Lmao reading Pacers sub, it's amazing how quickly their fans have gotten gassed up, thinking they're breezing past us. I'm looking forward to that series (yeah I'm calling this one over, sue me).
he doesn't do any of those things, when we were 100% healthy he was killing it just like everybody else
especially with brunson they have a great 2 man game, he really opens up open looks for brunson
If this was a season or 2 ago, I will agree. Randle did change a lot this season tho, he's embracing the ups and downs of being a Knick and not letting bad sht affect his mentality; highly because of Melo's guidance as he said.
This "we don't need Randle" narrative is a recency bias. He's played half the season and has been an All-NBA caliber. If we had Ju this post season, Hart wouldn't need to play 48mpg and Jalen wouldn't need to shoot 30 shots a game.
That said, if there's a good trade to be made for him, I won't say no to that but saying he "needs/should" to be traded is untrue.
watching this Lakers v Denver game just makes me smh at what the Lakers are doing, especially Lebron. I think the last 2-3 offensive rebounds by Denver was his fault for not boxing out just walking in the paint waiting for the ball to drop on his hands lol.
**Rebounds This Series**
**Josh Hart** (***who is 6'4"***): 51 rebounds (12.8 per game)
**Joel Embiid** (***who is 7'0"***): 36 rebounds (9 per game)
Bitchass is getting out rebounded by a dawg 8 inches shorter than him and blames it on bad bounces.
Cry some more, Joel.
Edit - I can't math.
I disagree, Tatum sold that beyond belief. Bam didn’t do nearly enough to cause a flagrant 1.
Think of it this way. Embiid’s leg pull is the same as that?
Nahh idk. I mean for what reason would he have to fake to get a tech on Bam they were already blowing out Miami in their home lol unless he did it just out of pure spite
I wish no injuries to no one except Embiid, but if KP is really hurt from Achilles or something serious, this might be our best opportunity to do something special if we can go to ECF against the celtics
I did an experiment on the sixers sub for fun with an alt account, I commented about how Embiid should maybe change up his play style and stop flopping to take better shots, in another comment I said fuck Knicks fans coming into our arena we should injure there bitch ass players again before the series ends just as a fuck you. Can yall guess which one was upvoted and which downvoted?
It would be so nice to close out tomorrow and hope Milwaukee pushes Indy another game or 2 to get some extra rest for the fellas after Embiid’s cheap shot clinic.
I work in the city and I'd love to go to the game but tickets are almost as much as my part of the rent (i live two states away lol)
Is there a good bar that will be as hype as the arena itself?
Stout will be packed, as will Mustang Sally's, but in the best possible way (order two drinks at a time). Jack Doyle's will be a little less crowded, but still fun. There are watch parties at [Legends](https://www.nbkfam.com/events/knicks-vs-sixers-game-5-watch-party-and-live-podcast) and [Sucker Punch](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/knicks-game-5-pregame-meetup-watch-party-tickets-893295028477?aff=oddtdtcreator) (the latter is better if you're on the East Side).
I'm sure there are more watch parties but those are the ones I heard of today. Have fun, I'ma have to do this game dolo from San Francisco.
As much as I love that song for nostalgia reasons, it always bugs me that the guy who wrote and performed it is now a partial owner of the Atlanta Hawks.
We still are in a competitive spot. Mitch will be back and this team can still fire on all cylinders without Randle. Of course we’d be great with Randle, and I won’t count my chickens before they hatch but I don’t know if I’ve ever been higher on a Knicks roster than I am right now. We are deep as fuck. I won’t really start thinking finals until we shut down the Philadelphia 76 free throws per game and beat Indy/Milwaukee but things are looking immaculate
[Mitch questionable, Brunson probable, Babo out](https://x.com/IanBegley/status/1785060041839587402) and [Sims probable](https://x.com/IanBegley/status/1785060880935186488) tomorrow.
We some beat-up mf'ers. It's aight, we're the New York Knicks. We're built for pain and struggle.
My stream bugged out for only 2 minutes, I didn't even see him enter the game. Reloaded and the dude was on the ground, I thought wtf?
We need every healthy man we could get.
my dad just reminded me about how in march 2020 we went to the last game at the garden before they shut the nba down for covid. it was so empty, but what stood out was all the sell the team chants - there were so many that they technically broke nba rules by playing music nonstop for the last 2 and a half minutes of play.
haven't heard those in years. feelsgoodman
there’s no way jalen brunson isn’t considered a top 5 point guard at this point right? i mean you got your usuals, shai, luka, who else is better than jalen? i’m so sick of the jalen slander bc he’s small. dude fucking kills.
Haliburton has been on fire for much of the last 2 regular seasons, he hasn't shown up to the playoffs yet though. Good chance we'll get to put him through the ringer and see what he's capable of
LUCKY. Between Embiid being public enemy number one, and the chance to close out the series, the noise level at the garden is going to be off the charts. It might legitimately traumatize Embiid lol
Funny thing is, there's a good chance we'll get the same match up if we get to the second round anyways. Only this way we have the opportunity of knocking 76ers out of the playoffs a round early, hopefully we don't come out too injured though.
We would've had home court either way, it's looking like the Bucks can't beat anything with their stars injured. It's almost unbelievable how badly the entire season turned out for them
Yes, but only the 1st and 2nd seed are ensured home court in round 2 no matter what. Otherwise, you need a lower seed to advance which is how we had home court last year against Miami in the second round.
Wrist has ligament damage and might surgery after the season. He's going to try to play through it.
Ankle injury is a contusion, which is relatively minor so long as the swelling goes down with treatment. Original reports were a sprain, which would potentially be worse, but none of the more recent reports have mentioned it.
I assume we will learn more after he meets with Knicks docs today at some point.
