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Total Members Voted: 3

Voting closed: June 13, 2022, 11:38:11 PM

[lesterluv]

What was that Drifters song?

If this old world starts getting you down,
There's room enough for two,
Up on the roo-oo-oof

Only room for one in HK.

When Chan, a Hong Kong construction worker, tested positive for the coronavirus, he had nowhere to go. For 16 days, Chan, who asked that only his last name be used out of embarrassment, followed the citys mandatory self-isolation policy, living on the roof of the building in a steady drizzle amid unseasonably cold temperatures. He ate instant noodles and defecated in plastic bags. He slept in three jackets and two trousers with a blanket dampened by the rain seeping under the rooftop door. He said he often woke from a dream that he was naked and freezing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/23/hong-kong-covid-quarantine-vulnerable-people/

We entering total fail territory here...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/24/hong-kong-to-allow-in-doctors-from-mainland-china-as-covid-cases-overwhelm-hospitals

But no matter...

尼克斯今晚复出！



*** Citizens in Chuntianping have been warned to carry disposable defecation sacks in case they are "urgently isolated" for more than 48 hours in locations without proper restroom facilities

你不能编造这个狗屎，除非我编造了！

[chipstern]

Thibs didn't even need a single game.

Just a practice.

Rose having ANOTHER ankle procedure.

Deuce?

Nah.

Burks & Quckley, it says here

Book it, New York. 

[kiidcarter8]

I said Rose wont be back.  Have to listen.

[carlos123]

I said Rose wont be back.  Have to listen.

When?

- Rest in peace, Ashley Babbitt 1/6/21 - ChamAAco Cartero
*** Mike Byrd said, "Bitch, you ain't getting into this house." BAM!*** Les my good doggie 🐶

[kiidcarter8]

I have Miami as second favorite in East

Tonight we get a glimpse of that prowess.

And Sunday we get number 1

[chipstern]

Burks

This season our point guard is averaging 2.6 assists with a .382 shooting percentage based on 8.6 FGA per game in roughly 26 minutes a night.   

Quickley

This season our point guard is averaging 3.0 assists with a .369 shooting percentage based on 8.4 attempts per game in roughly 21 minutes a night. 

Quick's FT% is .914 but whereas he made 2.7 attempts a game last season, this season he is down to 1.7 attempts. 

Last night Thibs tossed Deuce two minutes at the end of the first half. 

ROSE

This season, averaging 24.5 minutes a night over 26 games, Rose's FG% was .445, with a .402 3-Point % and 4.0 assists per game.  He didn't get to the FT line a lot, but, canned 30-31 shots. 

In his absence, and given Thibs' stubborn insistence that Burks & Quickley are our best PG options, the team has no pace, limited movement, an over-reliance on three point shots. 

Of The Teams Who Are Presently Lottery Bound

Washington 27-37
New York 25-35
Portland 25-35
San Antonio 24-36
New Orleans 24-36
Sacramento  22-39
Indiana 20-41
Oklahoma City 19-41
Houston 15-44
Detroit 14-45
Orlando 14-47

If memory serves, we lost to Orlando twice.  Lost to OKC twice.  Lost to Indiana twice.  Lost to Portland.  Lost to Washington.  Lost to New Orleans. 

Our only +/- PLUSSES Last Night, were, ironically, Randle with a +5 and McBride with a +4. 

RJ [-3] was awesome with 46 points, and played like a leader.  His FT shooting was again confounding, getting to the line a remarkable 22 times but missing 8 attempts, which is a .636%

Two in a row with Philly beginning Sunday, as we consecrate our PlayIn Push. 

SIGH

[facilitatorn]

I think we can dip down to the Indiana-OKC level and be in a scrap for positions 4, 5, and 6 pre-lottery.

[elephant]

Burks

This season our point guard is averaging 2.6 assists with a .382 shooting percentage based on 8.6 FGA per game in roughly 26 minutes a night.   

Quickley

This season our point guard is averaging 3.0 assists with a .369 shooting percentage based on 8.4 attempts per game in roughly 21 minutes a night. 

Quick's FT% is .914 but whereas he made 2.7 attempts a game last season, this season he is down to 1.7 attempts. 

Last night Thibs tossed Deuce two minutes at the end of the first half. 

ROSE

This season, averaging 24.5 minutes a night over 26 games, Rose's FG% was .445, with a .402 3-Point % and 4.0 assists per game.  He didn't get to the FT line a lot, but, canned 30-31 shots. 

In his absence, and given Thibs' stubborn insistence that Burks & Quickley are our best PG options, the team has no pace, limited movement, an over-reliance on three point shots. 

Yep. This shit deserves to be pointed out again and again. It's dispiriting to see Burks used this way. And while no one is saying McBride is the answer, there's no justification to keeping him out of the game.

