Comments on: Knicks Morning News (2018.10.22)

By: Cock Jowles, #1 Purveyor of Wanton Chuckery

Cock Jowles, #1 Purveyor of Wanton Chuckery — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 22:40:32 +0000

they’re just saying that whites, in aggregate, have it easier compared to POC

Amen. Privilege is a spectrum or matrix, not binary. Life isn’t easy for any poor person, but it’s especially hard if you happen to also be, say, queer, a woman, a person of color, disabled, or a Knicks fan. And yeah, it’s 2018 and we need these conversations with the psychopath in the nation’s top office and his bootlickers in Congress helping promote his agenda while pretending to distance themselves from it. Sucks that we need to sully the purity of American sport with politics, but the exigency is there.

We should all be grateful that even though this team is going to suck hard (and pile up the Ws in the loss column), we still get to watch the ubiquitous parade of talent each and every night in this league. Now that teams like Atlanta and Dallas have young explosive offensive talent, there really aren’t many games that are totally unwatchable.

By: JK47

JK47 — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 22:14:32 +0000

Hezonja seems to have no feel for the game. He attacks the rim well for a guy his size but he’s a low-IQ player with few secondary skills as far as I can tell.

I gotta admit I had not watched a ton of Noah Vonleh before this season, but he can do some things. He has a reputation as a guy who doesn’t play within himself and who tries to do too much, but so far he has been a great glue guy who has not made a lot of mistakes.

By: alsep73

alsep73 — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 22:08:55 +0000

It’d be funny if the addition of Vonleh, which almost none of the beat writers or national NBA people wrote about, winds up being what a lot of people speculated about with Mario: a reclamation project who helps establish Fiz’s bonafides as a coach other guys will want to play for to fulfill their potential. His salary’s also low enough this year that it’s much easier to see a path to re-signing him if he continues to prove useful, where there’s virtually no way Mario is going to be here for longer than a season if he actually plays well over a sustained period.

By: Jack Bauer

Jack Bauer — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 21:52:42 +0000

THJR – Ole!
Giannis is going to go off on NY.

Too bad Knox is going to miss the upcoming games, he needs all the minutes he can get. So far Vonleh has impressed, good work on the boards, plays hard, plays under control. Another potential good find by the front office, maybe things are slowly changing for the Knicks.

By: 2FOR18, understands math

2FOR18, understands math — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 21:39:26 +0000

I’m calling 30+ for Middleton tonight with the bull fighter guarding him.

By: Frank O.

Frank O. — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 21:27:15 +0000

Oh dear lord, Giannis tonight

By: 2FOR18, understands math

2FOR18, understands math — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 21:23:43 +0000

I also hated the Sexton pick for Cleveland. He looks like a smaller version of Shump to me. I don’t see any special skills there, and he’s the same size as Trae, who is considered undersized – I was surprised to see that last night when they were next to each other.

By: 2FOR18, understands math

2FOR18, understands math — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 21:17:16 +0000

I agree that Sacto lost the draft. Especially since they already had Harry Giles, passing on Doncic for Bagley made no sense at all.

By: Stratomatic "Porzingis, Ntilikina, Knox & Robinson are going to lead us to the promised land

Mon, 22 Oct 2018 21:03:11 +0000

Just for the record, when Italian Americans came to the US they were poor as dirt, there were no government assistance programs, if they had any learning/physical disabilities or were sick they were shipped back to Italy, they were universally disliked and called names, lived in crime riddled areas (unless gangsters protected them) and they were discriminated against for jobs and just about everything else.

All groups struggle at first because they start at the bottom. But it was way tougher to get into the country and make it here 100 years ago than it is now. It’s a picnic now compared to when my family came and settled in Brooklyn. It took close to 50 years for some of us to break into the middle class (which would not even be middle class by today’s standards) and close to 100 years for some of us to “really make it”. Now we are called “privileged”.

And to be clear, I’m aware blacks had it way tougher. Just don’t insult me by saying we were privileged to sleep on the floor in poverty, go hungry, do jobs no one else wanted when we could get one, and save what we could to make a better life for our kids.

By: The Glass Half Rebuilt

The Glass Half Rebuilt — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 20:23:45 +0000

Marvin Bagley was an excellent prospect, though. It’s not like they passed on Doncic for Anthony Bennett. On top of being an elite athlete, he led the ACC in points, rebounds, and field goal percentage as an 18 year old. Gun to my head I take Doncic over Bagley, but I’m not gonna slam Sacramento for taking Bagley. I thought the draft was going to fall Ayton, Bagley, Young, Doncic, and it would have fallen that way if ATL didn’t trade down because the owner wanted Young.

I wouldn’t be surprised if all of the top 7 picks in this draft turn into cornerstone type players. I don’t like Knox or Sexton very much, but this past draft was as top heavy as I’ve seen.