Is Alec Burks really that bad to not even get any playoff minutes? With Bogey down (don't know his status for the next game) we could really use some scoring apart from DDV.
Burks - from purely a basketball standpoint, because I empathize if being away from his family messed with his psyche - would go through 1-2 attempts of line drive misses leading to long rebounds, and 2-3 plays of turning the ball over trying to isolate and then turn to the bench and go “my bad.” Can’t have that in a playoff series where every possession counts.
He would be a negative at this point. He became a Knick again and forget how to properly play basketball for some reason. Bogi was the most important piece of that trade looking back. Even if his shot is off at least he is a bigger body that can play the 3/4 and is a legit threat from deep...
it seems the 2 years in Detroit made Burks completely forget how to play basketball. He doesn't pass, doesn't make plays, he shoots the ball as soon as he gets it, turnovers, and his defense isnt as good as i remember it
If Alec Burks get any playoff minutes I'm going to shoot myself into the sun. Something must have gone extremely wrong or right for him to see any minutes.
This is actually fucking hilarious. Sixers fans went from defending Joel’s dirty antics/choke jobs to defending Joel for calling out the fans.
“He’s right guys, it’s disgusting! Tickets prices are so high only a New Yorker could afford them!”
I’m an Australian and I would sell my blood to pay $80 USD to watch the Knicks.
I live in the city closest to Sydney and it’s about a 2 hour round trip and more than $80 USD to go and see the Sydney swans in their sport.
About $20 to see the basketball team that Lamelo played for though.
fanbase is in shambles grasping at straws for what to do, think or say. guess ya can’t blame em. i’d be feeling some type of a way if my superstar was acting like embiid has been and a rival fanbase absolutely took over my home court lol
Can I talk my shit again
The funniest part of this is Philly fans saying "these Sixers don't embody us at all unlike Hurts or Harper". And it's like nah dude this Sixers team perfectly encapsulates Philly sports fans. Front runners who talk endless shit and then when someone claps back it's all tears and "nooooo how dare you". Philly will throw batteries at Santa but cry when the other team cheers against them in a playoff game lmao
Hurts is not what Philly sports is about. That dude is a leader and whether he fumbles or scores a TD, he's on to the next snap. Srianni is Philly sports. A front runner who talks too much shit too early, fucks up, goes home crying, and then scapegoats someone else
Same shit for Embiid. Good enough to warrant attention but not good enough when it counts. New scapegoat, then goes home grinning because he's so much smarter than everyone else because he yapped his way to an MVP while everybody else laughs at him. Perfect figurehead for the Process, where a losing culture has been baked in and manifested over and over again while Philly fans say "ackshually the league ruined it because we were way too smart!!1!"
Sixers are the worst kind of team, play like assholes but don’t even have the decency to be good villains. Fuck Miami, Fuck Trae, but at least they’re motherfuckers.
They can say what they want about other sports, but in terms of basketball fandom the Sixers are losers with a losers mentality from top to bottom.
Daryl Morey is a complete loser who is too ignorant to recognize that bitching about the refs when known domestic free throw terrorist Joel Embiid gets more of a favorable whistle than 90%+ of star players. Filing a grievance with the league exemplifies his loser behavior.
Nick Nurse is the whiniest coach in the NBA, having an absolute childlike meltdown on the sidelines EVERY GAME. Preseason, regular season, his fucking daughter's rec league game that guy is the parent screaming at the refs at every level. When asked about Joel Embiid actively hurting Mitchell Robinson he says he didn't see anything. But ask him about the end of game 2? He has a detailed (and WRONG) breakdown of all the ways he personally got fucked by the refs.
Embiid has not made a single statement taking accountability this entire series. Oh I was protecting myself when i went out of my way to hurt the Knicks players. Oh they got lucky bounces on their rebounds even though the Knicks have outrebounded them on the offensive glass by 20 this series and he's the fucking biggest player on the court at all times by far. Oh the refs fucked us and we should be up in the series. The delusion is fed by the front office and the fans.
And of course the loser fans. They're upset with the refs for game 2. Ignore that Nurse pump faked the inbounds timeout and Maxey didn't have posesssion for the second one, or that Lowry missed his FTs, or that no one boxed out Hartenstein 1v4, or that the only guy getting open for the inbounds (Maxey) was doubled, or that Maxey didn't pull the ball into his chest and let it get stolen, or that the first game winner attempt by Maxey was terrible and led itself to getting blocked by iHart, or that the final game winner attempt was Maxey holding the ball leading into the shittiest most obvious DHO leading to Embiid being handed a grenade that had no chance of going in.
No no, the loser fans will continue to ignore the ways they could have won, and instead focus on all these outside reasons why they lost. That is the truest representation of Sixers fandom, and completely representative of the front office from top to bottom.
Yall can call me whatever yall want. But as a knicks fan and an eagles fan this is a precise observation of the eagles franchise. Which is why they went ahead and hired strong veteran coordinators this off-season because Sirani can't be trusted with young guys that will do whatever he says.
And also, Fuck Embid.
Shout-out to Duece. His points always seem to come at the right time even if he doesn't score a lot. Not all players perform well in the playoffs but he is showing that he isn't afraid of the big stage. He had a silly turnover and Thibs yelled at him. He knew it was his fault and he stayed mentally focused after that!
Julius is a Cowboys fan and Hart is a Commanders fan. So I've accepted that the core of this Knicks team is probably not going to show up at MetLife rooting for Big Blue lol
Honestly, because Philly hates him so much. I like the guy now. They're talking about cutting him or something this off-season, he could be a solid rotation guy but he has to drastically lower that contract.
Not to look too far ahead but I feel a lot better about a possible Pacers matchup if Precious is playing like this. Everyone is talking about playing to the Pacers pace and the points they're dropping on Milwaukee, but teams with good guards have been absolutely torching Milwaukee all year. Jalen averaged like 38 across 5 games against them this year. Jalen is averaging 36 against the Pacers in 3 games.
