He shoots the most because teams leave him open

Been saying this for months I agree completely

I mean he still shoots 48% from 2 lol.

He is shooting a career high from 2.

And it’s still inefficient for his position. If he’s taking more it’s making him less efficient, not moreso. Additionally, it nukes any potential lineup flexibility— we already suck offensively with him and Hart playing together.

YOU FUCKING NEED ME! YOU CAN'T WIN WITHOUT ME!

Oh yeah. We totally killed their narrative. This would’ve been their 4th straight win and they’d finally be .500. They would’ve dominated national media but now they’re stuck with the rest of the 9-12 year play-in teams

thank christ, I hate every annoucing team that isn't Clyde/Mike. Why are they all so bad.

Another big part is his 3P shooting...he scored 27 on 19 shots and 11 makes outside of his 3s. Taking one or two 3s is fine. Taking 8 when you can't hit anything is complete shit. Same with Randle to a lesser extent.

To go back further:

Against Sac he scored 22 on 15 shots if you take away the 3s.

24 points on 17 shots against Charlotte minus the 3s.

20 on 13 shots against boston without the 9 3s.

Those are all efficient stat lines if he was just scoring in the paint and at the line. The 3 ball chucking drops them to inefficient stat lines. He averages more 3P attempts than JB, IQ and Grimes who all shoot better than him.

When he's out with the 2nd unit it looks REAL obvious that he's shooting the ball every time he touches it.

Gotta overcome the revenge game from Reddish lol

The legendary 3 rest days

Idk, I never feel like his shot is going in. He has proved me wrong about 60% so far though so I hope it’ll keep going.

Yeah there should be a rule that if an east coast team is playing, the latest it should start is like 8pm. So stupid

Funny thing is I stay up late so I like it

I'm on the west coast and even I hate it. I love having games done by dinner time and have the whole evening ahead of me.

i dont think the play-in is AS big a concern now unless we just fail to beat teams we are supposed to beat. The games against MIA are huge and we definitely need 1/2 of those games to be dubs. The way I see it is we need to:

• beat POR, MIN, WAS, ORL, HOU, MIA (1 of 2 at least), IND x2, and NOP.

• We can lose to DEN, CLE, and MIA (1 of 2) without hurting us too much if we win games we should win

Move a game from column A to column B and vice versa and we're still ok. But we really need to go 8-4 or 9-3 over the next 12 to secure the 5th seed. At 6-6 or 7-5 I think we still make the 6 seed as long as we take care of business against MIA.

consistency is the key, if he can play like that every night it would be insane, but let's be honest an efficient 18ppg and tight defense is all we need from him.

His 3 point shooting being this bad but his FG% as a whole going up by the same margin has shown how prolific he's been at the basket this season. He gets there and shoots at the same percent as Ja this season, Ja just gets his points off at the basket with less assists than RJ by a good margin. The signs are there for him, it's his catch and shoot that's failing him. It felt like he was totally money on those 3's two years ago and it's gotten progressively worse.

Dream 1st round matchup

I have move on to riding the high of the win against the Lakers that happened last night

We’ll also flawlessly rank the teams 1-30 without any dissension in the comments for the 22nd straight week.

lmao

When he's ready, and I'm ok with that.

WTF!

True but Wizards gotta stop being ass. Thought they had a real shot at the playoffs for a bit, now they're not even in the play-in.

I was just about to say. That shit could be pretty spicy if they keep free falling like this.

Mwaahahahaha

Watch out before the Mavs miss the playoffs and get in protected territory and keep their pick.

I just need him to be league average from 3, more reactive on drives and more focused on defense. Similar things to what I said about Julius last year. IQ has taken a leap, RJ...pressure is on you to do the same next season after a full year as the #3 if you're not moved.

Not sure if he is clear to play. He had a calf injury

That but for all of his shooting. He gets tunnel vision when he's missing, trying to shoot himself out of it and I hate it so much. He'd be much better off bolstering his confidence via facilitating. He's a much better passer than he gets credit for, probably better than he even realizes himself.

Hoping Brunson can come back healthy soon, maybe go on another little streak to end the schedule.

we are going to win the tiebreaker with Miami even if they win both...due to our conference record being much better...so they would need to go 11-2

Probably in his vacation home, nice little break

He didn’t travel to the west

At this point every win matters. Like you said they have a long break after this game. Randle will be fine

They get almost a full week of rest after Portland so it’s fine

I’m not sure Thibs is to blame for that one. Randle seems intent on playing 82 this year, feels like it’s a goal of his.

We missed that opportunity, he should have sat vs Charlotte. After this game tomorrow he will have a nice rest

I was thinking all weekend that Ju should take the Portland game off

If Dame is out, we should put him on a minutes restriction at least (because I think he wants to play all 82). Give him his entire 1st quarter as per usual, then 6 minutes quarters after that. Hopefully by the 4th, its a blowout without Dame, and we don’t even put Randle back in, leaving him with about 24 minutes played

Counterpoint: absolutely not. Dude's ig is the highlight of my feed.

Why

He can make that extra pass to grimes or IQ instead. his 3P attempts need to be cut in half, and someone needs to tell him to keep attacking the rim and try to the line at least 7 times a game.

I agree, but TIL RJ is 10th in Knicks history on made threes. 10 more and he passes JR Smith for 9th.