November 16th - New Orleans Pelicas vs New York Knicks - 7-7

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the New York Knicks. They have a long, storied NBA history, and some of the greats have played for them. They've had Ewing, they've had Walt, they've had Willis Reed.

Unfortunately for them, it's 2018 and they suck. They have no Porzingis, Courtney Lee is out, Lance Thomas is out, and they've been bad for years. They have the 25th ranked offensive rating in the league, and in a fun combination, also the 25th ranked defense in the league. They are 22nd in ppg, 19th in pace, and are 4-11 on the season.

So, what are they good at? Well, offensive rebounding: the Knicks are the best offensive rebounding team in the league, with a little over 12 per game. That means we're really going to have to fight for defensive boards to prevent them racking up second chance points. That's about it though.

27th in assists, they don't move the ball well on offense. 14th in steals and 19th in blocks, they aren't that active on the defensive end of the floor. They're 28th in the league in 3pt percentage, and only 26th in the league in 2pt percentage. Their only real offensive threat is Tim Hardaway Jr, so it falls again to Jrue to matchup against another 20+ppg guard tonight. I have absolute faith that he can do a good job on him. After that, there's Enes Kanter, who is a huge part of their rebounding but whose offensive game is so limited and whose defense is so suspect that AD, Niko, and Randle should be able to bulldoze over him at will.

They do have some other solid players, or players with potential, but none of them have yet reached that level where they are a serious, consistent threat. We should win this with relatively little trouble, especially at home.

Let's get back in the win column. If anyone is interested, I predicted our record before the season, and I thought we'd be 8-6 at this point, so we're actually not too far off. #DoItBig

We'll be 5-0 when Elfrid plays a full game. Back above .500.

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Originally Posted by msusousaphone

We'll be 5-0 when Elfrid plays a full game. Back above .500.

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We'll be fine, to be honest. I had us at 8-6 right now, as I said, so 7-7 really isn't that far off, and I had us winning somewhere between 52 and 54 games this season. We're pretty on track for that, and we've got a pretty good dozen games or so coming up. From now until the end of the year, we play the Knicks twice, Wizards twice, Heat, Hornets, Mavs three times, Clippers again, Kings, Lakers, and Grizzlies. Could easily see us going for 10-3 in those 13 games, or even better.

So glad to see Payton back in that lineup

Payton is back, Maaaan i think his last game was a year ago! Happy to see Mirotic is OK

Sloppy so far for both teams, and Payton keeps grabbing his hand

Man look at us getting that home cooking lol

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Another sllllllllllllllllllllllllllllloooooooooooooooooooo ooo start. DAM

Offense has just looked boggled. Defense has looked, perhaps, vexed.

What a ugly start of the game...

Horrid start. 4 turnovers already, and we're letting the 28th ranked 3pt shooting team shoot 50% from 3 on us.

woof! what is basketball?

This is so sad it's hilarious [emoji23]

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Oh how bad wes is...

No words for this abomination

Davis "im the best player in the world".
Mate your not even the best player on this team right now.

Davis has checked out

We need a SF and a C badly...

Mirotic cannot shoot right now.

What are they doing out there??

NGL, kinda getting sick of getting in big deficits early in games.

so many wasted possessions, Christ.

Outscored 16 in a quarter by the goddamn Knicks

I'm starting to think AD has his mind outta here...

One of the top 10 quarters in franchise history?

Woooooooooooof.