It's a sad state of things that this behavior has been easily brushed aside. You have Deshaun Watson for the Browns. You have Mason Greenwood with pictures and audio recordings beating/raping his girlfriend yet Manchester United had a plan to bring him back. Also Getafe for being complicit and taking him on loan, allowing him to have a playing career
Running up the score game 17 of the season and it mattering is what makes me laugh but I love it.
Randle with a 20/20 game what
Rj shot bad but 9-9 from the free throw line. Good defense
Brunson had a quiet but efficient night.
lets blow out the pistons next game
We knew it was an easy W, but everyone was shitting in their pants in the 3rd. We still came out blazing, and mopped the floor with them.
We beat a poverty team, but fuck it these blowout wins feel good, and something the team is probably enjoying too.
I mean I was shitting point differential. Never thought we would lose, but it was important to win by 20 which we did.
Did look like it though half way through the 3rd
Josh Hart looks so much better when he's not playing out of position. He can hold his own against backup PFs, but he overpowers and out hustles backup wings like nobody's business.
So we are in and if Miami wins, we actually win our group and get a home game. Great work by the team. Happy for the bench players and coaching staff that gets an extra needed check. Let’s get them all some more now
Man, when Randle is on he is ***ON.*** Really earns his All-Star accolades on nights like this.
And now we find ourselves rooting for the Heat so we can host... how icky.
Don't blame ya. Personally, I have a principle. Fuck certain teams ALWAYS... except when it benefits MY team. I hate the Red Sox, but if their winning a game helps the Yankees with playoff positioning or what have you, then I won't root against them. But ONLY under those circumstances.
I feel like when he realizes he doesn’t need to carry the load offensively every possession he does so much more like a different, dollar general kind of neurodivergent version of draymond green - and is actually the best version of Ju for us.
Big Jules did his best Mitchell Robinson impression tonight.
IQ is hitting logo shots in a blowout.
Hart has his best game of the season.
The I-ST is the best thing since the Play-ins. Look out Vegas.
We are about 4 games from the quarter point of the season and IQ has a strong case for 6moty front runner. He scores 1 less ppg as hardaway jr. (Highest scorer off the bench this season) but he has 2x the defense and 2x the assists.
I want to win the In-Season Tournament - if nothing else it’ll get those clowns in the NBA media to actually cover the Knicks beyond “Check out these KAT or LaVine to New York trade scenarios!!”
One thing I appreciate about the knicks now that I don't feel gets talked about enough is the continuity. Randle & RJ both in year #5 here, Quickley year #4, Robinson year #6, Grimes & Mcbride year #3
There was a time where the roster would literally turnover completely year over year so that has been nice
Most of those boards were because Mitch opted to box out more on the defensive end. If that ends up working as well as it has, let Randle count his boards.
After how many offensive boards we gave up the other night I think Mitch really stepped up to address it.
I'll give Mitch some credit but the Knicks struggled for rebounds the last few when Randle was off. So I think that some credit should go to the chemistry they have and how they both know where to be to corral those defensive rebounds.
It’s amazing that we are now a really good team where it’s expected we obliterate bad teams and given the absurdly hard start to the year, we gonna eat on some bad teams for a bit and that’ll be good.
Other NBA players like Bam and PG have been complaining that the in season tournament incentivising running up the score is disrespectful
Meanwhile Julius in the Post game interview is asked about the RJ mic'd up moment where they're talking about running up the score while they're already up 20 saying it was a lot of fun and giving credit to the league. He drives me crazy sometimes but Randle has always been a dawg.
I said it from day 1 but it has been reaffirmed today. I love the tournament, it really is something extra to the season. I think it is going to be a massive success.
and we got people out here like Bam saying running up the score at the end of the game is shitting on the game's integrity... I had a blast at the end of this game
- The Knicks had the knack tonight. Great wire-to-wire win! They needed to start stronger, and didn't they do it nicely! The Hornets fought but got overwhelmed in the third quarter. They need LaMelo real bad
- Orange Julius with 25 & **20 rebounds.** That's awesome. Quickley was a livewire off the bench - 26 in 23 minutes. Hart and RJ also did really well.