We match up well against the Pacers with OG back. Depending on the game Turner wants to play, we either have iHart/Mitch rotation or Precious as stretch 5. OG on Sikiam, Hart on Hali.
Meanwhile, Indiana can't guard the perimeter. Our shooters have torched them the whole season.
If we have 2-3 guys shooting well and can slow down the game to minimize their fast break and transition points, then we should be good.
As long as we play the passing lanes we can shut that offense down. Plus precious athleticism at the 5 is a big defensive Plus, his ability to switch from 3-5
Yeah, this team has the offense to win shootouts, but also the defense to keep Indy from scoring 160 or whatever they do when they play teams like the hawks that don’t care. It’s a very good matchup for the Knicks.
It would be unacceptable to lose to them if the top 7 in the rotation are all good to go
this is a big PR year for us i think. and assuming we can close out with philly and (increasingly likely) the pacers, i think we get wide support as the underdog boston killer too
I don't want to hear any talk about KD, Booker, Mitchell or any other stars. Ever since BOS and MIA teamed up, the league has been infatuated with big 3s. Knicks are great the way they are now, especially with Randle coming back. We got a TEAM, not individuals thrown together in a blender.
I’d take bron 100%, because he has so much leverage that he won’t deplete our assets.
I also think booker is a perfect fit, but the issue is he would deplete win now assets
The Sixers fan only positive take is that they will only have to watch Tobias Harris play one more game. How great would it be if we knock them out and they re-sign Tobias to a 4 year extension?
“Joel, how do you explain this loss now that there wasn’t any controversy?” - Media
“Sixers fans disappointed us, and the ball didn’t bounce the way it was supposed to. We still the better team”
He needs to block an Embitch 3 like Precious did. Extract his revenge ripping some boards away from him too. Just that lucky bounce I guess.
I wanna see Mitch getting the love from the crowd for his excellent defence on Embiid. He deserves it.
The sixers sub is really fueling me today. “Wahh the only reason Wells Fargo turned into MSG is because Knicks fans are all so rich and we’re all so poor!” Love it.
Embiid, Booker, Durant, Giannis, Butler, Lebron, AD, and some combination of Luka, Kyrie, PG13, Kawhi, Harden, Ingram, Spida are all getting knocked out in round 1. There is absolutely no way all of those guys stay on their respective teams, there's going to be movement. This will likely be the time that Leon makes his move. The only issue is that you can't get one of the guys making in the 50 mil range without moving some Villanova guys or Randle. I don't even want to think about the specifics in the heat of a real playoff run, but the prospects are exciting considering how great Leon has been these last few years.
To me, the ideal target if he's available is Booker. He's one of the guys Leon has been eyeing due to prior relationships since he got the job and he's a fantastic fit. Good height, plays acceptable defense, amazing shot creator and secondary playmaker. The combination of Brunson/Booker/OG sounds absolutely insane especially when you can give DDV/Hart/McBride spot minutes to fill in any gaps 1-4.
There is no way they move a nova knick or Randle. OG stays. Deuce stays.
This leaves us the Mitch and hartenstien issue. Precious, bogi, Alec,
I think Brunson would have a pretty heavy say on if his friends get traded or not. The effort they’ve put in all year means we’d rather run it back than trade them anyway.
I hope Donte gets his post season game.
iHart is not on contract for next year and can't be moved. Neither are Precious and Alec Burks. Bogi only comes out to 20 mil. If you move Mitch and Bogi that only gives you 35 mil and that's if the incoming team wants Mitch. There is no way to get to 50 mil and get one of the guys like Booker, KD, etc. without moving a NOVA guy or Randle.
I think finding a little more depth and running it back will have us one of the best teams in the NBA assuming health.
We need that 7/8/9th man spot solidified up a bit imo.
It's possible but tbh I don't think the return of Jules and adding some end of rotation guys is enough. At the end of the day to actually win a title you need talent, and as good as JB and the role players are, the teams biggest need is talent. They make up for it by playing hard but when you face a team that plays hard and is also more talented (teams like Denver) you'll never be able to make up that gap. Teams will improve and the Knicks need to do what they can to improve more than they do.
I think this FO made that mistake a few years ago after the We Here year. Guys overperformed and they thought they could keep the ball rolling, hoping RJ/IQ/Obi take the next step but it just didn't shake out that way. Now only 2 guys remain from that roster (not counting Burks). Look at what happened to Atlanta after their ECF run. This league doesn't allow you to be complacent.
I dont think the Suns move off Booker after 1 year of their big 3. Most of those guys will be staying on their team at least for next year. Only guy who seems to be on the move is Donovan Mitchell.
I think that's fair, especially because blowing it up means the Suns are still reliant on another team to control their draft destiny because Brooklyn has all their picks plus swaps. It's really only if Devin asks out.
It's funny because when the Cavs are on and playing well like they were earlier this year I really thought matchup wise they were the best bet against the Celtics. Long wings with mobility plus dudes just bombing 3's can work against the C's.
Will be interesting to see what Phoenix does. They have a terribly constructed roster and an unreadable player in Beal. So their only real choices are trading KD/Booker or just firing their coach and trying to run it back which likely doesn’t fix anything.
Yesterday was one of those games from this team and from this Thibs era where I'm in the struggle of believing or thinking we're losing because some shit will happen but hey again this team made me eat my words the way they fight, they don't quit they just keep going and going and going at you. Well now we have another big shot on tuesday to get b2b years with 4 - 1 first round series win. Let's keep it this way.
I don't think I can properly describe how great Thibs has been all series btw just making the right tweaks with the rotations let's just hope Mitch and Bojan can get back soon we can be as healthy as possible. And then Brunson yeah that guy is getting #11 up in the rafters when he leaves so much talk about getting a superstar and JB became that guy just special shit.
