Posting and Toasting - Knicks at Pacers~https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/29802/posting_fave.png2014-01-16T21:49:19-05:00http://www.postingandtoasting.com/rss/stream/37740832014-01-16T21:49:19-05:002014-01-16T21:49:19-05:00Pacers 117, Knicks 89
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<p>Well there goes that.</p> <p>Awwwww, they suck again. The Knicks kept up with the Pacers for a quarter, but then Carmelo Anthony fell off his 70-point-game pace and things <a href="http://www.wmich.edu/dialogues/images/thingsfall.gif" target="_blank">went</a> Chinua Achebe pretty fast. The Pacers locked up Melo, the Knicks just kinda stopped passing *to* each other, and FARTDOG's gracious transition defense let the Pacers walk to the rim. Lance Stephenson embarrassed everyone and made me want to flick him in his stupid mouth.</p>
<p>Oh, and just for fun, Kenyon Martin turned his ankle again and Amar'e Stoudemire sprained his, too. The latter's X-rays were negative (MRI will reveal more, I imagine). The former was shown soaking his feet in a mop bucket in the locker room. At least J.R. Smith hit some shots in his return? And Jeremy Tyler put up DOMINANT GARBAGE TIME STATS again? Eh?</p>
<p>Yeah. I am crestfallen. That's your recap. Clippers tomorrow, which doesn't seem fair. Updates on the injuries as they come.</p>
<p>Here, have some sea lions:</p>
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<p>Time to start a new streak?</p> <p>Evenin', babies. The <a href="https://www.postingandtoasting.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Knicks</a> continue their packed week with a visit to Indiana, where the <a href="https://www.indycornrows.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Pacers</a> (despite ALLLMOST losing to the Knicks that one time) hold the best record in the Eastern Conference. The starters are the usual East-is-big-man crew. <span>Pablo Prigioni</span>, who was rumored to be making his return tonight, will not play:</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"> <p>Starters tonight against <a href="https://twitter.com/Pacers">@Pacers</a> : Felton, Shumpert, Anthony, Bargnani, Chandler. Prigioni will not dress.</p>— NY_KnicksPR (@NY_KnicksPR) <a href="https://twitter.com/NY_KnicksPR/statuses/423947962520072192">January 16, 2014</a> </blockquote>
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<p>If the Knicks play anything like they played in Charlotte, the Pacers will devour them. They'll literally kill them and eat them. Let us hope that was just one night's fatigue.</p>
<p>Tip-off tonight is at 7, not 7:30. This is your game thread. <a href="http://www.indycornrows.com">This is Indy Cornrows</a>. Please don't post large photos, GIFs, or links to illegal streams in the thread. Get them W's, Knicks. Time for a new streak, eh?</p>
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<p>guhhhhhh</p> <p>We've seen some shit over the years, but man...I'm hard-pressed to think of many losses quite as impressively humiliating as what the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.postingandtoasting.com/">Knicks</a> burped up in Indiana tonight. And unlike in previous years, this is an ostensibly good team playing an important game after a long break. The phenomenon of decent but futile early execution snowballing into an outright bloodbath is familiar, but tonight's snowball <a target="_blank" href="http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1987/02/08">was Calvin-esque</a> and the bloodbath more like a...uh...I dunno, bloodpond. That game broke whatever part of my brain makes metaphors.</p>
<p>New York<a target="_blank" href="http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/45937/vomiting.jpg">'</a>s performance to start had me going "eh, they're missing open looks and the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.indycornrows.com/">Pacers</a> are hitting jumpers", but by the end of the first<a target="_blank" href="http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/45937/vomiting.jpg">,</a> the mere slow start had festered into something truly abominable. New York's pick-and-roll defense didn't switch so much-- it just stopped entirely. Many a Pacer ball-handler dribbled over a pick to find himself utterly alone, wearing an "I mean, if you're just gonna let me shoot..." expression as he drilled an uncontested three. Indiana hit a bunch of jumpers, finished anything they wanted inside, and dominated in transition<a target="_blank" href="http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/45937/vomiting.jpg">.</a> Never have I seen so many fancy, uncontested dunks in an actual game. (The only comparison that comes to mind was what the Knicks did to the Blazers on the night before the trade deadline last season. Hmm.) The Pacers scored 125 points for an offensive efficiency of 123.6 points per 100 possessions (and that's after falling off in the second half)<a target="_blank" href="http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/45937/vomiting.jpg">.</a> That'd be a great night for a great offensive team. The Pacers are a bad offensive team, so the only explanation is the Knicks stood dutifully atop stepladders to guide Indiana<a target="_blank" href="http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/45937/vomiting.jpg">'</a>s shots through the rim.</p>
<p>Just to double down on their own demise<a target="_blank" href="http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/45937/vomiting.jpg">,</a> the Knicks kept missing open jumpers, committing turnovers, and farting away possessions with mindless isolation. Amar<a target="_blank" href="http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/45937/vomiting.jpg">'</a>e Stoudemire flipped out and got T'd up after a quick third foul, then started the second half and promptly picked up a fourth. <span>Kurt Thomas</span> committed four fouls of his own in a matter of seven minutes. <span>J.R. Smith</span> engaged in some petty beefery with <span>Lance Stephenson</span> (and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thebloodyowl.com/2013/02/did-j-r-smith-flip-off-an-official/">maybe flipped off a ref</a>) to get himself ejected. <span>Frank Vogel</span> and <span>Jim Todd</span> had a snarly confrontation at halftime. <span>Mike Woodson</span> <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/seth_rosenthal/status/304419473903980544/photo/1">wore glasses</a> for some reason. Probably the best play of the game was <span>Iman Shumpert</span> accidentally drop-kicking the ball over his head to a <span>Steve Novak</span> three<a target="_blank" href="http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/45937/vomiting.jpg">.</a> All of the things were as stupid as humanly possible.</p>
