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Game Thread | Knicks playoff series Game #1 | Knicks @ Cavs | April 15, 2023

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Harlie Rider said:
Kevin Love would have been a big help in this series - you have to deal with a guy like kevin and he can grab boards
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I have no idea why we gave Love away. And that’s not hindsight just because we lost. Iv said all year that Love would’ve been huge in this years playoffs.


There was no reason why Love couldn’t have given 15-20 minutes today.
 
bornjoke said:
I know it's not the best stat but Wade and LaVert with a +/- of -14 each... Cavs starters except for Garland (-3) were in the +

Hartenstein with +19 lol
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+/- tonight was about “we’re you on the floor when Mitchell was going nuclear or not?”
 
Cayman13 said:
No need to panic- we ain’t winning anything regardless. This has been rinse and repeat alllll year. Don’t get the positive people in here, we do not have what we need to compete in the playoffs. Period.
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Just wishing and hoping doesn't make our talent better but that doesn't stop some of the overly optimistic types from scoffing at anyone who points it out. . It just isn't true that we're more talented than the Knicks until we actually prove something on the floor, head to head, against this Knicks team. We are mentally soft across the board except for Mitchell. Across the board, we need to toughen up mentally.
 
Dr No said:
If you think Wade provides no defense you simply don’t know what you are watching
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Wade provides help defense at the 3, but doesn’t have the athleticism to around rim to back up the center. The Cavs-Knicks game, Lamar had 2 blocks, one against Obi and the other against RJ
 
mAo_mAo said:
The rebounding is the most worrisome since it is really not fixable at all. That is all about effort and willingness.
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Two words: Box. Out.

On the Knicks last possession Mobley stood there and let a smaller guy run past him to bat the ball back outside. That's awful "effort" any time let alone at a crucial moment in a playoff game.
 
WorldFreeB said:
Cedi on Brunson is a real head scratcher for me,never saw that coming.
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You never saw it coming because it was some dumb shit to do and i don’t think any other coach even TRIES it when they have Okoro and Steven’s ready to play on the bench.
 
WorldFreeB said:
Cedi on Brunson is a real head scratcher for me,never saw that coming.
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I really didn’t hate it.

Brunson is shifty and because he pounds the ball a lot you’re gonna see them execute late in the shot clock— however, on some of those possessions you saw Hart get the ball late.. He executed tho…

I thought Cedi did a decent job all things considered… Brunson hit some tough shots (not tough for his style however)
 
Dr No said:
JBB has got to let the bench get some run. Their bench played 93 minutes. Ours only 50 - and that’s with Cedi playing the 15 of the last 17 minutes. You can’t run your starters into the ground in the first half or they are out of gas down the stretch. Look at minutes played - think that might have had something to do with why we couldn’t secure a rebound at the end? Like it or not, he’s going to have to let guys play if we are going to have a chance.
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Bench sucks.
 
Don't trust JB's ability to study game film and and come up with an adequate plan for next game
 
Jscc said:
That was a coaching loss. We already knew our bench was inferior [and they were], we already knew we would likely get dominated on the boards [we did], we knew they would leave Okoro open to brick 3s [he did], we knew guys like DG and Mobley would have yips [they did], but we had the lead with less than 3 minutes to go. Then for whatever reason, they stopped trapping Brunson and left Cedi on him one-on-one to match-up? Wtf? Game.
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Cedi did well enough. The possession after they took the lead the Cavs got the Knicks scrambling but Hart hit a big 3 with the shot clock winding down. Then the Cavs had multiple chances to take possession back in a one possession game down the stretch but gave up offensive rebounds each time after getting the stop on the initial shot attempt.
 
Can someone explain to me what Dean Wade did to earn back rotation minutes? A couple 3s against a legitimate G League Charlotte team the last game of the season? I just don’t get it.
 
PIP said:
I really didn’t hate it.

Brunson is shifty and because he pounds the ball a lot you’re gonna see them execute late in the shot clock— however, on some of those possessions you saw Hart get the ball late.. He executed tho…

I thought Cedi did a decent job all things considered… Brunson hit some patterned tough shots (not tough for his style however)
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Those aren’t tough shots. Cedi is slow as shit and has minimal lateral movement.

Any coach with a brain would’ve known not to try that BS. The only
Hope you had of that matchup working was Brunson settling for stepback 3s which he didnt.

We are 82 games into the season and JBB still doesn’t realize that in a pinch Okoro and Stevens are his PG stoppers. I mean damn, Caris Lavert probably gets 1 or 2 more stops against Brunson 1 on 1
 
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