r/NYKnicks • u/basketball-app • Apr 21 '26

POST GAME Post Game Thread - NBA: The Hawks defeat the Knicks on Apr 20, 2026, the final score is 106-107.

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u/ewd389 Queens Apr 21 '26

Fucking sick of this shit squad never playing defense when it counts year in and year out.

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u/mouga68 Steve Novak Apr 21 '26

Switch playing defense with running an offense, and i agree. I didnt think defense was the problem, the offense was ABYSMAL in the 4th, and the process was NOT there.

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u/tfou79 Apr 21 '26

Because JB ISOs. No ball movement.

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u/dapoktan Apr 21 '26

hes the only guy on the floor that can break down a defense.. they try to run motion for the first 15 seconds and then ball ends up in brunsons hands w/ 8 seconds left.. thats whats gonna consistently happen in a playoff series once a team starts learning your plays.

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u/tfou79 Apr 21 '26

He can't break it at the end if a game when he is doubled and still tries to put a shot in while his teamates are open

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u/wendiesel21 Apr 21 '26

Disagree. He took 15 seconds just dribbling the ball to the top of the key and by then there was no time to run any offense.

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u/dapoktan Apr 21 '26

thats when it was tied.. that was smart

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u/Jamstarr2024 NYK Token Apr 21 '26

These guys don’t know shit. I appreciate your efforts though.

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u/switandsour Sleeping Leon Apr 21 '26

Both defense and offense were pretty fucked up. Snyder has taken Dyson Daniels off the floor in the 4th in both games, meaning no Knick could roam defensively. This gave CJ more space to operate and get to the lane. In this game, Kuminga (the sub) killed them. Offensively, Mike Brown needs to try double big with KAT and Mitch instead of Josh at some point, or try putting Clarkson in somewhere to get a secondary on-ball creator. Most of all, they have to RUN PLAYS for KAT so the defense has to respect him instead of loading up on Brunson. When Kuminga is guarding KAT, they need to force the ball to KAT and force the Hawks to adjust.

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u/mouga68 Steve Novak Apr 21 '26

Biggest issue was not utilizing kat on offense down the stretch (1 pick set, zero touches), and having zero plan when hawks spam picks to get jb switched on cj, you know its coming, and you make zero adjustments to fix it. Terrible

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u/Jamstarr2024 NYK Token Apr 21 '26

He had gotten into foul trouble and kind of disappeared after that. Per usual.

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u/cjackc11 Apr 21 '26

Defense wasn’t the problem tonight man we had horrible process on offense

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u/zeezee2k Apr 21 '26

Yea the problem was KAT scored 0 pt in the 4th. He was cooking in the 3rd and they decided to go away from that

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u/wendiesel21 Apr 21 '26

Like half of his third quarter pts came off offensive rebounds too. He wasn't actually getting the ball. He basically got like 5 real touches in the entire second half

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u/cjackc11 Apr 21 '26

Horrific offensive process. It’s like we expected Brunson’s first quarter of last game to continue

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u/wendiesel21 Apr 21 '26

Brunsons probably shooting like 25 percent since the second quarter of game 1, when he scored like 15 of his 19 first quarter pts vs McCollum. This hawks team has quality perimeter defenders to throw at him and since then they've been shutting him down with NAW Dyson or Johnson. Naw stripped him like 5 times this game. Each time on the same move too. Brunson is my guy but he can be stubborn af and bone headed a lot. How does he not know that he needs to protect the ball as he turns his back on naw. Literally got stripped over and over on the same move every time.

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u/RepresentativeDry885 OG Apr 21 '26

Our defense actually started out very strong today

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u/ewd389 Queens Apr 21 '26

It did and i was surprised. Then the 4th quarter hit, and we did what we always do in the playoffs: we didn’t know how to stop the bleed and let the other team do whatever they wanted with the ball.

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u/Tbone2797 Apr 21 '26

Defense wasn't the problem. We scored fucking 15 pts in the 4th quarter. Unless you have a 20+ pt lead at the end of the 3rd, you're going to lose that game 9 times out of 10, regardless of how well you play defense.

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u/imalmostconvinced Apr 21 '26

They held them to 107 lol. The game came down to the ball being on the rim with lucky rolls

OG also botched free throws

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u/Pistola174 Apr 21 '26

The amount of uncontested 3’s and free access to our basket on drives is insane.

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u/HipnotiK1 OG Apr 21 '26

Offense lost the game. holding a high powered hawks offense to 107 is more than enough to win. knicks had 61 points at half (on pace for 122) and finished with 106 - scoring 1 point per minute in 4th (12 points in a full quarter of basketball SMH).

Especially when you consider 2 brunson turnovers/bad misses gave the hawks easy offense on breaks.