Rose has been amazing. It's wild how some aging athletes learn to compensate.
When you have a game where the Knicks have THREE guards playing well — and when was the last time that happened — we're not fucking bad.
BTW, IQ again showing his knack for making buckets when we need them.
For me, there's a real pleasure in seeing OBI coming around little by little...not too fast...but coming around indeed.
A little love for Kevin Knox too in GarBaaage Time. Kid was not going to let this cameo go to waste.
Off the bench, makes a steal, pass to Quickly, runs the floor, IQ lobs him the rock in transition, MonSter Jam.
Runs the floor, sets in the half court, and as Obi makes a back cut on the base line, KK leads him with a perfect lob--
Dinosaur Jam.
Speaking of which, with Mitch out, Obi sees his minutes increase. With DR on board in tandem with IQ in a suddenly resurgent second unit with Taj-Obi-Burks-IQ-DR, Obi getting the ball where he can work the low post, and do back cuts on the base line with a reasonable expectation that someone will see him. Oh, and after two terrible three point bricks yesterday, UFOs that alighted about a foot to the left of the rim, Obi nailed a sweet three from the corner.
Oh, and speaking of nailing open threes, every time Elfrid nails one, an angel gets its wings, and Dawg has a shit coniption. Elf took one and made one yesterday. Sorry Dawg. As you were. Oh, and to Anti-Vaxxers and Anti-Elfrids alike, who wish to toss Elfrd under the bus.
THIBS LIKEY, and has a rotation which makes him HAPPY, as in, we only lost by two to conference finalist Miami in a game where the refs fucked Thibs up the ass without the common courtesy to give Coach a reach around.
Rose was not brought in to play Randle minutes. He is 32 and has come back from terrible knee injuries.
Derrick is in the Ron Harper stage of his career, and that is just fucking fine.
Elfrid: 22 minutes, 15 points, 3 assists
RJ: 22 minutes, 7 points, 5 assists
Derrick: 23 minutes, 16 points, 3 assists
Immanuel: 22 minutes, 22 points, 2 assists
Thibs was desirous of a rotation in which to close out quarters and close out games with an elevated level of offensive efficiency.
We are making significant progress, and believe me, it ain't just Dawg channeling his Inner Child, but Knicks fans carping about Payton when he is rising to the challengers and WE ARE WINNING FUCKING GAMES.
EP & RJ take the starch out of their sails.
DR & IQ apply the fire to their forecastle.
Good test tomorrow, with Trae Young and the Hawks. Quite keen to see IQ match up with TY.
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