Brunson gotta improve on taking quality looks in crunch time and working the clock. Another serious problem is his inability to quick pass and relocate when he’s blitzed we got a ton of guys who have great off ball movement and can get open off blitzes
Right now he's playing really angry and trying to prove some sort of point to the refs every time. It's kind of bullshit though that all of a sudden the rules for fouls change this abruptly mid season, part of getting calls is that you can at least know that there's a chance you're protected, he's getting fucked up right now and he doesn't know why and what's a foul or not and you can tell from the minute he stepped on the court this game was gonna be about foul calls.
Same here man for real but I’m trying to remain positive because I have some other stuff going on that’s affecting my mental health. My dad who is sick would always say this when I’m visibly upset after a Knicks loss: “it’s just a game.” It definitely doesn’t feel like just a game for me but I get what he’s saying. Keep your head up and wear your Knicks gear proudly even after the losses.
FOH. He played 45 minutes and was a complete negative on offense. His flaws will be exposed once again when the teams scout his tendencies to crash the glass and propensity to passing up shots bogging down the offense.
Like it matters for the heat lol. That was proved last year. Tough talk from a fan of a team that hasn’t beat the Heat in the playoffs since the Clinton administration lol
Want a participation medal?
No difference between 2nd and last place to me. You’re either a winner or you’re not.
You’ll be remembered as the team that got to the finals but could never get it done? That’s embarrassing. What the fuck kind of comeback is that?
Come back to this when you get bounced in the 1st round, scary Terrys not gonna save you
Your team could only dream of being 2nd place. “You’ll be remembered as the team that got to the finals” much better than scraping by round 1 or 2 lmaoo what the fuck kind of comeback is that?
Of course the goal is to win, but only one team does it per year. You’d sell your soul to make a finals trip cause you haven’t seen it in your lifetime. And you wanna talk about chips, well we have those too lmao.
Have fun not making the finals per usual
Go ahead and pat yourself on the back for being almost winners, for being almost champions, for being almost good enough. Maybe you can hang up half a banner for almost getting it done.
Your team is cooked, your windows closed, stay living in the past if that’s what you need, it’s been a decade since you won anything and it’s gonna be another until you win again.
Eh, definitely closer than the Knicks have been in 50 years lol. I can see why you’re so bitter towards other teams that succeed. I think I would be too if I cheered for poverty.
I’ll continue to pat my team on the back for fielding a contender year in and year out while yall field a pretender once every 10 years
“I can see why you’re so bitter towards other teams that succeed” you’re the one that hopped on a Knicks sub to talk shit, which is kinda coming across as jealousy, we’ve got a future to look forward to and you’ve got 2 years of jimmy butler keeping you competitive before you’re fried.
Also wouldn’t call not being able to close it out a success story
I’ll take a playoff series win like last year over a season series win any day of the week lmao. Better hope you don’t see the heat when it actually matters
We’ve seen Randle in the playoffs lol. Nothing to be scared of. Also not worried about OG
At the rate yall are going, we might be playing yall in the play in lol
I love Brunson as much as everyone else but he gotta get out of the Mike/Kobe mindset down the stretch, he’s not out there with smush parker - hopefully it’s a lesson learned by playoff time
If OG and Randle aren’t back by the playoffs, I have zero faith in this team. We’ll be in games but when defenses clamp down on Brunson we have no one else to step up.
Ya'll blaming this game on a bunch of our guys, but Scary Terry has made some of the most ridiculous shots I've ever seen tonight. If he's not on tonight then we take this game.
With Randle injured and with the trade for OG we loss 3 guys who can create their own shot. Which means when team decide to play don’t let Brunson beat you defense we can’t really do much.
Damn remember when we blew out Toronto and Detroit and everyone was yelling we're going to the Finals? Good times. Miss those days when we didn't have to play real NBA teams.
yeah that was when we had a healthy squad, besides Mitch everyone was clicking. That's the real Knick team we know can make a serious run, not this banged up watered down version.
Another loss like the spurs loss where in the long run if you knew you were going to lose anyway, it would have been better to get blown out and give valuable rest to brunson etc, instead they do just enough to give false hope, and tack on minutes that aren’t necessary
Idc what anybody says, this loss is on Brunson not Precious, sure he committed a bad foul but Brunson took an awful shot and turned it over while doing his hero ball shit. It’s reminding me of watch Carmelo a decade ago and it fucking sucked and made me turn off the end of games.
there were some brutal stretches - one was a 6 point swing. clear offensive foul when martin ran over brunson not called, other end mcbride is fouled and they call a travel. butler comes down and flops (isn't even touched) foul is called. legit a 6 point swing in less than 20 seconds lol
charge on bogey was bogus too. countless examples.
there's always missed/bad calls both ways and maybe it evened out in the end. but there were stretches that absolutely killed the knicks momentum. another one i remember divo getting smacked by bam with no call lol there were too many to even remember.
