Our Defense is ahead of our offense, way ahead.
Randle is finding his way in a new role. I think Thibs can coach him and that we might want him to stick around.
Burks is the cheese.
Our wing play over all is not bad. Decent showing from Knox.
Two big problems are that the PGs listed as PGs are playing like hot garbage and we need another big man who is actually big.
Tomorrow should be just as rough.
Well, it would appear as if the Elfrid Payon Experiment [ZERO in 18 minutes on 0-6, 0-3, 0-0, with 3 boards and one assist] IS OVER. ZERO TEMPO, Leadership And Defense for a desultory -15--but even THAT doesn't begin to tell the whole story.
Dennis in his 18 minutes was not inspirational, and clearly does not have Thibs confidence, but looked like John Stockton next to Payton, with 1-5, 2-2 FTs, and 2 boards, 2 assists and a steal for a +1, not that he moved the needle. And Frank? Sigh. Talk about not inspiring confidence. Only got floor time for one brick in two minutes when Thibs had thrown in the towel.
While we are patiently waiting on Rivers and Quickley, and YES, let us be ver patient with our puppy--no sense in rushing IQ out there....and while he clearly has the goods, that is one hell of a lot of pressure to put on a kid...but really, what other options are there? Besides James Haden.
Why not throw Jared Harper into the deep end of the pool and see if he can compete against men?
Yeah Yeah, I know, I know, but why the hell not while we are waiting on Immanuel and Austin ANYWAY. Not like we stand much of a chance against the Bucks. Otherwise, we should be starting Burks in the back court with RJ...I mean, Elfrid is a farce.
Meanwhile what is this fascination with Theo Pinson, particularly on a team desperate for shooters?
Defense was not bad, not bad at all, but our offensive stupor was numbing. Randle and Burks were 17-28, and 6-8 from trey. Knicks as a team were 15-55 and 2-21. So yes, Facil, the offense does indeed seem to be lagging behind the D.
PS: Some crow sashimi with props to BoD on Toppin. The calf injury will be
re-evaluated in
7-10 days and
YES, there is a thin line between
cautious and concerning. Though I think it might be a tad early to ring the
PANIC BELL, we blew our draft choice. Oh and in going back through the way back machine to the Mills Error, a question Bo raised bears repeating....or was it Kam. WHY DID WE NEVER MAKE A RUN AT Malcolm Brogdon when we were signing Taj Gibson and Wayne Ellington and Elfrid Payton? Just asking? [Well, he was an RFA, was he not, and didn't Indy get him in a S & T, so there's that...still].
PPS: I think it might be time to give Julius Randle his props. OH, HE GETS TURNOVERS. Fuck You. He gets TOs when he is forced to do too much and if the only player on the court who needs to be guarded, outside of Burke, or RJ when he is not having a nightmarish shooting night. I would ask for a moratorium on moronic trade fantasies involving Julius, but, well, boys will be boys.
PPPS: Is it worth noting that we passed on both Jeff Teague and Jrue Holiday in 2009 to pick fucking Jordan Hill, who played all of 24 games for us before being uncermemoniously dumped back in the day to Houston, not to mention passing on Rajon Rondo and Kyle Lowry in 2006 to select the Tasmanian Dweebil, Renanldo Balkman, back in the day. WHAT THE FUCK IS IT WITH THE KNICKS AND POINT GUARDS? Lowry, Rondo, Teague and Holiday ARE STILL IN THE LEAGUE, while Hill and Balkman are LONG GONE. We finally seem to have gotten lucky, dumb lucky, with IQ, so come on Thibs, Payton ain't earned SHIT.
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