Official Game Thread: Hawks at Knicks -- GAME 1

[lethalweapon3]

10 minutes ago, lethalweapon3 said:

Boomer and the other WFAN dude on CBS Sports Network is fun so far this morning.

~lw3

They fussin' about Steve Holman's call now. W.

~lw3

[HawkingAwesome]

Durn im having missing out on cp3 flashbacks 

[bleachkit]

7 hours ago, Dejay said:

I noticed. Bogdanovic just looks like a dude that you don't want to be owing $$$ to. Nothing remotely good could come from it...

Well technically the Hawks organization owes him money, 72 million over 4 years. 

[HawkingAwesome]

knicks fans have more excuses than nyc has people 

 

[kg01]

Aye Knick fans, regarding your COTY(sic), so FrenchFranq is good enough to guard Trae on the more important play of the game .... but he's not good enough to play any other minute of the whole game?

Weird or ........... panic?

Totally unfair to call that guy into the game, completely cold, and require him to stop a guy that's currently in supernova-mode.

[BrazilianHawk]

9 hours ago, bleachkit said:

Looks like Solo will be the odd man in the rotation.

Honestly, we don't need to play OO a lot as well. He seemed pretty lost last night. A 9-man rotation should do. And if I would stretch it to 10, it would be Solo rather than King Kongwu.  

 

Trae/Lou

3ogi/Huerter

Hunter/Tony

Collins/Gallo

Clint

 

We're good. 

[REHawksFan]

20 minutes ago, HawkingAwesome said:

knicks fans have more excuses than nyc has people 

 

It's funny reading / hearing all the "Randle struggled and we only lost by 2 so we good" takes while completely ignoring the fact that Bogie, Gallo, and Kevin all missed multiple WIDE OPEN 3's early in the game. Gallo is a 40% guy and went 1-7 on 3. JC didn't do anything special or get involved at the level he usually does. 

They also acting like Burks - a dude who avgs 12.7 on the season - is going to just put up 28 every game.  LOL.  Whatever helps you sleep at night I guess.  

[bird_dirt]

 

[kg01]

Back-hand compliment alert, the guy Scalabrine ... "Trae is elite at drawing contact ... I don't even know where he'd fit in the league if he wasn't so elite at drawing fouls."

Really, clown-a**?

[Dejay]

It's like watching the Zapruder film, but in a good way. Oh BTW, tell Frank Ntilikina to smile at the camera and wait for the flash.

'Out and back, out and back, out and back, out and....'

Edited May 24, 2021 by Dejay

[MarylandHawk]

10 minutes ago, REHawksFan said:

It's funny reading / hearing all the "Randle struggled and we only lost by 2 so we good" takes while completely ignoring the fact that Bogie, Gallo, and Kevin all missed multiple WIDE OPEN 3's early in the game. Gallo is a 40% guy and went 1-7 on 3. JC didn't do anything special or get involved at the level he usually does. 

They also acting like Burks - a dude who avgs 12.7 on the season - is going to just put up 28 every game.  LOL.  Whatever helps you sleep at night I guess.  

True except for the John part. He was tremendous especially early. He played nearly a perfect all around game. Scorning dropped off second half because Lou and Trae had it going. But to you larger point, we still have a lot more upside than NY. 

[marco102]

John wasn't lying he was pulled out of his shoes.

 

[REHawksFan]

17 minutes ago, kg01 said:

Back-hand compliment alert, the guy Scalabrine ... "Trae is elite at drawing contact ... I don't even know where he'd fit in the league if he wasn't so elite at drawing fouls."

Really, clown-a**?

You have to wonder if these clowns took time away from looking stupid perpetuating a narrative to actually watch the game. There was ZERO foul baiting and FTs played such a minor role in Trae's overall game that it's actually a non-story.  T

[marco102]

18 minutes ago, kg01 said:

Back-hand compliment alert, the guy Scalabrine ... "Trae is elite at drawing contact ... I don't even know where he'd fit in the league if he wasn't so elite at drawing fouls."

Really, clown-a**?

I don't get their complex with Trae, but we don't care anymore. He is changing his own narrative. Every call he got was a foul. 

 

[bleachkit]

1 hour ago, lethalweapon3 said:

They fussin' about Steve Holman's call now. W.

~lw3

Do you have the audio? Id like to hear that. No one blows a gasket like Steve.

[MarylandHawk]

8 hours ago, Atlantaholic said:

Trae had his ups and downs first half of the season, then Harden moving to the East made the All Star spot competition incredibly difficult... 100% should have made it over Ben Simmons, but at least I can wrap my head around the snub a little. The Clint snub though was absofreakinglutely criminal. Everyone involved in the snub should be stripped from ever voting for the All Star game until the end of time. 

Definitely on Clint, but the Trae young thing was still ridiculous. Jaylen Brown? Even Tatum was a stretch. It seemed like they wanted to spread the love instead of seeing Trae for who he really is..a top ten player in the league. He sacrificed his scoring to help his team win and they punished him for it. Time to carry hat big chip on his shoulder to the national scene.

[bleachkit]

10 minutes ago, marco102 said:

John wasn't lying he was pulled out of his shoes.

 

You know somebody in that officiating crew is getting chewed out by the league this morning for not calling a BS illegal screen on JC to save the Knicks.

[REHawksFan]

23 minutes ago, MarylandHawk said:

True except for the John part. He was tremendous especially early. He played nearly a perfect all around game. Scorning dropped off second half because Lou and Trae had it going. But to you larger point, we still have a lot more upside than NY. 

Don't get me wrong, I think JC was solid.  Played a good game and had his moments.  But I think he could be more of a factor for the entirety of the game.  The Hawks have room to feature him more if they want to.  So the point is that the Hawks can get more production from several guys and they still won by 2. 

[MarylandHawk]

10 hours ago, TheNorthCydeRises said:

Bogi woke up after he got posterized.  I think he made 4 of his next 6 threes.

That is the mentality I was hoping for. When RJ dunked in him, I said to myself, Bogi can’t let this dude out play him. Sure enough, he came back back with two of the biggest shots of the game. 

[Thomas]

8 hours ago, Diesel said:

It's time to make them all pay (the whole League) For Snubbing Trae and Clint during the Allstar game in Atlanta. 

 

Exactly. They truly were snubbed. Often the NBA bias is just embarrassing. We will make them pay by watching us when big post season.