PG: Awful gameplan, not prepared, not 1 good performance
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Wasn't World Wide Wes trying to get rid of Thibs years ago and he got silenced?
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Wing stopped
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If we insert Wright in the SL so Mitch goes back to the bench, we’ll improve our chances in game 5. Delon can slow Hali down better than Bridges and Hali is the head of the snake. It lets Bridges focus on off ball help defense where he’s better. And it allows Mitch to get back to his ideal role off the bench as an energizer big. What say you?
Thibs won’t do it, however.
Thibs won’t do it, however.
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The only positives I take away from tonight is that Boston is still finished, and the Pacers could lose Turner in free agency. But, the Thunder are like 2 years out of HS, shockingly young, so that team isn't going anywhere.
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H_20 wrote:Someone has to be the scapegoat and I think it's going to be Thibs.
Not really scapegoating to say that if he called timeout in G1, we'd be winning the series or at least tied
That's like a major heads-roll moment
The fact that it hasn't been spotlighted much is very strange
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You know what the worst part is for me?
Realizing Brunson isn't the seemingly perfect player who would always make the right play and never let us lose big games
He seemed when he first came here he could do no wrong, and I don't mean that in a rose tinted glasses kinda way, I mean it literally, like when he first got here he just always seemed to come up big at the most important times, or if he didn't we always had some way to logically excuse him for it
But now? I really don't know man, he's my favorite Knick of the last 20+ years, he took a huge pay cut, etc but man.. we've routinely **** the bed against teams we could/should beat or there's an opportunity to come up big and we never capitalize on the series.
Started with the Heat series years ago, then last year I know injuries but still we had a shot and blew it, now this year, Pacers are not more talented on paper, they have B level stars, we have 2 A level starts IMO, yet we come up short again.
I'm sad because I had such assurance in my mind that Brunson would lead us to the promise land if we gave him a talented roster around him, but once again he comes up short as the leader and loses to a clown like Haliburton.
It's just disappointing man, I want to believe in him but year after year I'm realizing he is a normal player with flaws and stuff, I thought his life long of growing up with basketball and how level headed he is would assure us he would always come up big and never let stuff like this happen to the team, but he doesn't prevent it, it keeps happening now every year ends up disappointment and feeling like "we should have beaten that team they weren't better than us" it's never "damn that team just was so much better than us that we lost" were losing series we should win.
Realizing Brunson isn't the seemingly perfect player who would always make the right play and never let us lose big games
He seemed when he first came here he could do no wrong, and I don't mean that in a rose tinted glasses kinda way, I mean it literally, like when he first got here he just always seemed to come up big at the most important times, or if he didn't we always had some way to logically excuse him for it
But now? I really don't know man, he's my favorite Knick of the last 20+ years, he took a huge pay cut, etc but man.. we've routinely **** the bed against teams we could/should beat or there's an opportunity to come up big and we never capitalize on the series.
Started with the Heat series years ago, then last year I know injuries but still we had a shot and blew it, now this year, Pacers are not more talented on paper, they have B level stars, we have 2 A level starts IMO, yet we come up short again.
I'm sad because I had such assurance in my mind that Brunson would lead us to the promise land if we gave him a talented roster around him, but once again he comes up short as the leader and loses to a clown like Haliburton.
It's just disappointing man, I want to believe in him but year after year I'm realizing he is a normal player with flaws and stuff, I thought his life long of growing up with basketball and how level headed he is would assure us he would always come up big and never let stuff like this happen to the team, but he doesn't prevent it, it keeps happening now every year ends up disappointment and feeling like "we should have beaten that team they weren't better than us" it's never "damn that team just was so much better than us that we lost" were losing series we should win.
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TheGreenArrow wrote:The bridges trade ended any true chance this team had at a championship!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is over for this core!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He will get traded for sure this summer
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Whoever becomes available he will be the first to be thrown out to the package
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Throw the bag at Ty Lue or Sam Cassell
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Indiana is not the better team, let's make one thing clear.
Thibs & Nova gave this game away.
Thibs & Nova gave this game away.

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mpharris36 wrote:switched vs BOS
don't switch vs Indy
gotta love it.
we did switch plenty in this series. but at the pace they play our guys get confused on the switches a lot.
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Towns +3. Every other starter wildly negative. I knew there was a reason plus minus stats weren’t being cited
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Im Coming Home wrote:You know what the worst part is for me?
Realizing Brunson isn't the seemingly perfect player who would always make the right play and never let us lose big games
He seemed when he first came here he could do no wrong, and I don't mean that in a rose tinted glasses kinda way, I mean it literally, like when he first got here he just always seemed to come up big at the most important times, or if he didn't we always had some way to logically excuse him for it
But now? I really don't know man, he's my favorite Knick of the last 20+ years, he took a huge pay cut, etc but man.. we've routinely **** the bed against teams we could/should beat or there's an opportunity to come up big and we never capitalize on the series.
Started with the Heat series years ago, then last year I know injuries but still we had a shot and blew it, now this year, Pacers are not more talented on paper, they have B level stars, we have 2 A level starts IMO, yet we come up short again.
I'm sad because I had such assurance in my mind that Brunson would lead us to the promise land if we gave him a talented roster around him, but once again he comes up short as the leader and loses to a clown like Haliburton.
It's just disappointing man, I want to believe in him but year after year I'm realizing he is a normal player with flaws and stuff, I thought his life long of growing up with basketball and how level headed he is would assure us he would always come up big and never let stuff like this happen to the team, but he doesn't prevent it, it keeps happening now every year ends up disappointment and feeling like "we should have beaten that team they weren't better than us" it's never "damn that team just was so much better than us that we lost" were losing series we should win.
He needs a coach that will hold him accountable and channel his aggression in scoring into setting up his teammates better.
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Re: PG: Awful gameplan, not prepared, not 1 good performance
IND gave us every chance with their turnovers and terrible FGA. And we didn’t want it.
Jimmit79 wrote:Yea RJ played well he was definitely the x factor
#FreeJimmit
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if thibs was smart he would stagger most of brunsons minutes with Haliburton out....brunson should sit earlier and come back later in qtr so that he does't get exposed as much vs Hali and all the action they are running. Pacers much easier to defend with McConnell out there for his 20 mins.
THat would give more minutes for Wright or Deuce against Hali which is what you want.
THat would give more minutes for Wright or Deuce against Hali which is what you want.
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I legitimately don’t even know if Thibs could tell you what his thought process was tonight. Biggest game of the year and he couldn’t have been more clueless out there
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And of course Thibs' arch enemy, Obi, playing in crunch time and nails a clutch 3 putting the nail in Thibs' coffin.....
Cant make this stuff up.
Cant make this stuff up.

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now wright is the answer to everything ? jesus
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I'm not giving up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_teams_that_have_overcome_3%E2%80%931_series_deficits
3-1 deficit is hard to overcome, but it has been done
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_teams_that_have_overcome_3%E2%80%931_series_deficits
3-1 deficit is hard to overcome, but it has been done



















