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This game is on YES, MSG, ESPN & ESPN2.

And look for something new on the ESPN broadcast. ESPN2 is doing an “alternate” telecast in which each quarter will mimic the look of an NBA telecast from a bygone decade, as Neil Best of Newsday reports. You’ll see the “looks” of the 1960s through the 1990s, from ABC to CBS to NBC. There’ll also be guest announcers and players from those eras (mostly via remote video).

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NETS:
Dragic - OUT
Johnson - OUT
Simmons - OUT
Harris - OUT
Curry - Available

KNICKS:
Randle- OUT
Rose - OUT
Noel - OUT
Reddish - OUT
Walker - Not with Team
Grimes - Questionable
McBride - Questionable

Knicks by 100.

-we suck on back to backs (2-12)
-we are playing like trash
-thibs will treat this like NBA finals game 7
-this is a must win (we have stunk out those outside of the rockets begging us to win)

not optomistic, this has letdown written all over it.

Kd/Kyrie both dropping 50 is all that can save us

I was also going to mention that glaring stat, though I believe we believe we're 2 wins to 11 losses on Night 2 of back to backs so far this season.

Obviously, there are no back to backs in the post season, so we shouldn't have to deal with this anomaly anymore this season. But I believe it speaks to a larger issue, the issue of digging deep when when we have tired legs.
I have been incredibly disheartened and over the past few weeks, comma when it it was already clear that we had 0 margin for error and yet dropped some stinker losses. This could very well be another, and despite both and despite both teams being Under man, I'm confident that 1 team will empty the tank And play with their hearts arts on their sleeves.. I am just hoping that for once we can match th Lnicks' energy level, and and bring the victory back to Brooklyn.

I will be stunned if we win this game. This team looks completely lost, even in a win last night they looked bad. The Knicks are way better than Houston and i wouldn't be shocked if Barrett and Toppin outwork our veterans.

Another KD turnover out of the double.

Need to wake up, low energy start again.

Being a B2B I worry about toda's result

Wide open threes to good shooters. What are we doing here?

MrDollarBills wrote:Wide open threes to good shooters. What are we doing here?

Kyrie walking on defense out there, this is year 19 Lebron type defense

It might sound like I'm overreacting but Kyrie has been TERRIBLE defensively recently. Lazy getting over screens. Not contesting shots. Switching for no reason. It's been killing our defense. He's been the cause of a lot of easy buckets recently.

This isn't the same effort we've seen from him the last 2 seasons. Hopefully he turns it on for the playoffs.

sashaturiaf wrote:

MrDollarBills wrote:Wide open threes to good shooters. What are we doing here?

Kyrie walking on defense out there, this is year 19 Lebron type defense

He watched Fournier take a wide open three. No close out

I give up.

Not sure I like the fact that Curry is out there tonight...

MGrand15 wrote:It might sound like I'm overreacting but Kyrie has been TERRIBLE defensively recently. Lazy getting over screens. Not contesting shots. Switching for no reason. It's been killing our defense. He's been the cause of a lot of easy buckets recently.

This isn't the same effort we've seen from him the last 2 seasons. Hopefully he turns it on for the playoffs.

You wouldn't think he's the one who's sat the majority of the season out based on his effort.

He brought it 100% for the Harden game, then he's alternated between lazy and passable efforts ever since.

Wide open three again. Why are we collapsing on Evan Fournier like he's some all star?

No ball movement, contested three.

This team has zero structure. Zero.

It’s freaking ridiculous how Kyrie doesn’t get calls on shots that look difficult but he CAN make compared to the fake shots Harden takes

Karate Diop wrote:Not sure I like the fact that Curry is out there tonight...

He is clearly laboring out there

These guys didn't come to play. I got a bad feeling about this game, the Knicks are young and energetic and we are on the back to back. If we don't get run out of the building, we'll need to shoot lights out to win it.

If Kyrie gonna bring this type of effort I rather just put Cam in and let the young guys play.

sashaturiaf wrote:

MGrand15 wrote:It might sound like I'm overreacting but Kyrie has been TERRIBLE defensively recently. Lazy getting over screens. Not contesting shots. Switching for no reason. It's been killing our defense. He's been the cause of a lot of easy buckets recently.

This isn't the same effort we've seen from him the last 2 seasons. Hopefully he turns it on for the playoffs.

You wouldn't think he's the one who's sat the majority of the season out based on his effort.

He brought it 100% for the Harden game, then he's alternated between lazy and passable efforts ever since.

He's been playing strange ball ever since the mandate got lifted. Worse shot selection, complaining about his role + lineups. Weird.

MGrand15 wrote:

sashaturiaf wrote:

MGrand15 wrote:It might sound like I'm overreacting but Kyrie has been TERRIBLE defensively recently. Lazy getting over screens. Not contesting shots. Switching for no reason. It's been killing our defense. He's been the cause of a lot of easy buckets recently.

This isn't the same effort we've seen from him the last 2 seasons. Hopefully he turns it on for the playoffs.

You wouldn't think he's the one who's sat the majority of the season out based on his effort.

He brought it 100% for the Harden game, then he's alternated between lazy and passable efforts ever since.

He's been playing strange ball ever since the mandate got lifted. Worse shot selection, complaining about his role + lineups. Weird.

Ramadan blood sugar imbalance?

Kyrie's just an erratic guy, he has to "feel" it. Simply not a guy who brings it every night, that's what separates him from the true greats. Having said that, he's a good sidekick for KD