Is there a difference between “eat what you kill” and “keep what you kill”? Aren’t they the same basic phrase?

The later accurately describes our ISO offense while the former is Fizdale in June saying nobody is guaranteed playing time. You can quote me saying ‘fuck that shit’ left and right but context kinda matters.

Sorry swiftandabundant. Mea Culpa.

Fiz has spent enough time in post game bemoaning the lack of effective passing that I genuinely don’t think this is the offense he wants to run but.. it’s been v poor to date and that partly on him. Jury is still out though.

And no one and by no one I mean not even management as bad as you think the Knicks is goes looking for wins with Vonleh and Hezonja.

Doesn’t that make the Hezonja signing sound even more foolish then? “No one expects Hezonja to help the team win games, but let’s sign him for one year for essentially the full mid-level exception for…reasons.”

Is there a bigger dick in the NBA than Jimmy Butler? Guy acts like he’s Michael fucking Jordan.

I gave my Celtic fan friend a lot of grief for not pursuing Butler. As usual, Danny Ainge knew what he was doing.

Nonsense.

They said it was a developmental year, but they also said they want to win as part of that development and culture building. The knew they would not win a lot because they had a lot of very young players, but players like Mudiay, Burke, Hezonja, Hardaway, and Vonleh) were brought here to make the team better than the one with Q’Quinn, Willy, McBuckets, Holiday etc.
The team got worse 2 years in row instead.

I agree. Plus, even if a few players drafted after your own selection outperform the player you picked, that’s not an appropriate standard. It partially reflects the difficult of selecting BPA. That’s easier said than when you are mostly drafting teenagers.

A reasonable way to judge is by looking at what was generally available around where you selected and did you generally do better or worse than average. But you also have to wait long enough to see it to fruition because some guys are projected to develop much later than others. We essentially have 3 guys that were expected to be projects in KP, Frank and Knox because all came in especially young and raw.

For example, despite all the KP trashing, he was AHEAD of schedule. He was expected to be a 4 year project because he was so skinny and weak, but he was forced into the #1 role in year 3 and did OK.