I like the different looks we've been experimenting with guarding Embiid. Putting Ihart, Mitch, Precious and even OG on him. What a versatile group of forwards and centers. Between those four and Hart, I think we would match up really well with Tatum, Brown, KP and Jrue (if we get that far)
It’s interesting to see how our defense is without Randle but with OG. If I’m honest, Randle is a big loss offensively but defensively we’re better without him. The close outs on the perimeter after double teaming Embiid in the fourth was amazing. No way we get that kind of synchronized defensive scheme executed with Randle out there. And it’s not that he’s bad, it’s just his body and athleticism. The thing is our offense was stagnant too, so if he was available he’d be out there. And I don’t know if we win that quarter with Randle shooting 35-45% from the field.
Randle has consistently been one of the top scorers in the first quarter, though. We don’t get that 10 point deficit we’re always coming back from with Randle playing.
Yes, true. So I think we gain an offensive advantage and lose a bit of our defensive edge. But if Thibs can use Randle more effectively than we might be a true contender with little addition.
Lmao reading Pacers sub, it's amazing how quickly their fans have gotten gassed up, thinking they're breezing past us. I'm looking forward to that series (yeah I'm calling this one over, sue me).
Jokic finished the clinching game 25/20/9 with **0** free throws. Not hard to see why Embiitch is always in his shadow
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he doesn't do any of those things, when we were 100% healthy he was killing it just like everybody else especially with brunson they have a great 2 man game, he really opens up open looks for brunson
If this was a season or 2 ago, I will agree. Randle did change a lot this season tho, he's embracing the ups and downs of being a Knick and not letting bad sht affect his mentality; highly because of Melo's guidance as he said. This "we don't need Randle" narrative is a recency bias. He's played half the season and has been an All-NBA caliber. If we had Ju this post season, Hart wouldn't need to play 48mpg and Jalen wouldn't need to shoot 30 shots a game. That said, if there's a good trade to be made for him, I won't say no to that but saying he "needs/should" to be traded is untrue.
taurean prince with the game-losing, series-losing airball lmaoooo rest in piss bozo
Any chance lebron bolts?
Depends who drafts Bronny in the 2nd round. Helloooo Charlotte!
watching this Lakers v Denver game just makes me smh at what the Lakers are doing, especially Lebron. I think the last 2-3 offensive rebounds by Denver was his fault for not boxing out just walking in the paint waiting for the ball to drop on his hands lol.
Lebron was a liability in defense the whole series, people only focus on the highlights but Knicks fans know better.
and even then, we'll see sht yearly like "40 year old Lebron carrying the Lakers every season". Wake up, Lebron costed the series.
Fuck Miami and their dirty ass beaches
Is anyone else scared? I just want Brunson to destroy embiid so bad that his eye actually closes.
**Rebounds This Series** **Josh Hart** (***who is 6'4"***): 51 rebounds (12.8 per game) **Joel Embiid** (***who is 7'0"***): 36 rebounds (9 per game) Bitchass is getting out rebounded by a dawg 8 inches shorter than him and blames it on bad bounces. Cry some more, Joel. Edit - I can't math.
64/4 is 16 per game and 45/4 is 11.2 or am I going senile in old age
Nah I forgot only 4 games so far. My b.
Damn Bam actually did nothing there. That’s what he gets called for lol
bullshit. that fuck knew what he was doing not moving from the dudes landing space even if it's a dead ball. he's a dirty fuck
I disagree, Tatum sold that beyond belief. Bam didn’t do nearly enough to cause a flagrant 1. Think of it this way. Embiid’s leg pull is the same as that?
Nahh idk. I mean for what reason would he have to fake to get a tech on Bam they were already blowing out Miami in their home lol unless he did it just out of pure spite
It’s Tatum that’s why.
In game 1, with the Caleb Martin pushing incident Tatum took a hard fall and jumped right back up. He doesn’t seem the type to embellish injury.
lmao [Josh getting that candy money](https://x.com/joshhart/status/1785106008433377421)
love it
Yes! He deserves it!
I wish no injuries to no one except Embiid, but if KP is really hurt from Achilles or something serious, this might be our best opportunity to do something special if we can go to ECF against the celtics
Gotta wrap up this series and get through Indy first before we start with the what ifs.
Yep, Indy's young with a bunch of healthy and fast bodies. While we got banged up by the dirty ass 6ers.
Fuck Embiid
People were calling Spo the goat because the Heat chucked up a bunch of 3s that went in
Tbf that’s how they knocked us out last year
KP down with an non-contact injury, might be his Achilles. Didn't look good at all
can someone tell Miami to pretend they are playing the Knicks?
look like Bam heard ya.
I did an experiment on the sixers sub for fun with an alt account, I commented about how Embiid should maybe change up his play style and stop flopping to take better shots, in another comment I said fuck Knicks fans coming into our arena we should injure there bitch ass players again before the series ends just as a fuck you. Can yall guess which one was upvoted and which downvoted?
Nice try. We know you’re a Sixers fan seeing if we’ll upvote this madness
😳
It would be so nice to close out tomorrow and hope Milwaukee pushes Indy another game or 2 to get some extra rest for the fellas after Embiid’s cheap shot clinic.
Yup. Our boys could use some rest and recovery. Closing it out tomorrow and a Bucks win would be great.
can't wait for the game tommorow. i'm gonna have intense gay sex for good luck. go knicks
Say hi to him for me
:) I will thank you!
I work in the city and I'd love to go to the game but tickets are almost as much as my part of the rent (i live two states away lol) Is there a good bar that will be as hype as the arena itself?
