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Voting closed: June 13, 2022, 11:38:11 PM

[kidcarter8]

Couple of articles for a Friday:


https://sports.yahoo.com/why-does-tom-thibodeau-start-151904317.html

https://sports.yahoo.com/knicks-fix-offensive-struggles-against-150452743.html

[carlos123]

Thibs is seeing this forum!
Obi 15 minutes and IQ 31.
Keep it up, coach!
You still need to give a few more minutes to Obi and a few less to King Julius.

But, like Chip would say... PROGRESS!  😜

[facilitatorn]

Kids did nice today. Their good play kept them on the floor in ways that helped us. Kudos to Thibs for setting standards from the jump.

Big 4 all came to play and carried us through - barely

[bodiddley]

Randle with a poor start and Knix a feeble 1Q without his leadership.
Tilman looked solid, but missed all 3 of his FT's.
Clyde had lots of praise for Dillon Brooks.  Listed at 6'7" … I thought he was around 6'4"
and more of an SG.  Guess I haven't been keeping up with Memf much.

[facilitatorn]

Memphis is fun. Not Denver fun, but quite fun in their own right.

[Kam]

Mitch the only significant injury and Noel has filled in for Mitch almost perfectly.
With Nerlins and Taj we haven't missed Mitch.

Maybe on defense. But Mitch is much better than either offensively.  You need to re-consider.

[Kam]

Tilman looked solid, but missed all 3 of his FT's.

Tillman Sr.   
It's very important we know that he named his kid after himself.

[bodiddley]

Better than getting one of those creepy throat tattoos of his kid, so there's this weird infant image popping out of your shirt on your neck ...

Mitch can be pretty up and down in scoring, boarding, fouling.  I think Nawlins is starting to get a little worn down.  And his hands arent as good as Mitch's mitts.  But the main thing is Knix didn't have to adjust their schemes or coverage on D.  Noel fits right in to Mitch's role. 

Knix really stole a game they should have lost.
Heroes abound, but RJB was hugely clutch and supremely confident.
That was really something to see.  With Julius not sharp, the G's really came through.  Also, Taj did some heroic boardwork.

Odd play.  About 1:10 left in reg, NYK up 3, Morant gets a switch with Randle guarding him.  Julius has 5 fouls and looked gassed when he blocked a Morant drive but got called for a foul just prior.  Morant takes one non-threatening dribble and passes off to Brooks.  Why didn't Morant drive on Randle, force him to yield or potentially foul out.  Fouling out a team's leader is usually considered a good move.  So is attacking a key player with 5 fouls.  So is attacking a mismatch.  Thought that was very much to the Knix advantage.

Memf sure relied on Dillon Brooks jacking 3's in crunch time.  He's making just 34% this year.  Looks like their best 3Pt shooters are mostly pups.  Bane, Grayson, Melt-on.  Kyle made some bad plays late, especially an inbounds pass just sailing through his slo-mo hands.
He did manage to strip RJB on a fast break, but on O he was a disaster.

[bodiddley]

MemF nicely set at PG & C.
Brooks looks like a quality SF.
You can see why they drafted PF's Clarke and Tilman Sr.
And SG shooters in Bane & Grayson recently.
Bane looks promising.
Kyle Anderson better coming off the bench.
But since their two best players -- Ja & Jonas -- arent 3 point shooters, they really need a PF who can space the floor and knock down 3's.  Clarke not there yet.
Interesting team.
But by the time Clarke and Bane are ripe, Valanciunas might be on the fade.

[kidcarter8]

Kyle Anderson has become an excellent player at age 27

One more year left on 4-37

[chipstern]

MemF nicely set at PG & C.
Brooks looks like a quality SF.
You can see why they drafted PF's Clarke and Tilman Sr.
And SG shooters in Bane & Grayson recently.
Bane looks promising.
Kyle Anderson better coming off the bench.
But since their two best players -- Ja & Jonas -- arent 3 point shooters, they really need a PF who can space the floor and knock down 3's.  Clarke not there yet.
Interesting team.
But by the time Clarke and Bane are ripe, Valanciunas might be on the fade.

You forgot all about JAREN JACKSON

https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/j/jacksja02.html

Center and Power Forward [6-11, 242lb]

A big athletic Stretch 4-5 who can shoot the three. 

Recovering from a knee injury, and might be back by the end of the month.

A significant talent.  Was drafted #4 out of Michigan State in 2018 in between Luka and Trae, the year we took Kevin.  The thought of him as a 5 on the Knicks makes me drool, long enough to recognize that this transcends reality as we know it.  Better I should fantasize about Thelma Todd. 

PS: Meanwhile, RJ is ONLY 20.  My God he has a set of stones on him.  No rear view mirror.  Not afraid to fail.  Wants the big shot at crunch time.  BoD likes to project forward.  RJ still getting stronger, and might even be getting taller.  He porojects as a 2-3 wing long term.  If we could get a long strong big wing span 2-3 & D wing in the draft, who could really defend and launch from trey, would give us more talent and depth at the 2 & 3.  PG?  Not convinced that Ball will be available.  We shall see. 

[kidcarter8]

13 mil team option on Winslow

[carlos123]

Enes KANTER!!!

30 rebounds to go with 2 assists, 2 blocks and 24 points on 9-16 shooting and 6-8 FT.

Wow!!!

Like I said before, they play much better with Enes than they do with Nurkic as starting C.

PS. Chamaco, say YES to All-Star game out of Georgia!

[elephant]

That's awesome.

[bodiddley]

You're right, Jaren Jax come on down.  Their Valancuinas replacement in training/hiding.  Knick announcers mentioned him; Clyde calling him a potential future all-star.

I doubt even Kyle Anderson's mom thinks he's an excellent player.  Fairly solid, useful.  A quality rotation backup.
Winslow was never worth $13M even before he started to break down.  Drop that and maybe re-sign him on a 1/$4M make good deal. 

Down the Road:
Morant - Des Bane - Brooks - Clarke - Jax
Ty Jones - Grayson - Kyle A - Tea 4 Tilman - Valanciunas
[Melton; Winslow]
That could be a real coherent team, with two nice units.

Impressive they are around .500 without Jax; while Clarke, Bane, Grayson are so young .. not to mention the precocious neophyte status of Ja Morant.

Looks like Memf has drafted well and restocked pretty quickly.
Getting Morant at #2 and Jaren Jax #4 obviously key.  But looks like their lower picks -- mostly trading for other teams draft picks: Bane, Clarke, etc. -- have been solid. 

Bane looks terrific, a Celts #30 pick.  Shot 43% on 3's in college.  45% in the NBofA on 3's.  7th in the League.