Legit championship contenders? Taking a look at the Knicks amidst the team’s 5 game win streak

Legit championship contenders? Taking a look at the Knicks amidst the team’s 5 game win streak

The New York Knicks they are on a roll five consecutive wins for the nickers who will look to make it six straight on Saturday afternoon when they host the Miami Heat we’re going to talk some Nicks Hoops we’re going to do it with the executive producer and pregame show

Host for Nicks Film School my guy Andrew claudo Andrew what’s up what’s up Dexter happy to be here glad to have you here always get to talk some Nicks Hoops with you and Andrew you know what we got to do we always have to take a temperature

Check of the fans now you and I gotta let the people know we were texting the other day and you told me after the Knicks had beat the Nets on Tuesday that if the team swept the next two games against the nuggets and the heat you

Said this to me the fan base will be Reckless with their projections well people the Nick aakers they had arguably their best win of the Season demolishing the nuggets on Thursday night and fans like somebody we both know New York Post sports podcast producer and host Jake Brown he called the Knicks Championship

Contenders he did tweet this I saw this have the Knicks this is the question Here Andrew have the Knicks reach legit Contender status or is some of the fan base just doing too much here so the tough part about this question Dexter is

To Echo Jake and to Echo a lot of us at Nicks film school as were trying to be measured in our analysis is Thursday was the time to get Reckless when you’re demolishing the defending champs by as much as the Knicks did and looking as impressive as they were

It was the time to really wonder what the ceiling of this team is and look there’s there’s always the part of me that tries to stay measured and my honest answer is I do think they’re going to need to make one move like we were talking before we went live here

That the Julius Randle question will come up during the playoffs and you have to see if his performance lets you be a contender but I think the the one warranted if you want to call it an overreaction I’m just calling it a reaction at this point is what they now

Have in ogan and noi I feel like I feel like I’m Tony Stark in the first Avengers movie talking to Loki and in any team that the Knicks face if they want to say well we have an army we have OG and anobi and he’s GNA be able to

Help defend whoever the other team’s best player is maybe he able to shut down the other team’s best player and it’s added a defensive ceiling to this team that I just have not seen since the 90s like even the the Tyson Chandler Defensive Player of the Year season team

Scored on that Knick’s team and so you wonder if they can get a I do think they’re going to to make one move I don’t want to quickly dismiss Duce McBride who’s been outstanding since being inserted into the rotation full-time after the trade but I do have questions about him from playoff time

And in a playoff rotation so if you can upgrade that backup Creator position potentially for the playoffs or if duche just shows that he can be that player I don’t think it’s that crazy to say that this is a team that can make the Conference Finals a lot of teams a lot

Of of analysts said that before they made the trade and the way that they get up for these big games whether it’s beating the Sixers by 36 or beating the Nuggets by 38 I I’m not gonna say it’s crazy to say that this team now has that kind of

Ceiling all right here we go we we we’re here we’re on this road now Andrew we’re here beat the Nuggets it’s before it even played the Heat and well so that’s the real quick that is the part about the heat that makes it interesting it’s

Why I said it’s these next two yeah that matter cuz you beat the defending champs the way you did that matters now go beat the boogeyman now go beat the team on Saturday that had that eliminated you last year and you know then we can really get Reckless yeah

Yeah I can’t wait for this I’m here for the recklessness I’m I’m here for it all we we will see how Reckless it gets by the end of Saturday we’ll get to that in a second now Andrew one can argue that we’ve seen some Knicks players play the

Best basketball of their career this season Jaylen Brunson Julius Randall Isaiah hardenstein Dante de venzo and even in a small sample size a guy you just mentioned OG anobi should head coach Tom Tibido be credited with getting the most out of these players and getting the most out of his players

Overall in his three and a half Seasons as head coach of the Knicks so you’re asking someone at Nicks film school if we should give Tom Tibido credit did you pull this from the Jonathan Macker section of the SNY questions I did not speak to to J Mack I just understand

