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Total Members Voted: 3

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

[bodiddley]

Knix 2-24 on 3's, yet have a 2 point 3Q lead.

Both teams with feculent offenses.

Alex Len with 50% more made 3's than the whole Knicks team!

[kidcarter8]

Thibs went a lonnnnnng time with this unit

[bodiddley]

Yikes, slipping away.
14 point deficit with 5:30 left.

Knick starters 0-19 on 3's.
Wonder what the record is?

0-21 for the starting unit.
9% for the team.  Oh & well.

Kind of what I was saying that the Knicks have been unnaturally hot from 3; and Cavs & Bucks were off.

Well, sometimes best to get all your misses out in one game.
And some credit for hanging in a game in which they were shooting so poorly.
Also credit to Rivers for providing a spark in his first game back.
He could be a key guy as he has handles/ball moving ability.
To help our weak PG's and lighten Randle's load.

[facilitatorn]

Len solved us for the Raps & we had no counter. Hard fought for almost 40 minutes on the worst shooting night I can remember. A lot were on good looks that went 1/2 way down. Indy up next. The hard tests continue to start our season.

While we really missed Burks tonight (though not as much as the Raps missed Siakam), Rivers showed us he deserves to be part of the conversation going forward.

[Jerrya]

What do we do with Barrett?  0 for 21 in 3's.  He's not a shooter.  When good shooters have off nights, their shots are in the ball park  but when he misses they are truly klunkers with no touch on the ball.

Sometimes he won't even hit the rim and worse yet he will throw up air balls.  These are not signs of a cold night just a bad shooter. Don't know if his rebounding, defense, or going to the hoop can overcome his lack of outside presence.

[bodiddley]

Jerrya, did you make a Win predication?
I don't have yours.
Not to late to take a guess ....

If we're going forward with RJB, Randle & Mitch, it's imperative to bring in a 3&D SF.  And that's probably equally true for RJB & ObiT/Mitch.
You also want a PG who can hit from outside.
Gotta add shooters.

RJB more of a driver/slasher than shooter.  He would seem to have tools to become a solid defender, once he gains experience.  RJB is mostly a hustle/energy guy for now.  Streaky like many young guys.  His on in ON, his off is OFF.

[Jerrya]

Jerrya, did you make a Win predication?
I don't have yours.
Not to late to take a guess ....

I don't think I put anything here but I did make a small wager on over 23.5

[Jerrya]

Jerrya, did you make a Win predication?
I don't have yours.
Not to late to take a guess ....

 
I don't think I put anything here but I did make a small wager on over 23.5

[chipstern]

Confounding

D

Check

Slashing & Driving

Check

Passing & Facilitating

Check

FT Shooting Has Improved Significantly

2019-2020 [56 games, 156-254, .618%]; 2020-2021 [5 games, 18-23, .783%]

3-Point Shooting

2019-2020 [56 games, 63-197, .320%]; 2020-2021 [5 games, 3-24. .125%]

Yikes, and that's 21 straight misses after 3-3 on opening night.   

Abdul Rauf?

Saint Jude is more like it. 

Curiouser & Curiouser.

Wonder what the Knicks had for their pre-game meal. 

As a team, they were 3-36 from trey, yet 29-52 from the deuce.  Knox was 2-8 [6 boards], Rivers 1-4 [5 assists].

Raptors were 17-52 from trey, and 17-31 from the deuce. 

Pretty even through most of three quarters. 

But their zone gave us fits.  Stay tuned.  Journey to Indiana tomorrow.  Good test, to be sure. 

People talking about Thibs' short rotation?

[Cough]

IR: Quickley, Burks, Spellman, Ntilikina, Smith, Toppin   

Randle had 16-10-5 in 38 minutes.  Missed all four of his treys, but 7-8 from the stripe.  Sure hope Spellman is ambulatory soon in advance of Obi.  We need so bring Julius down to more like 30 minutes. 

Likewise RJ with 37 minutes. 

With Rivers on board, and looking ready to contribute, Quickley & Burks on deck, slice 7-10 minutes off of RJ.  Likewise Bullock, who played 38 last night. 

Be interesting to see how Thibs has our walking wounded playing against the Pacers, an even tougher challenge then the Raptors.  Sabonis had a Nikola like stat line last night against the Cavs [25-11-7, 10-14, 2-2 trey, 3-3 FT].  Speaking of the shooters we need/could use, remember we traded McDernmott for Mudiay.  Last night he was 6-13, 3-6 trey, with 9 boards.  Should get more burn with TJ out for the year.  Olidiapo was 16-4-8.  Tough match up for our Nicked Up Knicks. 

[kidcarter8]

Biggest missing piece is obviously Burks

Will be interesting to see how he gels with Rivers

Yes, Thibs has a decision with the Barrett minutes.  Most likely they stay pretty high - but as a coach, do you ever start dissuading the 3 point effort?

[bankshot1]

Happy New Year gents

[kidcarter8]

Toppin out another 6 games, minimum

We will get a longer glimpse at the small lineups with Knox at the 4.

Was nice to see his early success in last night's game but in the end it was more of the same from KK.

Making more 3s does make him more dealable, I guess.  As to contributing to wins, we need consistency.

[carlos123]

Happy New Year gents

Thank you Bank.

Ditto

[Jerrya]

Biggest missing piece is obviously Burks

Will be interesting to see how he gels with Rivers

Yes, Thibs has a decision with the Barrett minutes.  Most likely they stay pretty high - but as a coach, do you ever start dissuading the 3 point effort?

Great points...this might tell us a lot if Thibs is the right guy to turn us around.

[bankshot1]

I don't know if there are any Bill Simmons fans here, but he's did a great podcast with Jackie Mac and Bob Ryan (the best ever NBA writer) talking about the NBA old and new and its pretty good.

https://www.theringer.com/the-bill-simmons-podcast/2020/12/30/22205944/week-1-nba-notes-plus-nba-then-and-now-with-jackie-macmullan-and-bob-ryan

Simmons opens with about 25 minutes of his take on wk 1 NBA and mentions my newest bestie, and the guy kid has never seen play but has a hot take all ready to go, Payton Prichard. PP gets some Sportsguy love.

Ryan's early story of taking a $0.25 trolley ride to the Garden, while a student at BC, to sit in the $2 Gaaahden cheap seat, to see Wilt (Bob was a Philly fan until he saw the light) mirrored my experience in the 60s.

it brought a smile.

Remind me later to tell you my Wilt story.