<p>To lose like that sucks. To lose like that against the team nipping at New York<a target="_blank" href="http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/45937/vomiting.jpg">'</a>s heels in the standings on what was supposed to represent The First Day of the Rest of the Season-- the clean slate after a messy slog into the break-- sucks beyond sucking<a target="_blank" href="http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/45937/vomiting.jpg">.</a> Like Stil-illmatic said in the thread, the greatest virtue of the Knicks' performance was that, by the grace of the 48-minute clock, it had to end.</p>
<p>The Knicks are a very bad team at the moment<a target="_blank" href="http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/45937/vomiting.jpg">.</a> We stay waiting for them to get shaken into better effort. I can't imagine a more violent shake than this one, so...guys, it's time. Please.</p>
<p>For now:</p>
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<p>The Knicks and Pacers face off at 7 PM.</p> <p>Good evening! Tip-off tonight in Indiana is at 7. Thus begins New York's onerous 32-game march toward the playoffs. A win against Indiana would guarantee at least a tie in a season series that might become important down the road. So, let's hope the All-Star break was very refreshing and that Tuesday's practice got the <a href="https://www.postingandtoasting.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Knicks</a> back in swing of things. Indiana is not a place where you can get away with a sluggish start.</p>
<p>Here's your game thread. <a href="http://www.indycornrows.com/">Here is the excellent Indy Cornrows</a>. Please don't post large photos, .gifs, or links to illegal streams here. See you at 7!</p>
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<p>The Knicks play the Pacers tonight at 7.</p> <p>Hey guys! At long last, we get to disrupt the steady leak of<a target="_blank" href="http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/knicks/mozgov_on_knicks_radar_P1dgdtO323qioohZb7mWXL"> trade rumors</a> with some actual basketball. The <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.postingandtoasting.com/">Knicks</a> begin their comparatively grueling post-All-Star-break stretch tonight in Indiana, where they'll face the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.indycornrows.com/">Pacers</a>, their neighbors in the Eastern Conference standings. It's the third game in what may eventually be a fate-deciding four-game season series. It's been slow and sloppy so far. The Knicks took an ugly, low-scoring win against the mediocre and weirdly sluggish Pacers of November, then lost another ugly, low-scoring game without <span>Carmelo Anthony</span> against the vastly improved Pacers of January.</p>
<p>We should expect another slow, ugly game tonight. The lockdown Pacers and gunnin' Knicks have little in common style-wise, but both prefer a low-possession game, and their respective virtues have canceled out to produce some miserable shooting performances thus far. We can look forward to something vaguely resembling a hockey game, with lots of physical play and every score being cause for massive celebration with lights and sirens and stuff.</p>
<p>Now that I've thoroughly jinxed tonight's game into having a 194-193 final score, a few updates:</p>
<p>- <span>Danny Granger</span> is <a target="_blank" href="https://go.redirectingat.com?id=66960X1516590&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fsports%2Fnba%2F2013%2F02%2F20%2Findiana-pacers-new-york-knicks-danny-granger-wont-play%2F1932187%2F&referrer=sbnation.com&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postingandtoasting.com%2F2013%2F2%2F20%2F4009806%2Fpre-game-knicks-at-pacers-2-20-13" rel="sponsored nofollow noopener">nearly ready to debut</a> for Indiana, but won't do so tonight, which is nice.</p>
<p>- <span>David West</span> missed a game last week with an eye injury, but he's ready to return and will surely match up with Carmelo Anthony some. Paul George <a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/MikeWellsNBA/statuses/304264740929167360">will get the lion's share of that assignment</a>, though.</p>
<p>- Nothing new injury-wise for the Knicks. As was mentioned yesterday, <span>Rasheed Wallace</span> and <span>Marcus Camby</span> aren't even close to available yet despite participating in limited practice. Melo's All-Star performance suggests whatever was wrong with his right arm is now fine and he will now resume hitting shots (please).</p>
<p>- No lineup changes either, <a target="_blank" href="http://sulia.com/channel/new-york-knicks/f/3e741f0b-c350-4cf9-b674-3ee93253a5df/?source=twitter">per reporter Kurt Thomas</a>.</p>
<p>- <a target="_blank" href="http://knicksnow.com/videos/2772/shumpert-this-level-of-focus-is-what-you-ve-been-waiting-on?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tweets#.USUQt-izN9M">This is a nice li'l conversation</a> with <span>Iman Shumpert</span> explaining (very generally) what the Knicks worked on in their first practice back. One thing the Knicks did with Shump specifically was <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/knicksblog/woodson_dealing_surprised_hawks_P3K6bhzjjCJvucvCuNQiXJ#axzz2LNaf0Ers">cut some tape of his best performances from last season</a> to watch over the break. I like that strategy. Watching tape of one's failures is educational, but studying correct execution in actual game situations seems valuable as well, not to mention encouraging.</p>
<p>Tip-off tonight is at 7. A game thread will be up between now and then. Have a lovely rest of your day.</p>
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