Around the NBA - 2024-25 Season Continued

robillionaire · Post #881 » by **robillionaire** » Tue Mar 25, 2025 12:22 am

Most perpetual downers said we’d lose to Philadelphia last year so we are all used to it. Just gonna keep rooting for my team.

knicks94 · Post #882 » by **knicks94** » Tue Mar 25, 2025 12:27 am

The Pacers are a bad match up for the Wolves.

8516knicks · Post #883 » by **8516knicks** » Tue Mar 25, 2025 1:00 am

Jalen Bluntson wrote:
nykballa2k4 wrote:
dakomish23 wrote:BOS has won 10 of 11 & is only 5 games behind CLE for the #1 seed

BOS remaining schedule

@SAC
@PHX
@SAS
@MEM
MIA
PHX
WAS
@NYK
@ORL
CHA
CHA

CLE remaining schedule

@POR
SAS
@DET
LAC
NYK
@SAS
SAC
CHI
@IND
@NYK
IND

So if CLE drops some, all of a sudden these games against us that they may have laid down for are now must win games for CLE & BOS

This is tricky... If Cavs go #1, we want to be #4, if Celtics go #1, we are happy to be #3 and don't want 4 or 5.

You are less afraid of Cleveland? I kinda have the same attitude I just don't feel confident right now that it really matters.

If we're healthy and Thibs is on his meds we beat the Cavs. Boston? We'd need more of a bench. They have Prichard and Horford, we have G league and washed ups or semi-retreads. Precious has been okay in the past and Cam has moments but that's barely one reliable bench guy. And Mitch always has a foot out the door.

HEZI · Post #884 » by **HEZI** » Tue Mar 25, 2025 1:02 am

Obi stays owning Randle

knicks94 · Post #885 » by **knicks94** » Tue Mar 25, 2025 1:11 am

Adam Silver's plan of a Lebron vs Curry part 50 is falling apart.

nykballa2k4 · Post #886 » by **nykballa2k4** » Tue Mar 25, 2025 1:32 am

8516knicks wrote:
Jalen Bluntson wrote:
nykballa2k4 wrote:
This is tricky... If Cavs go #1, we want to be #4, if Celtics go #1, we are happy to be #3 and don't want 4 or 5.

You are less afraid of Cleveland? I kinda have the same attitude I just don't feel confident right now that it really matters.

If we're healthy and Thibs is on his meds we beat the Cavs. Boston? We'd need more of a bench. They have Prichard and Horford, we have G league and washed ups or semi-retreads. Precious has been okay in the past and Cam has moments but that's barely one reliable bench guy. And Mitch always has a foot out the door.

In all honesty the only way we beat boston is if they experience catastrophic injury. Right now they go like 9 deep on guys that can hit the open 3 and defend in some capacity. We also have no scheme that is going to offset how they play on both ends.

Last year Jrue locked up Randle in the post. Can you imagine a post player from the 90's being stopped by anyone Jrue's size?
Also we cannot contend with the Celtics moving screens.

knicks94 · Post #887 » by **knicks94** » Tue Mar 25, 2025 1:36 am

Grimes has become so elite that Philly had to sit him out for the rest of the season to continue the tank.

Iron Mantis · Post #888 » by **Iron Mantis** » Tue Mar 25, 2025 1:44 am

Read on Twitter

knicks94 · Post #889 » by **knicks94** » Tue Mar 25, 2025 1:51 am

Randle has at least one bad game per week. Not going to knock him.

ctorres · Post #890 » by **ctorres** » Tue Mar 25, 2025 1:58 am

Read on Twitter

knicks94 · Post #891 » by **knicks94** » Tue Mar 25, 2025 1:58 am

Wizards, Utah, Sixers, Nola, tons of shameless teams. But that's what will get rewarded in the end.

Clyde_Style · Post #892 » by **Clyde_Style** » Tue Mar 25, 2025 2:19 am

knicks94 wrote:Grimes has become so elite that Philly had to sit him out for the rest of the season to continue the tank.