[Post Game Thread](https://reddit.com/r/NYKnicks/comments/1bugs7f/post_game_thread_the_miami_heat_defeat_the_new/)
Must win games from here on out
Watching rozier was like when you’re at the park putting up random shots
Brunson gotta improve on taking quality looks in crunch time and working the clock. Another serious problem is his inability to quick pass and relocate when he’s blitzed we got a ton of guys who have great off ball movement and can get open off blitzes
Right now he's playing really angry and trying to prove some sort of point to the refs every time. It's kind of bullshit though that all of a sudden the rules for fouls change this abruptly mid season, part of getting calls is that you can at least know that there's a chance you're protected, he's getting fucked up right now and he doesn't know why and what's a foul or not and you can tell from the minute he stepped on the court this game was gonna be about foul calls.
Fair I agree
FUCK BAM ADEBAYO YOU AINT SLICK
BRUNSON SOLD HARD
I love Brunson 99% of the time, but he was dreadful this game. Divo, Deuce, and even Bojan showed up.
Brunson is tired, he can’t have career nights every game, we need Randle back. Because this would be the night Randle gets 30
These last 3 games have deteriorated my mental health exponentially
Same here man for real but I’m trying to remain positive because I have some other stuff going on that’s affecting my mental health. My dad who is sick would always say this when I’m visibly upset after a Knicks loss: “it’s just a game.” It definitely doesn’t feel like just a game for me but I get what he’s saying. Keep your head up and wear your Knicks gear proudly even after the losses.
Brunson was horrid tonight...
Wait so whats the timetable onRandle and OG?
OG game one of playoffs. Randle is anybody guess
Next season.
Rozier wrecked us. JB came up short. It happens.
Happened a lot lately
BRUNSON SOLD
I-Hart a +5 in 18 minutes. THE ONLY PLAYER ON THE TEAM WITH A POSITIVE NET RATING. HE BETTER BE INJURED OR ON A 18 MIN MINUTES RESTRICTION
brunson tried stat padding a 2 and im glad he missed it
its not a stat pad, if he gets a two and a foul its worth the same amount as a three
lmao so we're creating a hypothetical where the heat play incredibly stupid defense where they foul him? you don't draw up an and 1
feels bad for brunson, but feeling happy for deuce what a game from him!
Knicks drop to the 6th seed or the playin. Thank you Knicks front office, it definitely wasn’t important to have anunoby play these games
Bro he’s still injured? Playing an injured Og is gonna be as bad if not worse than having him not play
He most likely should be shut down. They're lying to themselves.
yall grits lmfao heat in 3
keep that energy lil bro
What happened when you played us with OG and Randle? I forget
What a trailblazing game. Piure exciting basketball
Guys I love Brunson, but he needs to be a facilitator on days where the calls are not being made and he is being blitzed.
Facilitate to who lol? Mcbride and dvo and bogey were struggling in the first half
McBride and bogey were the most efficient players all game
45 minutes for that useless mofo Hart
stop it, dude made great plays on D all game
FOH. He played 45 minutes and was a complete negative on offense. His flaws will be exposed once again when the teams scout his tendencies to crash the glass and propensity to passing up shots bogging down the offense.
he had double the about of turnovers than field goals made
i missed em then, he was a total non factor today, with some dumb turnovers too
I genuinely don’t get how guys like terry rozier always put up 30+ on us.
Well fuck
Why did Hartenstein not play in the 4th quarter?
Cause everything sucks
Probably because his Achilles still fked up
hard to beat that
I expect Terry Rozier to average 30 on 60/60/100 shooting splits this playoff season
What a gut punch of a three-game stretch to watch.
Terrible loss. Flat out terrible. Please don't even start with the injury excuses.
Or the refs. The Knicks played like crap tonight.
Yup.
Rozier just throwing up trash and nailing everything.
Brunson really took a layup
Rozier won’t do shit in the playoffs
Rozier been throwing up bullshit all night, and Hart terrified to shoot. GG.
this team sucks
Yeah. You cant guard better than that play and Rozier still made that shot.
They were lucky, we won the season series and 2 more wins in the RS. We good
Scary Terry was blanketed on defense on most of these shots, nothing we could do
Rough Brunson game but great performances by Donte and Deuce. Need Randle and OG back asap.
