Game Thread: NBA Cup - New York Knicks vs. Atlanta Hawks Madison Square Garden, New York, NY Wed, Dec. 11th 7pm

[HarthorneWingo]

Our record will likely prevent this from happening but we should have 3 All-Stars this season.

Brunson and KAT are a given but OG should make it as well.

Of course, some players are putting up numbers on bad teams because somebody has to, and this tends to favor their chances. But in terms of impact on winning, I think OG would be a deserving All-Star.

It doesn't really matter but I hope his play gets rewarded.

Is there a better all around defensive player in the league than OGEEEEEEEE (as Clyde likes to say)?

[HarthorneWingo]

I hope we get Breen calling the game tonight. I can't take Kevin Harlan screaming at me all game long.

[stuporman]

OG won't ever have the flashy numbers that an 'all-star' needs to have even though he impacts the game at an all-star level, the same can be said for MB once he sorts out his role and shot issues. Both probably won't get over 20ppg and most all stars are closer to 25ppg than 20ppg instead of below it.

[HEZI]

Let's see how many times Hart, Deuce and Mikal are out of defensive position tonight.

Watched the Raptors game; there were at least 7 instances of this leading to wide open shots. Might have been more.

[aggo]

I hope none of them make all-star

[Fat Kat]

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[stuporman]

I hope none of them make all-star

...and lose this game, too...they need the time off to recover from Thibsinomics

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Painy lane...

[Wildcat]

It's funny, because you think someone watching the Knicks all season would know Precious just played his first mins of the season just recently so wouldn't impact season long stats like that.

But hey...maybe they wouldn't know

I thought that assertion was pretty obvious. Why else would I give them an excuse by saying Cam and Deuce haven't really played much together?

My comment was about Precious, that someone would know Precious just got back from injury so wouldn't really factor into a season long bench scoring average all that significantly...it wasn't about the amount of time Cam and Deuce have played together.

Sims was the only big off the bench getting consistent burn and his scoring makes Mitch look like Shaq.

The point I was trying to make was I'm expecting bench scoring to go up to 25-30 range.

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They couldn't do a photo shoot at night when that area is dead? Pfff.

[stuporman]

I thought that assertion was pretty obvious. Why else would I give them an excuse by saying Cam and Deuce haven't really played much together?

My comment was about Precious, that someone would know Precious just got back from injury so wouldn't really factor into a season long bench scoring average all that significantly...it wasn't about the amount of time Cam and Deuce have played together.

Sims was the only big off the bench getting consistent burn and his scoring makes Mitch look like Shaq.

The point I was trying to make was I'm expecting bench scoring to go up to 25-30 range.

Now that Precious is back and actually has offensive skill him being the big off the bench will definitely help that.

[ScienceOfLosing]

:x

We must get revenge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Should put Dadiet on him. Show the lotto pick, the best France got.

[rajajackal]

ATL is 3rd in the NBA in bench scoring at 41.5 PPG. Hunter and Bogdanovic account for 31.7 of that. If Hunter's numbers continue, he'll be in the mix for 6MOY.

we are 30th at 21.0 PPG. Deuce and Payne account for 19.0 of that.

soon our bench will be so defensively overwhelming that this will not matter as much

We would need to play our bench more than 12 minutes combined to have this discussion.

as long as mitch precious deuce and cam do their jobs on defense (and they've given us every reason to believe they can) tom will let them play

[Jalen Bluntson]

soon our bench will be so defensively overwhelming that this will not matter as much

We would need to play our bench more than 12 minutes combined to have this discussion.

as long as mitch precious deuce and cam do their jobs on defense (and they've given us every reason to believe they can) tom will let them play

Yeah. I love our bench. We haven't seen it play together yet so, there is nothing to really base stats off of. So far we have only seen Deuce/Payne/Precious together for ONE game. Mitch won't be here for about a month.

It wasn't a knock on Thibs not playing the bench. We haven't even seen our bench. Just the one game.

[rajajackal]

We would need to play our bench more than 12 minutes combined to have this discussion.

as long as mitch precious deuce and cam do their jobs on defense (and they've given us every reason to believe they can) tom will let them play

Yeah. I love our bench. We haven't seen it play together yet so, there is nothing to really base stats off of. So far we have only seen Deuce/Payne/Precious together for ONE game. Mitch won't be here for about a month.

It wasn't a knock on Thibs not playing the bench. We haven't even seen our bench. Just the one game.

i get that, i said "soon" late dec/early jan is almost upon us!

[Jalen Bluntson]

as long as mitch precious deuce and cam do their jobs on defense (and they've given us every reason to believe they can) tom will let them play

Yeah. I love our bench. We haven't seen it play together yet so, there is nothing to really base stats off of. So far we have only seen Deuce/Payne/Precious together for ONE game. Mitch won't be here for about a month.

It wasn't a knock on Thibs not playing the bench. We haven't even seen our bench. Just the one game.

i get that, i said "soon" late dec/early jan is almost upon us!

You were replying to a post, I agreed with you and joked that we haven't even seen our bench. Hence the

[Reign23]

get one step closer !!!! lets get this cup !!!!!!!

No

A 100% homie! just ask Guano!

[HMFFL]

Knicks are favored by 7.5 points.

H2H Last 10:
Tied 5-5

Hawks have won the previous two meetings.

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#10 Brunson
#19 KAT
#42 OG
#65 Mikal
#80 Hart

seems about right tbh.