thenoblefacehumper but 15 years ago most people would’ve seen his 24 PPG and figured he’s an awesome finished product.

I think if he wasn’t trending down, following a pattern from previous seasons, people would be more optimistic. Here’s KP’s TS% game by game: https://i.imgur.com/Mdsu4sP.png

Toronto is 26th in 3PT% and 7th in attempts, on their way to the 4th best offense in the league. Houston is 14th in 3PT% and 1st in attempts, on their way to the 2nd best offense in the league.

I mean it’s possible shooting more threes would improve the team’s offense. It’s possible what works for Houston and Toronto wouldn’t work for NY due to roster composition. If we were shooting at their volume, our 3 pt% might get a lot worse. Toronto also had the #6 offense last year while taking 7.5 fewer 3s per game than this year, so the increase in 3PAr probably isn’t that big a factor. I don’t really know. The only thing I feel confident in saying is that the effect would be marginal.

The Knicks are 18th in the NBA in 3pt %. Shooting more 3s might help, but not a lot

Toronto is 26th in 3PT% and 7th in attempts, on their way to the 4th best offense in the league. Houston is 14th in 3PT% and 1st in attempts, on their way to the 2nd best offense in the league. It really is just the way to run a modern offense these days (with some notable exceptions that we would never be able to emulate e.g. the Spurs). Even mediocre three point attempts give you a better return than good-not-great twos.

Would it make the Knicks a playoff juggernaut? Hell nah. But if we want to instill good habits in KP (and other young players) while also winning as many games as possible, we should be encouraging these guys to shoot some damn threes.

Regarding the challenge of tanking with KP… He’s just not that good, guys. NOt yet. If you just didn’t waste money on Hardaway and took Kanter and Lee off the team, we probably would not have 10 wins yet.

This team is not winning because it’s just so overflowing with young talent that it can’t help but win. It’s close to the opposite. Vets are carrying us to wins. There is very little prospect of significant improvement for this team.

This whole business with the Sager family is very sad.

Damn that is unfortunate. I have worked on a couple of deceased estate matters where family members are disputing wills. Always ugly, and the only real winners are the lawyers.

I think it has already been touched on, but in our criticisms of KP, I think we have played down how good the Spurs are defensively. Weigh that up with how meh we can be and it’s not surprising. I think the positive thing with KP is he is acknowledging what he needs to do be better. We saw to an extent him making an effort to improve aspects of his game (i.e. quicker decision making/shots etc.) against NO. He just now needs to put that together on a consistent basis.

This whole business with the Sager family is very sad.

i saw this and was heartbroken. Craig Sr seemed like such a good guy with a good heart and to have this happen is rough.

Years ago when my great grandmother died we had a situation roughly similar b/c of significant money, property, and items being claimed by lots of people and a will changed shortly before death…

Start praying……hard