@ Noah already screaming at the fans in the first quarter...energy is crazy. Goddamn if we have some meaningful games in April and May at the Garden he might collapse just feeding off of the crowd & vice versa.
My Posse's On Broadway: Official NY Knicks 2016-2017 Season Thread
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@ Noah already screaming at the fans in the first quarter...energy is crazy. Goddamn if we have some meaningful games in April and May at the Garden he might collapse just feeding off of the crowd & vice versa.
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You a new poster breh or did you have another name before?
Say breh, are you a trump supporter?
no. What kind of random shyt is thisSay breh, are you a trump supporter?
no. What kind of random shyt is this
My bad breh.Thought I saw you out in HL with #Trumpset .
Miles Davis
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The best thing of the whole night though...
No Vujacic
No Vujacic
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Rose and Porzingus are two best players on the Knicks.
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Shut up idiot
storyteller
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Let's talk breakdown; this was a coast to coast win against a team that is scrappy with some tough match-ups at key spots. The Grizz didn't have Parsons again which helped; but the defense just showed up to play period. They held Gasol and Conley to 9-24 from the field and used a lot of pace to get out to an early lead that they were able to hold. Three quarters of the game looked really good in terms of ball movement and play while there was that third quarter that drifted into ISO heavy play. Ball movement was great though overall and damn near everyone had a positive contribution to the win this time around.
Rose: Picked his spots well in this one; in the fourth he drove and scored at one point and you could see Melo come over to say something to him heading into a break. He came out of the break and just attacked for three straight positive results on plays (I'm hoping Melo put the battery in his back). He looked for kickouts, drove effectively and sped up the floor play overall. His playmaking was limited but others were really handling that, so it's understood. His defense on Conley was really impressive; he flat out outplayed the highest paid player in the league last night.
Lee: 16 points after the goose egg was a great come back. He saw the benefits of the Grizz focusing on everybody else and he ate well early. When players chase him off of the three point line, he's adept at getting inside and using floaters to finish. His defense is as advertised, motivated and energetic. This was more points than I think we should normally expect, but it was the Courtney Lee play style that makes him such a valuable piece with the other weapons we have.
Melo: He turned a tough shooting night into something impactful by drawing a ton of fouls, rebounding the ball fairly well, giving defensive effort and finding open players on the floor. 20 points isn't bad on 15 FGA's in spite of the poor shooting percentage; but the 5 assists and 6 boards really stand out. In the third when he went Iso heavy, Rose bailed him out a bit by converting on every other possession but besides that third Melo was seeking out teammates often. In the fourth, he made hustle plays and worked to grab an offensive board and hit some free throws that really put the game away. This was a pretty good game and if his shot comes around, it becomes much closer to elite.
KP: He was the Knicks first option to start the game, catching two passes on hard cuts inside and converting some easy points to get a rhythm. When he rocked with the second unit in the second quarter, he asserted himself and looked damn near unstoppable. Defensively that one block in his column doesn't tell the story for how much impact he had, helping others off his man especially when Gasol had the rock. 21 points on 11 attempts is just beautiful. One space for improvement was rebounding effort, but he had a tough physical match-up and that may have been why the rebounding spread well for our whole team instead of leaning his way.
Noah: Call dude the game changer. The game opened with him in playmaking roles often and his passing really set the tone for everyone else to move off the ball and make extra passes with it. Defensively, he got in foul trouble against a tough match-up but he also held dude to an inefficient night. The energy Noah brought to this one is exactly what this team has been lacking for a long time. This is the type of Noah we'll need to be a real impact team; whether his body can last the rigors of the season is unknown but his impact on this one was undeniable.
KOQ: Defense could use work but he had 11 points, 6 boards and 2 assists in 19 minutes. He flat out produced while he was out there and it's not the worst thing in the world to feel overmatched against a Center the caliber of Gasol which was when he really looked bad instead of just below average.
Lance: 5 attempts isn't too bad, he didn't force much but he also wasn't much of an impact guy in this one. He was competent just about everywhere though and made a couple of nice fourth quarter plays that helped hold the lead. He didn't hurt us in this one, but he could stand to look for more ways to be a positive sum player.
