Knicks center Mitchell Robinson and Hawks guard Dyson Daniels were ejected from Thursday’s Game 6 matchup between the two teams, tweets Fred Katz of The Athletic.
The two players got tangled up during a free throw attempt by OG Anunoby with 4:39 left in the second quarter (YouTube link). There was some pushing back and forth, with several Knicks staffers — including head coach Mike Brown — attempting to restrain Robinson near the sideline.
After the scuffle cleared, the officials conducted a review, which led to both players receiving technical fouls and ejections.
New York was up a stunning 50 points at the time, dominating Atlanta in every facet of the game. The Knicks’ 47-point halftime lead was the largest in NBA playoff history, per ESPN’s research (Twitter link).
As Katz observes, Daniels and Robinson had been going at each other throughout the series. Robinson received an unsportsmanlike technical in Game 2, when he committed a moving screen on Daniels and then walked over the Australian guard, who was knocked to the ground (YouTube link).
While I’d be surprised if Robinson receives a suspension for Thursday’s incident, his status is at least worth monitoring for Game 1 of New York’s next playoff series. The Knicks will face the winner of Boston vs. Philadelphia in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
Players got tangled up during a free throw?
No.., Daniel’s threw an elbow into Robinson‘s chest and then they locked arms for 12 seconds.
Then they let go and Daniels said something he shouldn’t have and Robinson went after him. Any questions?
Thank you, Gary. Daniels threw an elbow then tried to yank Robinson’s arm out of its socket, down 50 at home in an elimination game. Daniels is a clown. I would say to suspend him but it’s pretty meaningless to suspend a player for the opening games of next season. Bye, Hawks. You won’t be missed.
No, Robinson raised both elbows out before the free throw was even shot. That is not a legal move, even if he didn’t create any forcible contact. Daniels elbow would have been just an arm push had Robinson not pulled that nonsense.
All that being said, what Daniels did after should be a suspension. Looked like he purposely tried to bend the arm down at the elbow, and in an awkward position. Could have resulted in a significant injury. NBA cannot tolerate that. And I am a Hawks fan.
Hawks need to address a serious roster deficiency in the post-season. They have all these athletes but no real bruisers (Londale would have helped a smidge). They need an enforcer so that teams can’t just bully them. Robinson displayed zero true talent the whole series other than just bruising people. Knicks brought him into games just to bang up superior players and nothing more. Not real basketball but the NBA won’t police it. Hawks need to realize playoff basketball is not ‘finesse’. Gueye and Okongwu are too soft and just want to play on the perimeter. Just draft the most useless bruiser in the second round to run over folks or some little guy to ‘hustle’ by diving into star players knees supposedly going for lose balls. That’s what has crushed the Hawks in the playoffs for two decades. I hate to call for it, but you don’t win playoff series very often without it. Need to learn how the rest of the NBA does it.
“That is not a legal move, even if he didn’t create any forcible contact.”
lmao you are clearly a Hawks fan because Mitchell didn’t create any contact. He had his elbow up high (like lots of dudes do when boxing out for a free throw) and Daniels leaned into it like a clown, threw an elbow into Mitch’s midsection, and tried to yank Robinson’s arm out of its socket. And he did this because he was big mad at Mitch for stuff from earlier in the series. So he waited until his team was getting its barn doors blown off to retaliate. Pathetic.
The rest of your diatribe is pouty, sore loser nonsense. “Robinson displayed zero true talent”, lmaoooo
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The irony is that Atlanta will most likely be one of those teams in hot pursuit of MR in the offseason. If he could shoot free throws and stay healthy he’d have a pretty good payday.
Wow, looking at the video yet again and focusing on Daniel‘s “spin move” while holding Robinson‘s arm, is really something to see.
There’s all kinds of rotten adjectives to describe that kind of a move.
No one knows what was on his mind but Daniels himself, but that appeared to have possibly evil intentions.
“Robinson displayed zero true talent” Look up which player lead the league in Rebounds per 36 minutes. Robinson is the best rebounder in the NBA, and the best offensive rebounder by a wide margin. One of the best offensive rebounders in modern history.
Hawks need two things. A real PG and a center. Okongwu is a PF. And could be a top 4 if left there. Both these can be addressed in draft. Remember Hawks are retooling around JJ. That’s the reason they moved on from Trae.
They need to make better decisions heading into next season. Okongwu got outplayed by OG in that series against the knicks. So they need to decide whether to keep him as a starter or move him to the bench and bring in a starting caliber 4 that can help them compete now. Lauri from the Jazz would be an interesting option and he would definitely help their offense and rebounding struggles. The fit between Lauri and Johnson could work well if both guys understand their roles to help the team. Anyways that’s one avenue I think they should explore.