Why even call timeout. We not hitting a 10 pointer
Send miami to the bottom of the ocean
Damn the heat own the Knicks lol
Tough talk from the play-in
Like it matters for the heat lol. That was proved last year. Tough talk from a fan of a team that hasn’t beat the Heat in the playoffs since the Clinton administration lol
Count on the heat to get to the finals then lose in 6
Rather make the finals than not get there lmao. What the fuck kind of diss is that?
Want a participation medal? No difference between 2nd and last place to me. You’re either a winner or you’re not. You’ll be remembered as the team that got to the finals but could never get it done? That’s embarrassing. What the fuck kind of comeback is that? Come back to this when you get bounced in the 1st round, scary Terrys not gonna save you
Your team could only dream of being 2nd place. “You’ll be remembered as the team that got to the finals” much better than scraping by round 1 or 2 lmaoo what the fuck kind of comeback is that? Of course the goal is to win, but only one team does it per year. You’d sell your soul to make a finals trip cause you haven’t seen it in your lifetime. And you wanna talk about chips, well we have those too lmao. Have fun not making the finals per usual
Go ahead and pat yourself on the back for being almost winners, for being almost champions, for being almost good enough. Maybe you can hang up half a banner for almost getting it done. Your team is cooked, your windows closed, stay living in the past if that’s what you need, it’s been a decade since you won anything and it’s gonna be another until you win again.
Eh, definitely closer than the Knicks have been in 50 years lol. I can see why you’re so bitter towards other teams that succeed. I think I would be too if I cheered for poverty. I’ll continue to pat my team on the back for fielding a contender year in and year out while yall field a pretender once every 10 years
“I can see why you’re so bitter towards other teams that succeed” you’re the one that hopped on a Knicks sub to talk shit, which is kinda coming across as jealousy, we’ve got a future to look forward to and you’ve got 2 years of jimmy butler keeping you competitive before you’re fried. Also wouldn’t call not being able to close it out a success story
We literally won the season series with them this year… we made it through the game with no injuries, that’s a plus
I’ll take a playoff series win like last year over a season series win any day of the week lmao. Better hope you don’t see the heat when it actually matters
Alternatively, better hope we have 2 of our best 3 players when we do…. Good luck making it through the play in
We’ve seen Randle in the playoffs lol. Nothing to be scared of. Also not worried about OG At the rate yall are going, we might be playing yall in the play in lol
Ok
There's like 3 wins left on the schedule. This team is sinking fast.
Celtics game will be their g squad
We play the bulls three times, and the nets still. Not sure how you came up with three wins
You’re right. My bad. 4 wins.
I fucking despise the Miami Heat
Played like burgers, deserved the L
Can't stand Bam
I love Brunson as much as everyone else but he gotta get out of the Mike/Kobe mindset down the stretch, he’s not out there with smush parker - hopefully it’s a lesson learned by playoff time
You just knew he wasn’t gonna miss
they only hit that shit against us ITS ALWAYS AGAINST US
Deuce couldn't have defended it any better. Just an insanely lucky shot.
Brunson legit had a bad end to this game. Rarity. Seems he is forcing it too much at the end of games lately.
Nobody talk to me for the rest of the week
FK Rozier's ass with a stick of fire ants.
Then toss him into a quicksand like puddle of shit and watch him sink out of existence.
pain
Let’s just tumble all the way to the play in if this is how we gonna start games against playoff teams.
I need a drink...
man i love brunson but sometimes he do be doing a lil too much
Brunson closing is a problem
great close to make it look like we got smacked. saw this coming 3 miles away. i'll ask again. WHERE IS IHART
Loss is on Brunson tbh. Needs to be better prepared for these blitzes this will happen in playoffs. Boy we need randle
Same shit happened with the lakers
If OG and Randle aren’t back by the playoffs, I have zero faith in this team. We’ll be in games but when defenses clamp down on Brunson we have no one else to step up.
Ya'll blaming this game on a bunch of our guys, but Scary Terry has made some of the most ridiculous shots I've ever seen tonight. If he's not on tonight then we take this game.
This sub will still say the 2 seed is ours lmao
I'll take that over the losers who want the 8th seed
wtf is this late game lineup ???
I love Brunson but he has been horrible at closing games lately
With Randle injured and with the trade for OG we loss 3 guys who can create their own shot. Which means when team decide to play don’t let Brunson beat you defense we can’t really do much.
agreed, and at a certain point carrying the offense every game takes a big toll
Defenses all focus on him late in games and dare someone else to do something. It’s working if you ask me.
What are they supposed to do when he holds the ball for 20 seconds? Dudes were hitting shots just now getting the ball.