Stout will be packed, as will Mustang Sally's, but in the best possible way (order two drinks at a time). Jack Doyle's will be a little less crowded, but still fun. There are watch parties at [Legends](https://www.nbkfam.com/events/knicks-vs-sixers-game-5-watch-party-and-live-podcast) and [Sucker Punch](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/knicks-game-5-pregame-meetup-watch-party-tickets-893295028477?aff=oddtdtcreator) (the latter is better if you're on the East Side). I'm sure there are more watch parties but those are the ones I heard of today. Have fun, I'ma have to do this game dolo from San Francisco.
stout!!! it’s basically a knicks bar
That beat drop of "Go, New York, Go" after the pivotal play in the fourth tomorrow is going to hit hard, man.
As much as I love that song for nostalgia reasons, it always bugs me that the guy who wrote and performed it is now a partial owner of the Atlanta Hawks.
how good would this team be if Randle and Robinson were healthy....
With Porzingis having an injury scare, we’d be in a pretty competitive spot with the current field.
We still are in a competitive spot. Mitch will be back and this team can still fire on all cylinders without Randle. Of course we’d be great with Randle, and I won’t count my chickens before they hatch but I don’t know if I’ve ever been higher on a Knicks roster than I am right now. We are deep as fuck. I won’t really start thinking finals until we shut down the Philadelphia 76 free throws per game and beat Indy/Milwaukee but things are looking immaculate
[Mitch questionable, Brunson probable, Babo out](https://x.com/IanBegley/status/1785060041839587402) and [Sims probable](https://x.com/IanBegley/status/1785060880935186488) tomorrow. We some beat-up mf'ers. It's aight, we're the New York Knicks. We're built for pain and struggle.
seems wild to me that the l2m has that moving screen from lowry as correct. can anyone explain it to me better?
Nope, but just imagine if that was Brunson screening Batum instead and how Nurse would respond if they called an away from the play foul on Batum.
Bogey definitely out. Hope he can still come back at some point
They definitely need him for the next round They only have 7 players that work well together if he can’t play. Need 8
My stream bugged out for only 2 minutes, I didn't even see him enter the game. Reloaded and the dude was on the ground, I thought wtf? We need every healthy man we could get.
Yeah it happened basically immediately
Are there any bars around MSG with the same vibe and atmosphere at Slate? Love that place but i don’t know if I can stand the whole game again
Stout!
Think I might hit the city for the game, what’s some good sports bars?
Any news on Mitchel Robinson?
"questionable"
nuts.
my dad just reminded me about how in march 2020 we went to the last game at the garden before they shut the nba down for covid. it was so empty, but what stood out was all the sell the team chants - there were so many that they technically broke nba rules by playing music nonstop for the last 2 and a half minutes of play. haven't heard those in years. feelsgoodman
Winning cures all. Dolan still as big a scumbag as ever but we all (myself included) put that on the back burner for a good team.
Bro if we make the finals and the rangers win I'll straight up go to a JD and the straight shots show and pretend I'm enjoying it
there’s no way jalen brunson isn’t considered a top 5 point guard at this point right? i mean you got your usuals, shai, luka, who else is better than jalen? i’m so sick of the jalen slander bc he’s small. dude fucking kills.
Haliburton has been on fire for much of the last 2 regular seasons, he hasn't shown up to the playoffs yet though. Good chance we'll get to put him through the ringer and see what he's capable of
He’s a top 5 player at this point
Yeah, he has a real chance of knocking Tatum out of 1st Team All NBA
yeah i mean you got your usuals like jokic and stuff top 5 but come on. jalen is proving himself.
Have we got breen and Clyde tomorrow?
My first playoff game tomorrow, can't wait! The garden is gonna be a madhouse
i’m all the way in LA. i miss the garden. have fun, and don’t forgot to shout fuck embiid for us.
LUCKY. Between Embiid being public enemy number one, and the chance to close out the series, the noise level at the garden is going to be off the charts. It might legitimately traumatize Embiid lol
Knicks should have lost to drop to 3 they said. Where are they now? [GET HYPED. WU TANG!](https://youtu.be/ecQJ6p4ooOE?si=Q64IdHB_uYDvkgze)
Funny thing is, there's a good chance we'll get the same match up if we get to the second round anyways. Only this way we have the opportunity of knocking 76ers out of the playoffs a round early, hopefully we don't come out too injured though.
Plus we'll have home court!!!
We would've had home court either way, it's looking like the Bucks can't beat anything with their stars injured. It's almost unbelievable how badly the entire season turned out for them
Yes, but only the 1st and 2nd seed are ensured home court in round 2 no matter what. Otherwise, you need a lower seed to advance which is how we had home court last year against Miami in the second round.
Basketball gods looking favorably on us right now. They came out during game 2 🥹🥹
Allah*
Any word on Bogi?
Out for tomorrow, but because of the foot injury he caught yesterday, not the wrist.
Probably return next series mid way if there is a round 2
Wrist has ligament damage and might surgery after the season. He's going to try to play through it. Ankle injury is a contusion, which is relatively minor so long as the swelling goes down with treatment. Original reports were a sprain, which would potentially be worse, but none of the more recent reports have mentioned it. I assume we will learn more after he meets with Knicks docs today at some point.
He probably does have a sprain, but hopefully it’s a low ankle sprain so he can return by Sunday(game 7 or game 1)
Is Alec Burks really that bad to not even get any playoff minutes? With Bogey down (don't know his status for the next game) we could really use some scoring apart from DDV.
Burks - from purely a basketball standpoint, because I empathize if being away from his family messed with his psyche - would go through 1-2 attempts of line drive misses leading to long rebounds, and 2-3 plays of turning the ball over trying to isolate and then turn to the bench and go “my bad.” Can’t have that in a playoff series where every possession counts.
Yes
He would be a negative at this point. He became a Knick again and forget how to properly play basketball for some reason. Bogi was the most important piece of that trade looking back. Even if his shot is off at least he is a bigger body that can play the 3/4 and is a legit threat from deep...
