Comments on: Knicks Morning News (2018.04.18)

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

Thu, 19 Apr 2018 13:26:18 +0000

IMO, Towns doesn’t look bad because of anything Thibs is doing. He looks bad because Houston decided to try to take him out of the series and let guys like Butler, Teague, and Wiggins beat them. It’s basically the same thing teams were doing to the Knicks after KP started the season playing like a super freak.

The problem for Minnesota is that Towns doesn’t know how to handle it anymore than KP did. So even when he gets the ball he’s often throwing up terrible shots just like KP. The other problem is that the other players aren’t stepping up (Butler may not be 100%) and they are simply the inferior team anyway. But the best is still ahead for a few of their players and this experience will help them.

If anything, this should be encouraging to Knicks fans. It shows that when a defense focuses on a very efficient scorer like Towns they can even take a player like that out of a game because he’s not a super elite scorer that has the knowledge and skills to deal with it.

Just before he got hurt, it seemed like KP was starting to figure it all out. It’s part of the learning process. If we can ever put some better scoring options next to him than Lance Thomas (lol), it will make his job easier.

By: Grocer

Grocer — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 08:43:48 +0000

So basically, KAT looked exhausted. Like everybody who starts on a Thibs team during the regular season.

I liked how Stackhouse talks about shit more than what he actually says. The ability to admit mistakes, to take on board other opinions.I don’t know that he’d be better than Fizz or Blatt, but he’d be better than Jackson just based on that.

I think Mills and Perry are very specifically talking about giving a black coach a ‘long leash,’ as that guy put it in that article about Jackson. That’s a small step forward, but it’s a step.

By: rama, king of superfluous poppycock

rama, king of superfluous poppycock — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 06:12:16 +0000

Well, sure, Thibs as a GM, no. And Thibs over a season, destroying players’ longevity, no. But he didn’t have much he could do as a coach.

By: Bruno Almeida

Bruno Almeida — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 05:09:17 +0000

That would make sense if he was only coaching, but when you remember he actually built this roster and got those players, yeah, not so much.

By: rama, king of superfluous poppycock

rama, king of superfluous poppycock — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 04:45:32 +0000

Whether they took the same amount of shots as KAT is immaterial – KAT looked terrible. Like, worse than Bad Porzingis, without the D. I was thinking how people would be commenting about his play if he were on the Knicks – would have been no mercy. Most of his shots were worse than Rose’s and Crawford’s.

And Butler is hurt. So I can’t blame Thibs. His team is nowhere near ready for an elite team.

By: Bruno Almeida

Bruno Almeida — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 04:39:51 +0000

Derrick Rose and Jamal Crawford combined for 46 minutes. I don’t think it’s even possible to win when that happens regardless of anything else. They both shot the same amount of shots as Towns and 3 more than Butler.

Thibs should be fired midseries.

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

Thu, 19 Apr 2018 04:05:54 +0000

Towns look an awful lot like “bad” Porzingis when he’s getting double teamed near the basket and isn’t getting wide open 3 pointers.

I should add that Porzingis is a better defender. lol

Of course, I’m not saying that KP is as effective as Towns on offense, but it is interesting how much his game and shot selection has deteriorated (so far) when a playoff level defense focused on trying to take away all his easy looks like they were with KP after his hot start. (and Towns has Teague and Butler on the court with him. KP had Jack and Lance Thomas lol).

This is the kind of experience that KP, Frank, and the others are going to need eventually.

By: DRed

DRed — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 03:45:44 +0000

The rockets aren’t playing well and are 22 up. The Knicks would give more of a fight than the twolves

By: Silky Johnson, Fleet Admiral of the Tank Armada

Silky Johnson, Fleet Admiral of the Tank Armada — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 03:38:20 +0000

Derrick rose went -10 in 5 minutes lmao fire Thibs

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

Thu, 19 Apr 2018 03:06:34 +0000

Towns look an awful lot like “bad” Porzingis when he’s getting double teamed near the basket and isn’t getting wide open 3 pointers.