Holiday: 8 points in 19 mins and a statline that doesn't really tell the whole story which is liable to become a commonplace talking point for him. That's because his defensive effort, off ball movement and overall motor aren't the things to show up in a box score but they do shine on the court. Without notching anything in a stat column he can have impacts on the game. All the lofty talk about Lance last season; this is a guy who actually deserves that type of talk, he's a positive impact player nearly every time out.
Jennings: 6 points, 3 assists and 2 boards in 16 minutes isn't a bad line and he wasn't bad in this game. But there was a bit less attacking than I like and a couple too many jumpers where he settled instead of taking a chance at creating for somebody else. Kinda falls closer to Lance than KOQ or Holiday as a bench contributer in this one; mostly competent but didn't do much to stand out from an impact perspective either.
Willy: With a solid lead but still in meaningful minutes, Hornacek gave Willy a chunk of time to show something and I felt he played the part well. He sets good screens and rolls hard off of them, was 2 for 3 from the field and outside of one ugly TO; he looked like he belonged playing against Marc Gasol and surrounded by our starters. He didn't back down or shy away from the moment which is a really promising sign from a rookie.
Jeff Hornacek: Well coached game imo. Noah was our biggest impact player for most of the game (you could debate KP was to be fair) but he was also in foul trouble for a lot of it; yet Horny was able to keep line-ups out there that protected the lead and would bend without budging. He used time outs at momentum shifting moments and threw the starters out in a nick of time in the fourth. For the "he has no defensive expert assistant" talk this week; the team came out and played inspired defense all game long with lapses few and far between. I LOVED that he trusted Willy to go in there with starters in the second quarter and to do it for a significant span of time. He also mixed in moments where Holiday or KOQ played with the starting unit and where KP or Melo played with the second unit. Those were moments that could help develop chemistry and give him a better feel for how to stagger the line-ups because the bench does need some firepower (hoping Kuz gets a Willy type look sooner than later).
Random: I have never seen anything like the "hack anybody" strategy Memphis deployed with 4 minutes to go in this one. That was frustrating and ineffective. Parsons getting back will make them an interesting team though, because I really do like a lot of their role players but they're missing an extra playmaking element in the starting unit without him. Some of the guys that got big money last season are putting up ridiculously pedestrian stat lines right now, which is kinda expected early but also a bit of a "buyer beware" warning for a team like us with big cap space this coming off season.
Rose: Picked his spots well in this one; in the fourth he drove and scored at one point and you could see Melo come over to say something to him heading into a break. He came out of the break and just attacked for three straight positive results on plays (I'm hoping Melo put the battery in his back). He looked for kickouts, drove effectively and sped up the floor play overall. His playmaking was limited but others were really handling that, so it's understood. His defense on Conley was really impressive; he flat out outplayed the highest paid player in the league last night.
Lee: 16 points after the goose egg was a great come back. He saw the benefits of the Grizz focusing on everybody else and he ate well early. When players chase him off of the three point line, he's adept at getting inside and using floaters to finish. His defense is as advertised, motivated and energetic. This was more points than I think we should normally expect, but it was the Courtney Lee play style that makes him such a valuable piece with the other weapons we have.
Melo: He turned a tough shooting night into something impactful by drawing a ton of fouls, rebounding the ball fairly well, giving defensive effort and finding open players on the floor. 20 points isn't bad on 15 FGA's in spite of the poor shooting percentage; but the 5 assists and 6 boards really stand out. In the third when he went Iso heavy, Rose bailed him out a bit by converting on every other possession but besides that third Melo was seeking out teammates often. In the fourth, he made hustle plays and worked to grab an offensive board and hit some free throws that really put the game away. This was a pretty good game and if his shot comes around, it becomes much closer to elite.
KP: He was the Knicks first option to start the game, catching two passes on hard cuts inside and converting some easy points to get a rhythm. When he rocked with the second unit in the second quarter, he asserted himself and looked damn near unstoppable. Defensively that one block in his column doesn't tell the story for how much impact he had, helping others off his man especially when Gasol had the rock. 21 points on 11 attempts is just beautiful. One space for improvement was rebounding effort, but he had a tough physical match-up and that may have been why the rebounding spread well for our whole team instead of leaning his way.