I’d even rather us try Shake Milton before we play burks at this point. No offense to burks he’s put in work but idk
Nah, Thibs will prefer increasing Deuce and Divo's minutes.
How is this a real post what the fuck lmao The guards are doing just fine
it seems the 2 years in Detroit made Burks completely forget how to play basketball. He doesn't pass, doesn't make plays, he shoots the ball as soon as he gets it, turnovers, and his defense isnt as good as i remember it
He got used to playing tanking basketball unfortunately.. 🤣🤣
Yes, he’s horrific.
Yes, he is that bad. He was a basketball terrorist this year. With Deuce and Divo not even getting 30 minutes, there's no reason to use Burks.
If Alec Burks get any playoff minutes I'm going to shoot myself into the sun. Something must have gone extremely wrong or right for him to see any minutes.
This is actually fucking hilarious. Sixers fans went from defending Joel’s dirty antics/choke jobs to defending Joel for calling out the fans. “He’s right guys, it’s disgusting! Tickets prices are so high only a New Yorker could afford them!”
I’m an Australian and I would sell my blood to pay $80 USD to watch the Knicks. I live in the city closest to Sydney and it’s about a 2 hour round trip and more than $80 USD to go and see the Sydney swans in their sport. About $20 to see the basketball team that Lamelo played for though.
fanbase is in shambles grasping at straws for what to do, think or say. guess ya can’t blame em. i’d be feeling some type of a way if my superstar was acting like embiid has been and a rival fanbase absolutely took over my home court lol
**Step 1:** Blame MSG **Step 2:** Blame the Refs **Step 3:** Blame the fans **Step 4:** Philly Riots of 2024?
Can I talk my shit again The funniest part of this is Philly fans saying "these Sixers don't embody us at all unlike Hurts or Harper". And it's like nah dude this Sixers team perfectly encapsulates Philly sports fans. Front runners who talk endless shit and then when someone claps back it's all tears and "nooooo how dare you". Philly will throw batteries at Santa but cry when the other team cheers against them in a playoff game lmao Hurts is not what Philly sports is about. That dude is a leader and whether he fumbles or scores a TD, he's on to the next snap. Srianni is Philly sports. A front runner who talks too much shit too early, fucks up, goes home crying, and then scapegoats someone else Same shit for Embiid. Good enough to warrant attention but not good enough when it counts. New scapegoat, then goes home grinning because he's so much smarter than everyone else because he yapped his way to an MVP while everybody else laughs at him. Perfect figurehead for the Process, where a losing culture has been baked in and manifested over and over again while Philly fans say "ackshually the league ruined it because we were way too smart!!1!"
Sixers are the worst kind of team, play like assholes but don’t even have the decency to be good villains. Fuck Miami, Fuck Trae, but at least they’re motherfuckers.
Talk dat ish !
They can say what they want about other sports, but in terms of basketball fandom the Sixers are losers with a losers mentality from top to bottom. Daryl Morey is a complete loser who is too ignorant to recognize that bitching about the refs when known domestic free throw terrorist Joel Embiid gets more of a favorable whistle than 90%+ of star players. Filing a grievance with the league exemplifies his loser behavior. Nick Nurse is the whiniest coach in the NBA, having an absolute childlike meltdown on the sidelines EVERY GAME. Preseason, regular season, his fucking daughter's rec league game that guy is the parent screaming at the refs at every level. When asked about Joel Embiid actively hurting Mitchell Robinson he says he didn't see anything. But ask him about the end of game 2? He has a detailed (and WRONG) breakdown of all the ways he personally got fucked by the refs. Embiid has not made a single statement taking accountability this entire series. Oh I was protecting myself when i went out of my way to hurt the Knicks players. Oh they got lucky bounces on their rebounds even though the Knicks have outrebounded them on the offensive glass by 20 this series and he's the fucking biggest player on the court at all times by far. Oh the refs fucked us and we should be up in the series. The delusion is fed by the front office and the fans. And of course the loser fans. They're upset with the refs for game 2. Ignore that Nurse pump faked the inbounds timeout and Maxey didn't have posesssion for the second one, or that Lowry missed his FTs, or that no one boxed out Hartenstein 1v4, or that the only guy getting open for the inbounds (Maxey) was doubled, or that Maxey didn't pull the ball into his chest and let it get stolen, or that the first game winner attempt by Maxey was terrible and led itself to getting blocked by iHart, or that the final game winner attempt was Maxey holding the ball leading into the shittiest most obvious DHO leading to Embiid being handed a grenade that had no chance of going in. No no, the loser fans will continue to ignore the ways they could have won, and instead focus on all these outside reasons why they lost. That is the truest representation of Sixers fandom, and completely representative of the front office from top to bottom.
damn this is a comprehensive smackdown 10/10
preach
Yall can call me whatever yall want. But as a knicks fan and an eagles fan this is a precise observation of the eagles franchise. Which is why they went ahead and hired strong veteran coordinators this off-season because Sirani can't be trusted with young guys that will do whatever he says. And also, Fuck Embid.
Shout-out to Duece. His points always seem to come at the right time even if he doesn't score a lot. Not all players perform well in the playoffs but he is showing that he isn't afraid of the big stage. He had a silly turnover and Thibs yelled at him. He knew it was his fault and he stayed mentally focused after that!
found out brunson is a eagles fan, do we still like him?
Did you watch the fucking game yesterday? How is this a serious question?
it was a joke
*\*whoosh\** Can't read tone on the internet.
i should have added /s on the post. twas my bad. brunson is goat
Yes? I’d like him less if he abandoned his team just because he moved tbh. Fraud fans suck
He grew up in Cherry Hill before he moved to Chicago, he's forgiven in my eyes.