It's crazy, but it appears to be true.

Sixers said nothing is wrong with Grimes; he's just getting a well-deserved rest :lol:

Grimes averages in March:

28.2 points
5.1 assists
4.9 rebounds
2.2 steals
63.1 TS%
40.9 3PT%

Adelheid · Post #893 » by **Adelheid** » Tue Mar 25, 2025 2:54 am

grimes screwing the tank so he needs to be shut down

The KnicksFix · Post #894 » by **The KnicksFix** » Tue Mar 25, 2025 4:40 am

Bucks lost another, they’re now only a half game up on Detroit, I think we face the bucks in the first round

The KnicksFix · Post #895 » by **The KnicksFix** » Tue Mar 25, 2025 4:42 am

Wildcat wrote:Knicks have to play .500 ball for 50 W's. I think Indiana is going to hold onto the 4th seed, despite they have the harder schedule. Bucks sputtered at the wrong time. Detroit has the harder schedule, so I think New York vs. Detroit is set in stone.

Not yet, Detroit now only a half game back

vincccent · Post #896 » by **vincccent** » Tue Mar 25, 2025 5:38 am

Clyde_Style wrote:
knicks94 wrote:Grimes has become so elite that Philly had to sit him out for the rest of the season to continue the tank.

It's crazy, but it appears to be true.

Sixers said nothing is wrong with Grimes; he's just getting a well-deserved rest

Grimes averages in March:

28.2 points
5.1 assists
4.9 rebounds
2.2 steals
63.1 TS%
40.9 3PT%

We all have to admit: the knicks fked up.
You always saw the playmaking skills.

Clyde_Style · Post #897 » by **Clyde_Style** » Tue Mar 25, 2025 5:47 am

vincccent wrote:
Clyde_Style wrote:
knicks94 wrote:Grimes has become so elite that Philly had to sit him out for the rest of the season to continue the tank.

It's crazy, but it appears to be true.

Sixers said nothing is wrong with Grimes; he's just getting a well-deserved rest

Grimes averages in March:

28.2 points
5.1 assists
4.9 rebounds
2.2 steals
63.1 TS%
40.9 3PT%

We all have to admit: the knicks fked up.
You always saw the playmaking skills.

Grimes as a Knick was making very quick decisions from the key to either shoot, pass or drive. And he was dropping dimes off those drives. Then he got the yips and he froze up. But everything was already there to be a pretty complete 2-way player. Now he's bustin out like Rick James.

Iron Mantis · Post #898 » by **Iron Mantis** » Tue Mar 25, 2025 8:57 am

Grimes was winning games for the Sixers?

They were 3-19 with him before he sat last night. That's the worst winning % in the league, by far.

Overall, it's nice to see he's proving Thibs wrong though. He should have never been tossed away for Alec Burks.

Another reason the orc needs to go. He's worst in the League when it comes to having the patience to develop young players.

Wildcat · Post #899 » by **Wildcat** » Tue Mar 25, 2025 11:03 am

We were flaming all the teams last year for tanking to avoid Boston, now we have people in here suggesting the very same thing? The softness of this team has really changed us.

knicks94 · Post #900 » by **knicks94** » Tue Mar 25, 2025 1:57 pm

Iron Mantis wrote:Grimes was winning games for the Sixers?

They were 3-19 with him before he sat last night. That's the worst winning % in the league, by far.

Overall, it's nice to see he's proving Thibs wrong though. He should have never been tossed away for Alec Burks.

Another reason the orc needs to go. He's worst in the League when it comes to having the patience to develop young players.

I agree that Thibs is not very good at player development, but to be fair, Grimes was doing nada in the league before Philly started to tank. Playing for this current Sixers team is almost akin to being sent down to the G League and I'm sure that even a scrub like Bronny would enhance his regular season numbers if given the same opportunity as Grimes.