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Jeremy Sochan Talking Shit to VJ Edgecombe After Playing 1 Minute and Scoring 0 Points is as Knicks as it Gets
By Matt Schultz
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I’ve been on the record with my opinion that Knicks fans are the strangest, non-ball-knowing, most overeager, hyper-little-cousin-ish fanbase in basketball. The Knicks haven’t won the Finals since 1973. They’ve been irrelevant for most of my lifetime. Their organization’s culture is defined by fawning over free agents who never choose them and proudly featuring heavyset actors from Blue Bloods on their jumbotron celeb cam. And now that they’re regulars in the playoffs, which they embarrassingly view as a big accomplishment, the fans parade in the streets every night like Japan just surrendered:
Overconfident doesn’t quite describe it; there’s something redeemable about overconfident, and there is nothing redeemable about how Knicks fans act. Their vibe is better described as corny clown weirdo non-hooper stuff. They watch a basketball game the same way a stadium full of toddlers would watch WrestleMania. They don’t understand what’s unfolding; they just like to cheer, boo, stop, and whine at random times at random intervals, completely untethered from the ebbs and flows of what they’re seeing. There is a fundamental disconnect between how they act and how they should act, given what is happening. And now it looks like the baffling behavior is rubbing off on the players.
After the Knicks beat the Sixers in a close Game 2 on Wednesday night, Jeremy Sochan was seen talking shit to VJ Edgecombe – after Sochan played a whopping 1 minute and scored 0 points:
Just a remarkable display of embarrassing corniness. It’s honestly kind of hard to crystallize exactly how lame this shit is without simply repeating Sochan’s stats and embedding the video again. So that’s what I’m going to do:
Jeremy Sochan Game 2 Stats: 1 Minute Played, 0 Points
Beating the Celtics in 7 felt incredible. It was really, truly great. I thought the euphoria of that series win would carry me through this Knicks series regardless of the outcome. I’m not saying it won’t – that 3-1 comeback over Boston was and always will be very special – but the further into this series we get, the more I have come to realize: I’d really like the Sixers to beat the Knicks. That would feel pretty great. Let’s get it going in Game 3 on Friday night.
Matt Schultz is a comedy and sports writer from Philadelphia. He’s written extensively for ClickHole, The Onion, and Conan O’Brien’s Team Coco. His work has been featured in Vulture, Deadspin, The A.V. Club, Paste Magazine, and other publications. Much of his sports journalism can be found on college basketball websites that don’t exist anymore (PhilaHoops Heads rise up…)