We Got An All-Time Garden Game From The Knicks As Well As The MSG Crowd Last Night And It Was Fucking AWESOME
It's the next morning and I'm still not sure what happened last night. I remember being barely alive on my couch at halftime, trying to figure out how the Knicks were going to win 4 of 5 games with an absolutely broken offense and a defense that couldn't get a big stop. The Hawks could have been up 20 at the half if they just hit a few more wide open threes but they didn't so the Knicks went in to make their adjustments and so did I.
Yup, that's right. I willingly left my beloved Clyde and Mike Breen to try to flip the juju which resulted in a +22 for the Knicks on TNT, so I guess that worked. After that, the Knicks got hot and The Garden got loud. Don't believe me? Check out this LeBron tweet.
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Ohhhh I get it. Sheeeeeeesh! Happy to see the MSG crowd handled it as I hoped they would.
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Some more random thoughts from a fun ass game 2nd half that Knicks fans have been waiting for forever after it used to be a Rite of Spring:
- Elfrid Payton can't play for the Knicks again. Not start but play. Have him turn in his uniform, collect whatever money he is owed, and put him on that Inside The NBA Gone Fishin' Photoshop. Derrick Rose is our starting point guard, our backup point guard, and our emergency point guard.
- But seriously, someone else is going to need to step up and spell Rose some minutes or else his body is going to turn into Thanos Snap Dust. I think we may have to give Derrick Rose a rest day on Friday because I was worried about him playing 39 minutes during his first run with the Knicks 5 years ago. You know what? We don't need that type of negativity. Let's do a palate cleanse with a classic D Rose tweet.
- Thank GOD for the 2010-11 Bulls on the 2020-21 Knicks. Not just D Rose but also Taj Gibson and obviously Thibs. Fuck it, I'll even give Noah a tip of the cap on whatever tropical island he is on as his dead, stretched contract sits on our cap.
- I didn't love the Knicks not rocking the classic home whites as much as everyone else since they are so fucking clean and I think those black city jerseys are ugly as sin. But the Knicks look good while wearing them, if that makes any sense and for the record the Knicks are 1-0 in the playoffs with them.
- OBI. That is all.
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- It's crazy how much better the Knicks look when their All NBA player plays like an All NBA player.
- I NEVER want to hear Madison Square Garden do a chant this lame again
- I don't know if Trae was scared to re-enter the game or Nate McMillan was trying to keep him fresh for Game 3 or what, but I sincerely thank him for that like 30 minute stretch where Trae sat down as the Hawks missed 100 shots in a row.
- Trae may be the guy with the target on his back for the 15,000 lunatics at MSG. But Bogi scares the shit out of when he's shooting more than anybody on the Hawks by FAR.
- Trae does realize Knicks fans usually take over Atlanta when the Knicks play the Hawks, right?
- What a game, what a night, what a team. I am so excited/terrified/a bunch of other words than end in "ed" that I can't think of right now. Stick D Rose in the ice bath until tip off on Friday and let's take control of this series. But until then, drink it all in Knicks fans. We fucking earned it over the last 14 months of covid, the last 8 years of no playoffs, and pretty much the last 20 years of Dolan.