Willy won the award in April when he was a month away from being 23. Knox won’t be 20 until August. Considering how widely the pick was (and continues to be) panned here, and the strengthg of this rookie class in general, I think that winning the award is pretty cool and bodes well for him.

JAMES HARDEN MY GOD

One of the most insane game-winners you’ll ever see. Probably even more so than the sort of wild threes you see, in that this was obviously a planned shot by Harden. Like, let’s say that Durant’s shot at the end went in, that would obviously just be luck. He just heaved it up there. Harden, though, that was a typical Harden shot, just with two defenders draped all over him and with seconds left in overtime, down two points. Insanity.

That said: Developmental coaches tend to want to work with players who have potential. He won’t be the first or last coach to see potential in a high-lottery bust.

I said this last year when I watched the Knicks play here vs the Clips: Mudiay looks the part of the prototypical physical profile you’d want in your PG, and he had little problem getting into the paint. It’s just that he had no clue what to do after that. Is it unreasonable to think a coach could say “hmmmm I bet I can teach him what to do when he gets into the lane”?

Why would Budz want to come here when he could coach a contender from the get-go? And why hire a marquee free agent coach for a rebuilding team? Didn’t we already make that mistake with D’Antoni?

I agree that I don’t think Budz wanted to come here over Milwaukee, but if he did want to come here, I think it’d be great so long as he understood that they were going to rebuild. D’Antoni would have been fine if his signing went along with a rebuild, but instead, they went the dumb route of trying to win as many games as possible right away with him. That was one of the dumbest things Walsh did in his tenure here. The Knicks winning 29 and 30 games in D’Antoni’s first two seasons was just as bad as them winning 31 and 29 in the last two seasons.

I really haven’t had any problems with the coaching this year. Fiz is mainly playing young guys and isn’t afraid to bench the vets even though it means more losses. If he does suck, he won’t be around long anyway.

Good for Lonnie Walker to score his first NBA points tonight! Impressive return from his injury.

The quote is irrelevant.

Well, it’s a pretty bad quote, though, right? “He wanted Mudiay from Day 1” when Mudiay was here months before he got here, ya know? One thing I will note, though, you and I differ on whether the Knicks decided to not hire Budz (I think it was his call to choose the Bucks over the Knicks because he didn’t want to leave a rebuilding team to go to another rebuilding team where he wouldn’t have any say on personnel, while you think they chose Fizdale over him) and I will say that if you are right, ooph, that would have been a terrible decision (so terrible that I don’t think it’s true, but man…).

If you’re an NBA coach and you love Mudiay that tells me all I need to know about you.

..loves Mudiay compared to who? Frank? Burke?