KNICKS NEWS: Injured Knicks Returns Get Closer! Jalen Brunson & OG Anunoby Practiced!

KNICKS NEWS: Injured Knicks Returns Get Closer! Jalen Brunson & OG Anunoby Practiced!

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Haven’t already also please drop your comments love to hear the comments uh this is going to be uh report here uh some news came out today after Thursday’s practice uh some various updates on all four of the currently injured Nicks yep 80% of the Nicks starting rotation is injured and out and

Today we got some interesting news uh we’ll get into it let’s get right to it all right so this is like a summary right here of uh all four of the guys and I’ll get into details on this and also look at the standings and the schedule we’re going to look at the

Strength of schedule for all the remaining for the teams in the East uh so in Brun for Brunson it was reported that he took part in most of the practice today and uh just very recently before I started recording this uh it was uh put out that he was listed as

Questionable because originally thibs didn’t know what he was going to be listed as but He’s listed as questionable so that is good news he’s progressing in the right direction and I have more detail on that uh pretty soon but mostly uh What uh was said at the

Practice by uh Mr Josh Hart was uh here we go he said he looked regular looked good practices a lot of starting and stopping so it’s kind of hard to judge if a player has overcome an injury sometimes uh Josh Hart said and then uh but he looked good looked confident and

Not like he was limping or dragging his leg or nervous to make movements so that uh is obviously a positive so I think he’s trending in the right direction uh he will most likely be back for tomorrow’s game against the Friday night game against Orlando Magic or the Sunday

Game uh so fingers crossed on that uh let’s get to so then OG out an Obi that one was a good very good report he took part in a five on five scrimmage and now he’s listed as day-to-day so I mean it could be as soon as as that first game

Against the Sixers again fingers crossed uh Randall no full contact uh but he practice he practiced with pads he’s making good progress that’s what the latest update there no dates or anything so it’s hard to decipher his uh return date at that point uh but I I’ll make

Some guesstimates uh and for Mitch Robinson this is good he can run and jump in practice looked good but no contact yet all right let’s get into some more details here so Fred Katz tweeted this out uh this morning uh Jaylen I mean this morning for me it was

Like uh noon for you guys uh Jay J Brunson did most of practice today Tom Theo said said he doesn’t know what the Knicks will list him as on the in upcoming injury report so now we know he’s listed as questionable and uh for OJ anobi uh they

Said uh that he’s doing contact drills and playing five on five nice nice and Fred tweeted this out to follow up on that OG and an Obi is going through contact drills and is playing five on five now Tom theid said sounds like he’s getting closer Fido said he’s now dayto

Day but he hasn’t been cleared to fully play yet I think that’s just a matter of days honestly matter of days right there and then this is from uh The Daily News uh Christian uh Winfield W Winfield I think he put this article out nice nice update here this is on Randall uh

Randle’s also progressing uh he was limited he was a limited participant in Thursday’s practice uh but um he cannot take full contact but is is participating in practice with pads and can take light contact Theo said so he’ll come back when he feels comfortable when he feels like he is

Ready to be able to handle the stress of playing through pain and uh to be more specific uh you know he said when he tiido said the Knicks won’t let Randall back onto the court until he fully trusts his body so I think he’s on target for that by end of March the

Whole team being healthy same with uh Robinson as you can see here this is what uh Fred also tweeted out here just taking all of Fred’s tweets he uh there was a great update this morning for me morning Tom Tibido Mitch looks good he told me to

Tell everyone that so that type of sense of humor I love that that shows that thibs is really focusing in on well not focusing he is welcoming Robinson’s return and anticipating Robinson’s return I don’t think they would pump this up this much if they didn’t really feel that he was

Going to return this year so it does look does look like he is most likely going to make that return that we had been hoping for and it will happen by the end of March so this is good news guys this is good news and then when you

Get a little closer into um the details here uh you know Robinson expected back sooner than expected uh the one thing about him is that he’s been sticking to his rehab process and uh he’s making good steady progress but he hasn’t taken any any contact yet which is totally uh

Reasonable you know at this point but he’s jumping he’s jumping and running and that is incredibly important for him so there is a good chance right here that uh by the game uh highlighted in yellow that we will prob we will most likely have OG and and

