PG: God Bless Our Little Miracle Victory

[RHODEY]

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Awwwwww

And to think some of yall wanted this clown fraudster on the Knicks.

[thebuzzardman]

Still can't believe we are up 2 games w/ Brunson playing like playoff Randle.
It was total team effort.
We just need Brunson to perform to his par.
Let's sweep these softies.

Are we watching the same game? Brunson might have 1 good game this series but he's being guarded by 6'7 guys often with a double and if he gets past them he gets to drive into embid. he needs to stop forcing shots and start impersonating cp3 or jkidd and make quicker passes.

everyone says you cant win with small guards as your 1 in the playoffs, this is what they mean.

It's pretty hard to win when you only have one legit 1st option and he's doubled every play.

Yet the Knicks won 2 games.

Brunson must be doing some things right.

Everyone turning into a Chanel TS% devotee.

[FrozenEnvelope]

Honestly Nurse should be more upset with Lowry who chocked at the line with a chance to make it a 2 possession game and chocked again on that inbound pass when he should've called timeout! And Embiid also has nobody to blame but himself! He missed 4 FTs and the guy is a 88% shooter! And how about that overturn on that foul on a Donte rebound with 2:47 left?! They said because Lowry touched the ball it caused the contact, which makes no sense! And what about Maxey having a one on one with Hartenstein with a chance to tie the game he passes it off to Embiid like a hot potato?

Lowry, Embiid, Maxey and Nurse all chocked. Zebras weren't perfect but they weren't that bad and they were not one sided either. We shot 23 FTs, they shot 22. Pretty even. They have nobody to blame but themselves and that is why they will lose this series.

[RHODEY]

Still can't believe we are up 2 games w/ Brunson playing like playoff Randle.
It was total team effort.
We just need Brunson to perform to his par.
Let's sweep these softies.

Are we watching the same game? Brunson might have 1 good game this series but he's being guarded by 6'7 guys often with a double and if he gets past them he gets to drive into embid. he needs to stop forcing shots and start impersonating cp3 or jkidd and make quicker passes.

everyone says you cant win with small guards as your 1 in the playoffs, this is what they mean.

Well Last year and the year before that in Dallas he was carving through defenses in the playoffs. TO me this is more about him figuring out how to adjust to these new schemes more than his stature.

[Knicksfan1992]

Still can't believe we are up 2 games w/ Brunson playing like playoff Randle.
It was total team effort.
We just need Brunson to perform to his par.
Let's sweep these softies.

Are we watching the same game? Brunson might have 1 good game this series but he's being guarded by 6'7 guys often with a double and if he gets past them he gets to drive into embid. he needs to stop forcing shots and start impersonating cp3 or jkidd and make quicker passes.

everyone says you cant win with small guards as your 1 in the playoffs, this is what they mean.

It's pretty hard to win when you only have one legit 1st option and he's doubled every play.

Yet the Knicks won 2 games.

Brunson must be doing some things right.

Everyone turning into a Chanel TS% devotee.

Made a bunch of great passes to Hartenstein in that 3rd quarter specifically. We don't go on a run without that. I also think he's held up as well as we can expect him to defensively. He's not an absolute glaring black hole on that end.

He's going to figure it out eventually or the Sixers are going to keep selling out to stop him and our other guys are going to keep capitalizing.

[jvsimonetti0514]

Man this one guy was crying about officials all night after the game, posting bad still shots trying to swing perception, getting disproved multiple times via videos and he was ignoring rebuttals and he is STILL crying on the 76ers board about it. Like bro take off your 76ers glasses and watch the videos with an objective and unbiased view ffs. Changes the username for his sake but good lord it's pathetic and all stems back to their pathetic coach being a cry baby.

Honestly, seven hours later, I'm still in disbelief that we lost that game. I had to clear my head, so I went for a run outside.

I think part of the reason why I'm feeling this way is that I don't really have someone to blame for the loss. I'm really upset with the refs, but it also made me realize how important it is to secure a high seed in the playoffs. If we had a higher seed last year, we could have had the crowd behind us in Game 7. If we had a higher seed in this series, we wouldn't be facing biased officiating.