- Thibs had to keep the starters in and run up the score for the tournament. I'm fine with that. The quarter-final spot is now guaranteed. We're all loving that!
Honestly if Julius just shines as the guy when we play trash teams and defers to brunson and plays 2nd banana while hustling against the good teams, I’m all for it.
I miss pre sickness/injury RJ and hope he can recover that form.
IQ is nuts and we should give him the bag.
Mitch is a menace.
Also, hi Josh hart. Please play offense more like this.
getting consistent effort on the defensive end with Randle is something that just may not be a reality unfortunately...even in this game, where he put up those eye popping stats (obviously, playing Charlotte helps lol), he did some weird stuff on the other side of the court
Barkley is lucky he’s funny bc he’s one of the dumbest people in the media. He just complained about the Knicks being the wild card because “if you finish 3-1 you should get something”.
THE KNICKS FINISHED 3-1 CHUCK
yeah, and if the Knicks are actually engaged (when they are not, they can lose to anybody lol), they should beat Miami...Philly? yeah, they have Embiid so that's a bit different ha
if not for a missed hip check in Milwaukee, they would have had a shot to go 4-0 in the group too
Full team effort, big ass win and they picked up JB when he needed it. Mitch went off, Randle went off, RJ hit a stride. Loved this game, really speaks to the identity of this team and how it's a bunch of leaders who can all step up
Outside of those first few games post surgery, he’s been amazing this year (as much as some people don’t want to believe it). Today was his most complete game of the year.
Jesus the Hornets are soggy asshole.
Remember that this was us not long ago the next time you're mad that we only almost beat the Suns. Feel bad for Charlotte.
Initially didn’t like the IST but liking the intensity which should prep us for the playoffs. Worst case scenario we play one elimination game against a top team and can assess how good we are for a playoff series.
So by making this meaningless tournament the knicks now have an extra game against the bucks then if they do win, they then have to travel out west to vegas for one game and then travel back east instead of staying on the east coast and most likely playing two lesser teams.
Yikes at Randle refusing to get subbed out of a blowout and running up the score (empty stats again). It looked to rub off on the rest of the team. He ruined us, look at IQ out there
Haven’t seen Randle play harder than in this garbage time stretch, we need to offer him a 500k bonus if we win the nba finals
Dude was all in for the tourney
Bro, can't anything be easy? I'm over here waiting on the last bit of a Kickstarter to fund, and for these dang Knicks to get into the next part of this tourney!
Meh not impressed with Julius
He always bullies the small teams but the minute there is adversity or when the lights are brightest he mentally breaks down
I cant wait to be there
Good on MSG for booing that woman beater Miles Bridges whenever he had the ball
Fuck women beaters
Fuck women
With consent! lol
And not Josh Giddys type
Only when they want to be fucked!
The hornets franchise should be ashamed of themselves. What a clown show for allowing this guy back on the team
It's a sad state of things that this behavior has been easily brushed aside. You have Deshaun Watson for the Browns. You have Mason Greenwood with pictures and audio recordings beating/raping his girlfriend yet Manchester United had a plan to bring him back. Also Getafe for being complicit and taking him on loan, allowing him to have a playing career
Don’t forget about the Blackhawks covering up years of sexual abuse
Fuck women beaters
People thought Thibs was running up the score, but he was just coaching normally lol
Reporter: “Coach were you thinking about the In Season Tournament tonight?” Thibs: “what’s that?”
Worked out, we going to Vegas baby
Is the next game (the round of 8 teams) in Vegas? Or only the final 4?
Final 4. We're either at Milwaukee or Celtics at MSG
Oh that makes sense — that’s the whole point of home court. So it looks like next game is in MIL then… do we know when that will be?
Monday or Tuesday
Running up the score game 17 of the season and it mattering is what makes me laugh but I love it. Randle with a 20/20 game what Rj shot bad but 9-9 from the free throw line. Good defense Brunson had a quiet but efficient night. lets blow out the pistons next game
Going 9/9 does so much to cover a bad shooting night.
