Comments on: Knicks Morning News (2018.10.14)

By: Hubert

Hubert — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 20:52:00 +0000

Myles Turner just got $80M over 4 years according to Shams

Great value.

By: ess-dog

ess-dog — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 20:22:34 +0000

Dear God, Lance Thomas,…Why?? Watching him makes me glad I got rid of Fios/MSG.

But seriously, that’s a brutal starting 5. Sacto might be a worse now, but they might be better by midseason, making us the worst team in the league.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 20:20:38 +0000

In reply to JK47.

With where they are as a team, I’d just as soon try to jam the square peg into the round hole for another thousand minutes or so. The theoretical return on that would tremendous and the risk is, what a wasted 1000 minutes in a season that they’re not trying to win?

By: JK47

JK47 — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 20:17:52 +0000

Frank’s not a point guard. I guess you can try to jam the square peg into the round hole for a thousand minutes or so, but I really don’t think it’s going to change the outcome.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 20:15:14 +0000

In reply to The Glass Half Rebuilt.

A quick post about the math of the Noah stretch provision.

http://knickerblogger.net/the-math-of-joakim-noahs-stretch-provision/

By: The Glass Half Rebuilt

The Glass Half Rebuilt — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 20:05:29 +0000

Myles Turner just got $80M over 4 years according to Shams.

By: alsep73

alsep73 — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 19:59:23 +0000

Frank playing PG next to Trier or Hardaway feels like a relatively complementary backcourt. Frank next to Lee at either PG or SF doesn’t seem a great use of his skillset. Then again, it’s unclear how much Lee is gonna play, whenever he gets healthy.

By: Hubert

Hubert — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 19:51:05 +0000

@39 – He’s also been open about his desire to play Frank at the 3. He’ll probably get most of his minutes at those two positions while Lee and Hardaway play the majority of their minutes at the 2 until one of them, hopefully, is traded.

By: alsep73

alsep73 — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 19:37:07 +0000

Fizdale has been vague on some things, but not on his reluctance to start either Hardaway or Lee at small forward. And he also explicitly made Knox an exception to his “starters will have to earn their spots” mantra after the last preseason game, saying they want/need him to take his lumps, at least at first. So four of the five starting spots are already decided:

C: Kanter
PF: Lance
SF: Knox
SG: Hardaway
PG: Either Burke or Frank

Hoping for Frank, but we’ll see.

By: ess-dog

ess-dog — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 19:16:28 +0000

Does Hezonja start at pf over Knox? I think Frank’s focus will be on defense, so he’ll probably start next to Burke and maybe TH2 will play sf again? That’s a tankalicious line up.