Agree Kanter should not have been on the court on that last play. He can’t guard that at all.

Giannis can’t shoot at all and there’s like 8 guys in the NBA who can guard him.

I agree that Giannis is a great player and very few people (if any) can stop him. But it’s still a huge error to have one of the worst P&R defenders in the NBA on the court when you need a stop and the other team is almost certain to run a play to exploit him because they know it too. They needed someone out there that at least had some hope of preventing him from getting to the hoop. Let him beat us with a jumper. Wally was probably right in the post game analysis. He said they probably should not have switched. KP should have gone under the pick. I think he tried, but it never should have come to that. Kanter should not have been on the court. It was a low probability scenario for us.

got him to switch onto Giannis, game over.

Giannis can’t shoot at all and there’s like 8 guys in the NBA who can guard him.

But yeah, Frank just needs more time and he’ll be better than Mitchell… right.

Right now, Mitchell is the vastly superior player. Frank will never be the player Mitchell is on offense, but Mitchell will never be the player Frank is going to be on defense. The question is how much can Frank close the gap on offense over the next 2 years (he’s 2 years younger) so that they are different in details but similar all around.

IMO, he’s very likely to be a very good 3 and D guy and good playmaker. He makes loads of very good plays already and he’s only playing PG for a few months. It’s what he can do scoring off the dribble that’s a big question mark on offense. I also think that ultimately, with his his height and length, he will be a better rebounder than Mitchell and collect a few triple doubles along the way. Mitchell will have fewer double doubles and triple doubles but way way more big nights scoring.

Without Kyle O’Quinn and Courtney Lee, this is a Knicks team that does little in terms of playing winning basketball. If we move one of those guys we will plummet unless Dotson and Hernangomez are already productive players on an every night basis.

I still think Willy is going to be productive off the bench if he gets enough minutes to get comfortable and cut down on TOs/fouls. Then again, I think Noah is still going to be productive on the boards, defensively, and making plays off the bench for someone else if we buy him out and he gets a chance to play.