It’s crazy how much Thibs is making adaptations and adjustments and well…. Being better than he has been. They are running dozens of plays in the last two series they didn’t run before.
In game 4 Hart and Mitch screening and even double screening…. Not done by this team before and when I say team I mean the Knicks since Thibs got here. The Celtics had no idea how to deal with it.
A couple of weeks ago I said the biggest failure of Thibs was him not tapping into the fact the starter all have a high BBIQ and now he finally is.
What the hell happened between Game 2 and Game 4? They were a different team. I was having an argument with friends like "The Knicks aren;t suddenly going to learn to run plays". I watched them in the regular season and Detroit series and they kept doing Brunson iso, then kick out to perimeter for a 3 or some other haphazard play where they might get lucky.
All of the sudden Game 4, they were doing all the things: Pick and rolls, screens, double screens, reverse screens, actual plays. Where did this all come from and why didn't we see it earlier? So weird. With that said, if they can play like they did in Game 4: utlizing screens, big man mismatches, offensive rebounds, slowing down the game, taking only high percentage shots (fukk the 3 ball unless you're WIDE open), I think we have a real real shot at the chip.