Some of the Vibes around tibs and nicks film school and you know I’m not trying to be messy just trying to ask the right questions here that’s all look quibbles in all about rotations and minute distributions and some of the rigidity that he can bring to to the game you

Have to credit tibs like the entire culture of the Knicks has changed since he he came here I don’t think you give him 100% of the credit but part of the shift we’ve seen over the last three and a half years is the personality the identity and just the the reputation

That the Knicks have improving and around around the league there’s there’s no longer the LOL Knicks it’s like it’s we need to respect this team now could the conversation be better sure but like the the biggest thing about tibs that I give him credit for as far as maximizing

The floor of this team Jaylen Brunson was a borderline starter his last year in Dallas now he’s a borderline Allstar starter in New York Julius Randall was a journeyman that the Lakers just kind of released so they could make room for LeBron James and he’s made two all-star

Teams in might make a third like Josh Hart seems to be maximized in his role ogn anobi seems to be maximized in his role he has like been able to maximize some players but I do think it’s an overall Collective effort by the organization by the players buying in

And of course by the head coach he absolutely deserves credit for for not not again not all the credit but a lot of the credit for the success the Knicks have had yeah no Tom tibo’s done a really good job there and it’ll be interesting to see about contract

Extension talk I’ve talked with Stephan Bondi a bit about this how that happens after the season and Beyond but we’ve got a long way to go until then but right now we got to talk about what you call the boogeyman the Knicks they host a heat Saturday afternoon at the Garden

They lead Miami by four games in the standings right now what are the keys to the Knicks winning their six straight game and knocking off the heat on Saturday so this is where I’m gonna plug the Nicks Film School pregame show that I did with John Carlo NASA the Miami

Heat beat and he did help ease some of my concerns which are very much just PTSD related I I made the joke the other night at on our postgame show that if the heat had the same record as the Pistons I’d still be nervous going into this game that’s just the respect that

They’ve earned from me last year’s playoffs went a lot with me I thought going oh this is this is an eightc they got lucky against the the Bucks we can absolutely defeat them and what I think they have with spola what I think they the ceiling and how they get up for

Certain games with some of these these certain players players that know when to pick their spots um I have that type of New England Patriots respect for for the Miami Heat I’ll just believe that we beat them when we beat them having said that from conversations with people that watch the Heat

Regularly uh this is just not a good team right now they are not scoring the ball and they’re like struggling to get to 100 points and that really should speak to how the Knicks win this game since the OG and anobi trade so January 1 on the Knicks are second in defensive

Rating since that same date the Miami Heat are second in to last in offensive rating like the Knicks are allowing less than 100 points since the trade the heat are averaging less than 100 points scored since January 1 this is a team that shouldn’t be able to score 100

Points against the Knicks and if the Knicks like generate enough offense this should be a w now you worry about Trends and how a team winning five straight is facing a team losing five straight and whether something is due in either direction but if the Knicks play the way

They did against the the nuggets and if the Heat played the way they’ve played at all over the last month the Knicks should be able to win this game and you know like I said ke offs uh start some recklessness from from this fan base yeah we’re just out here rooting for

Anarchy which is reckless that’s in the situation which if the Knicks make it six in a row Nicks fan base is going to be pretty reckless we can just we we can lock we we can lock that in but we will see interesting this game against the

Heat as you said ni coming in with five straight heat coming into this one losing five straight and Andrew is just hoping that the Knicks don’t get caught by the boogeyman we shall see that is Andrew claudo executive producer and host of the pregame show for Nicks film

School go check out his work there Andrew always good talking Nick Hoops with you and I will check in with you later to make sure that you are not getting Reckless I’ll do my best thanks Dex for having me no problem man

The Executive Producer and Pregame Show Host for Knicks Film School Andrew Claudio talks about the latest news regarding the Knicks.

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