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Basketball / Re: Knicks
« on: November 18, 2023, 01:58:56 PM »
this migraine thing is...weird
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Basketball / Re: Knicks
« on: November 17, 2023, 01:02:28 PM »It saves wear and tear on Evans legs and might help extend his career. If he was itching to play he would offer some money back so we could buy him out and he could find a team.
He is itching to play, but offering $$ would change nothing.
His salary is being warehoused, it will be needed in "the big trade" as the young ones $ (+ draft picks) won't match up. I expect him to ride the pines (unhappily) through the trade deadline. Then, if nothing has happened, the buy out will likely come.
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Basketball / Re: Knicks
« on: November 07, 2023, 09:16:33 AM »
That was the good stuff!
Could have gone either way with the Julius noggin, was right on the precipice, and he tipped to the bright side.
Hart finding himself.
Dante, the execution keeping up with the energy as has not always been the case.
Our monster two-headed center.
RJ maintains his most consistent start ever.
So much to build on here, should we choose to
Could have gone either way with the Julius noggin, was right on the precipice, and he tipped to the bright side.
Hart finding himself.
Dante, the execution keeping up with the energy as has not always been the case.
Our monster two-headed center.
RJ maintains his most consistent start ever.
So much to build on here, should we choose to
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Basketball / Not your typical NBA slump.
« on: November 06, 2023, 12:00:32 PM »
Team game, yes...but:
Our star player clearly struggles with mental illness.
I believe he is getting treatment for that illness. He will have his ups-and-downs. Long and short ups-and-downs. Some game long. Some weeks long. Some perhaps season long.
The team, or any of its individual players, cannot have much effect on the status of his illness. We have seen the illness manifest itself even as the team was winning games. His illness did not allow him to participate in the communal celebration.
Hopefully the current treatment will reap benefits, and Julius'play shooting will improve soon. I don't believe RJ can affect his prognosis in any way.
*** I remain tentatively impressed by the RJ we have seen so far this season. I hope to see more soon.
Our star player clearly struggles with mental illness.
I believe he is getting treatment for that illness. He will have his ups-and-downs. Long and short ups-and-downs. Some game long. Some weeks long. Some perhaps season long.
The team, or any of its individual players, cannot have much effect on the status of his illness. We have seen the illness manifest itself even as the team was winning games. His illness did not allow him to participate in the communal celebration.
Hopefully the current treatment will reap benefits, and Julius'
*** I remain tentatively impressed by the RJ we have seen so far this season. I hope to see more soon.
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Basketball / Re: Knicks
« on: November 01, 2023, 12:34:17 PM »
so DDV is eating a bunch of minutes from folks whom I think are better than him...
(ok, a three game opinion isn't really much more insightful than a one game opinion, true, but that's still my opinion)
doesn't make much sense, all I can figure is that he's really here for insurance, to make sure we have depth and dogs left over after Leon's mega trade...which will come, sooner or later, whether we like it or not, this season or next
*** oh god, no KAT please, no KAT!
(ok, a three game opinion isn't really much more insightful than a one game opinion, true, but that's still my opinion)
doesn't make much sense, all I can figure is that he's really here for insurance, to make sure we have depth and dogs left over after Leon's mega trade...which will come, sooner or later, whether we like it or not, this season or next
*** oh god, no KAT please, no KAT!
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Basketball / Re: Knicks
« on: November 01, 2023, 12:26:19 PM »
lol, never a good idea to open my yapper after one game...
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Basketball / Re: Knicks
« on: October 29, 2023, 06:54:25 PM »
So much energy. Sometimes seems like helter skelter energy. Like I say, not sold yet.
Julius has a weird, very different energy so far this year.
Seemingly focused in. Not questioning calls. At all. Not dogging it. Very different. But, as of yet, not in any kind of groove.
I think he's on some medication, and they're still getting the dose right.
Julius has a weird, very different energy so far this year.
Seemingly focused in. Not questioning calls. At all. Not dogging it. Very different. But, as of yet, not in any kind of groove.
I think he's on some medication, and they're still getting the dose right.
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Basketball / Re: Knicks
« on: October 28, 2023, 07:52:11 PM »
so much for turnover-free Julius, yow!
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Basketball / Re: Knicks
« on: October 27, 2023, 11:50:54 AM »
39 points, 8 boards and ZERO turnovers. Bucks getting their money's worth for sure
Couldn't help but notice how sloppy Embiid and Greek were at times ... 7 each. A lot of bad choices that can swing it in what ended up a 1-point game.
Despite the shooting, Julius had zero the other night...along with 11 boards. The kind of bad game that doesn't take you out of the game.
Couldn't help but notice how sloppy Embiid and Greek were at times ... 7 each. A lot of bad choices that can swing it in what ended up a 1-point game.
Despite the shooting, Julius had zero the other night...along with 11 boards. The kind of bad game that doesn't take you out of the game.
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Basketball / Re: Knicks
« on: October 26, 2023, 01:17:12 PM »
That was not nothing.
