"Death to the Pessimistic State of Mind" - Nas Voice: NYK '23 Pre-Season Thread

[DoubleClutch]

Toronto just played harder than us. With Scottie Barnes this is a playoff team

Pascal and Scottie Barnes by playoffs raptors will give Knicks a run for their money

Knicks can’t even contain OG by himself

I actually been sleeping on Toronto

 

[Walter H White]

Make OG look like a HOF brehs

 

[MikelArteta]

 

[g-ice]

They shot better than the Raptors from the field, made more 3's and more free throws.

And still lost!

TURNOVERS! TURNOVERS! TURNOVERS!

If these clowns just held on to the ball they win.

 

[Geordi]

16 Knicks turnovers.. these nikkas need dribbling lessons

 

[Derek Lee]

Randle completely no showed after the hot first quarter. I could give him a pass if he was actually trying on the glass, playing defense and hustling on the floor, but he was ball watching the Toronto guards grabbing uncontested rebounds and OG cooked his ass. Lackadaisical effort from the entire team but RJ and Mitch. smh

 

[Miggs]

Gotta run more offense thru RJ he was making plays right up til the end.....13 shots is not enough with how confident he is playing right now

he had fukkn 27 pts on 13 shots he should had 22-23 shots easy tonight its up to Thibs and the vets to recognize that....

 

[g-ice]

They had 99 shot attempts to our 76. Unacceptable!

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

Didn’t catch the game (thankfully) but It’s seems they play down to their competition and also have issues keep their foot on teams necks.

Also seems like the Knicks can’t get physically and lose energy when opponents do it.

Sounds like they need a goon with a mean streak. Keep in mind every player in the nba has a mean streak. They just need someone hyper aggressive with it.

To sum up the game

1st Quarter: Toronto played Randle one on one and he goes off with 18 points, 4 ast and 4 rebs. We had a 15 point lead.

2nd Quarter: Toronto picks it up late in the 2nd quarter they doubled Randle and he goes completely out of it once the double team happens. Mitchell Robinson played excellent the whole first half.

3rd Quarter: Toronto blows the door off of us with the three ball and just played harder. RJ was the only one who could score but it was too late at that point. They just couldn’t miss from three

4th Quarter: RJ was the only one who could do anything and Toronto just outworked us.


Fournier was terrible, Quickley has completely lost his confidence, Rose didn’t have it, Alec was meh, Randle was good in the first half and the double team completely wiped him out the second half and he went downhill also RJ was really really good.

 

[DoubleClutch]

They had 99 shot attempts to our 76. Unacceptable!

knicks are usually this bad at rebounding?

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

knicks are usually this bad at rebounding?

No both Robinson and Randle are double digit rebounders

 

[Darkman]

The don’t even look for him knowing that he the only one hitting something, they all wanted to be the hero and failed

 

[g-ice]

knicks are usually this bad at rebounding?

No, OG Taj wasn't out there for the second half.

Which in hindsight looms big considering he's such a difference maker in the paint and on the defensive end.

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

Tough kid