Comments on: Post Game: Knicks beat Pelicans, 114-109

By: Early Bird

Early Bird — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 13:28:44 +0000

The problem is that if you swap out Dotson for Hezonja, you might start winning games. We can’t have that, Hezonja will lead us to Zion!

By: bobneptune

bobneptune — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 12:23:57 +0000

He had one of the best years of his career last year. So he should be fine for 2 more years (at least when he gets in shape and gets his shot sharp).

One of his best years was ws/48 = 0.082 which makes him an old below average player with a 2 year above average salary who currently isn’t healthy enough to even practice….

By: The Glass Half Rebuilt

The Glass Half Rebuilt — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 11:32:27 +0000

Courtney Lee’s agent is probably working on a buy out for him. If JR Smith can work out a trade for himself, those same people should be calling the Knicks for Lee. We’re stuck with him unless we add a sweetener to the deal, and we need to save all of our sweeteners for the summer when Lillard and AD are on the trade market.

By: JK47

JK47 — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 07:49:46 +0000

We’re still pretending that Courtney Lee is tradeable? Here in November of 2018, we’re still acting like there is an NBA team out there that believes their situation will be improved by adding 2/24 worth of Courtney Lee? I thought we had abandoned that particular delusion.

By: Stratomatic "In economic terms, the Knicks are in a double dip recession"

Stratomatic "In economic terms, the Knicks are in a double dip recession" — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 07:23:52 +0000

@13

His age is (or should be) meaningless to “smart” teams. The only thing that matters is whether he can be productive for those 2 remaining years and whether you need what he brings to the table.

He had one of the best years of his career last year. So he should be fine for 2 more years (at least when he gets in shape and gets his shot sharp).

25m for 2 years is an overpay in this environment, but not significantly when there are clowns making similar money and barely better players making a lot more money at the same position.

If we want to move him (and we more or less will have to at some point if we want the cap space next year), he has to play enough that teams know what they are getting. That way if we have to add something to get that expiring contract, at most it will be a 2nd rounder. We may not move him right away anyway, but either way he has to play enough so teams know what they are getting. Burying him at the end of the bench makes it close to 100% certain we won’t be able to move him. That’s just a fact.

By: JK47

JK47 — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 06:51:56 +0000

Don’t nobody want to trade for Courtney Lee. We’re stuck with him. Just stick him on the end of the bench and let him ride out his contract. Run him out there for garbahje time every now and then. There is absolutely no reason for him to get minutes considering there are so many young shooting guard types that need to get experience. Trying to showcase him so you can trade him is not going to work, as he is owed a cringe-worthy $12.7M next year in what will be his age 34 season.

By: Stratomatic "In economic terms, the Knicks are in a double dip recession"

Stratomatic "In economic terms, the Knicks are in a double dip recession" — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 06:25:53 +0000

Its going to be interesting to see what the starting lineup looks like now that we are 20 games in.

Everything is probably still up for grabs except Hardaway. I’m not a Kanter fan, but the Kanter/Vonleh combination is not a disaster. Vonleh covers for him a bit in the same way KP does. Kanter’s scoring allows you to put Frank on the court for defense to cover for either Mudiay or Burke at PG.

If it was up to me though, it would be Robinson, Vonleh, Dotson, Frank, and Hardaway or Robinson, Vonleh, Frank, Hardaway, and Burke depending on the matchups.

By: Stratomatic "In economic terms, the Knicks are in a double dip recession"

Stratomatic "In economic terms, the Knicks are in a double dip recession" — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 06:19:41 +0000

The return of Courtney Lee is going to cause lineup issues. You can’t trade him unless you play him so teams can see what he looks like, but the glut of SGs is going to take minutes from someone. That goes double if Frank is playing off the ball and Fizdale doesn’t want to go small and use either him or Hardaway at SF.

By: Stratomatic "In economic terms, the Knicks are in a double dip recession"

Stratomatic "In economic terms, the Knicks are in a double dip recession" — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 06:18:46 +0000

I’m buying that Mudiay is playing a little better. He’s young and should be improving. But I’m not so sure I’m buying his very recent form.

For a rookie (albeit older), Tier has “it”. It’s good that he played 24 minutes and had zero TOs. That’s been on of his downsides.

Hezonja is in some kind of mental death spiral. There’s no way he’s this bad.

Dotson not playing is kind of ridiculous. Even Baker should be getting minutes on this team at times when they need defense.

It would be nice to give Robinson more minutes, but at this point teams know that fouls are a problem and they are probably trying to get him out early.

By: GoNyGoNyGo

GoNyGoNyGo — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 05:40:03 +0000

Fiz showing that he’s good at developing players is perhaps the most important thing for the future of this franchise. When he left Robinson in the game after getting his 5th foul, I cheered. How else is the kid gonna learn? Those were cheap fouls. I still don’t understand the flagrant, but NO had a bulls-eye on him from tip-off. AD played him like a fiddle. But great lessons were taught at Hoops-U.