"Peter POPOFF Thinks the Thread is Funny like a Clown" - Joe Pesci voice - Official '24-25 NY Knicks Season Thread

[Mr. Jack Napier]

It's true. We beat the Wiz 2x, Magic 2x, Pelicans, Raptors, Spurs, Jazz, Wolves.

 

[KnickstapeCity]

It's true. We beat the Wiz 2x, Magic 2x, Pelicans, Raptors, Spurs, Jazz, Wolves.

 

[ikbm]

Yeah this is like a routine down stretch for them before they end being one of the hottest teams after the deadline or a trade like they have been the last two seasons. Still think McBrunson is the true 5 out lineup

Every single time we go on a streak with thibs we gas out for 3,4 games. It’s whatever. At this point it’s disappointing but not upsetting. Already been through this shyt for 5 years with this coach

 

[TOAD99]

fukk it, it is what it is. At least we’re the 3rd seed still

 

[KnickstapeCity]

Every single time we go on a streak with thibs we gas out for 3,4 games. It’s whatever. At this point it’s disappointing but not upsetting. Already been through this shyt for 5 years with this coach

Still the most success we’ve had in like forever

 

[mvp_status]

Toughest schedule in the league the rest of the way, and Banchero is likely back this week. Would've been nice to get an extra game cushion on 3rd

 

[storyteller]

Cam Payne has been horrendous. Landry Shamet works hard, but if he can't shoot then it doesn't matter. Precious has one good two-way performance since coming back. Sims is afraid to shoot even when he's under the basket.

But Thibs will have all four guys out there with one starter. You have to use your bench and rest guys, but Thibs has a weird issue with staggering his subs. Payne and Shamet should never be the backcourt together, split their minutes up unless foul trouble forces you. Precious and Sims played together last night and the spacing was exactly how you would guess...a disaster.

The starters are gassed, but this month of home games should get them much more rest and recovery. But Thibs could do everyone a favor by adjusting his rotations.

 

[In The Zone '98]

Cam Payne has been horrendous. Landry Shamet works hard, but if he can't shoot then it doesn't matter. Precious has one good two-way performance since coming back. Sims is afraid to shoot even when he's under the basket.

But Thibs will have all four guys out there with one starter. You have to use your bench and rest guys, but Thibs has a weird issue with staggering his subs. Payne and Shamet should never be the backcourt together, split their minutes up unless foul trouble forces you. Precious and Sims played together last night and the spacing was exactly how you would guess...a disaster.

The starters are gassed, but this month of home games should get them much more rest and recovery. But Thibs could do everyone a favor by adjusting his rotations.

Subs gotta come in and draw fouls

Shamet and Payne can't dribble. So they come in and jack 3s

This team, as is, cannot beat Boston or Cleveland

 

[K-Apps]

New York has always been an oversaturated market for regional sports networks—MSG, SNY, YES, etcetera—a consequence of the fact that most of its pro teams are owned individually. The Tsai family owns the Nets, Steve Cohen runs the Mets, the Steinbrenners control the Yankees, and Jon Ledecky has the Islanders. The one mammoth exception, of course, is Jim Dolan, who inherited the Knicks and Rangers, whose games populate his own MSG Network. Dolan, who is hardly a stranger to litigation and confrontation, is now leading MSG into an existential battle, all while his Knicks are enjoying their best season in a quarter-century.
Altice, the deeply troubled cable distributor, has dropped MSG Networks from its Optimum-branded New York system—despite (or, cynically, on account of) the Knicks’ success. Meanwhile, some influential analysts believe that New York, previously the last stable R.S.N. market, is ripe for consolidation.
MSG, after all, relies disproportionately on Altice, which accounts for about 33 percent of MSG Networks’ distribution revenue, per Guggenheim. A lot hangs on whether MSG Networks files for bankruptcy, as predicted by analysts from both Guggenheim and LightShed Partners. MSG Networks’ dispute with Altice is not your run-of-the-mill cable carriage beef. For starters, there’s no end in sight. The pay TV market is radically different than it was 13 years ago, when Time Warner Cable kept MSG Networks off of its systems for a month, only to be pressured to cut a deal after Jeremy Lin caught fire and led the Knicks on a six-game winning streak.
I called LightShed Partners’ Brandon Ross to get a sense of where things might be headed. He reiterated that Altice and MSG Networks are nowhere near an agreement, and he doubts the two will be able to find a middle ground. Altice’s latest offer, which puts MSG on a tier that carries a $55 surcharge, seems entirely unacceptable to Dolan, especially since it would trigger most-favored-nation clauses that give other distributors rights to the same terms. (MSG Networks’ deal with Charter, for example, is up at the end of this year.) “It would just not be a profitable business,” Ross said. “We’re at the point where something has to change.”
Dolan certainly doesn’t want to take MSG Networks into bankruptcy, Ross told me. But without an Altice deal, Ross doesn’t see a scenario where MSG Networks will be able to make its debt payments. “If you can’t make your interest payments, generally you’re just forced into bankruptcy, which would mean that the banks would take control of the asset,” Ross said. (While Sphere Entertainment owns MSG Networks, it carries its own capital structure and has its own debt consequences, as my partner Bill Cohan recently noted.)
It’s hard to predict what would happen in a bankruptcy, but Ross suggested that creditors would work with MSG Sports to lower license fee payments, thereby freeing the R.S.N. to merge with YES Network, which holds the rights to the Yankees and crosstown rival Nets. Ross’s rationale is influenced by the fact that a bankruptcy court allowed Diamond Sports Group, after 20 months in Chapter 11, to reject some money-losing contracts while keeping others. “This is an R.S.N. issue,” Ross said. “This is not the first R.S.N. to get into these problems. But some of the market dynamics in New York allowed this to last longer.”
MSG carries one of the highest costs of all R.S.N.s in the country, Ross said, due to the fact that both Cablevision—the former vessel of Jim’s father Charles Dolan’s generational wealth—and Verizon Fios competed bitterly for video subscribers in New York. “They were battling for broadband subscribers, so they would never drop content, because the value of the subscriber was too high in this broadband battle that they were having,” Ross said. “That competitive dynamic pushed the prices up. Now, the video bundle isn’t dragging along broadband. We’re in a totally different era.”

MSG Network might have to merge with YES Network in the future

 

[storyteller]

Subs gotta come in and draw fouls

Shamet and Payne can't dribble. So they come in and jack 3s

This team, as is, cannot beat Boston or Cleveland

Payne can get to the paint, but can't finish layups or floaters and has worse vision than RJ Barrett when he's there. It's wild. Shamet's a catch and shoot player for sure, but he's shooting like trash right now.

I hope Kolek can be an upgrade to Payne, and hopefully Deuce is back soon.

 

[ECA]

Cam Payne has been horrendous. Landry Shamet works hard, but if he can't shoot then it doesn't matter. Precious has one good two-way performance since coming back. Sims is afraid to shoot even when he's under the basket.

But Thibs will have all four guys out there with one starter. You have to use your bench and rest guys, but Thibs has a weird issue with staggering his subs. Payne and Shamet should never be the backcourt together, split their minutes up unless foul trouble forces you. Precious and Sims played together last night and the spacing was exactly how you would guess...a disaster.

The starters are gassed, but this month of home games should get them much more rest and recovery. But Thibs could do everyone a favor by adjusting his rotations.

If I'm Thibs, I wouldn't play these guys either. I trust OG at the 5 more than Precious and Sims, and Payne isn't that much better defensively than Kolek so it's time to see what bro can do with a consistent 13mpg