Jaylen Brunson back in time for that second Sixers game that’s on Tuesday now it’s also very possible that Brunson is ready to come back even for Friday so Brunson may already be back for all all of these games and OG if he’s progressing that well he’s doing like

Let’s say tomorrow he wakes up no issues with his elbow no soreness whatsoever and he feels good I can’t see how they could hold him out of the Sunday game so he may ALS he may return March 10th which is also I was hoping I I Target it

March 12th as the date for him to return and Randall March 23r third which is the game against uh the Brooklyn Nets uh here at home and then for Mitch I targeted the March 27th date which is an away game in Toronto uh so I think these

Dates are looking reasonable but the OG one he could come back even earlier and it’s the earlier the better because things are getting tight in the East very tight in the east as you can see here it’s the standings the Knicks are now in fifth place sandwiched right

Between Orlando and Miami just half games between each two and then the Sixers are right there just one game behind us and the Pacers are only a game and a half behind us so that is five teams jockeying for that uh fourth you know playoff position four through six

So that’s five teams jocking from four through six however we all know by now because it’s been discussed everywhere you want to avoid Boston I mean the way they’re playing is just insane however I think the game that happened the other night against the Cleveland Cavaliers without Donovan Mitchell and without Moy

I believe that the Cleveland Cavaliers were able to come back from being down 20 points in that fourth quarter and steal that game away from the Celtics was it in Cleveland I can’t remember I think it was actually in Cleveland either way either way that shows that Boston can’t have off night

They can be caught off guard so in a f in a seven game series you know it’s going to be tough to win four games off of them but if the Knicks are fully fully healthy fully fully healthy they have the best chance of any team listed

Right here I have no doubt about that and if the Knicks can return in time so they can have at least 10 games together which they at this point if Mitch comes back by the 27th and Randall by the 23rd

Then they will have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 games together now it’s possible that you may rest some guys in between there depending how the standings start working out but if you look at this situation right here I guesstimate that

The Knicks will need at least 52 wins to get the third seed now the reason I bring up the third seed is because Cleveland even though they did pull off that win against the Celtics which was amazing they did lose to the Hawks last night and uh you know injuries are

Catching up to him Donovan is out Mo’s out and I believe Max stru is out so who knows they might go into a bit of a skid at this point especially when you look at the strength of schedule which we’ll do right now so here’s the strength of schedule

Of the remaining games so the team with the toughest schedule is the Bucks in and then Charlotte Indiana Sixers and Cleveland those have the toughest five schedules in the East the good thing about for us is two of those teams are above us in the standings and

Two of those team the other other two teams are right below us in the standings the uh Sixers and Indiana so the Knicks are right there right in the middle they’re about they have the seventh hardest strength of schedule so they’re right in the middle of the pack

If they can get healthy man they could run the table so right now the New York Knicks are 36 and 26 20 games remaining so that means for them to get 52 wins to get that third seed they will need to go 16 and four for the remaining 20

Games sounds crazy well when you consider that they went 14 and two in January when they were last all mostly healthy they didn’t even have Mitch for that so I think it’s totally within the realm of possibility now they do have some tough games they have M uh games against the

Celtics they have okay C they got Denver they got the Bucks and they have the magic one thing I didn’t talk about was the Orlando Magic they are the pesky team right there their strength of schedule is not that strong they uh their opponents are averaging 481

Winning percentage at this point and the same goes for Miami a 460 winning percentage so the fact that those two teams are were sandwiching between those two teams and they have a a weaker strength of schedule that goes in their favor so they’re they’re a concern especially Orlando and since we play

Them on Friday it would be great to have Jaylen Brunson in time for that game and maybe we can just steal that game because they I think they’re they’ve beaten us three and 0 this season I believe I don’t think we’ve won a game off of Orlando and it’s often been

Because of of a lot of key players have missed those particular games Brunson didn’t play the last game against them and I believe was it OG I can’t remember but they definitely we have not faced them with our best players yet so that’s still to be determined at that point

However to get that third seed we’re going to need those guys to take some losses so right now Orlando’s toughest uh opponents are the Clippers and they play the Bucks twice and they play the Pelicans twice and then they play us they play the Kings and the Sixers I’m

