Can 100 Knickas take on Two Jays? - Boston Celtics (#2) vs NY Knicks (#3) Official 2nd Round Playoff thread
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I agree that Game 3 is a must win for the Knicks. I think if they take it Saturday, Boston rolls over in 4. Just way too much basketball for a lot of them between the Olympics and last years championship run.
KillerPups
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what u got against being able to go to bed on time??330pm game time Sat?
No prime time in NY?
Spidey Man
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When they gonna come out and announce that KP has long COVID. Minutes police are quiet as church mice.
You can't play 40+ minutes at a high level in the playoffs if you don't train for it during the regular season. I'm sorry for ever doubting Coach Thibs. Boston is gassed at the end and the Knicks are not
You can't play 40+ minutes at a high level in the playoffs if you don't train for it during the regular season. I'm sorry for ever doubting Coach Thibs. Boston is gassed at the end and the Knicks are not
Wargames
One Of The Last Real Ones To Do It
Cause that was what the Knicks was giving them. I really think everybody is underestimating what the fukk it means for Mitch to be guarding dudes on switches at the perimeter consistently. He use to do that early in his career and bulked up and I think his personal trainer didnt do it well so he got fat. He’s trimmed down but he is still strong enough to bang in the paint.
They aren’t Hack a shaqing Mitch to get possessions. It’s not a late game tactic. These guys shoot threes and move in transition, they want the game to go faster. They are doing it because they want to get Mitch off the floor.
The other issue then is when he sits KAT comes in and starts abusing them on the other side and isn’t a total sieve either.
The disparity in Bigs is the main mismatch in this series. The rest of the roster cancels each other out where when one team has an offensive advantage the other has a defensive one.
The other issue is the Celtics defense is like most defenses that give opposing teams the mid range shots because statistically they are worse than 3’s and shots at the rim. The Knicks got two guys who can hit those and they are.
The Celtics aren’t losing the Knicks are beating them. Thibs hasn’t done this type of shyt all season either, so this is specifically shyt designed to beat the Celtics too. They are also ramping up their defense as the game goes on which shows a conditioning advantage as well.
I say that to say this these losses were not flukes. The Knicks beat the Celtics by going at their weaknesses.
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At some point we gotta stop blaming analytics too.
Tatum a grown ass man capable of rationale thought and deductive reasoning. League got a number of stars who excel at the mid range, getting to the basket, switching it up.
Tatum a grown ass man capable of rationale thought and deductive reasoning. League got a number of stars who excel at the mid range, getting to the basket, switching it up.
Wargames
One Of The Last Real Ones To Do It
I said this before and I will say it again I don’t think he has the reliable midrange game to deal with this, and it doesn’t help if OG is there too. Look at that last possession. He couldn’t straight line drive cause of Mitch, Then he went to try the midrange and OG was in his face and then he tried to pass it and Mikal was in the passing lane.
The Knicks cornered him and mugged him.
They left Hart open all game so he got himself 23 points.
The Celtics ain’t losing on some fluke shyt, the Knicks are beating them.
Tatum has never been a great mid range shooter, even in his early years though he shot a higher volume of them, he was never just this high level mid range assassin
Also even when he did, he had the same habit of settling for low quality mid range shots, a lot of contested fadeaways
Nonetheless he took 19 shots last night and only 5 were 3 pointers…he was missing everything. He’s shooting 7-22 on 2s in this series so far
Also even when he did, he had the same habit of settling for low quality mid range shots, a lot of contested fadeaways
Nonetheless he took 19 shots last night and only 5 were 3 pointers…he was missing everything. He’s shooting 7-22 on 2s in this series so far
areohbee824
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The Boston Analyceltics are in trouble. Game 7 2018 Rockets on steroids so far
