I’m not understanding why this current regime wants to go all in on free agents next year.

I don’t understand it either. I complained before about the NBA team herd mentality when it comes to free agents. If everyone is going after free agents next year with new found cap space, I think it would be better to be conservative and keep our powder dry for the next year when free agent remorse will set in among most of the league. But, as Brian pointed out, it’s very hard for NBA teams not to actually do as much as possible to be better any given year, both by competitive nature and because GM jobs are on the line.

Derrick White is looking like the best player on the court in these games, I would not be surprised to see him taking a lot of minutes in the Spurs rotation this year. The kid is a keeper.

David Fizdale says he’s thought of playing a big Knicks lineup with Kevin Knox at the 2 and a frontcourt of Kristaps Porzingis at the 3 with Luke Kornet and Mitchell Robinson. “I have a crush on wingspan.” Says he doesn’t want to pidgeonhole anyone to any position.

https://twitter.com/MikeVorkunov/status/1014941602601553922?s=19

Isn’t the most reasonable path at this point to tank and just try to develop young talent, which will eventually lead to a solid core to eventually attract the one or two free agents we need to truly contend. Right now we have almost nothing.

My fear and the likelihood is that we will not develop any young talent, and instead we will have to settle for middling free agents (Kemba’s).

As a long suffering Knick fan it would be nice to finally just be patient and do the slow rebuild rather than signing mediocre free agents. How many times are we going to sign the THJR’s, Noah’s and Courtney Lee’s of the world and a year or two later wondering how we can get rid of them. We have gone down this path so many times and it never works out. It looks like this current regime is once again doomed to repeat our failed history rather than learning from it.

Summer league BPM numbers. Bagley and Trae are at the bottom of the entire SL. This means nothing, but it’s fun to pretend like it does to make me feel better about us picking Knox.

Jimmy Butler will do just fine on his next contract. (He’ll just do better if it’s for some team that’s not the Knicks, of course:)

A player who impressed me is Jevon Carter. Besides looking like and as old as current Greg Anthony, this guy will be in the NBA for a long time (barring injuries of course). He’s everything you want in a backup point guard or spot starter.

I’m not trying to argue about the minutes played thing with you Donnie but rather play devil’s advocate…
Athletes are so much more “athletic” now due to advanced nutrition, supplements, training, etc, that it could make them less durable than they were in the past. They are so optimized that they are more likely to have greater injuries with less time played.

Because Derrick Rose couldn’t shoot, his style was to drive into the lane where all the giant people were and draw contact. That isn’t really sustainable whether it’s for 35 minutes a game or for 30.

As for Deng, the year before Thibs arrived in Chicago Vinnie Del Negro played him 38 minutes a game. Thibs simply kept the minutes volume at that level, and Deng went on to play in every game for over 100 straight regular season games for him. To correlate him missing games in LA because of the games he didn’t miss in Chicago may be possible, but, then again, why should Thibs care about how many games Deng misses for another team five years after he parts ways?

For Noah, if he played for obstinate minutes handler Greg Popovich he may still be playing viable minutes in the NBA today. But, then again, he also may not. A lot of players just get hurt and fade out earlier than others. Is it always the coach’s fault? Noah was injured a lot under Del Negro as a young man playing fewer minutes. Thibs got more out of him than his predecessor.

Mike Dunleavy played for Thibs when he was 33-34 years old and played pretty well. To say he ruined him is kind of silly, since he was never that good and was at the end of his career anyway.

Gasol played one season for Thibs and was 34 years old and playing in his 14th season and still played almost every game that season. Including him on the list is ridiculous.