Noah: Call dude the game changer. The game opened with him in playmaking roles often and his passing really set the tone for everyone else to move off the ball and make extra passes with it. Defensively, he got in foul trouble against a tough match-up but he also held dude to an inefficient night. The energy Noah brought to this one is exactly what this team has been lacking for a long time. This is the type of Noah we'll need to be a real impact team; whether his body can last the rigors of the season is unknown but his impact on this one was undeniable.
KOQ: Defense could use work but he had 11 points, 6 boards and 2 assists in 19 minutes. He flat out produced while he was out there and it's not the worst thing in the world to feel overmatched against a Center the caliber of Gasol which was when he really looked bad instead of just below average.
Lance: 5 attempts isn't too bad, he didn't force much but he also wasn't much of an impact guy in this one. He was competent just about everywhere though and made a couple of nice fourth quarter plays that helped hold the lead. He didn't hurt us in this one, but he could stand to look for more ways to be a positive sum player.
Holiday: 8 points in 19 mins and a statline that doesn't really tell the whole story which is liable to become a commonplace talking point for him. That's because his defensive effort, off ball movement and overall motor aren't the things to show up in a box score but they do shine on the court. Without notching anything in a stat column he can have impacts on the game. All the lofty talk about Lance last season; this is a guy who actually deserves that type of talk, he's a positive impact player nearly every time out.
Jennings: 6 points, 3 assists and 2 boards in 16 minutes isn't a bad line and he wasn't bad in this game. But there was a bit less attacking than I like and a couple too many jumpers where he settled instead of taking a chance at creating for somebody else. Kinda falls closer to Lance than KOQ or Holiday as a bench contributer in this one; mostly competent but didn't do much to stand out from an impact perspective either.
Willy: With a solid lead but still in meaningful minutes, Hornacek gave Willy a chunk of time to show something and I felt he played the part well. He sets good screens and rolls hard off of them, was 2 for 3 from the field and outside of one ugly TO; he looked like he belonged playing against Marc Gasol and surrounded by our starters. He didn't back down or shy away from the moment which is a really promising sign from a rookie.
Jeff Hornacek: Well coached game imo. Noah was our biggest impact player for most of the game (you could debate KP was to be fair) but he was also in foul trouble for a lot of it; yet Horny was able to keep line-ups out there that protected the lead and would bend without budging. He used time outs at momentum shifting moments and threw the starters out in a nick of time in the fourth. For the "he has no defensive expert assistant" talk this week; the team came out and played inspired defense all game long with lapses few and far between. I LOVED that he trusted Willy to go in there with starters in the second quarter and to do it for a significant span of time. He also mixed in moments where Holiday or KOQ played with the starting unit and where KP or Melo played with the second unit. Those were moments that could help develop chemistry and give him a better feel for how to stagger the line-ups because the bench does need some firepower (hoping Kuz gets a Willy type look sooner than later).
Random: I have never seen anything like the "hack anybody" strategy Memphis deployed with 4 minutes to go in this one. That was frustrating and ineffective. Parsons getting back will make them an interesting team though, because I really do like a lot of their role players but they're missing an extra playmaking element in the starting unit without him. Some of the guys that got big money last season are putting up ridiculously pedestrian stat lines right now, which is kinda expected early but also a bit of a "buyer beware" warning for a team like us with big cap space this coming off season.
storyteller
Superstar
This dude lookin' like Robin Williams in Hook before he figured out how to use positive memories and imagination and ish
If spree was there
Anyway,
Our roster is really versatile brehs
We could put an all offensive lineup out there with
Hernangomez/Porzingis/Melo/Lee/Rose
Or defensive lineup
Noah/ Porzingis/Thomas/Lee/Baker
stepbackj34spud
Top 75 All-Time
If spree was there
Anyway,
Our roster is really versatile brehs
We could put an all offensive lineup out there with
Hernangomez/Porzingis/Melo/Lee/Rose
Or defensive lineup
Noah/ Porzingis/Thomas/Lee/Baker
Best scoring five will include KP at the 5 and Carmelo at the 4. Btw, Cubs lost.
