Monday, December 4, 2017

Vucevic and the Magic atop the Knicks 105-100

Whats up everyone, Deven Del Priore here reporting from Point Pleasant, NJ. My twitter handle is DevenDel_18, follow up. Excited to have this opportunity to be apart of KnicksTape, and hope you enjoy the content as much I enjoy producing it. I’m going to try and keep most of these short and sweet, give you guys some notables of the game, and games that are coming up. So, without further ado, lets get it going.

After 4 days off, the Knicks took on the Orlando Magic at home yesterday in a game that everyone expected them to win… That was before Porzingis (ankle/sickness) and Hardaway (leg) were ruled out out for the night. Obviously those two are the heart of this team in every aspect of the game, but like every team, the next man in line has to step up. The three players that stuck out to me were Courtney Lee, Enes Kanter, and Michael Beasley. In my opinion they did their job, Lee playing 35 minutes with 19 points on 19 shots with 5 boards and a couple assists. Lee is a shooter, and #shootersshoot. Kanter with 18 points on 13 shots, gobbling up every board possible, battling with Vucevic all night. Definitely got his moneys worth, Vucevic is solid, definitely a player to look out for as the season goes on. Beasley had a surprisingly good night, looking like he was playing back at Kansas State dropping 21 points on 19 shots. Those guys took the opportunity with Zinger and THJ out and ran with it with it on the offensive end.

The Knicks got absolutely torched by Nikola Vucevic, who what seemed like did he whatever he wanted against Enes Kanter on the Offensive end, putting up 34 points and 12 boards. Gordon and Fournier were doing their thing per usual, but the rest of the Magic are obviously very very average and their record shows it at 10-14.

With basically the Knicks B squad (A squad is with Porzingis and THJ plus B Team), the outcome wasn’t so bad. The Knicks erased a 17 point deficit going into the middle of the 4th quarter of the game, and had a chance to sneak out a win toward the final minutes of the game, obviously didn’t happen, but had a chance. Bottom line is, with the starters put out there today, you cant be competitive. Not for a whole year, not if you want to make the playoffs. Lets chalk this up to the easiest possible thing there is to do, and that is that both Porzingis and Hardaway didn’t play. Which is exactly what I’m going to do every single time the Knicks lose when that duo is inactive. Ill take a healthy Knicks team over the Magic any day of the week.

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