OG is a 3 who plays the 4. Okongwu isn’t a 3. And OG wasn’t his responsibility most gms. Not having a true Center exposes Hawks out of position.
Like I been saying for years. Every team in NBA should be able to go small or big. With a 15 man roster. This fantasy that you go small to get shooters in. Is nonsense. When you have bigs who can shoot well enough. This series changed when Knicks finally realized to go thru Towns.
Lauri is not a bad idea. Unfortunately he makes too much. Hawks are young and rebuilding really. They will get their PG in draft. And can find a big 4 or a center with next pick. People are sleeping on Reed from UConn. He’s a late first rd pick. Imo he will be a starter in NBA in a few yrs. I doubt Mara falls to Hawks. He would be excellent for them.
Yeahh that’s a fair point. I’m sure there will be some changes to the hawks roster either way. Mara could be a good pickup for them if they decide to use one of their first round picks on him. They do have plenty of options to help improve their roster. I’m just not sure some of the guys from the starting unit will be back. NAW, and Johnson are the only guys that should be safe imo. I’d upgrade the rest of the starters for better quality role players, but like you mentioned before, they should be rebuilding and yet, they were good enough to make the playoffs after trading away their franchise player. So with all that being stated, I think they’ll be back at it next season fighting for a playoff spot. Roster construction will be huge going forward though.
I see them as rebuilding around JJ. CJ is a FA. Unless he signs for cheap. I don’t see him coning back. Kuminga may not cone back. Tgey could trade him he has a TO. Thats 55 mill right there. Vincent is a FA another 11 mill. Then there is Risacher. They could move him. I like Risacher. He needs time. Might not be a star. But can be a starter one day.
Hawks definitely taking a PG with first pick. Fleming or Brown. Im sure Acuff and Wagler will be gone. Their second pick in 20s. Not sure a big will be there. Unless they reach. I think Hornets will take Mara.
That was some kinda whooping knicks gave hawks. Halftime odds were -100000
Thats gotta be a record !
And Silver is worried about non playoff teams tanking. So far the nba playoffs have been AWFUL games mostly
Really playoffs start next round, especially in the West lol.
It was a slaughterhouse after the first 2 mins of the game. Atlanta has some big decisions to make heading into next season. They can’t roll out with the same roster and try to convince ppl that they’re legit..Move Cj to the bench, get a starting pg that can run an offense efficiently. Then go after a quality big man to improve their defense and rebounding..That’s what I think they should do to start.
That’s exactly what they need
A starting PG and starting C
Passing over Sarr was a huge mistake. Not saying he’s a top 10 player but he got so much better in Y2 and only sky is the limit with him.
Need to fire Snyder. I genuinely don’t get why he’s regarded as “one of the better HC in the league”. He’s Billy Donovan with better hair.
Absolutely pitiful display today.
He’s actually pretty good in my opinion. Got them to overachieve with a young group of players that were undersized in the paint. They moved their franchise player in the middle of the season while treading the bottom of the standings and were just half a dozen games behind the Knicks at the end of the season.
Not bad I’d say.
I get your point, but someone needs to take the blame on what occurred last night, and in G5. He has not gotten out of the 1st round since 2020-21 which was a whole half decade ago.
Something needs to change.
Change yes, but the coach I’m not sure about. He completed his first full year if I’m correct with the team and moving some of the players off the roster that didn’t mesh with his approach was a start. Considering where they were and where they landed – in the playoffs is step one. I’d expect progress next year to round two and hopefully more. If he can’t get there, then perhaps in this day and age. It takes a village, and maybe some of the assistants need a changing out to better game plan, etc.
So of course you are going to judge him on TWO gms. Hawks were 46–36 this year. With basically a new starting five. Donovan can’t even spell forty-six on the Bulls.
This Knicks team that showed up gm5-6. Can win the East. But lets blame the coach coach. Not praise the Knicks. Cause it’s always about the blame game. Hawks decided to build around JJ this yr. So two playoff gms isn’t the definition of this yrs Hawks team. They are the sixth seed with Two number one picks coming. Unlike the Bulls who have sucked through out Billy losing his hair.
I’m not you Al, I don’t randomly provide links and look at box scores and talk out of my ass. I actually watch the games. Tell me what has he done in 5 years in Atlanta? He hasn’t passed the first round. This has nothing to do with NYK but I know you feel like you need to make everything about NYK because it’s you. Praise? You won a first round series that you were expected to win by EVERYONE. What praise do you want? You act like it was an upset lmao I am dying.
Randomly thats funny name. For souce of infoor knowledge. Obviously you never gitten ant. Stats are proof of actions in tge game. About time you learn that. We all know the clowns here who don’t know ball. And try to pass themselves off as basketball ball fans.