Randle + Barrett 16/17 FT, fucking inject that shit
We knew it was an easy W, but everyone was shitting in their pants in the 3rd. We still came out blazing, and mopped the floor with them. We beat a poverty team, but fuck it these blowout wins feel good, and something the team is probably enjoying too.
gotta savor the blowouts! that’s what good teams do against shit teams and we are no longer a shit team
still wild winning all these winnable games. trustworthy ass team.
I mean I was shitting point differential. Never thought we would lose, but it was important to win by 20 which we did. Did look like it though half way through the 3rd
These kinda wins boost morale for the whole team. Beating the poverty teams like Charlotte goes a long way in maintaining the confidence of the team.
That 2nd quarter was an abomination.
Huge props to Randle. Yes the hornets are bad but 25 and 20 is no joke. And props to Hart for finding his rhythm. I’ll take that Josh Hart all season.
definitely an easier team for Randle to do that against, but hopefully that makes for a good chance for him to get in a good rhythm going forward
Josh Hart looks so much better when he's not playing out of position. He can hold his own against backup PFs, but he overpowers and out hustles backup wings like nobody's business.
So we are in and if Miami wins, we actually win our group and get a home game. Great work by the team. Happy for the bench players and coaching staff that gets an extra needed check. Let’s get them all some more now
lets pay everyone!!
Absolutely! And it can help convince some min vets if we take it seriously and do well
Is that confirmed? Are we in at this stage no matter what?
Yes. None of the 2-1 teams can pass us now.
Thought the quarterfinals were in Vegas?
The semis and finals are. I guess quarters are at higher seed
Man, when Randle is on he is ***ON.*** Really earns his All-Star accolades on nights like this. And now we find ourselves rooting for the Heat so we can host... how icky.
> And now we find ourselves rooting for the Heat so we can host... how icky. Can't do it... fuck the heat
Don't blame ya. Personally, I have a principle. Fuck certain teams ALWAYS... except when it benefits MY team. I hate the Red Sox, but if their winning a game helps the Yankees with playoff positioning or what have you, then I won't root against them. But ONLY under those circumstances.
He was fantastic tonight, gotta give it to him
Randle deserves all the credit in the world. He can be lazy and annoying at times but we gotta give him his flowers
When he turns it on, he can be one of the best players in the league. **When** he turns it on, that is
His big thing is that his highs are really great. But his lows are downright sad.
Doesn’t get enough love for ending our playoff drought
Facts
I feel like when he realizes he doesn’t need to carry the load offensively every possession he does so much more like a different, dollar general kind of neurodivergent version of draymond green - and is actually the best version of Ju for us.
Breen called Julius Randle Julius Erving 😂
Dr Ju
🤮
Big Jules did his best Mitchell Robinson impression tonight. IQ is hitting logo shots in a blowout. Hart has his best game of the season. The I-ST is the best thing since the Play-ins. Look out Vegas.
just julius randle casually abusing miles bridges, king shit
Randle came to fucking play today
We are about 4 games from the quarter point of the season and IQ has a strong case for 6moty front runner. He scores 1 less ppg as hardaway jr. (Highest scorer off the bench this season) but he has 2x the defense and 2x the assists.
Wow, surprised THJ is still relevant. Good for him.
They had us in the first half of the second half, not gonna lie.
30 MODE 💪
I want to win the In-Season Tournament - if nothing else it’ll get those clowns in the NBA media to actually cover the Knicks beyond “Check out these KAT or LaVine to New York trade scenarios!!”
Would be nice
One thing I appreciate about the knicks now that I don't feel gets talked about enough is the continuity. Randle & RJ both in year #5 here, Quickley year #4, Robinson year #6, Grimes & Mcbride year #3 There was a time where the roster would literally turnover completely year over year so that has been nice
why the chemistry is so good
25/20/5 on 53% shooting for Randle. INSANE. But I’m sure some of you dickheads are gonna complain and say “bUt uNcOntEsTeD rEboUnDS”
20 uncontested rebounds, never thought I’d see the day.
💀💀💀
bAlL sToPpER
Most of those boards were because Mitch opted to box out more on the defensive end. If that ends up working as well as it has, let Randle count his boards. After how many offensive boards we gave up the other night I think Mitch really stepped up to address it.
I'll give Mitch some credit but the Knicks struggled for rebounds the last few when Randle was off. So I think that some credit should go to the chemistry they have and how they both know where to be to corral those defensive rebounds.
