Mavs beat knicks by 50, Hawkslose twice @ home to same team

[Blunt91]

I just find it disturbing that the Mavericks can go into Madison Square Garden and thrash the knicks by 50pts and we let the Kncks beat us twice on our home floor. Hawks players should give 20% of their pay to charity if we lose on our home floor again to the lowely knicks.

Edited January 25, 2010 by Blunt91

[spotatl]

I'd be willing to be the Knicks make the playoffs. With the style they play they can beat anyone and can lose to anyone.

[exodus]

The Knicks shot 4-25 from 3 against the Mavs while the Mavs shot 12-22 from 3.

In the two games we lost to them they shot a combined 22-49 from 3 while we shot 11-50 from 3. The big mistake the Hawks made is shooting too many 3s against a team with no interior D but when the Knicks are shooting 45% from 3 that makes them much tougher to beat.

Of course the Hawks defense at the 3 pt line hasnt been very good.

[High5]

And the Hawks beat the Mavs in Dallas. It's just a matter of the Hawks not taking some games against lesser teams serious enough. You'd think a team in the Hawks position would give 110% every game (really every team should), but for whatever reason that's not the case.

[capstone21]

I just find it disturbing that the Mavericks can go into Madison Square Garden and thrash the knicks by 50pts and we let the Kncks beat us twice on our home floor. Hawks players should give 20% of their pay to charity if we lose on our home floor again to the lowely knicks.

Its all about matchups and who is hot/cold that day. Any team on any given night can beat any other team in the NBA

[AHF]

The big mistake the Hawks made is shooting too many 3s against a team with no interior D but when the Knicks are shooting 45% from 3 that makes them much tougher to beat.

Agreed. We did not play fundamentally sound offensive basketball either game against the Knicks. We ignored fantastic matchups for Josh and Al in favor of jacking up lower efficiency perimeter shots. When you get a squeezably soft team like the Knicks every first option should be inside - our guards should be penetrating, our big men abusing their poor defenders, etc.

[TheNorthCydeRises]

Agreed. We did not play fundamentally sound offensive basketball either game against the Knicks. We ignored fantastic matchups for Josh and Al in favor of jacking up lower efficiency perimeter shots. When you get a squeezably soft team like the Knicks every first option should be inside - our guards should be penetrating, our big men abusing their poor defenders, etc.

Defense was a big problem in that game as well. The Knicks were already shooting over 50% from 3, even before Nate went off. And you can't let Wilson Chandler, of all people, have a career type game against you. JJ and Crawford were a pitiful 14 - 42 FG that game though ( JJ: 12 - 30 . . Crawford: 2 - 12 ), so your point is definintely valid.

Still, other people need to stop harping over bad losses, like they really mean a lot to the overall season. Since that Knick debacle, the Hawks have won 7 out of 10 games. Hawks just simply need to be more consistent defensively against the Knicks. In that first game we lost to them at home, they shot 58%. Smoove's ejection in that game didn't help either.

[niremetal]

Matchups, matchups, matchups. Same reason the Bobcats have beat the Lakers in 6 of their last 7 meetings while winning 30 fewer games (in the East, no less).

Same reason Federer is a better player than Nadal even though he can't beat Nadal to save his life.

*ducks*

Edited January 26, 2010 by niremetal