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Poor Portland.

Collins out indefinitely. Again.
Nurkic out for at least 2 months. Again.
Now McCollum is out for several weeks. He was averaging 27 ppg.

Carmelo Anthony and Enes Kanter have to play big minutes. So that defense... yuck.

Poor Indiana.

Warren out indefinitely.
LeVert out indefinitely (without playing a game yet).
Turner out with a fractured hand.

Two fun and exciting and GOOD small market teams completely decimated by injuries right now. But at least that means more news about malcontents like James Harden. YES!!!

AbeVigodaLive wrote:

Q12543 wrote:[

kekgeek1 wrote:The #Knicks currently have the No. 1 Defense in the #NBA

-1st in Scoring Defense (102.7 ppg)
-1st in Def FG% (43.3%)
-1st in Def 3P% (31.2%) https://t.co/d1IVrrLNGS

Unbelievable. In Thibs two full seasons, the Wolves were 27th in defensive rating both seasons. We know he had a top defense in Chicago too. So what can one conclude by this?

It was Thibs... and Thibs alone... that destroyed the Timberwolves.

We had the best collection of young talent AND THEY WERE ON THE SAME TIMELINE!!!!!!!

Blame Thibs the idiot POB? 90% of success or failure rides directly on the players. So idiot POB Thibs screwed it up more so then idiot coach Thibs.

Lebron complains virtually every time he takes the ball to the rim. And it's regardless of whether he scores or not. It's just sickening to watch. No player and no team gets more calls than Lebron and the Lakers. It's really what I hate most about the league.

CoolBreeze44 wrote:Lebron complains virtually every time he takes the ball to the rim. And it's regardless of whether he scores or not. It's just sickening to watch. No player and no team gets more calls than Lebron and the Lakers. It's really what I hate most about the league.

Flopping.

Warriors are fun to watch. When they get our pick and Klay back they could have another short window for a run.

Is Thibs the perfect Knicks coach? We know he at least wont get chastised for swearing in that situation.

Congrats to Tom Thibodeau for continuing to coach the best defensive team in the NBA, pretty good for a guy who the game had passed by.

BloopOracle wrote:Congrats to Tom Thibodeau for continuing to coach the best defensive team in the NBA, pretty good for a guy who the game had passed by.

Yeah doing it with a bunch of castoffs who were apparently bad defenders. We probably should have been listening to the experienced winners (Jimmy and Thibs) as opposed to the proven losers (Kat and Glen) when all of that went down.

thedoper wrote:

BloopOracle wrote:Congrats to Tom Thibodeau for continuing to coach the best defensive team in the NBA, pretty good for a guy who the game had passed by.

Yeah doing it with a bunch of castoffs who were apparently bad defenders. We probably should have been listening to the experienced winners (Jimmy and Thibs) as opposed to the proven losers (Kat and Glen) when all of that went down.

Thibs the head coach could be infuriating. But Thibs the PBO was the problem. A top-notch PBO other than Thibs would have probably handed head coach, Thibodeau something like the following: Murray instead of Dunn, Collins or Anunoby instead of Patton. Moreover, a top-notch PBO other than Thibs probably would have dealt Wiggins rather than extend him and would have probably been far more skillful in his handling of the Butler situation at the end.

One more thought. I think Ryan would look a lot better than he's looked so far this season if Rosas had traded for Randle instead of Rubio.