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Game 64 | New York Knicks @ Cleveland Cavaliers | March 8th, 2014 | 7:30 PM ET

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Did you see how many times we turned the fucking ball over? Over dribbling, right into traps. You don't deserve to win, it's as simple as that.
 
SuperSurge said:
As a coach, don't you need to stand up for your team and make a point that this shitty refereeing will not be accepted?

Too late now, but Mikey should have walked out on the court during play and threw a fit.
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Mike's gotta review the film of the game tomorrow and then he'll be ready to make that decision.
 
billmac91 said:
Because he's the sole reason the Knicks went on a run in the fourth. It's so infuriating to watch him make an amazing offensive play to turn around and give zero fucks on defense and let Pablo fucking Prigioni abuse him in the other end. Just no effort whatsoever getting out to him on the 3 point line. Embarrassing.... It killed all of our momentum in the fourth.

It's sick...I was at game last night and Dion had the most talent on the floor. It shocked me seeing him in person. Why he can't focus on both ends during the minutes he gets is sickening though. No one to blame but himself...he finishes out the fourth if he doesn't at defense like a lazy asshole.
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Prigioni hitting a 3 when Dion went under the screen isn't the reason the Knicks went on a run in the 4th. And that is a coaching move. I doubt Dion decided to go under the screen, Mike probably told them what players to go over and what players to go under. All it would take is a coach to tell him to go over the screen, and he did after the last 3. His defense was certainly no worse than Jack's, so why did he play 40 minutes?
 
Rich said:
Yea, listen, you are correct that his defense on Prigioni was lazy as fuck. You don't go under the screen on a guy who shoots well above 40%. And he did it 3 times (resulting in 2 makes).

But Jarrett Jack half-asses it nightly on defense. He's just kind of out there, doing fuck all, get glued to screens, falling down. It would be one thing if Dion sat for someone, like say Delly, who was playing his tail off on that end. But that's not Jarrett Jack.
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I don't disagree in theory. The issue is Brown looks for reasons to ride Jack and tonight Jarrett played well until the 4th quarter. And if we're being honest, Jack played much better defensively than Waiters in this game. It sucks because Dion shows effort in ISO situations, but in pick and roll defense he just absolutely mails it in. It's infuriating to watch. And on one of the threes Dion watched Prigioni shoot, he literally didn't even step out. Pablo was looking for a reason not to shoot, but Dion just wouldn't move towards him. Just ridiculous...
 
I don't blame the refs at all. Some of those calls were bad, but all of those were bad basketball plays. Refs don't usually like to reward sloppy, and shitty play. That's how it is. You can't expect bail out calls. Yes, Spencer's arm was hit, but WTF are you doing dribbling the ball into traffic, that's just bad basketball. I like him, but he in the second half was really horrible, making really bad decisions.
 
OptimusPrime said:
Prigioni hitting a 3 when Dion went under the screen isn't the reason the Knicks went on a run in the 4th. And that is a coaching move. I doubt Dion decided to go under the screen, Mike probably told them what players to go over and what players to go under. All it would take is a coach to tell him to go over the screen, and he did after the last 3. His defense was certainly no worse than Jack's, so why did he play 40 minutes?
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I disagree. Dions effort was embarrassing. Go back and watch...he has the time to close out and just doesn't. Pablo actually gives Dion time to recover looking to keep the ball moving, but Dion forces his hand by just watching him. And Prigionis back to back threes were momentum killing back breakers. We take a one point lead to be down by 7 in about 60 seconds.
 
godfather said:
What is your point? Jack contributes nearly nothing to this team! He should be given 39 minutes? I'm not really even backing up Dion. I don't think he played good at all tonight. But it's freaking sad, Jack, continues to play like a jackass, and gets so many of the minutes! What does he have on Mike Brown!

NO one off the bench even played more than 15 minutes. No one in the starting tonight lineup was playing well enough for Mike to ground them all into dust like he did, on a back-to-back. It was a terrible game by the players, but horrible coaching too.

Kyrie and Spencer were okay, everyone else was awful tonight.
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Jack was solid for 3 quarters tonight and had his tear-drop working.

Listen, I wish Dion got more time. But he makes it hard to defend when he puts forth such an atrocious effort on the defensive end. Like no effort at all...it gave Mike the ammo he needed to go back to Jack. Which most nights pisses me off, but I can't be that upset tonight when Dion was a walking New York Knick run.
 
If Dan Gilbert doesn't open the vault for Fred Hoiberg or Billy Donovan I'm going to be really disappointed....
 
godfather said:
Yes, Spencer's arm was hit, but WTF are you doing dribbling the ball into traffic, that's just bad basketball. I like him, but he in the second half was really horrible, making really bad decisions.
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I'll accept his hero ball, if the rest of the team decides to step up.
 
Also worth noting, I saw Braxton Miller at the game as I was walking out.
 
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