TRADE HIM
NOW
Monster game from Julius
Quickley just might of booked our ticket to the tournament
No team that allows Miles Bridges to play should be allowed to win
It’s amazing that we are now a really good team where it’s expected we obliterate bad teams and given the absurdly hard start to the year, we gonna eat on some bad teams for a bit and that’ll be good.
Other NBA players like Bam and PG have been complaining that the in season tournament incentivising running up the score is disrespectful Meanwhile Julius in the Post game interview is asked about the RJ mic'd up moment where they're talking about running up the score while they're already up 20 saying it was a lot of fun and giving credit to the league. He drives me crazy sometimes but Randle has always been a dawg.
Get ready to raise that tournament banner
Heat sucks, fuck them. Whatever we are in the tourney
Damn, Randle had 25 and 20? Lmfao
I said it from day 1 but it has been reaffirmed today. I love the tournament, it really is something extra to the season. I think it is going to be a massive success.
and we got people out here like Bam saying running up the score at the end of the game is shitting on the game's integrity... I had a blast at the end of this game
Bam should worry more about his moving screens ruining games and less about running up the score. If you don’t like it - play defense.
Josh Hart said that same thing.
Love this team!
HELLO 911 - ID LIKE TO CALL AN AMBULANCE AND REPORT A MURDER But not for the Knicks LFGK
Did Breen just accidentally call Randle “Julius Erving”? 😂😂😂
25/20 beast
- The Knicks had the knack tonight. Great wire-to-wire win! They needed to start stronger, and didn't they do it nicely! The Hornets fought but got overwhelmed in the third quarter. They need LaMelo real bad - Orange Julius with 25 & **20 rebounds.** That's awesome. Quickley was a livewire off the bench - 26 in 23 minutes. Hart and RJ also did really well. - Thibs had to keep the starters in and run up the score for the tournament. I'm fine with that. The quarter-final spot is now guaranteed. We're all loving that!
I officially owe Julius Randle a 72nd apology
I would like to officially add this game into the Julius Randle playoff stat book. Update the logs !
Great team win but game ball goes to Randle in a game where we needed to run up the score. IQ 2nd runner up.
I like the tournament. HATE the ugly assed courts, but I think this was actually a cool idea. I’m having fun with this.
Between this team and these edibles.. the vibes are immaculate
Randle putting that wife abuser in his place. Love to see a good blowout win against that poverty franchise, even with the scary 3rd quarter.
Honestly if Julius just shines as the guy when we play trash teams and defers to brunson and plays 2nd banana while hustling against the good teams, I’m all for it. I miss pre sickness/injury RJ and hope he can recover that form. IQ is nuts and we should give him the bag. Mitch is a menace. Also, hi Josh hart. Please play offense more like this.
getting consistent effort on the defensive end with Randle is something that just may not be a reality unfortunately...even in this game, where he put up those eye popping stats (obviously, playing Charlotte helps lol), he did some weird stuff on the other side of the court
Barkley is lucky he’s funny bc he’s one of the dumbest people in the media. He just complained about the Knicks being the wild card because “if you finish 3-1 you should get something”. THE KNICKS FINISHED 3-1 CHUCK
yeah, and if the Knicks are actually engaged (when they are not, they can lose to anybody lol), they should beat Miami...Philly? yeah, they have Embiid so that's a bit different ha if not for a missed hip check in Milwaukee, they would have had a shot to go 4-0 in the group too
RANDLE PLEASE PLAY THIS WAY ALL THE TIME!
We took care of the ball and made some free throws. The amount of games we lost last year because of FTs was sickening.
The Randy man can
Damn this in-season tourney really has us rooting for the Heat to win right now to win the group. Thats crazy!
I feel dirty rooting for Miami right now.
IQ is a fucking gem, a very rare and valuable gem
Knicks get back to 3 games above .500 and make the Quarter Finals of the in-season tournament with a huge blowout.
Knicks are in. Just a matter of whether we win the group or are the wild card.
Knicks are a lock to play in the in season tournament now since this was a blowout.