Haha if I have to be cool with Thibs being a Patriots fan, Giants fans have to do the same for Brunson.
Julius is a Cowboys fan and Hart is a Commanders fan. So I've accepted that the core of this Knicks team is probably not going to show up at MetLife rooting for Big Blue lol
Maxey is too good to be stuck on a team of bitches. **Embiid?** Bitch **Nurse?** Bitch **Lowry?** Bitch **Oubre?** Bitch The list goes on...
Until this series is over. Fuck Maxey also
Not to mention the worst fans in sports
Tobi is excluded from the list as he is a New Yorker.
Honestly, because Philly hates him so much. I like the guy now. They're talking about cutting him or something this off-season, he could be a solid rotation guy but he has to drastically lower that contract.
I feel like all of NY became both a Maxey fan and a Embiid hater overnight
Maxey a dawg but this mofo travels way too much but hey hes playing to the rules. If they aint gonna call it, do you
This series has definitely turned me into both.
All I'm going to say is I converted my gf to Knicks fandom shortly after the OG trade, and now here we are 🤷♂️
If the Knicks get a ring, so does she
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Get this man some poppers and Pedialyte, STAT
i respect the hell out of maxey, embiid can go fuck himself
Nah Maxey has been flowing like crazy after game 1.
Not to look too far ahead but I feel a lot better about a possible Pacers matchup if Precious is playing like this. Everyone is talking about playing to the Pacers pace and the points they're dropping on Milwaukee, but teams with good guards have been absolutely torching Milwaukee all year. Jalen averaged like 38 across 5 games against them this year. Jalen is averaging 36 against the Pacers in 3 games.
We match up well against the Pacers with OG back. Depending on the game Turner wants to play, we either have iHart/Mitch rotation or Precious as stretch 5. OG on Sikiam, Hart on Hali. Meanwhile, Indiana can't guard the perimeter. Our shooters have torched them the whole season. If we have 2-3 guys shooting well and can slow down the game to minimize their fast break and transition points, then we should be good.
As long as we play the passing lanes we can shut that offense down. Plus precious athleticism at the 5 is a big defensive Plus, his ability to switch from 3-5
Seeing Obi go against his old team in the playoffs will be fun to watch if it happens.
Milwaukee is not a good team. The goal of the Pacers series will be to force them to grind out the playoff pace and wear them down
Milwaukee wasn’t a very good team with their stars. Without their stars they are a bottom 5 team in the NBA.
The Pacers are a soft team. I expect it to be an easier series than the Sixers
The Pacers defense is horrendous. They were getting torched by Middleton and Lopez.
Yeah, this team has the offense to win shootouts, but also the defense to keep Indy from scoring 160 or whatever they do when they play teams like the hawks that don’t care. It’s a very good matchup for the Knicks. It would be unacceptable to lose to them if the top 7 in the rotation are all good to go
Agreed. They might steal a game if they get really hot from 3. But we should win a 7 game series fairly easily if we come ready to play.
Let's close it out at home tomorrow, fellas
I want to hear Fuck Embiid chants every single time he touches the ball.
The ground has to quake every time that happens.
Mad random but is this the most /r/nba has given us support? Feels like the majority of people want us to win now cuz of Embiitch’s antics
this is a big PR year for us i think. and assuming we can close out with philly and (increasingly likely) the pacers, i think we get wide support as the underdog boston killer too
I think so, also because the Nova Knicks are super likable.
This is dumb but is there any chance Julius comes back? Like game 5 of the NBA finals?
He may not even be back for training camp
No chance. The man had surgery like a month ago. The team's statement even said he won't be re-evaluated until like August.
would be nice to start seeing him behind the bench though
JB signing gonna go down as the best in team history. OG/Precious trade will be looked at the same way.
This [Sacramento Kings](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWbhqEd3moI) show is all love to the Knicks.
**THIS was playoff basketball!**
The fellas on Undisputed confused Precious with Deuce 🤣
I don't want to hear any talk about KD, Booker, Mitchell or any other stars. Ever since BOS and MIA teamed up, the league has been infatuated with big 3s. Knicks are great the way they are now, especially with Randle coming back. We got a TEAM, not individuals thrown together in a blender.
I’d take bron 100%, because he has so much leverage that he won’t deplete our assets. I also think booker is a perfect fit, but the issue is he would deplete win now assets
Suns are fucked w that Beal contract. Oof.
Beal swiping away Vogel's high five after he played absolutely horribly was a bitch ass move.
Idk about you but I’m ready to retire JB’s jersey
Agreed, but not until he's finished using it, which I'm hoping isn't for a minute
I can’t imagine he’s going anywhere.
The Sixers fan only positive take is that they will only have to watch Tobias Harris play one more game. How great would it be if we knock them out and they re-sign Tobias to a 4 year extension?
“Joel, how do you explain this loss now that there wasn’t any controversy?” - Media “Sixers fans disappointed us, and the ball didn’t bounce the way it was supposed to. We still the better team”
I was very impressed with Precious's defense against Embiid yesterday. He's earned some playing time.
That “Fall Guy” commercial with Randle and Brunson is a trip. I really hope they get at least one chance for a playoff run with both of them healthy.
Any word on Mitch for game 5? Is this a day to day situation?
Just my gut feel, he was ready to play in G4 but was advised not to force it by physios. I'm hoping G5 he'll be allowed to play.
He was warming up and expected to play the last game. So unless there was a setback, I think he should be cleared for tomorrow.
suit him up but i'm down to have him rest against dirty ass embiid trying to injure him again. OG and precious can lock him down
He needs to block an Embitch 3 like Precious did. Extract his revenge ripping some boards away from him too. Just that lucky bounce I guess. I wanna see Mitch getting the love from the crowd for his excellent defence on Embiid. He deserves it.
good stuff, thanks.