Why would I want anything from your DA. You should have the self respect to do it for Hawks and Knicks. As always you this is about us. We are worlds apart like Bulls and Knicks. The smack down we just laid on Hawks. Is what I do to you every time you lie to help your cause. So go make up some more stories. Cause I’m be around ALL MF playoffs.
I just passed wind. That’s as close as you’re going to get to me giving a shhh.
Not reading your novel Abe Simpson. Go on Reddit if you want someone to glaze over the Knicks beating a hapless Hawks team.
How’s Derozan? Same guy who thinks Patrick Williams has value. Lmao you’re a joke and a typical Knicks fan full of useless knowledge.
DeM have to do with anything. They got Bridges. A young DeM. Williams got ten tines the game. Of you and knowledge. Go read a book and catch up.
Lmaoo “Billy Donovan with better hair”. Damn that was really good!😂👏🏾
Lmao i had too im tired of his name stuck in my brain mannnn
They are all bad. 25 coaches in the NBA right now are only yes men
@rory – what game were you watching to think that he’d even get suspended? Contributing a pursuit of a player who was doing the same?
Spank you very much. Looking like a Knickerbocker Summer. Celtics might not even make it to next rd.
Don’t matter to us. Celtics will get a worse beating than last year. I want the best team.
gm7 lols. Who wants it. Who wants the Knickerbockers 🏀😳🏀😳🏀😳
Lol hopefully yall make it to the ecf. If Embiid continues to stay healthy and stops flopping around all over the gahh damn place (to get the refs attention), then I can see a series going 7 games with them. Boston on the other hand..oof idk.
Dyson really lit a spark and the Hawks came storming back….right??!
ATL had a great year considering they made a major trade mid-seasonj that was designed to get off a bad contract more than immediately improve the team. Yet, they did improve, and by a bunch.
Despite their play in the second half, though, I never thought they belonged on the same court with the NYK. I was close to shocked when they “elected” to play the NYK as opposed to CLE. Although, admittedly, neither matchup was great for them.
IMO, ATL should improve next year, but only after some reconfiguration. They need to get bigger, while at the same time not losing any 3 pt shooting (they’re already average to below) and keeping their identity as a speed/skill team. Not so straightforward. A high FRP (via NOP) would really help.
Hey DXC, I don’t know if you’ve seen us go back-and-forth in the comment sections of recent Warriors articles, but a couple of us are talking through the choices regarding next season and the best approach to take.
Since you did a nice little summary here on the Hawks, perhaps you could give your Warriors opinion in a paragraph or two ?
They could try to run it back or they could tear it down and rebuild. A couple of the contracts on the books next year hinder a clean path in either case.
Thanks buddy !!
Well, I just watched ATL play 6 straight games, which I assume included some of their best, and almost certainly more of their worst.
Whereas, GSW – as you know – might be the hardest team situation to assess. Next to impossible without knowing Curry’s and the FO’s thoughts on Curry’s timeline, the medical status of Butler and Giannis’ trade availability. But, ignoring all that, I would not do a full rebuild (tank) so long as Curry is committed to competing. However, I would look to reconfigure the team in a manner that does not chase the prior GSW championship template. Specifically:
Subtractions: 1) Move on from Kerr and Draymond Green, and 2) Do NOT bring back KP. Horford is always welcome. Put Butler aside as he’s a separate discussion himself. Follow the facts there.
Additions: 1) First priority would be a good size 2 way PG, with a view toward moving Curry primarily off the ball, 2) Second priority would be a 2 way big man, or otherwise addressing the size issue from a defensive standpoint. While I don’t think GSW’s young players have anywhere near the value some GSW fans believe, there might be enough there, if combined with FRPs, to get this done. Some help from the ping pong balls would go a long way there. The new HC is probably as important as anything. Curry has to be OK with the guy, AND open to playing in his system.
Caveat 1: I’m sure there are things I’m not appreciating not being a GSW fan.
Caveat 2: I’m not Jerry West, but he’s dead. This is the best I can do.
Fantastic !! You’ve come through as usual DXC.
I love your hoops opinions and so often track with the things you write.
Your comments are logical, realistic, and correct more often than most in my opinion.
That’s the case here with your Warriors broad overview. You make a ton of sense and I’ve blasted some of these very points from the rooftops, though they fall on deaf ears most of the time.
One of my motivations for asking you this today is to examine my own line of thinking. Maybe I’m out in left field when I write about what the Warriors should and should not do for next year?
But if you’re thinking along the same lines in a few of the categories as I am, then I can see that I’m not that far off base.
Excellent and thanks for taking a few minutes to put this together. I appreciate it !!