Not considering them that the toughest but they are above plus 500 team at this point so those are games that I honestly they could lose all of those games so that’s uh five six seven let’s say they go s- one I mean 1- seven in those games

That takes that’ll impact their their uh record tremendously I mean it’s possible now they could also go they’ve been playing very well they could also go uh you know four and three and they could go many different ways now in terms of the uh the Miami Heat who they’re kind of an

Odd team they’ve been playing well lately I think they’re one of the hottest teams uh in the East they have OKC they have Denver they have Cavs twice so that’s nice if the Cavs in Miami can split those games boom that helps us we gain a half game on them

They also play the Pelicans and then they have us and then they play the Sixers twice uh so the Sixers without embiid and Maxis and concussion protocol it’s kind of a softer game so we’re going to need Miami to just shoot themselves in the foot and uh trip all

Over themselves and lose some games for us to get to maintain the lead that we have on them and to get that third seene but the most important thing that needs to happen is Jaylen Brunson needs to return and then OG an noi need to return

And not look back just stay healthy play the rest of the way and then we await Julius Randall around the 23rd of March and I think we’ll be looking good we’ll be looking good I think all right let’s get back to this here so these is the

Recaps here Brunson you know uh took part in most of practice now he’s listed questionable I think he’s going to play on Friday tomorrow uh an anobi most like he’s already doing five on five scrimmages and it was the kind of it wasn’t just a light scrimmage uh from

What I understand let’s see here let’s get uh this is from the uh Daily News article uh yeah he’s now dayto day uh he was in full he was a full participant in Nick’s practice on Thursday even playing in what bojan banovich described as a really really competitive five on five

Scrimmage great sign I mean there’s even a chance he could come back uh tomorrow but play it safe he’s come back on he comes back on Sunday that’s what we need because we need to be able to I want to win all four of these games we take all

Four of these games the Knicks are on their at least go three and one the Knicks are on their way to achieving that 16-4 goal to get the third seed now now here’s something if for some reason the returns aren’t so smooth and uh you know we encounter some other

Hiccups uh stumbles along the way I don’t want to use the uh the I word but uh let’s say things like that happen and uh it’s not looking like we’re going to be able to get those 52 wins if we fall at the 49 win mark which is what I’m

Predicting which I predicted uh two games ago I did a video called the last 22 games projections and I projected that they would go 14-8 with the similar type of return dates 14 and 8 which would leave them at 49 wins and 33 losses that is the fifth

Seed that’s most likely would project that the fifth seed not where you want to be because then you have to play the fourth seed and you play them uh the fourth seed on their home court which would most likely be Orlando or Cleveland or Miami depending on the

Situation and uh that’s that be a tough uh first round but not that I’m afraid of it but that’s just the situation it’ll be but at least we won’t be in the playing now but the problem is that in the second round you face the Celtics we

Want to push that off as far as possible so at that point if with the final remaining 10 games eight to 10 games and it’s not looking like we can even get to the third seed I think thibo should pra should you know display some uh Prudence at this point and rest some

Guys uh rest Isaiah hartenstein uh even the you know rest Mitch at times you know because he’s going to be working his way back in the guy to rest too is Randall rest Randall you know you don’t want to have him play a game that he doesn’t need to play necessarily uh and

Then possibly you know ree that uh you know shoulder so at this point if you want to end up with 47 wins which is most likely going to be the six seed then that Knicks only have to go 11 and N 11 and nine for the rest of the way

And that is so doable and that’s with resting guys rest rest Brunson why not give Brunson uh another rest later on towards the end of the schedule we’re playing like the Nets and we have the Bulls three times uh from April 5th to uh the 14th we play the Bulls three

Times just let’s rest some Players let’s try to get get into the playoffs and go in as fresh as possible and as sharp as possible that would be the goal all right well there we go I think uh this is uh some good news because it all seems like everybody is progressing

In the direction that was that we were led to believe they they were going to go in at this point so things are going smoothly let’s hope they continue all right I will see you around the knck Bir

A breakdown of the latest reports from Thursday’s Knicks practice. The returns of OG Anunoby & Jalen Brunson are imminent! Julius Randle and Mitchell Robinson are on target for mid- to late-March returns. Will this be in time to catapult NY to the 3rd seed?

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