Comments on: Knicks Morning News (2018.02.26)

By: Stratomatic "It's tough being us"

Stratomatic "It's tough being us" — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 00:52:15 +0000

Basketball is a sometimes more a game of matchups (kind of like boxing) than just a match of overall skills. Frazier beat Ali and gave him all he could handle in another right. Foreman utterly demolished Frazier twice. That did not mean Foreman could beat Ali.

There are going to be matchups where Jokic is killing the opposing C on offense and can handle him on defense and there are going to be nights where he is overwhelmed on defense and being defended well.

There are going to be matchups where Boban is killing it in the paint and not a huge liability on defense and there are going to be nights where he’s a bigger liability on defense than an asset on offense.

It depends on the individual skill set each brings to table.

In his case though, they are telling us Boban can’t be as effective for 36 minutes as he can in a few. That’s partly why he’s on the bench. That’s usually the case with “energy guys” like O’Quinn, Faried and others that play at a very intense level, but can’t sustain full productivity past a certain point. But it’s also true of other players. Just like there are natural sprinters and marathoners in track and field, some guys have more stamina than others in other sports.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 00:51:00 +0000

In reply to Bruno Almeida.

But it is incredibly stupid to do what Van Gundy did with him, which is to ignore his existence.

Well, at least Coach Van Gundy can always blame his moronic GM for signing a guy that his coach was never going to play. 😉

By: Bruno Almeida

Bruno Almeida — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 00:12:33 +0000

The Knicks don’t need another player’s coach, respected locker room presence, old school guy. We just need a young dude who’s heavy on fundamentals and development and who’s willing to work with the way the NBA works right now.

Stop with the big names for God’s sake.

By: Bruno Almeida

Bruno Almeida — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 00:08:15 +0000

For me, Rivers is almost as big of a NO than Mark Jackson. Please don’t.

About Boban, it’s clear that he’s a specialist, a designated hitter type of guy that won’t ever be a starter or play 35 minutes a night. But it is incredibly stupid to do what Van Gundy did with him, which is to ignore his existence. He has already shown he can dominate in certain circumstances, to have a coach that’s unwilling to at least plan ahead and use him for some of those circumstances is just plain stupid.

Make a plan where your offense focuses on him as a primary option for 10 to 15 minutes per game, and then you can maximize his production.

By: dtrickey

dtrickey — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 23:52:36 +0000

Not sure about the Doc Rivers interest that’s been reported. Given he left Boston because he didn’t want to be a part of a rebuild, it seems odd he would want to come here when we will be rebuilding ourselves, regardless of whatever nostalgia he might have coming back to New York. My preference would be to keep Hornacek for his final season, but if we had to choose a replacement I wouldn’t hate getting Blatt in. He went to Cleveland on the basis he would be trying to develop a young team before LeBron came and changed the course of things. Given his history as a coach, I think he definitely deserves another NBA job.

By: Farfa

Farfa — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 23:52:13 +0000

Don’t get me wrong, he can play at best 20mpg. But there’s so much you gain from him playing those minutes that you should do it at any cost.

By: Ben R

Ben R — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 23:36:29 +0000

Boban is really a matchup choice. Against slow-footed centers like Jokic he dominates but against more nimble athletic centers he becomes a total liability. O’Quinn ate him for lunch when we played Detroit this year and O’Quinn isn’t even that quick.

He is like uber-Kanter, his scoring is even more efficient and dominant, his rebounding is just as good if not better but he is even more, much more, of a liability defensively. It makes him even harder to play because if he doesn’t dominate every minute he is on the court you are giving so much up to the other team.

By: Farfa

Farfa — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 23:07:20 +0000

He’s slow and lumbering but he just dominates the game against pretty much everyone who’s not AD and Giannis. And maybe LeBron if he plays 15 minutes at C.

By: Farfa

Farfa — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 23:05:15 +0000

Boban is a fucking force of nature and I’m baffled at any coach that doesn’t realize that. He ate Jokic alive for ten minutes.

By: The Honorable Cock Jowles

The Honorable Cock Jowles — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 22:55:19 +0000

Yeah, the Spurs are a fucking joke

You must have missed the 2016 WCSFs where Adams and Kanter demolished the Spurs in the paint. 20MPG of Boban wins that series.