i would’t wait by Venmo for your royalty check when JD and the Straight Shots performs this for Duterte’s next inauguration

1. Is Porzingis, Zion Williamson, Kevin Knox, Frank Ntilikina, Tim Hardaway, and Mitchell Robinson a >40 win core?

If this is even close to obvious next summer then we will have won way too many games to have a shot a Williamson. Unless he falls way down from sucking in college, natch. But probably not.

Eh, not really. Because two of those guys won’t play next year and three of the other guys are going to be too young to contribute to a 40 win team now (but that doesn’t mean they can’t later). And the other guy is Tim Hardaway, who has proven capable of turning a 24 win team into a 26 win team, but I’m confident isn’t going to carry us to 40.

Anyway, y’all talk about Zion like it’s a long shot. By the current numbers, it’s actually the most probable outcome. He’s currently the 4th or 5th highest rated prospect in the land, the Knicks are projected to be the 4th worst team in the NBA, and they have a ~48% chance of landing a top 4 pick if they are.

Granted, those numbers are so volatile they’re practically useless, but until they change it’s not much of a long shot.

Best line from media day from Enes Kanter when asked about how he felt about Knox talking about making the playoffs: “I love it. When I think about playoffs, my nipples get hard.”

It astounds me that there’s so little buzz about media day and the start of camp. Damn, there’s already a countdown to pitchers and catchers. I’m pretty psyched about this team. They won’t win a ton of games, especially with the unicorn on the mend, but for the first time, in a long time, I feel they’re pointed in the right direction. Adding KP, a top free agent and another high pick next off-season could catapult this team into a different tier. I’ll suffer through the growing pains with this team and honestly, I don’t care about a tank any more. I just want to see this core get good.

I watched the media day interviews and I can tell that guys like Burke, Mudiay and Hezonja are very hungry. They know that they’ve failed and they know this is a great opportunity for them. I’m rooting hard for all of them.

Ted was a classic example of this board valuing “chemistry” over analytics. Personally, I think we gave up on him too quickly. He’s probably posting productively somewhere else right now,

He used to post a lot on the red Sox message board sonsofsamhorn. I haven’t visited in forever but he might still be there

So what they are hedging their bets in the media to where , one side is slow rebuild, other is long term gains. Not necessarily bad thing compared to previous regimes.

I guess my issue with that is that stretching Noah isn’t a hedge move. It’s a move you only make if you intend on spending as much money in 2019 as possible, as otherwise you let him expire in 2020.

Ted: one of my favorite characters, but the guy uses blog argumenting just for weight lifting for his daytime job of consulting otherwise known as “building the impregnable wall of arguments”. Argforarg’s sake.
Jon was just angry and raw. A truth telling savage.

I miss both of them.

So what they are hedging their bets in the media to where , one side is slow rebuild, other is long term gains. Not necessarily bad thing compared to previous regimes.

they wanted ptmilo as a sweetener, and we said No

Oh, yeah, ptmilo is untouchable. As are a bunch of the others 🙂