That game yesterday was depressing, because it told us everything about both teams that we already know.

Grimes' injury was added pain.

[chipstern]

Burks

This season our point guard is averaging 2.6 assists with a .382 shooting percentage based on 8.6 FGA per game in roughly 26 minutes a night.   

Quickley

This season our point guard is averaging 3.0 assists with a .369 shooting percentage based on 8.4 attempts per game in roughly 21 minutes a night. 

Quick's FT% is .914 but whereas he made 2.7 attempts a game last season, this season he is down to 1.7 attempts. 

Last night Thibs tossed Deuce two minutes at the end of the first half. 

ROSE

This season, averaging 24.5 minutes a night over 26 games, Rose's FG% was .445, with a .402 3-Point % and 4.0 assists per game.  He didn't get to the FT line a lot, but, canned 30-31 shots. 

In his absence, and given Thibs' stubborn insistence that Burks & Quickley are our best PG options, the team has no pace, limited movement, an over-reliance on three point shots. 

Yep. This shit deserves to be pointed out again and again. It's dispiriting to see Burks used this way. And while no one is saying McBride is the answer, there's no justification to keeping him out of the game.

That game yesterday was depressing, because it told us everything about both teams that we already know.

Grimes' injury was added pain.

IQ showed promise last year playing off the ball with Rose. 

Burks was an effective sixth man, setting screens, rolling to open spots for jumpers, cutting to the rack and finishing. 

Thibs tasking them to be facilitators is a denial of reality. 

To echo the PackI-Derm's points, no one is suggesting that Deuce McBride is the second coming of Ja Morant, but he is a tenacious competitor, a defensive gadfly, and A TRUE POINT GUARD. 

Given, the impressive numbers he has racked up against G-League competition do not necessarily translate to the NBA, but in the one game where he was actually empowered to run the offense for real minutes, Deuce had 15 points, NINE FUCKING ASSISTS, and 4 steals. 

I believe that someone once said that the operative definition of insanity, is making the same mistake over and over and over again, with the expectation of different results. 

Tom Thidodeau, please pick up the hospitality phone.

PS: The notion that Kemba is going to spend the spring and summer rehabbing with an eye towards next season, let alone pencilling in Rose, when McBride's development is being squandered, and Rokas Jokubaitis projects to sit next to Deuce on the bench, in the event he should sign, because TT likes veterans and possesses a curious loyalty to some players and an inexplicable disdain towards others...well...

PPS: As per Facil and Jeff Van Gundy.  The illusion that the PlayIn is either a tenable or a desirable goal, given the calcified state of the roster and/or our static, tried and untrue offensive approach, does not bode well for next season.  As JVG suggested, it advances the grand illusion that we are better than we actually are. 

PPPS: Meanwhile, as per Stan Van Gundy, the conceit of Knicks management, Knicks media, Knicks fans, that we are in play for the next free agent, or that WE SHOULD MAKE A RUN AT ZION, presupposing that we have any shot, or that we are once again hitching our horse to a false flag, let alone a bloated, woefully overweight, congenitally injured FLAWED SAVIOR, well...

PPPPS: TO BE A KNICKS FAN IS TO SUFFER. 

[kidcarter8]

Yep. This shit deserves to be pointed out again and again. It's dispiriting to see Burks used this way. And while no one is saying McBride is the answer, there's no justification to keeping him out of the game.


I think the justification on McBride is that NYK had a plan and are sticking to it.  If McBride is doing well that is enough of a justification of how he is being handled.  Ditto Grimes who was seen as more NBA ready.

Knicks getting 8 at home.  Indy getting the same at home vs Boston.  Looking like a nice juicy away team parlay.

[elephant]

2nd quarter just screams for McBride. So many of the Knicks turnovers stem from lack of direction. In a game where Thibs starts Simms and sees him get 10 rebounds or something in the first quarter (he got his hand on everything), why can't we see something at the point position?

[chipstern]

2nd quarter just screams for McBride. So many of the Knicks turnovers stem from lack of direction. In a game where Thibs starts Simms and sees him get 10 rebounds or something in the first quarter (he got his hand on everything), why can't we see something at the point position?

Sigh

His obsession with Burks is astonishing

[chipstern]

Ironically

Thibs obsession with Alec at the point?

Completely obviates his strengths as an offensive option.

[chipstern]

Julius with one of his patented jump in the air without a Plan B Passes

[elephant]

Ironically

Thibs obsession with Alec at the point?

Completely obviates his strengths as an offensive option.

It's getting harder to remember that Burks was an incredibly impactful player for us last year. Won many a game with the 2nd unit. Dynamic, surprising, versatile. Now he's often reduced to something dull and generic.