Almost overcame Tingus' Wemby imitation and very weak games by our "stars." Made it competitive right to the end.
After the first quarter, we played to the Thibs blueprint.
I thought RJ was strong. Still don't see how a player with such an abominable touch and questionable basketball instincts can ever be a star, but I'll settle for a first Game 1 to Game 82 positive season and yesterday was a pretty good start.
Missing Obi, but he was NOT a Thibs player. Donte is. Color me unimpressed so far, would much rather see Deuce, or yes, I mean it, Fournier. But let's see what Coach does, the stable is full with guys he likes. Express your vision.
Jaylen Brown may be the most overpaid player in history.
Almost overcame Tingus' Wemby imitation and very weak games by our "stars." Made it competitive right to the end.
After the first quarter, we played to the Thibs blueprint.
I thought RJ was strong. Still don't see how a player with such an abominable touch and questionable basketball instincts can ever be a star, but I'll settle for a first Game 1 to Game 82 positive season and yesterday was a pretty good start.
Missing Obi, but he was NOT a Thibs player. Donte is. Color me unimpressed so far, would much rather see Deuce, or yes, I mean it, Fournier. But let's see what Coach does, the stable is full with guys he likes. Express your vision.
Jaylen Brown may be the most overpaid player in history.
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Basketball / Re: Knicks
« on: October 24, 2023, 05:03:30 PM »
Ain't gonna happen.
How could it when OKC can offer up to 37 draft picks over the next 7 years, lol!
Embiid does NOT have a no-trade clause.
**** but if anybody whines about throwing RJ, Mitch, or Quick into some hypothetical mock trade for the reigning MVP I will still smack their imbecilic asses.....
How could it when OKC can offer up to 37 draft picks over the next 7 years, lol!
Embiid does NOT have a no-trade clause.
**** but if anybody whines about throwing RJ, Mitch, or Quick into some hypothetical mock trade for the reigning MVP I will still smack their imbecilic asses.....
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Basketball / Re: Knicks
« on: October 19, 2023, 09:43:29 AM »got to say, oh never mind, the truncate phenomena in full effect and just too hard to post
Come on, I'll bite. What were you going to say?
Some blather about not liking "sit the stars" lineups in preseason games.
Understand needing to see different players in extended minutes, but would seem to be more insightful if it wasn't 5 scrubs at once.
No great loss to the forum for sure.
(posting mobile never works for me, Safari on Mac cooperative lately)
(preseason is just preseason, but has me a little unsettled, not seeing the things I would think need to happen if we were to build on last year, but just preseason, so....)
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Basketball / Re: Knicks
« on: October 18, 2023, 12:34:29 PM »
got to say, oh never mind, the truncate phenomena in full effect and just too hard to post
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Basketball / Re: Knicks Dodge A Bullet
« on: October 01, 2023, 08:30:11 PM »Love Jrue, but made no sense for a two guard next to Jalen...we have Grimes, IQ, DiVincenzo.
BESIDES...
Celtics just traded Robert Williams, Brogdan and two #1 picks for Holiday.
Love Jrue, Celtics are a better team for the trade, fits like a glove, kind of had to make it after the Bucks did their thing....BUT, I think they paid the steeper price. Dame and Jrue are almost exactly the same age, but way more NBA miles on Jrue's legs. Three more seasons, more minutes, more games, long playoff runs while the Blazers were tanking and Dame was sitting. Will be fun to watch those guys battle it out. Glad we stayed pat.
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Basketball / Re: Knicks
« on: September 28, 2023, 11:19:31 AM »Guess we have no shot at Giannis anymore.
Giannis has had Holiday making life difficult for the guard in front of him. That will now be done by Dame and who? Allen also went in the deal.
Kind of crazy that Gobert, Smart and Jaren Jackson have DPY awards and Jrue doesn't, he's been a superior defensive player. That game-changing.
But....definitely didn't look totally the same in last year's playoffs, the inevitable starting to happen, perhaps. He's already on record as thinking about his retirement and not wanting another contract.
Bucks have several other all-defensive team level players..that is not their PRIMARY need. You can pick up a decent defender to partner up with Dame in any Walmart, but you can't get a top-75 scorer who will absolutely destroy you when you collapse on Giannis, take the ball out of GA's hands for as long as you need, and totally change up the Bucs often stultifyingly-simplistic end games.
Marvelous trade for Milwaukee. By no means risk-free, but definitely could be a championship-turn, franchise-saving move. If Middleton is back to form, I can see no other favorite. Health determines everything as always, for them, the Lakers, the Suns, the Warriors, the Celtics, the Nuggets, everyone.
Jrue will not play a minute next to Scoot btw. Will he play a minute for us? Well if we weren't willing to give up a pile of assets for a 25-year-old scorer, I don't see why we'd do it for a 33 year old whose shot disappears in the playoffs...(well, the bulk of them, he can certainly make a clutch one or two), but he is surely not our primary need.