Game thread: New York Knicks @ Utah Jazz 2/7/2022 9:00pm [Game #54]

mafra

Legend
11-42
7-30

Numbers from downtown tonight. What happened to the beautiful game? Reduced to brick-fests most nights. Toss in awful officiating?. Hard to watch nBa games these days.
 
Randle with his 10th 30 point game of the season, but he?s trying to do too much against the double team here in the 4th. We trail by 1.
 
This game is chaos.

MRob with 17 points, 20 boards, 2 blocks, and 3 steals. Just wish he could shoot FTs.
 

mafra

Legend
Career high 21 boards for Mitch

We had a possession where we got 2 offensive rebounds and then fouled. 3 shots and 2 FT attempts? down 2? final 4 minutes? and don?t score a point.

Huge. Huge. Huge

Knicks can?t make a shot or a FT and now game almost over. Soon to be down 4 (101-97)
 

mafra

Legend
The other Mitchell missed both too!

Then they steal ball and convert? Evan with another costly turnover late to break your back. Game set match
 

mafra

Legend
Knicks shoot 3-18 from the field. Outscored 22-11 so far? in the 4th?

Donovan Mitchell a constant reminder how awful and putrid Phil Jax and Gaines were at assessing talent in their later years.

They took Frenchie over Mitchell because there?s more to basketball than ?running and jumping ? they told us.

Lol!!!


This game was a loss the day Phil Jax made that boner selection.

RJ and Mitch give hope? go get McCullum or a real G who can help this team.

Evan can?t score or defend to impact game late, now he?s helping the other team with killer giveaways.


Update: Utah goes on a 11-1 and now it is ovah. 30-17 4th Q blowout
 
Another rough loss when we had a few guys have big games but overall team looks nothing like what it did last year. We were a good crunch time team last year and a terrible one this year.

I really miss Derrick Rose.

We have 10th worst record in NBA.
 

mafra

Legend
Bench shot 3-17? they need to play with more energy. DRose raises all boats so without him? what has become of this unit?
 

Kiyaman

Legend
The score was tied at 92 each having 7 min remaining in the game.
It was time to play hard TEAM-DEFENSE! Which the Jazz did only allowing the Knicks to score 5 pts the next 6 min of the game (97-105), having 1 min remaining in the game.
 

Kiyaman

Legend
The Knicks are 2-10 in their last 12 games ..
Tonight the Knicks scored 18 pts in the 4th qtr. ..
Against the Lakers the Knicks scored 42 pts in the first quarter, and then could only score 44 pts in the 2nd half of the game, which include the overtime points too.

The Knicks have 30 LOSSES & 24 wins this season, which head coach Thib's coaching/substitution/and poor team offense/defense plan has a lot (75%) to do with.
Plus one of the NBA most minute played tandem happen to be the Knicks star players (Randle & RJ Barrett) are not good team-ball starters, the two star players has a bad habit of playing individual ball, and poor one on one defense.
And tonight's final seven min performance from the Knicks two star players SHOWED again they are definitely not CLOSERS going down the stretch of a game.
After watching 3 seasons of the Knicks star tandem Randle & Barrett in the lineup the final 6 minute of every game, the Knicks two star players has not created any chemistry on offense/defense together, their foul line shooting hasn't improve, their turnovers are still losing games, and their decision making in the last 6 min of a game has been consistently awful this season, without D.Rose creativeness & leadership in their lineup going down the stretch of games !!!
 
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Kiyaman

Legend
Bench shot 3-17? they need to play with more energy. DRose raises all boats so without him? what has become of this unit?

Stop mentioning the bench players .. When tonight win or loss goes to coach Thibs plus the lineup he had on the court the final 7 min of the game having a tied score at 92.
Every Knicks fan should be looking at the head coach (offense/defense) plan the final 6 min of each game, and overtime games like the other night. We all need a plan in our day to day life.
Plus the chemistry in the players Thibs select to be in the lineup the final 6 min of a game.
Burks?
RJ?
Fournier?
Randle?
Mitchrob?
and 6th man Quickley?
There's only one player in the above lineup that's a reliable closer, the other 5 players career performance show they are questionable, because of their inconsistency playing down the stretch of games.
 

Kiyaman

Legend
Knicks shoot 3-18 from the field. Outscored 22-11 so far? in the 4th?

Donovan Mitchell a constant reminder how awful and putrid Phil Jax and Gaines were at assessing talent in their later years.

They took Frenchie over Mitchell because there?s more to basketball than ?running and jumping ? they told us.

Lol!!!


This game was a loss the day Phil Jax made that boner selection.

RJ and Mitch give hope? go get McCullum or a real G who can help this team.

Evan can?t score or defend to impact game late, now he?s helping the other team with killer giveaways.


Update: Utah goes on a 11-1 and now it is ovah. 30-17 4th Q blowout

No winning NBA team wants McCollum in their backcourt.
McCollum performance has been stopping the Blazer from being contenders for years.
 
No winning NBA team wants McCollum in their backcourt.
McCollum performance has been stopping the Blazer from being contenders for years.

Drowning people grab after straws looking for any kind of help or excuse.
They blame any and everybody for their problems.

The Knicks needed a PG after they tank and who did they draft or why didn?t they trade back. Again, drowning situation and grab after a straw.

See real BB people give you hope a lifeboat not a straw. Real BB people give you a transformative player, a PG that fit a championship offense, a SF and C that compliment the T.P.

Another drowning situation is in the making before Thursday deadline. Just like getting Cam to try to satisfy the no-nothing bb.
The Cam trade has become another Cancer situation for F.O. and Thib?s. You publicly state that you didn?t want the player or the trade. This shows there is trouble brewing all though this organization.
 

mafra

Legend
Stop mentioning the bench?

Yet you harp on ability to close?

You do understand these disparate parts are mutually tied together?

For example, last night IQ and Cam and Noel were awful?. So when the reserve fail to do their jobs?. They get pulled and starters forced back in earlier? ergo, starters don?t have energy or burst to close out games..

RJ played 42 and Randle 37 minutes?. Mitchell played 35 for Utah.

Little things add up in the end
 
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