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Total Members Voted: 3

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

[Kam]

KP, Robinson, Knox, and Frank make 4 foundational pieces.

The Core Four

Jeter = KP
Mariano = Robinson
Pettitte=Frank
Posada = Knox

[kiidcarter8]

No

Its Porzingis, Hardaway and hopefully Knox

Guy with a 7.0 PER cannot factor in.  If Knox puts that up, will you be disappointed or just say, "well, he's 18...."

Stop protecting Frank

[chipstern]

KP, Robinson, Knox, and Frank make 4 foundational pieces. There are a number of prospects on the roster who could rise to compliment that group.

[chipstern]

[kiidcarter8]

Minutes - 22 per game

FT attempted - 1 per game

[chipstern]

 

Minutes - 22 per game

FT attempted - 1 per game

Fair enough.

And now comes that part of the lecture where you explain away the Mudiay & Ball jump shot.

More to the game than STATs, right? 

All three players have some pretty significant arrows in their quiver. 

And yet you are only dismissive of Frank. 

Color me confused.

Kindly elucidate. 

 

[chipstern]

Minutes - 22 per game

FT attempted - 1 per game

Fair enough.

And now comes that part of the lecture where you explain away the Mudiay & Ball jump shot.

More to the game than STATs, right? 

All three players have some pretty significant arrows in their quiver. 

And yet you are only dismissive of Frank. 

Color me confused.

Kindly elucidate.

PS: Lonzo?  Tallied 1.4 FTs per game, and a .451 FT %.  Frank's FT% was .721.  Proving?  Not much.  Just SAYING. 

[facilitatorn]

There’s no accounting for Kiids...

On the Noah front, from NBC Sports via the Nothin But Knicks webcast, if we stretch Noah’s 2019-20 contract to open up 12.5ish Million in the 2019 free agency season we’ll have the possibility of reversing the decision before the start of the season to reverse the stretch and put his total number back on the books for 2019-20 and to be clear of him beyond next season. The displayed quote on NBK prefaced the potential to unstretch with “if the Knicks strike out in 2019 free agency,” but did not go into whether we had to start or wind up under the cap, under the tax, or could use this option regardless of salary cap situation.

I wasn’t able to find the clear rules governing this scenario, but if we can for instance use this when we’re over the cap so long as we stay under the tax line or hard cap line then using Noah to exceed the cap to within 12.5 mil of the tax line for a big payroll this year and no further consequences seems like a good avenue to keep open whether it’s to retain our own standouts or to bring in fresh faces.

As it in no way leaves us short up front this season, this “backsies” provision, should it really exist and not be a figment of the Internet & NBC Sports, makes me more in favor of executing the stretch of Jo.

[kiidcarter8]

Minutes - 22 per game

FT attempted - 1 per game

Fair enough.

And now comes that part of the lecture where you explain away the Mudiay & Ball jump shot.

Has nothing to do with Frank

I dont have Mudiay in our core yet, as much as I like his potential.

Ball is in another class.

[facilitatorn]

The guard rotation has to be about who can dig in on defense, allow the least openings and cause the most trouble in the process.

[kiidcarter8]

Just heard a respected NBA voice say how exciting DENVER will be - and in the next breath state how they added the 5-8 shrimp Thomas to the 27th ranked defense in the league

heh

[facilitatorn]

They’re paying Thomas close to max money right, so he’s guaranteed big minutes?

[bodiddley]

The League trying to help the Knix lose:

The Hornets, Knicks and Wizards have 15 back-to-back sets.
The Hawks, Rockets, Heat, Thunder, Suns, Blazers and Raptors have 12 B2Bs.
Every other team has 13 or 14.

[bodiddley]

Schedule is out and you might want to consider the under on 29.5 W's.

Knix play BKY 2x in Oct  (and a 3rd time in early Dec) so if you're rooting for W's you'd hope those games would be in 2019, when KZ is likely back.

But November is a brutal schedule.
11 Road games to just 4 Homers.
And the first two Nov Home games are Road-Home B2B's.

After an XMas game v. MIL, Knix go on a brutal 6 game road trip
(@: Mil - Uta - Den - LaL - Por - GS)
followed by games v. IND, PHI, @ Was, OKC, HOU
So that's a cruel stretch of 11 winning teams from Dec 27 to Jan 23.

Feb is 9 Home and 3 Road.
But by then Knix likely road kill.
Well, those rooting for another high pick have to like the schedule
And if Knix get buried in L's the first few months, KZ is coming back slowly and on a minutes restriction.  Might not see him til after the all-star break to be safe.

Knix also have a league high 15 2B pairings.
We meet BOS twice in the first 6 weeks, and both times it's the butt end of a B2B for the Knickers.

[facilitatorn]

We’ll be what we are by the end of November, a sneakily exciting young team on the rise or a source of other clubs’ players’ highlights. The big early road trip will give us a strong sense of what we’re working with this season.