Thanks for the Game Thread Rady, I thought our next game was Monday against Ja Morant's Grizz team.
My Bad.
Looking at the Game stat sheet, the Kings seem worse than last season adding Derozan to their rotation.
Must be the new HC, not having any confidence in the Kings bench players.
Well, it look like Tibbs didn't get the memo. The Knicks 40 minute starter lineup are still in effect.
The Knicks 5 starters all scored in double figures ..
Josh Hart pulled off another triple-double 20 pts, 18 reb, 11 Dimes
Brunson 25 pts, 11 Dimes
KAT 18 pts, 15 reb
Mikal 27 pts
OG 33 pts
The bench combine for 20 pts, the rest of the points were from the starter lineup.
How many bench players receive 14 minutes of playing time to fit in the rotation throughout midseason?
Three players ..
Precious 18 minutes
Deuce 17 minutes
Shamet 13 minutes
Truth be said ....
We WASTED good playing time the first half of the season on Payne & Shamet having no coach role to fit into the rotation, plus being inconsistent throughout the first half of the season.
The two players playing time could've went to Kolec & Dadiet.
Plus tonight, what impact did we fans expect from Payne to offer in 10 minutes of playing time?
Scoring? Assist? Rebounds? Steals? Blocks? Defense?
Or a 5 minute rest in the first half for a starter, then another 5 minute rest in the 2nd half for a starter player?
Recall .. It was Jericho Sims big-body Screens and Picks that Deuce & Payne kept going around to get easy points when Payne scored 18 points in 7 minutes. Poor Jericho Sims haven't received any playing time since.
We have a coaching problem!