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Damnn Chris Paul with one of the worst missed layups. Devin Booker bails him out with the game winner

Suns were a good org pre-Sarver, don't act like he isn't a bottom 5 owner ITL. Kroenke is merely mediocre.

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn this thread is gettin' spicy!

Clippers @ Nets 730 tonight on TNT!

The Big 3 is MUST SEE TV!

#TNTknowsDRAMA

Take the over, no idea what it is but take it.

I'm starting off my night with Raptors* Magic at 7 pm. Counterintuitively, if it's looking like a blowout, I won't change the channel in case I miss Malachi Flynn minutes. If it's a close game, I'll switch over to the Nets/Clips.

Nick Nurse calls a time out down 14-5. Does he have the guts to shake up the rotation and play the best rookie in the 2020 draft?

Speaking of rookies PG's, AiML/ThayThay/Geoff, I wanted you to know we're even for the Jamal Murray/Melo trade now.

Hollinger stole my idea to name all-stars. In place of Devin Booker, he has Demar DeRozan

Who can forget when coach Stevens and Nick Nurse together put on a master class on playoff coaching adaptation in the 2nd round? And then Bam and Lebron and AD put on a master class in being big and strong and dunking on fools in the finals.

Clippers coming out here like they know theyre putting up numbers tonight

fred vanvleet with 28 points on 10 shots at the half ... is that good?

242~ or so was the total.

LOL

I agree 100%. He is SPECIAL!

He won't win ROY but he should DEFINITELY be 1st team rookies.

Knicks hit HARD with him with the 25th selection. They hit HARD with Mitchell Robinson with the 36th selection AND RJ Barrett is playing pretty well in his 2nd year. Knicks actually have a reality of a youthful and budding core. Something to look forward to is not what Knicks fans have had for a LONG ass time.

I really wouldn't mind them to lose more games than they should going forward and wind up IN THE LOTTERY!

I said it before and I wasn't kidding. Hollinger reads TZ and steals from it.

I love that confused face DAJ makes when he dunks on somebody lolol

Nets with Harden are 6-3 and are scoring 127.3 ppg.

The Knicks are kinda capping his ceiling and hurting his development by not letting him grow with RJ/Randle asap. He's gotta learn how to play off ball. Bench unit possessions are basically just him running around like a chicken with his head cut off. Not saying it hasn't been fun (or he hasn't been good) but I'll be interested to see what they look like when the Knicks stop pretending like wins & losses matter this season.

Counterpoint, I think RJ is better off being surrounded by NBA experience for this year, primarily for defense where I think he will he solid to great. I think you can have too much inexperience playing together to the point wheee bad habits become easier to form.

I also like Quickley off the bench for now.

He’ll have plenty of time to play with the starters when he’s ready and its not like he hasnt been closing some games when he’s been doing well anyway.

If you think Elfrid Payton's "experience" offers anything positive to RJ Barrett you're not paying attention. Which is fine, the Knicks stink. But Payton is the single most harmful player in the NBA. He's so bad I created a space where I could Zach Lowe rant (using gifs) about how horrible he is. Read & absorb that. It is impossible that Barrett is better off with Payton in the lineup over Quickley.

Now if you want to argue that it's better for Quickley to get his feet wet in the NBA 1) facing more bench units and 2) getting to handle the ball more by leading the Knick bench unit, I will at least hear that. But Barrett is pretty much in the worst possible environment to grow, and Quickley's shooting and the space it would create alone would supersede any other positives the current starting lineup brings.

wild that like every team talks the talk about doing everything they can to develop a young talent when they bink one in the draft or whatever, but then most of them ... just seem to keep doing whatever it was they were doing and just hoping it works out i guess ??

(applicable to many sports/leagues)

Geoff I was actually referring more to defense but your points about offense are obviously >>> my observations as a casual. I’ll check out your space when I get some time.

Can we at least agree that the Knicks won the Staps trade?

sitting thru 54 FVV points to get 3 lousy Flynn minutes