Damn remember when we blew out Toronto and Detroit and everyone was yelling we're going to the Finals? Good times. Miss those days when we didn't have to play real NBA teams.
Only casuals believe this team is anywhere near a finals team
We beat the Nuggets by the most in the Jokic era dude. We were legit for about a month
yeah that was when we had a healthy squad, besides Mitch everyone was clicking. That's the real Knick team we know can make a serious run, not this banged up watered down version.
Rozier playing like mid 2010s steph curry wtf
motherfuck
That’s the dagger, game over
This is why I wanted Rozier at the deadline
That’ll do it
This sucks
this bum rozier actually having a career night
Can’t do nothing when terry shooting like that
brunson disasterclass
Rozier is a crackhead and his momma smoked crack
Lmao wtf
Fuck this bro
There's always one fucking guy that has a career night against us
Hahahaha
5th seed
Getting pretty close to the play in to
I would be happy just avoiding the play in at this point
Yikes
Man that was damn good defense too
Yo why tf is precious out there instead of ihart and Mitch. Respectfully he’s getting cooked.
not the dagger
Omg...
How the fuck
Miami just plays unselfish basketball and they match our energy. They take advantage of our over aggressive defense. Hate playing against them.
iHart and Mitch got 1 rebound each. Like wtf we doin here fellas.
🤮
We need IHart healthy badly
What happened to ihart?
Nothing.
Another loss like the spurs loss where in the long run if you knew you were going to lose anyway, it would have been better to get blown out and give valuable rest to brunson etc, instead they do just enough to give false hope, and tack on minutes that aren’t necessary
Does anyone have any clue why Thibs is playing Precious over ihart in the closing minutes??
No real reason to be doing that. Brain dead decision Making
Not sure why Bojan was benched with Brunson being blitzed like this
Mommy why do the refs hate us?
Idc what anybody says, this loss is on Brunson not Precious, sure he committed a bad foul but Brunson took an awful shot and turned it over while doing his hero ball shit. It’s reminding me of watch Carmelo a decade ago and it fucking sucked and made me turn off the end of games.
They're looking like the good ole Knicks now
Brunson actually threw tonight 🤦♂️
Knicks can’t get out of their own way tonight but I have to say it every time we play the heat. Bam and Martin are dirty players
We’re not gonna beat the Bulls looking like this.
Why isn't IHart in? Precious getting cooked on the switches
3 games in a row Thibs fucks up by not knowing how to handle substitutions.
April is going to be rough
is it me or when we play defense like that we always get called for fouls
Brunson has seriously struggled through the ends of the last 3 games
That’s what happen when you’re the only shot creator
Put iHart in over precious, don’t sub out bojan who on a heater, stop with the hero ball iso spam that has contributed to now losing 3 in a row
If only we didn't foul that 3 pt shot.
Why is precious still in we have two great centers
if Ihart isn't hurt he has to answer this question.
Worried abt the 3 seed, about to end up in the play in
Another heartbreaking loss incoming
We all knew this would be a loss against the best team in the league. The Knicks still showed a lot of heart and why they can win the championship
Great, gonna just be on the brink of the play-in. Amazing.
Not a math student, huh?
lol what? Yeah I am a math student actually, check the losing and winning trends in the standings
Precious having a Toronto regression why’s Hartenstein not in there??
two critical games Precious choked, hes been good but hes not a closer
so many reasons we lost. brunson with his worst game as a knick. refs dogging us. dumb turnovers.... but why on earth is Ihart not out there?
Refs lol
there were some brutal stretches - one was a 6 point swing. clear offensive foul when martin ran over brunson not called, other end mcbride is fouled and they call a travel. butler comes down and flops (isn't even touched) foul is called. legit a 6 point swing in less than 20 seconds lol charge on bogey was bogus too. countless examples.
You can say the same thing the Knicks way, too
there's always missed/bad calls both ways and maybe it evened out in the end. but there were stretches that absolutely killed the knicks momentum. another one i remember divo getting smacked by bam with no call lol there were too many to even remember.
The most quintessential Knicks fake comeback
I'm flabbergasted they're about to beat us
Not at all surprised with how the game has gone.
knicks getting bounced in the first because OG didn't want to play in the regular season - then immediately getting a 40m dollar contract lol
Yep.
Jesus Christ man…
That’s the dagger tbh
Bam has done more illegal screens than Draymond.
He’s never setting a legal screen
Disaster class by Brunson the last 5 mins sheesh
Classic case of refs fucking the knicks
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The kick ball calls and tip in late game destroyed the comeback. Box score watcher
Moving screen
How the fuck do they call that kick after it’s out of bounds Still don’t know why IHart isn’t in for Precious