Comments on: Knicks Morning News (2018.04.11)

By: Bruno Almeida

Bruno Almeida — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 22:57:50 +0000

Oh my… this is really going to happen isn’t it?

By: alsep73

alsep73 — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 22:53:35 +0000

Love and Korver are out tonight, and LeBron is expected to be pulled early. I’ve got a bad feeling about The Walking Bucket going off when we least want him to.

By: DRed

DRed — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 22:52:37 +0000

I’m fairly ambivalent towards firing horny, mainly because I don’t trust the FO to hire someone better, but one of the things I like least about horny was using Kristaps as an iso scorer on offense, because he’s fucking terrible at it. Kristaps should be shooting 3s and dunking the ball, not trying to cross guys over 19′ from the rim so he can shoot off the dribble.

By: Bruno Almeida

Bruno Almeida — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 21:35:18 +0000

@39

I truly hope that’s the Porzingis we get back, because it became clear that his torrid start was more of an unsustainable stretch than anything. I do think he needs help, and that’s why I’m so desperate for any chance to pick up Doncic, but he really needs to put in the work on his shot selection. We’ve heard many times players saying they gotta take better shots and it’s not always what happens.

I just want Hornacek and his middle age offensive schemes gone. Making KP the focus of the offense should never ever mean having him on the post or hovering around the mid range isoing. I understand the issues that arise from having no real Point Guard but the offensive schemes were simply unacceptable for a NBA team in 2018.

By: wetbandit

wetbandit — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 20:44:19 +0000

JVG would be great, but don’t know why Dolan would all of a sudden like the guy.
Vogel was an asinine rumor, I don’t like him, and has a job anyhow.
I’d be very happy with Blatt, who has seen success everywhere he went, and Popovich’s James Borrego, Ettore Messina are by all accounts modern and superb. Also, Nick Nurse definitely improved the Raptors’ entire offense.

By: Stratomatic "Porzingis, Ntilikina, and Bridges will take us to the promised land"

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 20:39:59 +0000

@35

No doubt he struggled a bit when they started double teaming him. It got even worse when Hardaway went down and he was the only scoring option. The team struggled as well at less than 100%. But just before he got hurt he said he realized he was forcing up too many shots because he thought he had to score 30 a night to help the team. He realized that was a mistake. He made some adjustments and I thought he looked and played a lot better even though he didn’t have much help.

By: Henry George

Henry George — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 20:37:20 +0000

Keeping Hornachek is my preference. But if he has to go, Mike Miller would be my choice. No baggage, plus I think he’s earned a shot. And it shows everyone organization-wide that hard work does pay off.

By: Hubert

Hubert — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 20:36:37 +0000

Injuries and all, I wouldn’t trade KP.

In a vacuum, I wouldn’t trade him either. But I would rather trade him than sign him to a 5 year max contract.

By: Stratomatic "Porzingis, Ntilikina, and Bridges will take us to the promised land"

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 20:32:18 +0000

His perceived value is probably higher than his actual value.

IMO, his perceived value around the league includes a projection component that has yet to be achieved and some hype because of the occasional highlight play he makes, but his actual value is higher than the consensus here. I say the latter even though when he went through his rough patch after he started getting double teamed and was throwing up 4-5 trash shots a night I was the biggest whiner here. It was frustrating to watch that, but I think I overreacted and have a better understanding of his value now anyway. I can’t wait until he’s back.

By: Bruno Almeida

Bruno Almeida — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 20:29:12 +0000

I don’t know if that’s much of an argument strato. We were on something like a 6-18 stretch with him still on the lineup before the injury. The team was showing clear signs of slowing down a lot and Porzingis was playing much worse.

Of course the team got worse when he got injured but it was already pretty bad with him healthy. I don’t think he has shown so far much to be clearly above Melo’s best seasons with us. Obviously a better defender but if his downward spiral continued in terms of shooting his numbers would have looked even worse.