Comments on: Knicks Morning News (2018.12.03)

By: Owen

Owen — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 00:55:51 +0000

We aren’t going to kick hoping we are wrong about the Knicks to the curb, don’t worry.

PtMilo – you are operating above my pay grade but I love it

By: Frank O.

Frank O. — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 00:03:45 +0000

As always, I respect all your views.
I am hoping you’re wrong.
I’d like to see these young’ins defy you all.
Mudiay is 22. Something seems intrinsically wrong to just write him off.
We all agree it as it 25 they are what they are. 22 is not.
And I love watching our young guys work their asses off and surprise us all.
I do hope they all prove you wrong.
😉

By: alsep73

alsep73 — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 23:07:13 +0000

Burke’s out tonight. Fizdale said he’s not sure if his minutes will go to Frank or to Trier.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 23:00:30 +0000

In reply to JK47.

Yeah, where they are right now is fine, but they’re clearly not going to stay here. They’re already locked out of the very bottom. They’re quite close to the #8-9 level.

By: JK47

JK47 — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 22:54:36 +0000

As of right now, if the season ended today, NYK would have a 40% chance of a top 4 pick. They’re tied for the 5th worst record in the league. If they start winning more games and moving up in the standings, the odds start to shrink pretty rapidly. Next slot down is 30%, then 25%, then 20%, so yeah, it’s really not ideal for the Knicks to be winning very many games. A top 4 pick in this draft would be pretty nice.

By: The Honorable Cock Jowles

The Honorable Cock Jowles — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 22:47:57 +0000

I’d rather slip to 15th than have the Knicks luck out at #1 and pick Barrett

By: alsep73

alsep73 — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 22:46:08 +0000

And as we’ve seen from this most recent draft, there is a clear line below which you do not want to be picking if you can avoid it. We can argue Doncic vs Jackson vs Ayton for a while as their stats rise and fall, but we ended up with Kevin Knox. Even an extremely optimistic projection of that guy will not be as good as Luka Doncic. We have a long history of, when a draft is X potential All-Star players deep, of landing pick X+1 or X+2. Karma is not on our side in a lottery draw, not with our history and not with our owner. Even if we don’t get Zion, getting Reddish or Little or whomever is still a much more promising outcome than winding up with the 2019 equivalent of Jordan Hill, Michael Sweetney, et al.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 22:45:53 +0000

In reply to Frank O..

I’m sure you disagree, but in 2009-2010, maybe 2010-2011 when the knicks had Wilson Chandler, Danilo Gallinari, Nate Robinson, and Mozgov, among others, they had a decent nucleus of young players that together with a high end draft pick or two or a better elite free agent in a few years would have been a nice team to watch.

The big difference is that those guys were all signed to rookie contracts (other than Nate, who was off the team by that point). So them developing did help the team overall, as you could add free agents to that core. Here, the guys would have to be free agents added themselves. It’s not the same thing.

By: Bruno Almeida

Bruno Almeida — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 22:40:08 +0000

@122

Frank, that only matters if you think the chance of getting a really good player on the draft is lesser than the chance that Mudiay Vonleh et al. are going to be that good player.

If you really believe they are, well, I respect it but I 100% disagree. I’d take my chances at the top of the lottery, even with flattened odds, every single time instead of hoping reclamation projects like Mudiay playing well on a contract year suddenly are the real deal.

By: geo

geo — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 22:19:03 +0000

you are having waaaaay too much fun milo…

i’m not sure if i’m more jealous of your abstruse use of the english language – or – your unpublished secret stash of statistics…

neither of which, i really get…i just the like the pretty colors…