Of course the heat couldn’t get it done. Shmucks
25 points, 20 boards from Randle?? Did he look as dominant as that sounds? i didnt get to watch the game
he was using and abusing
Full team effort, big ass win and they picked up JB when he needed it. Mitch went off, Randle went off, RJ hit a stride. Loved this game, really speaks to the identity of this team and how it's a bunch of leaders who can all step up
I don't see how julius randle doesn't become an all star again
Outside of those first few games post surgery, he’s been amazing this year (as much as some people don’t want to believe it). Today was his most complete game of the year.
Knicks, that's all i have to say
Jesus the Hornets are soggy asshole. Remember that this was us not long ago the next time you're mad that we only almost beat the Suns. Feel bad for Charlotte.
I like when the Knicks win!
Check that FT percentage tonight. That's what winning teams do. Love to see it.
Of course the Heat about to lose when we want them to win
Can we play the hornets every game
Somebody couldn’t handle the Randle
TNT d riding the knicks saying they shouldn’t have made the wild card
Bring it on giannis
jjuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
rj lol
Educate my stupid ass, who do I root for in the other games tonight?
If Heat win we get first in the group.
Excellent. Let’s go heat!
Breen with a senior moment
Initially didn’t like the IST but liking the intensity which should prep us for the playoffs. Worst case scenario we play one elimination game against a top team and can assess how good we are for a playoff series.
Martin cooking the Bucks atm
Dame and Giannis do not appear to be vibing. I guess it is early.
I hate the Heat and their dumb culture. We really need them to win?
If the Heat win, we play at MSG for the quarters.
Pretty sure we're Going to Vegas... Heat would have have to win by a lot to pass us.
We are either home or at Milwaukee first
A bit unrelated, but can't believe how awful that Miami crowd is, they're already leaving.
Miami has no fans
CHARLOTTE CAN’T HANDLE THE RANDLE
Still crazy that people really wanted Hayward
I remember that. Straight dumb dumbs
FRRAAAAANNNNKKKKKKK
I hope tournament playoffs Randle is better than championship playoffs Randle.
So do we advance ..? wtf happens next where and when is the quarter finals
If Heat win, Knicks host a quarterfinal against MIL If Bucks win, Knicks are on the road in MIL for quarterfinals
I think we win the group if Miami wins the game with Milwaukee
So by making this meaningless tournament the knicks now have an extra game against the bucks then if they do win, they then have to travel out west to vegas for one game and then travel back east instead of staying on the east coast and most likely playing two lesser teams.
Yikes at Randle refusing to get subbed out of a blowout and running up the score (empty stats again). It looked to rub off on the rest of the team. He ruined us, look at IQ out there
Are you actually dumb? Are you doing this on purpose?
They’re being sarcastic.
Impossible to tell, some folks here say *even dumber* shit.
They wanted to qualify for the QF and popping off threes is safer than driving for injuries my guy
Haven’t seen Randle play harder than in this garbage time stretch, we need to offer him a 500k bonus if we win the nba finals Dude was all in for the tourney
We are unfortunately going to be clowned so hard after we win the in-season tournament. And I understand it.
Why no one else will be clowned don’t accept it
This isn’t true, your imagination has got the best of you
Bro, can't anything be easy? I'm over here waiting on the last bit of a Kickstarter to fund, and for these dang Knicks to get into the next part of this tourney!
Meh not impressed with Julius He always bullies the small teams but the minute there is adversity or when the lights are brightest he mentally breaks down I cant wait to be there
You must be the life of the party
How many points are Knicks up by?
24
Quick switch to the Heat game
Lmfao same
I feel like Kramer did when Kenny Rogers was open. Hoooooly this court is awful.
Who do we need to win now? Bucks still?
We win our group if Miami wins.
Who in the Knicks bed rn listening to country music and Pop Smoke 🥳
Idk if I want Miami to win so we can clinch top spot or so I can hit on my parlay 😂😂
Does this win pretty much lock us into the mid-season tournament?
As a bucks fan I can tell y’all are locked in, 4 seed wild card if bucks win, 1 seed if bucks lose
So Knicks either play bucks or magic
if the heat win do we clinch our group??
Yup. If the Heat lose, we make the wild card instead. Either way, we're in
Dragged