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Total Members Voted: 3

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

[facilitatorn]

Oh crap. We caught the Nyets.

[chipstern]

[luee]

What happened to mud? He has taken a quantum leap this year. Shooting is up to 47% from the  mid30s. He is a completely different, much better, player from even last year. Yes there might be hope for franky. Looks as though the knix finally got it right on a kiddy training coach.

[chipstern]

are you looking at the stats?

knock down what?

bowling pins?

You can't be serious.


Afraid so. 

[chipstern]

Mud makes an awkward pass to Vonleh which gets batted away right back to Mud who makes a layup.  Thereafter Mud decides he's hot and starts canning jumpers and 3's.  I don't think Bucks minded Mud taking clutch 3's, and they defended him well, and he knocked them down.  Mud's best game as a Knick?
Franc - DNP; Burke Uno Minuto.

I've been wondering if all of our Points need Big Minutes to impact a game.  Franc seems to play better when he gets closer to 30 mins.  Mud too.  Burke seems to do better with long stretches, until he gets winded (he plays at a high tempo).
Something to think about.

Anyway, great game. 
Lopez should have knocked down 2 FT's to send it to 2OT.
And Anti-Greek got the 2nd rebound but couldn't hold the ball cleanly. Probably rushed because of the minimal time left.

I was a bit nervous about Kornet out there to rebound.  I don't like bringing in a guy cold for a key moment, especially a real young guy.  but it turned out Giannis slithered around our main boarder, Kanter.
 
Wonder why Middleton didn't play 4Q & OT.  He's kind of a Knick killer. 

Knix really looked like a team on both ends.
Really enjoyed Vonleh's grit.
And Tim willing to defer when Mud was hot and Tim was off.
Lotta up and down from Tim.
Tim's in a regularly scheduled Tim shooting slump, but doing some other things.

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[bankshot1]

didn't see the game but good game for yous guys last night.

Garden musta rocked.

[thebizneverloses]

Was a thriller. I was getting all cozy ready to rationalise a soak in a low double digit loss as some sort of moral victory, and then Mudiay happened.

How fantastic was Vonleh, btw? You won't get the whole story from the box score.

Franc being a DNP in a game where Burke couldn't play tells a lot. The coaching staff do not view him, at this point, as a point guard, preferring to run THJr and IsoZo out of position (neither looked their best while playing point; they're both good playmakers but better when the responsibility isn't setting everyone else up).

Now I'd rather see Franc than Subpar out there for those wing minutes, but Fiz isn't going to keep him nailed to the bench for long.

Still, as I said before the season, we have more players who are interesting than minutes to dole out, a conundrum that would be simpler if we were more focussed on winning than development.

Bud and Fiz were my top two choices for us last spring, btw. Great coaches both, but I think Bud is better with a more advanced team, and Fiz a nice fit with these kids.

[Kam]

OT, 40 seconds left, Giannis shooting 60% for the game has the ball facing up, then backing down Mitchell in the paint, Mitch (with 5 fouls) defends him perfectly for the miss.  Next possession Erick Bledsoe, also shooting 60% for the game drives to the cup for the layup and Mitchell's intimidation causes Bledsoe to go up weak and get his shot blocked leading to the scrum fighting for the loose ball causing the jump ball preceeding Lopez's missed FTs.

[bodiddley]

Vonleh worked hard on D.
But there was one mid-4Q play where Vonleh got the ball on the wing around the 3-point line, started his drive, a defender came over and Von did a hesitation like he was going to pass or pull up to shoot, froze the defender, and then continued in for a layup.  Beautiful.  I didn't know he had such a move.

That game was the loudest I've heard The Garden in quite some time.

I think Bled fumbled the ball and that's why he got an awkward shot up that was easily blocked.

Caught a bunch of the Celts game.
Both BOS & MIN looked disjointed at times.
Haywire had a terrific game.  Canning 3's, drives, everything.
Kyrie was pretty silent.  As was Wiggins for Minny.
Smart just makes plays.

I thought Tatum was being underused.
One possession, Horford got 4 touches.  While Tatum got 1 touch on 4 possessions.  There were consecutive possessions where Tatum had Tyus Jones and then Kyrie on him and the Celts didn't get him the ball.  But then Tatum was more involved in the 4Q.  Often seems he doesn't get the ball much, so when he does he feels obligated to make something happen.  So he tends to force the issue.
Btw, Horford still looks a little chunky and a half-step slow to me.

[lesterluv]

Why did they hide this game at 5 p.m. in the afternoon with me forgetting to set my DVR?

[Kam]

I think Bled fumbled the ball and that's why he got an awkward shot up that was easily blocked.

I credit the fumble to the intimidating presence of a genuine shot blocker.  I don't think he necessarily fumbles vs. a Kanter for instance.

[bodiddley]

I dunno.
Anti-Greek fumbled the last OT ball against Kanter

[bankshot1]

I thought other than a 2-3 minute stretch in the 4th qtr, Celts played a pretty well, and was generally in control over a decent team. It was a legit 10 point game.

there was good ball movement, and a flow that has been getting better the last few games.

Gordo was terrific and played by far his best game. He's been getting better the last week or so, but while the points weren't there the boards and smart passing was there. Last night he was more willing to take his shot and was hitting.

Smart is a handful, he made one play last night, that was pure basketball porn, Played harassing D, anticipated a pass, stole the ball, made a blind over the shoulder pass while on his ass facing the other way to a breaking Tatum, who passed to KI who return ally ooped to Tatum.

Pure hoop porn.

[bodiddley]

Both teams looked bad 1Q.
After that it was a game of runs.
Lots of 10-1 scoring stretches.
Where one team looked good and the other flat.

[facilitatorn]

There is something to be said for no dribble fast breaks. About time the Celtics started to get their act together.

With all the runs in the Knicks-Bucks game, it’s nice to see we didn’t implode and go passive.

We pass the Wiz in the standings if we beat them on Monday.