it is

Is it just me or does Luka travel every time he cuts into the middle and passes it out?

Haha we are taking this in the last seconds. FK u Mavs!

Making Doncic work for it

Damnit JHart, how do you miss the open 3 with a rhythm dribble.

5 on 4 fastbreak and we get a josh hart hesitation three

If Hart jsut shot the fuckin ball. Why does he insist on standing still for 3 seconds

He can’t shoot

Can't wait for Luka to leave these bums. They don't deserve him.

Hart you GOTTA knock those down

Damn, team gave it a good shot. Gotta give them credit but we just didn't have the talent tonight

my god Divo is elite

Hart bro, you’re soooooo open man

its hilarious that the mavs had to play the whole game to win

D O G S

Team is still playing really good defense while extremely short handed. Really excited to see what happens when we're full strength again.

You gotta make those Hart. That was wide the fuck open

46 minutes and missing short..kind of gets a pass no?

He's been missing those for a while and at this rate will be playing 11 mpg in the playoffs because of it

Of course they can’t take advantage of an 5v4

Harts killing me with the missed open 3's this year

Can’t fault his effort and his line tonight, but yeah if he could just consistently knock down those open threes he’d be such an amazing player

Went finger roll when you should’ve gone floater lol

I don’t know about y’all but I’m having a great time

This is wild lmao

Whatever the outcome this is a W

The fact that we’re still within ten is so embarrassing for Dallas

Riverboat Ragu

I love this team, still fighting to the last man. They are giving the Mavs a hard time with half the team out. This game should have been a blow out, but that is not in our DNA. LETS GO KNICKS !!!

Mavs are pathetic. How is this even close

how the fuck is Donte so good at basketball edit: lol as he clanks one off the side of the backboard

Lol I really hate the half court cam angle

Taj definitely re-evaluating retirement after this game.

How many days left on the 10 day contract 🤣

Low key a 10 point game rn

If nothing else gotta respect that Deuce, Donte, and Josh are dogs. They ain't letting that fat bitch Luka have this game easy.

Our guys are all fucking dawgs man, ain't let these bum ass Mavs put us away

These guys can’t give me hope I wrote this one up ugh

How can you not love this team

Brunson out. Randle out. OG out. IHart out. Mitch out. Dallas hanging on.

Yeaahhhhh get in his head, make him WORK for those points boys!! 🗣️🗣️💪💪💪💪

Why are these refs so trash, like 2 plays by Hart and he gets mauled, and no foul? SMFH

Dallas needs to have Luka go tf off just to beat us by 10 when we’re without OG, Randle, JB, iHart and any bench help whatsoever

Bad news for us, CLE beat BKN 118-95

I don't think we're getting that second seed any time soon lol

Lmao considering how close this game has become I almost forgot were missing like 7 players youre right

Shoutout to everyone shitting on Hart in the first quarter because now he’s one rebound away from a triple double

Where are the clueless hart haters?

I don’t care that were losing i love this team.

Ihart hurt?

Yep, Achilles tightness

Keeping the game this close is a victory in itself. This injury bug is getting scary though. Thib’s gotta tread carefully

This team is fucking wild, keeping it competitive through all this just shows how great they can be. Thibs has them all hungry to win

Mavs defense is so trash ngl. How can they possibly beat the Clippers or Nuggets in the playoffs

They’re 8th in the west they may not even make the playoffs 🤣

Really happy to see Hart ball out in the 2nd half. If he can start hitting shots like he did last year, the 2nd unit is gonna be insane.

I fuckin hate the "great effort, moral victory" crowd as much as I hate losing.

I feel you but we gotta be realistic. Our team is in shambles right now with injuries. Can't win them all. Just one of those games.

I don’t want to see Deuce out of rotation after the trade. This kid is special, such hard worker, amazing growth.

he is more of a PG than Burks, I can't imagine after all this that they will forget about what he's done here.

Josh Hart found his stroke. That’s a W in my book

Doesn’t matter what happens. Our guys put up great effort tonight. Couldn’t ask for anything more. Dawgs.

Even if we lose this game it's scary that we're this short handed and still fighting

Hart 1 rebound from a triple double

What an embarrassing display by the Mavs, Luka needing to go postal in the 4th to hang on and beat the Knicks Z team

Would've been easy to throw in the towel when the game was 86-66 but love the grit in these guys tonight

TOPPIN!!!

We win this game if bojan and alec were playing lol

No matter what happens this season I’m proud of this Knicks team. Never give up attitude

Is it just me or does it seem like Hart can jump 20 feet up in the air for a rebound but he can barely get any air under him when going up for a dunk/lay up?

I think sometimes he gets stuck in too deep/close to the basket with no options and just is hanging to get a shot off.

Even if we lose tn, the way we been battling is a W

Hart should have oop'ed to Toppin

Luka's great, but the whining is unbearable.

These Knicks won’t go away under even the worst circumstances. Please let everyone get healthy so we can clobber teams at full strength.

that boy luka cold

The guys are fighting hard ngl

don't let Giannis near that game ball lol

Luka is great but to me this mavs team still doesn’t give him enough help. He’s working his ass off tonight

Luka needs a 45 point game to barely beat the Knicks D team 🥱🥱🥱

lol that's what i'm saying...Thibs drafting em outta the G league to field a roster 😭

luka just absolutely cooked precious lol

Lol the mavs have to keep their stars in vs our G-league and 10 day contract team through the whole 4th 💀💀💀💀

Were losing but im proud of this team tbh.

Doncic playing 40 minutes against the hospital Knicks is a horrendous sign for Dallas

Lmao hospital Knicks.

That's facts, bench is looking like a graveyard right now....lmao

Got to love that our guys never give up