In the last seven hours, I spent most of my time scrolling through Twitter and listening to Sixers podcasts. I came to the conclusion that I don't think the refs can be blamed for not calling the timeout for Nurse during the inbound. Nurse himself said he was trying to see if we could inbound the ball, which is why he hesitated to call the timeout. But when Maxey fumbled the ball after we successfully inbounded, Nurse was quick to call the timeout.

That said, I can't blame Lowry for not calling the timeout because it seems like our plan was to try to inbound the ball first and use the timeout as a backup to avoid a 5-second violation.

But man, when Maxey fumbled and fell on the floor, I think he should have also called the timeout instead of just letting the ball roll on the floor. And thats when the refs probably should have called time out, if Maxey really had possession while Nurse was at the baseline calling for it.

Looks like he’s finally had an epiphany that the refs didn’t steal the game from them and they just blew it

[FrozenEnvelope]

Still can't believe we are up 2 games w/ Brunson playing like playoff Randle.
It was total team effort.
We just need Brunson to perform to his par.
Let's sweep these softies.

Are we watching the same game? Brunson might have 1 good game this series but he's being guarded by 6'7 guys often with a double and if he gets past them he gets to drive into embid. he needs to stop forcing shots and start impersonating cp3 or jkidd and make quicker passes.

everyone says you cant win with small guards as your 1 in the playoffs, this is what they mean.

It's pretty hard to win when you only have one legit 1st option and he's doubled every play.

Yet the Knicks won 2 games.

Brunson must be doing some things right.

Everyone turning into a Chanel TS% devotee.

We have some of the worst and most "what have you done for me lately" type of fans. Brunson is in a shooting slump - it happens! It even has happened to the very best like MJ and Kobe. Give credit to Nurse for the scheme and Oubre and Batum for defending him well but Brunson is missing a lot of shots he normally makes. Especially from down town! Brunson will be fine but he just needs to let the game come to him and not try to play hero ball the entire timel. 26 and 28 shot attempts is too much! We are not the 2001 Sixers with Iverson and a bunch of just defensive players who cannot shoot or score. But Brunson will make the adjustment and he will have monster games. Stop being so damn fickle!

[Stannis]

Here's my conspiracy theory:

the window for success for the process sixers is coming to an end. embiid doesn't want to shut down, but his knee is not going to make it.

-game 1 his knee pad had blood on it, likely from the site of a steroid injection
-one of his knees is visibly swollen lol
-he's limping
-nonverbal signs of pain include agitation, and even aggressive behaviors.
-his production dropped off in the fourth of game 2 (because the steroids don't last forever and are very liver toxic)

its kinda like what happened with melo and his elbow injections. we might lose game 3 but we'll win the series because he's going to keep getting worse. i'm a nurse for what its worth.

A pretty good theory.

Did you also notice Embiid's eye? One of them constantly moves in another direction. This is something I never noticed before.

Any opinion on this? I always thought this was a sign of fatigue, be it lack of sleep and/or being overworked.

[EnigmatiC]

Complaining about not getting a timeout called when you didn't make any attempt to run to a ref or definitively call it is such god-tier level whining you would think it came from a toddler.

Also any one of the 5 sixers on the floor who were in the midst of chitting their pants could have ran to a ref and called one... I don't want to hear it at all. Embiid gets such a favorable whistle that it's absurd to blame the referees for anything

It was obvious Nurse was unsure what to do in that moment.

[BKlutch]

what a whiny little loser.

He can’t even look up when he’s saying this lmao

Something is going on with his eye. I don't think he wants the media to see

It's called "tears."

[Knicks Byke]

cant spell philly without back to back Ls

[Stannis]

Game 3, go ahead and plan on having Precious in the rotation. Give him carte blanche. Let him get 6 fouls in 12 minutes to bang up Embiid as much as possible.

[jvsimonetti0514]

Are we watching the same game? Brunson might have 1 good game this series but he's being guarded by 6'7 guys often with a double and if he gets past them he gets to drive into embid. he needs to stop forcing shots and start impersonating cp3 or jkidd and make quicker passes.

everyone says you cant win with small guards as your 1 in the playoffs, this is what they mean.

