"Who are the Knicks? Brunson, Brunson and some other Knickas" " - Official '23 NYK Offseason Thread

[Wargames]

 

[firemanBk]

How is this possible?

That's a coaching issue
Thibs trash

 

[ISO]

Fournier should get traded and either one of RJ and Randle should be coming off the bench.

Any other adequate coach would of made this change by now.

Most coaches wouldn’t due to politics

Knicks FO created this dilemma

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

Barrett looks broken here. I don’t like this look

 

[KnickstapeCity]

@KnickstapeCity -

english my bad - knicks are trash //

Kant say I didnt c dat komin

 

[KnickstapeCity]

Barrett looks broken here. I don’t like this look

I really don’t understand the whole hoop earring thing. I really don’t get it.

 

[Youhadasparkwhenustarted]

How is this possible?

One of them was against the warriors, I remember because I lost money on that fukking game

 

[Street Knowledge]

Julius COVID season set this franchise back 5 years

 

[The War Report]

Those wins against trash ass teams against like The Magic and The Pistons and barely winning against the trash ass Hornets without LaMelo gassed y’all up.

 

[RickyGQ]

Usually that could be considered a good thing…

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

In all seriousness the Knicks have two major problems that needs to be fixed. One is the perimeter defense and secondly how do you beat the zone defense.

In theory to beat a zone defense you have to stretch them out and break it. By logic measures the only way the Knicks can do this would be to start Harestein since his three point ability as a center would allow the Knicks to play a semi 5 and out and increase space. Just feel like there’s politics that may stop this move (Mitchell contract).

And the perimeter issue can be solved in theory by plugging in Quinten Grimes and making him the primary defender thus moving Barrett to a secondary defender role which may benefit him the most. Grimes guarding point guard’s and shooting guards (His speciality) vs Barrett guarding small forwards (His speciality) would help on defense. Grimes played great against Dejounte even though it was garbage time.

 

[storyteller]

Brehs, what the f*** happened, and to Hawkset of all teams

They used the exact same strategy that they always do. They switched to a zone that slowed everyone down and they just dared the Knicks to shoot. Instead of the starters dribbled into traffic and turned the ball over or missed badly which sparked transitions for Atlanta.

The bench was more effective but Obi missed a pair of jumpers and Thibs went back to starters.

Thibodeau sucks, the starters have no spacing, and the starters can't stop any ball handlers which means the big men either get dogged or pick up fouls.

...brightside, Grimes defended Murray a couple times in garbage time and stayed in front of him.

 

[storyteller]

In all seriousness the Knicks have two major problems that needs to be fixed. One is the perimeter defense and secondly how do you beat the zone defense.

In theory to beat a zone defense you have to stretch them out and break it. By logic measures the only way the Knicks can do this would be to start Harestein since his three point ability as a center would allow the Knicks to play a semi 5 and out and increase space. Just feel like there’s politics that may stop this move (Mitchell contract).

And the perimeter issue can be solved in theory by plugging in Quinten Grimes and making him the primary defender thus moving Barrett to a secondary defender role which may benefit him the most. Grimes guarding point guard’s and shooting guards (His speciality) vs Barrett guarding small forwards (His speciality) would help on defense. Grimes played great against Dejounte even though it was garbage time.

They could also try to beat zones by replacing Randle with Obi who moves more off the ball and seems like his jumper is improved. But Thibodeau seems terrified of cutting Randle's minutes for any reason.

The craziest thing about Grimes probably fixing the perimeter defense for starters is that I bet Mitchell Robinson's foul trouble reduces some as a result. The starting unit actually looked great on defense when Mitch was covering for everybody before foul-trouble.

 

[Ironman]

They could also try to beat zones by replacing Randle with Obi who moves more off the ball and seems like his jumper is improved. But Thibodeau seems terrified of cutting Randle's minutes for any reason.

The craziest thing about Grimes probably fixing the perimeter defense for starters is that I bet Mitchell Robinson's foul trouble reduces some as a result. The starting unit actually looked great on defense when Mitch was covering for everybody before foul-trouble.

Politics

 

[Mr. Jack Napier]

Barrett looks broken here. I don’t like this look

RJ always looks like that, ol sleepy face ass

They used the exact same strategy that they always do. They switched to a zone that slowed everyone down and they just dared the Knicks to shoot. Instead of the starters dribbled into traffic and turned the ball over or missed badly which sparked transitions for Atlanta.

The bench was more effective but Obi missed a pair of jumpers and Thibs went back to starters.

Thibodeau sucks, the starters have no spacing, and the starters can't stop any ball handlers which means the big men either get dogged or pick up fouls.

...brightside, Grimes defended Murray a couple times in garbage time and stayed in front of him.

I watched the abridged highlights,my dog DJ went OFF. His full talent on display