Comments on: Game Thread: Orlando Magic at New York Knicks

By: Z-man

Z-man — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 13:16:42 +0000

The issue isn’t 5 minutes of terrible basketball, it’s 2,070 minutes of terrible basketball. Frank is one of the worst offensive players in the league. Despite all the bullshit (not that it wasn’t true, but that it didn’t matter) about how hard he worked on his game during the offseason and having a full training camp, he has now regressed to identical numbers as last year. He has not improved in a single aspect of the game, not one iota. And the funny thing is (not really funny, but whatever) that his DBPM and DRtg both suggest that he is grossly overrated on defense as well.

Sure, Trey Burke has been awful, but he has had at least some success as an NBA PG. As bad as he’s been (predictably) Mudiay has looked better than Frank, he’s just as dumb as a post. Frank has been ever so slightly better than Ron Baker.

But yeah, don’t hold him accountable. Let him keep playing no matter how bad he plays. That’s a great message to send to the young guys.

By: dtrickey

dtrickey — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 04:38:53 +0000

Sure, if one of the backups is playing markedly better, then let Frank sit. But that wasn’t the case–every guard was absolutely awful tonight with the exception of Ron Baker’s 5 minutes of garbage time. He’s 20 years old and you’re playing 26 year old Trey Burke and Emmanuel fucking Mudiay in front of him because he had a bad first five minutes? FOH. Yes, those 5 minutes of play were brutal, but if he’s ever gonna be a starter in this league, he has to learn how to play through slumps.

As I noted, the other guards didn’t play much better either, so he could have stayed on and just tried to ride it out. I guess my view is that player development is up and down, and it’s maybe not terrible to let Frank sit when he is down. Upside this year is that Fiz has been more inclined to let Frank play through a bit, rather than being yanked on every error like Hornacek was doing last year.

By: Silky Johnson, Fleet Admiral of the Tank Armada

Silky Johnson, Fleet Admiral of the Tank Armada — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 04:16:45 +0000

@71

Sure, if one of the backups is playing markedly better, then let Frank sit. But that wasn’t the case–every guard was absolutely awful tonight with the exception of Ron Baker’s 5 minutes of garbage time. He’s 20 years old and you’re playing 26 year old Trey Burke and Emmanuel fucking Mudiay in front of him because he had a bad first five minutes? FOH. Yes, those 5 minutes of play were brutal, but if he’s ever gonna be a starter in this league, he has to learn how to play through slumps.

By: ess-dog

ess-dog — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 03:47:20 +0000

Man, Charlotte is like the ‘what if” Knicks. We easily could have Bridges (WS48 .130), Monk (WS48 .055) and (still) Hernangomez (WS48 .259!) but instead we have Knox, Frank, and I guess Luke Kornet in the G-league, womp womp…

By: DRed

DRed — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 03:46:31 +0000

9 blocks in 22 minutes is insane.

By: DRed

DRed — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 03:45:52 +0000

And now Boston is coming back. Just let me have one nice thing.

By: geo

geo — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 03:35:44 +0000

Grandmaster Tank and the Furious Fiz

nice…

By: The Infamous Cdiggy

The Infamous Cdiggy — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 03:33:22 +0000

Rebecca Harlow needs to work on her interview question-generation the same way the Knicks need to work on their passing and outside shooting.

By: ess-dog

ess-dog — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 03:28:59 +0000

Robinson with 9 blocks?? Is that a typo?

By: dtrickey

dtrickey — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 03:27:15 +0000

@74

Upside is I guess the guards that soaked up most of the minutes were relatively young, so it wasn’t like we gave 25+ minutes to Jared Jack and still lost by heaps. It’s just a shame they all sucked.