It's pretty hard to win when you only have one legit 1st option and he's doubled every play.

Yet the Knicks won 2 games.

Brunson must be doing some things right.

Everyone turning into a Chanel TS% devotee.

Made a bunch of great passes to Hartenstein in that 3rd quarter specifically. We don't go on a run without that. I also think he's held up as well as we can expect him to defensively. He's not an absolute glaring black hole on that end.

He's going to figure it out eventually or the Sixers are going to keep selling out to stop him and our other guys are going to keep capitalizing.

He hit the 2nd biggest shot of the night but let’s not forget Brunson was pretty much a disaster from the minute he checked back in for Bojan. We’ve got 2 days off there needs to be a ton of film session to figure out a counter to the defense nurse has drawn up against Brunson cuz he needs to be better. Game 1 he just missed some shots but last night he was legit bad.

[Loaded_Hollows]

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Awwwwww

And to think some of yall wanted this clown fraudster on the Knicks.

I always say it was best for all involved that bum didn’t come to the Knicks. I would have had to go the Tonya Harding route.

[knicks1999]

I have watched the ending multiple times…..still can’t figure out how Ihart got that pass to OG

[RHODEY]

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[KnicksGadfly]

I have watched the ending multiple times…..still can’t figure out how Ihart got that pass to OG

This is from today's Athletic article. Very cool stuff.

https://theathletic.com/5437982/2024/04/23/knicks-sixers-game-2/

Maybe attributing the result to a higher being is the only way to explain what went down at the Garden on Monday. Or maybe the Knicks were built for that exact play.

They were built for Brunson to hit big-time shots, even on nights when it doesn’t seem like he’s making any others.

They were built for Hart to tear away steals that shouldn’t be his. After all, Team USA coach Steve Kerr once relayed something his assistant Erik Spoelstra said about Hart when Hart was playing for them in the FIBA World Cup: Some players get 50-50 balls, but Hart gets 30-70 ones.

They were built for DiVincenzo to drain 3s aplenty. He just broke the franchise record for most makes in a single season. They were built for him to hesitate naught if a pass swung back to him after a miss.

They were built for Hartenstein to snag those boards, too. The Knicks finished the regular season first in offensive-rebound rate. They were built to create 3-pointers when they recover their misses, too.

Thibodeau has hammered the progression his centers are supposed to go through after they grab an offensive board into each one of their brains. Behind the scenes, the Knicks practice these scramble situations constantly. They might appear in disarray, but there is a script.

If the rebounder is in the restricted area, he can go back up. If he isn’t, then he should look to pass back out. The defense will be in a tussle. As DiVincenzo alluded to, the situation is ripe for an open 3.

First, Hartenstein or whichever big man seizes the board should look to the corner, where a teammate is supposed to streak. If no one is there, then he can turn to the wing, where someone should be unguarded.

As Hartenstein dropped to the court, he peered to Anunoby, his first read, stationed in the corner just where Thibodeau wanted him. It won the Knicks the game when Anunoby flipped the ball to DiVincenzo for the 3.

Thibodeau speaks so often about the importance of preparation, about how building habits in the regular season helps during high-pressure playoff situations. He doesn’t believe in changing day-to-day customs come spring basketball. According to his philosophy, coaches and players should approach any game as if it’s a playoff game.

This is why.

When Hartenstein’s mission overcomes him, when all he can think is to go get the ball, muscle memory takes over.

The Knicks prevailed amid chaos. But the Knicks were built for chaos.

[sol537]

I have watched the ending multiple times…..still can’t figure out how Ihart got that pass to OG

Winners make winning plays more times than not

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Mind your own business, Bronny's dad.

And some people here want to trade Randle, Deuce and a bunch of picks for this turd! And use a draft pick on his scrub kid too!

[Wildcat]

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I'm always wowed when I hear other team's bias broadcasting compared to our own. "Brunson, nice push-off, no call."