Game Thread: New York Knicks at Cleveland Cavaliers - 1/24/22 7PM

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Big test tonight. Can’t play with that sloppiness we’ve brought the last few games.

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Kemba playing tonight but no MRob. Not having MRob going to be a huge issue going against Evan Mobley.

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Breaks my damn heart that either MRob or Noel is out injured almost every game. We are much better with both those guys playing.

Taj is still an effective player, but he does not bring the same skill set at this point in his career.

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At the timeout, Kevin Love spit while talking and you can clearly see it stuck in his beard. Gross.

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Julius Randle with 4 assists already in the 1st quarter.

We are really struggling against the Cavs’ interior D though.

We trail by 5 after 1 quarter.

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RJ goes coast to coast to tie the game with a layup just before the end of the half. We go into halftime dead even.

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Cavs are a top 3 team in the East TBH, win or lose we played a deadly team. They have a steal in Mobley.

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Back and forth… NYK even had lead… then 17-2 run.

Love has 14 in third third and NyK scored 13…. So far.

NY 9-19 from FT line

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Grimes drains 2 threes and they cut it to 76-69 after 3

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Toppin hits the 3. Knicks on 11 to 0 run to cut deficit to 4 in the 4th.

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Scoop layup by RJ and now we only trail by 3. Got to keep getting stops. Make one more run.

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13-1 run NYK run cuts lead to 3 with a few minutes left.

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5 to go, RJ with 20-4-4-2 line so far… dude has been a monster last couple weeks.

Let’s win this!

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Randle draws the double, passes it to Quickley, who finds Grimes for the open 3. RJ hits another layup. We trail by 1.

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Randle hits a physical contested layup. Game is tied.