Thibs is awful.
Randle has been bad all night. His body language is disgraceful and the coach leaves him in the entire 3rd?
Doesn’t hold him accountable the team suffers.
Miami can lose two starters and not miss a beat. We play so selfish grimes never gets in a rhythm, Mitch is wide open all the time and the guards aren’t moving the ball.
Hopefully it works out well this time.
Brunson is so damn good man.
Are you fucking kidding me? I tapped out like 5 minutes into the 3rd. You’re welcome.
what a comeback. Quick was huge against a really good team. I like that.
Back from 21 down in the 3rd. Lots of ugliness, not to my liking, but a great amazing win.
Good thing that fan did not just blindly cheer the team. He told Jalen the truth and Jalen took it to heart.
Turned off after saw the start of the 3rd, then had to start up the 4th again. Great comeback.
martin wrote:Turned off after saw the start of the 3rd, then had to start up the 4th again. Great comeback.
I took a break too.
Remarkable come back by Knicks and give back by Heat —— surely figured we come all the way back and lose in a heartbreak moment.
Brunson steps to line with chance to puts up 3 with 10 seconds left and misses FT —- ball finds way to Jimmy at 3 point line and surely his shot is going to bank-in or RJ fouls him but when I opened my eyes somehow the game was over and we had more points.
- 1st off Julius was brutally sloppy with the basketball and his overall decision making. 6 TO’s, too many to count plays where he passes up solid shot for worse shot or pass to no-mans land or 6th row.
- Mitch - come on man stay down on the pump fake you’ve seen a million times from Bam and make him a jump shooter. Just play smart D and wipe the 2 sticks of land’o lakes butter off your mitts.
- Grimes —- playing scared ——- I don’t think it could hurt him to just let him run with bench unit and see if it lights a small flame of confidence
- Brunson LEGIT and with IQ really our only 2 purely skilled players who use skill not body to be successful at a high level
- IQ was HUGE tonight
-Hart to Hart both played solid games — RJ was good down the stretch
Our D was like a sieve early on and it’s not Thibs scheme it’s often dumb players and lack of effort from a certain PF
Would have sucked to just lie down - great comeback again.
MS wrote:Thibs is awful.Randle has been bad all night. His body language is disgraceful and the coach leaves him in the entire 3rd?
Doesn’t hold him accountable the team suffers.
Miami can lose two starters and not miss a beat. We play so selfish grimes never gets in a rhythm, Mitch is wide open all the time and the guards aren’t moving the ball.
I thought it was 99% players were awful early BUT yes agree I knew Thibs would go to Randle and I didn’t agree. They are joined at hip.
Clean wrote:Brunson is so damn good man.
Gets into seems with a thick body like Houdini
I hate auto switch defenses. The Heat were doing that in the 4th and Brunson just hunted their rookie every time down no matter who he was guarding they use his man to set the pick.
I also think how we played near the end is how we should always play. Brunson, RJ and Quick are the ones creating offense. Enough of the Randle ISO's. They are essentually turnovers more times than not.
Wow what an exciting signature win for the home team!
KnickDanger wrote:martin wrote:Turned off after saw the start of the 3rd, then had to start up the 4th again. Great comeback.
I took a break too.
Yeah. I'm glad I tuned back in. We're still in the tournament baby!
Looking over the stars for the game, the Knicks lost in a lot of areas. Their big strength was points in the paint and the bench. Randle seemed really out of it for the second game in a row; just no hustle in his game at all really. Last year he seemed to really get into the matchup with Butler but this game Q Grimes matched up for most of it.
Quickly is making a strong case for a bigger role. I get the logic of him coming off the bench for reasons of balance, but he's just such an electric player you have to wonder about the benefits of him getting 25 minutes a game vs. last seasons 29. This has been a topic since his rookie year. At some point the benefits of winning now outweigh developmental minutes for Grimes. DDV seems like
a suitable replacement for IQs spark plug role.
Knicks survived bad games by 3/5 starters. Kudos to Thibs for getting a strong 4th quarter out of these guys.
