Official Game Thread: Huskies (4-3) @ Knickerbockers (5-1) - Monday, Nov 1, 2021 7:30PM - NBATV/TSN/ TSN Radio 1050

[Mikistan]

720 congrats on the move - once you get internet up and running the win streak is yours to lead!!




WELCOME TO THE NBA'S FIRST GAME

Fast facts on the first game in NBA history
New York Knicks 68, Toronto Huskies 66

Knicks leading scorer: Leo Gottlieb - 14 points on six shots

Huskies leading scorer: Ed Sadowski - 18 points on 8 shots

This was the first game in NBA history.
The only statistics recorded for this game were points, field goals made, free throws made, free throw attempts and personal fouls.

The game was played at the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.

Each team had two players score double figures, with Ossie Schectman's 11 points joining Gottlieb for the Knicks and George Nostrand's 16 points joining Sadowski for the Huskies.
Sadowski - the Huskies' best player and head coach - fouled out of the game.
Free throw shooting killed the Huskies, going 16-for-29 (55.2%) from the line in a game they lost by two points.
Sadowski and Nostrand - the Huskies' two leading scorers - combined to go 4-for-13 from the free throw line.
Other general notes about the Huskies' inaugural season:

This was the one and only season for the Toronto Huskies' franchise.
After just 10 games, Sadowski was traded from the Huskies to the Cleveland Rebels, also ending his tenure as the first coach in Toronto franchise history. He averaged 16.5 points per game for the season. The following year, he joined the Boston Celtics and averaged a career-high 19.4 points per game.
The Huskies finished with a 22-38 record in 1946-47, going through four different head coaches.
Two of the head coaches - Sadowski and Dick Fitzgerald - played for the team.
After Sadowski was traded, team general manager Lew Hayman - a Canadian Football League icon - took over as head coach for one game.
Robert Rolfe, a famous baseball player and World Series champion for the New York Yankees at the time, took over as the Huskies head coach thereafter, going 17-27. Once he finished the 1946-47 season with Toronto, he returned the New York Yankees as a coach.

TORONTO RAPTORS



NEW YORK KNICKS

[LBJKB24MJ23]

Thinking of going to this game.

[Ref_from_hell]

Chalk up another win. Knicks are in for a reality check

[Bruin]

Wish we would’ve gone with Huskies jerseys for this one

[Madhouse]

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[Bruin]

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[HumbleRen]

Both these teams might not score 140 points combined

[ThemCrookedRefs]

[alienchild]

Beam me up.

[Asif16]

If Scottie dont play, its an automatic L.

We're gonna see Precious put up 15 forced shots

[Son Goku 25]

Knicks are a tough team, one of the bigger tests early in the season.

[DatHomieYouHaTe]

Scottie at MSG has to happen. Where legends are born

[TNRaps4life]

https://www.rotowire.com/basketball/player.php?id=5390&nid=369144


Scottie Barnes not on injury report.

[Bruin]

Scottie seems like the type of player who thrives in hostile environments and bright lights. Should be interesting to see him in his first taste of MSG

[LoveMyRaps]

Every rookie has this day circled on their calendars. First game at the Mecca of basketball, Madison Square Garden.
Time for Barnes to show up & show out! He's made for the spotlight and I'm looking forward to him giving Randle that work!
Just hope he's 100% good to go.

[RAPSinCAPS]

Yeah this will be a tough one. We need to get Robinson out of the paint and contain Barrett. On the other hand they need to deal with Scottie lol. Don't overreact if we lose.

[TravisScott55]

Knicks are good. Going to be a tough one.

[Boogie!]

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Siskam partying like it's 2004 in that nclovin costume...

Also he looks taller than Barnes...

[Dalek]

Knicks are shooting the three really well. They now have Fornier and Kemba which is a pick your poison type backcourt that can play off Randle. I'd play something single coverage on Randle with OG and see how it goes. Let him be the scorer.

Got to clog up Barrett in the opencourt. He will be tough to slow. I would use Scottie on him.

Birch has to start. Achuiwa has no quickness advantage on Robinson.

[WaltFrazier]