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Basketball / Re: Knicks
« on: October 17, 2018, 09:53:11 AM »
Maybe. Maybe. But if he wasn't inclined to be cautious already, the lack of the extension may trigger extra caution. He and his bro don't fool around with his career.
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Basketball / Re: Knicks Picks
« on: October 17, 2018, 09:02:04 AM »
Los 22
Biz 23
Bank 24
Nagel 25
J Straw 31
Chip 33
Kam 33
Fac 34
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I'm projecting 23
Max Knick wins during the Porzingis era = 32.
This year = Porzingis era without Porzingis.
For the most part, we have been jettisoning talent in exchange for projects and picks and seem likely (Lee) to continue down that path. (No problems with it.)
Our most productive player is likely gone next year and plays a position the league seems hell-bent to make obsolete.
None of our rookies project to add meaningfully to this year's win total.
21 seems intellectually honest.
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Basketball / Re: My GOD
« on: October 15, 2018, 02:41:36 PM »Just revisiting some draft classes on Basketball-Reference.com
My God, did Isaiah REALLY draft Renaldo Blackman ahead of both Rajon Rondo AND Kyle Lowry?
To be a Knicks fan is to suffer.
That draft still hurts...
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Basketball / Re: Knicks
« on: October 09, 2018, 07:28:01 AM »
I actually saw him make two very sweet passes last night. Shocked I was ...
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Basketball / Re: Knicks
« on: October 04, 2018, 09:48:40 PM »
Meanwhile, Carmelo looks like a perfect fit for the Houston Rockets offense, perhaps my least favorite in the league, yes, but he's perfect in it.
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Basketball / Re: Knicks
« on: October 04, 2018, 09:45:41 PM »Starters should be two-way players.
Bench is for the specialists like Enes, Lance, and Trier
Calling Enes a specialist is just plain silly, but agree with ya 100 percent on Frank.
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Basketball / Re: Knicks
« on: October 03, 2018, 07:15:25 PM »I didnt know Knicks were in a playoff hunt last year - thanks
But my numbers show Hardaway Jr averaged 20 PPG in games 59-79, shooting 45%
DNP last three games.
As you were......
LOL, not 59-79...BEFORE KP went down, and we we're looking at #8 from the other side. THJ laid turd after turd after turd. Once nothing was even remotely meaningful anymore, he could go back to giving us something tasty once in a while.
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Basketball / Re: Knicks
« on: October 03, 2018, 11:20:36 AM »Ron Baker has a solid all-around game.
Nothing stands out, but no great flaws either.
I like his hustle and smarts.
As for Tim, some guys develop late. Usually at PG and C which have extra responsibilities. But wings tend to find their groove relatively early and stick with it. Except for those guys you can see improving every year with a definite upward trajectory. There are probably exceptions.
Tim really needs to expand his game (he's shown flashes) and develop consistency. I'm concerned he's going to be 26 then 28 then 30 and still erratic. Needs to stay healthy too.
Really at this point, signs point toward a J.R.-lite. Not crazy, but erratic and insecure with flashes of the good stuff, much less talented than J.R. however. He may surprise us and mature, may produce at some point if surrounded by strong leadership on the floor (we don't have that now), but whoever posited him this summer as potential leader himself for the younger players was out of his f'n head.
Not too many true "leaders" in this sport, Les. Tim's gonna play hard, produce. Others have to take care of their own shit. If his effort rubs off.......... hell - the young guys should be giving effort anyway. Not sure what it is you want to be taught. How to dress on the road, maybe?
I'm not saying he's formed, but stating honestly what I see before my eyes. Hints of a leaky head, but no definitive proof. Two times in his career he's begun to face real NBA pressure — Hawks playoffs and Knicks scramble for the playoffs last year, he's disappeared — That is WAY TOO SHORT to be called a track record, and I am by no means predicting. He's had some good stretches. He needs a good season. Love to see him have one.
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Basketball / Re: Knicks
« on: October 03, 2018, 09:25:52 AM »Ron Baker has a solid all-around game.
Nothing stands out, but no great flaws either.
I like his hustle and smarts.
As for Tim, some guys develop late. Usually at PG and C which have extra responsibilities. But wings tend to find their groove relatively early and stick with it. Except for those guys you can see improving every year with a definite upward trajectory. There are probably exceptions.
Tim really needs to expand his game (he's shown flashes) and develop consistency. I'm concerned he's going to be 26 then 28 then 30 and still erratic. Needs to stay healthy too.
Really at this point, signs point toward a J.R.-lite. Not crazy, but erratic and insecure with flashes of the good stuff, much less talented than J.R. however. He may surprise us and mature, may produce at some point if surrounded by strong leadership on the floor (we don't have that now), but whoever posited him this summer as potential leader himself for the younger players was out of his f'n head.
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Basketball / Re: Knicks
« on: October 02, 2018, 09:05:39 PM »
YOW!
** yeah, I'm not in a rush either, been doing this for 5 decades, can wait til he's good and ready.
** yeah, I'm not in a rush either, been doing this for 5 decades, can wait til he's good and ready.
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Basketball / Re: Knicks
« on: October 02, 2018, 09:05:05 PM »Still have no idea why anyone thinks Porzingis will take the year or even half a year off.
LesterDawg, who is the forum Bernard King Scholar, would know. How many games did The King come back to play at the tail end of his TWO YEAR REHAB?
Missed 23 games at the tail end of the 1984-1985 season in which he got injured and was averaging 32.5 ppg (Cartwright was out with his foot injury).
All of the following year.
1986-1987, came back for the final six games.
And I was in the Garden the night he came back
Maybe I'll try to be there for KP's return...3 decades later, yow...
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Basketball / Re: Knicks
« on: October 01, 2018, 10:32:37 PM »Chris Dudley enters the Kavanaugh conversation.
And . . . another missed FT.
Looks like Chris protests too much...should have spent less time in bars and more time working on his free throws: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/us/politics/kavanaugh-bar-fight.html
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Basketball / Re: Douche
« on: September 24, 2018, 09:48:49 AM »Butler had his own double standard.
Privately and publicly he occasionally roasted both Wiggins and Towns for their shoddy defensive effort and acumen.
But the most consequentially bad defender on the Wolves, by far, last season was Jamal Crawford ...
Well, not so sure he would have gotten too far with Jamal. I didn't cry when we dumped him cause it was honestly way too painful to watch him on the other side of the court anymore, as bad as it gets. Harden-laughable bad. But if Jamal couldn't bring it at 25, don't think he was going to at 38! Far more important to instill some fight in your young dogs...
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Basketball / Re: Minority Report
« on: September 19, 2018, 09:27:19 PM »
Now Kiid can explain to me why it makes sense and why this is not MELO 2.0
Well, I'll try, for starters the guy plays some pretty good D; for seconds, the price will be presumably be reasonable — Hardaway say, and a pick with some limited protection, not a christmas-buttload of assets (Mozgov alone ended up returning 2 #1s for the recipient) — not quite mortgaging the future; and for dessert, as Kiid notes, getting him here now is the best way if you want him. Now if you don't want him at all, that's another story....