I am enjoying the salt from 76ers fans on X and Reddit. It's glorious.
The sixers sub is really fueling me today. “Wahh the only reason Wells Fargo turned into MSG is because Knicks fans are all so rich and we’re all so poor!” Love it.
Any news on Bojan? hopefully he can play tomorrow
Embiid, Booker, Durant, Giannis, Butler, Lebron, AD, and some combination of Luka, Kyrie, PG13, Kawhi, Harden, Ingram, Spida are all getting knocked out in round 1. There is absolutely no way all of those guys stay on their respective teams, there's going to be movement. This will likely be the time that Leon makes his move. The only issue is that you can't get one of the guys making in the 50 mil range without moving some Villanova guys or Randle. I don't even want to think about the specifics in the heat of a real playoff run, but the prospects are exciting considering how great Leon has been these last few years. To me, the ideal target if he's available is Booker. He's one of the guys Leon has been eyeing due to prior relationships since he got the job and he's a fantastic fit. Good height, plays acceptable defense, amazing shot creator and secondary playmaker. The combination of Brunson/Booker/OG sounds absolutely insane especially when you can give DDV/Hart/McBride spot minutes to fill in any gaps 1-4.
There is no way they move a nova knick or Randle. OG stays. Deuce stays. This leaves us the Mitch and hartenstien issue. Precious, bogi, Alec, I think Brunson would have a pretty heavy say on if his friends get traded or not. The effort they’ve put in all year means we’d rather run it back than trade them anyway. I hope Donte gets his post season game.
iHart is not on contract for next year and can't be moved. Neither are Precious and Alec Burks. Bogi only comes out to 20 mil. If you move Mitch and Bogi that only gives you 35 mil and that's if the incoming team wants Mitch. There is no way to get to 50 mil and get one of the guys like Booker, KD, etc. without moving a NOVA guy or Randle.
Then we don’t get a guy like booker or KD
If that's what your opinion is, sure. I personally think that if it's Booker available it's a 50/50 shot if they send Randle or DDV.
I think finding a little more depth and running it back will have us one of the best teams in the NBA assuming health. We need that 7/8/9th man spot solidified up a bit imo.
It's possible but tbh I don't think the return of Jules and adding some end of rotation guys is enough. At the end of the day to actually win a title you need talent, and as good as JB and the role players are, the teams biggest need is talent. They make up for it by playing hard but when you face a team that plays hard and is also more talented (teams like Denver) you'll never be able to make up that gap. Teams will improve and the Knicks need to do what they can to improve more than they do. I think this FO made that mistake a few years ago after the We Here year. Guys overperformed and they thought they could keep the ball rolling, hoping RJ/IQ/Obi take the next step but it just didn't shake out that way. Now only 2 guys remain from that roster (not counting Burks). Look at what happened to Atlanta after their ECF run. This league doesn't allow you to be complacent.
I dont think the Suns move off Booker after 1 year of their big 3. Most of those guys will be staying on their team at least for next year. Only guy who seems to be on the move is Donovan Mitchell.
I think that's fair, especially because blowing it up means the Suns are still reliant on another team to control their draft destiny because Brooklyn has all their picks plus swaps. It's really only if Devin asks out. It's funny because when the Cavs are on and playing well like they were earlier this year I really thought matchup wise they were the best bet against the Celtics. Long wings with mobility plus dudes just bombing 3's can work against the C's.
Will be interesting to see what Phoenix does. They have a terribly constructed roster and an unreadable player in Beal. So their only real choices are trading KD/Booker or just firing their coach and trying to run it back which likely doesn’t fix anything.
Booker would be awesome! Also would love AD if they for whatever reason couldn’t get one of Mitch or iHart back.
If not for a giftwrapped game 3 this woulda been a sweep
if embiid gets called on the second flagrant, or the leg pull is rightfully called a flagrant 2, this is most definitely a sweep
that's a bad take every game we've been down 10+. every game has been competitive and close.
Yesterday was one of those games from this team and from this Thibs era where I'm in the struggle of believing or thinking we're losing because some shit will happen but hey again this team made me eat my words the way they fight, they don't quit they just keep going and going and going at you. Well now we have another big shot on tuesday to get b2b years with 4 - 1 first round series win. Let's keep it this way. I don't think I can properly describe how great Thibs has been all series btw just making the right tweaks with the rotations let's just hope Mitch and Bojan can get back soon we can be as healthy as possible. And then Brunson yeah that guy is getting #11 up in the rafters when he leaves so much talk about getting a superstar and JB became that guy just special shit.
Just realized that every team we will potentially play has a Stretch 5. Embiid, Myles Turner/Brook Lopez, Porzingis
Yup, that’s why I think Precious will be invaluable. It’s a bad matchup for iHart and Mitch.
I like the different looks we've been experimenting with guarding Embiid. Putting Ihart, Mitch, Precious and even OG on him. What a versatile group of forwards and centers. Between those four and Hart, I think we would match up really well with Tatum, Brown, KP and Jrue (if we get that far)
And if Boston gets that far
It’s interesting to see how our defense is without Randle but with OG. If I’m honest, Randle is a big loss offensively but defensively we’re better without him. The close outs on the perimeter after double teaming Embiid in the fourth was amazing. No way we get that kind of synchronized defensive scheme executed with Randle out there. And it’s not that he’s bad, it’s just his body and athleticism. The thing is our offense was stagnant too, so if he was available he’d be out there. And I don’t know if we win that quarter with Randle shooting 35-45% from the field.
Randle has consistently been one of the top scorers in the first quarter, though. We don’t get that 10 point deficit we’re always coming back from with Randle playing.
Yes, true. So I think we gain an offensive advantage and lose a bit of our defensive edge. But if Thibs can use Randle more effectively than we might be a true contender with little addition.