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Reign23 wrote:Guano wrote:3toheadmelo wrote:Love Thibs.
Legit might be the greatest run we see the rest of our knicks lives and we have posters bitching about it. Im riding this high with the peddle to the floor.
We have 2 legit all nba players and are 2 wins away from the NBA Finals man. What a time to be alive.
Chanel Bomber wrote:This board really is full of bad people.
Guano wrote:Reign23 wrote:Guano wrote:
Legit might be the greatest run we see the rest of our knicks lives and we have posters bitching about it. Im riding this high with the peddle to the floor.
We have 2 legit all nba players and are 2 wins away from the NBA Finals man. What a time to be alive.
Its good to be us
RIP mags Capn'O wrote:Oh right because 1st round was best of 5 in 2000.
Even if we're knocked out we'll be back. Knicks are back up. We're at worst a gatekeeper team for the next five years. Can we get over the hump though?
Chanel Bomber wrote:This board really is full of bad people.
One of them bums.Enzo954 wrote:prophet_of_rage wrote:Charlie Ward, no?The KnicksFix wrote:
Houston? LJ? Dudley? Tim Thomas?
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We always need somwone to blame.HEZI wrote:2010 wrote:HEZI wrote:
I agree about that if we can pull off a win in game 6. But that’s why game 6 is going to be tough. They knew tonight we would give them the best we had and now they can hope that our clip is emptied and they can bring all they have for game 6. It’s almost like a trap. How much do we have left? Boston had nothing for us in game 6 and we unloaded on them. Hopefully that isn’t the case but seeing how bad Indiana played tonight I think they will play a lot better next game. The question is what do we have left? Hopefully enough to get it back home but we will find out
Well this is why I was saying Thibs gonna have to keep dipping into that bench.
Every extra minute guys like Delon, Shamet, Precious can give you where they don’t hurt you defensively and you can surround them around Brunson or KAT, keeps them fresher.
It allows more rest and for them to have some of the pressure taken off them defensively (since our stars are bad defenders).
Hart has to have a shorter leash too if the is continuing to turn the ball over.
Coaching will matter in game 6. Even little things like how Thibs uses timeouts.
Well he has though. That’s what we’ve been doing, because we only use two bigs in KAT and Robinson we’ve been using different lineups trying to keep at least one of Brunson or KAT on the floor at all times. I think Brunson has played better with KAT on the floor than without him because of the spacing that KAT provides him whereas KAT has been able to just dominate and bully them. It also helps that when Brunson is sitting KAT gets a lot of touches and the offense goes through him so he’s able to have those stretches where he’s involved a lot more often.
Hart is essential though and I don’t understand the hate. I get being frustrated with the turnovers but Brunson commits bad turnovers too and it what it is. Even tonight Brunson was dribbling into a double team and turning it over. He basically cost us game 1 because of his crunch time turnovers. But as far as Hart goes he still does things nobody else does. Tonight he out rebounded everybody on the Pacers. He created many open shots for OG and Mikal who were awful shooting. I don’t like him matched up with Siakam on defense though. He will do some wild things good and bad but he still gets us running in transition, he plays really well with KAT especially when Brunson is sitting, he’ll attack the basket and often gets to the line, there’s a bunch he does well. Especially because we are now playing more up so KAT is not down there to rebound as much. We need those rebounds and he does a great job chasing them down. He also isn’t all bad on defense because there are times he will lock his guy up or make a big defensive stop as he did tonight. His versatility is essential to what we do.
