Game Thread: New York Knicks (47-32) vs. Boston Celtics (62-17) Thursday, April 11th 7:30 p.m

[FrozenEnvelope]

49 won't hit as much as 50 so get this win!

[Clyde_Style]

Loss

No, they're sitting the whole team and we're playing the Cape Cod Division 3 Celtics squad

Provincetown Pushovers?
Hyannis Anuses?
Boston Wailers?
Yarmouth Yambags?

I always forget the name of that team

The Mashpee Dribblers

[Lord Commander]

Maybe not a good 'ol time sexin but a solid W!

[Capn'O]

Apparently 13 years ago I made the following post on Facebook:

Eat it, Celtics!!!

The more things change...

[Capn'O]

Boston wants us to win so they don’t see us in the 2nd round

This is probably true. They also have best record in the league wrapped up.

[Fat Kat]

Do you hear that Boston? FORMIDABLE

[RHODEY]

Damn sucks for fans that paid high dollar to see tonight's game. At least they can still witness the true MVP of this season.

Yeah those poor Boston Celtics fans...I really feel bad for them.

[Fat Kat]

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[blueNorange]

i dare teams to double brunson in the playoffs, they found a way to break it.

either dump the ball to hart or ihart on the top of the key, and because brunson is doubled you'll always have either divi/og/deuce/bojan on the corner or hart/ihart passes to a cutting brunson.

[sol537]

i dare teams to double brunson in the playoffs, they found a way to break it.

either dump the ball to hart or ihart on the top of the key, and because brunson is doubled you'll always have either divi/og/deuce/bojan on the corner or hart/ihart passes to a cutting brunson.

I don’t think they’ll double at top often… instead, they’ll put two defenders Jrue and White on him all game, go over the picks, draw him to the free throw line, multiple players stunt then return, then the big man defender acts as a soft double team while Hart’s guy comes down to help onto iHart/Mitch since their defender will leave them at times…. Hart will be left wide open at the 3pt line repeatedly until he can prove he can knock the open 3’s down which he hasn’t been able to so far this season…

If our season is riding on Hart’s open looks, I don’t like our chances… since Boston won’t double Brunson up top, Hart or IHart won’t have made roll man playmaking opportunities from those sets… instead, we should try to run more IHart give and goes at the high free throw line so he can find Brunson off the curl or Hart on the cuts. It’s gonna be interesting… I imagine Philly will do the same because they got a good coach.

[MrDollarBills]

Man f*ck the Celtics.

[TheGreenArrow]

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Should be a fun one Folksssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[omerome]

i dare teams to double brunson in the playoffs, they found a way to break it.

either dump the ball to hart or ihart on the top of the key, and because brunson is doubled you'll always have either divi/og/deuce/bojan on the corner or hart/ihart passes to a cutting brunson.

I don’t think they’ll double at top often… instead, they’ll put two defenders Jrue and White on him all game, go over the picks, draw him to the free throw line, multiple players stunt then return, then the big man defender acts as a soft double team while Hart’s guy comes down to help onto iHart/Mitch since their defender will leave them at times…. Hart will be left wide open at the 3pt line repeatedly until he can prove he can knock the open 3’s down which he hasn’t been able to so far this season…

If our season is riding on Hart’s open looks, I don’t like our chances… since Boston won’t double Brunson up top, Hart or IHart won’t have made roll man playmaking opportunities from those sets… instead, we should try to run more IHart give and goes at the high free throw line so he can find Brunson off the curl or Hart on the cuts. It’s gonna be interesting… I imagine Philly will do the same because they got a good coach.

If they load on Brunson by double-teaming him, Thibs will likely have Donte or someone else "shadow" their defensive player so Brunson has a target to pass to, and then Boston would be scrambling and collapsing trying to cover the gaps and open space.

That strategy would only work on our team like last year when we didn't have anyone capable of hitting outside shots in the playoffs. But we have guys who will make them pay by over-committing to Brunson now. IQ should have been that guy for us, but somehow he forgot how to shoot before Bam took him out in the second round.

[aggo]

Mazulla is a try-hard


there is no chance the starters are out unless its a real injury

[blueNorange]

also what's going unnotice becuase he's having a good year but hart is having his worst shooting season in his entire nba career.

example career ts% is .570, it's .510 this year

career 3pt is 34% , its 30% this year.

what am i trying to say? hart is a better shooter than we've seen and hopefully teams leaivng him wide open could potentially back fire on them if he finds the stroke.

[TheGreenArrow]

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Soon Folksssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[RHODEY]

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Should be a fun one Folksssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Questionable" my ass....pathetic gamesmanship....too scared to rest their players because they know they'll get embarrassed.

[HarthorneWingo]

No, they're sitting the whole team and we're playing the Cape Cod Division 3 Celtics squad

Provincetown Pushovers?
Hyannis Anuses?
Boston Wailers?
Yarmouth Yambags?

I always forget the name of that team

The Mashpee Dribblers

The Chicopee Chuckers?

[Jeff Van Gully]

Apparently 13 years ago I made the following post on Facebook:

Eat it, Celtics!!!

The more things change...

STAT/melo era energy?

[Jeff Van Gully]

Mazulla is a try-hard


there is no chance the starters are out unless its a real injury

been saying all season this man is the worst "offender" of all things thibs gets accused of.