Comments on: Knicks Morning News (2019.07.17)

By: MBunge

MBunge — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 04:56:37 +0000

Am I going over the top?

Yes. Way, way, WAAAAAYYY over the top. Can we just enjoy the Knicks getting potentially a very good player in the 2nd round without comparing a guy who didn’t even start all season for a team that won just 17 games to Wilt and Russell?

Mike

By: JK47

JK47 — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 04:40:03 +0000

There is sort of a weird win-win kind of thing going on with this year’s team. If they play well, and contend for the 8th seed? Uh, okay! That might be somewhat interesting, and it would mean some of the veterans and some of the young guys played better than expected. If they stink, and have the worst record in the NBA? Fine! Top 5 pick coming our way, maybe higher! 2020 looks like a pretty nice draft.

Worst case, they finish somewhere in between and finish like 11th in the conference. That’s the Dolan’s Razor outcome.

By: Z-man

Z-man — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 02:35:40 +0000

One encouraging thing about his summer league performance is that he seemed to be much more focused on defensive rebounding. I know the competition was nothing great, but technique is technique. He’s definitely been working on it.

By: Z-man

Z-man — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 02:33:34 +0000

Well, he’s weaker than Wilt but a much better FT shooter…..he’s not as much of a track/field-level athlete nor as smart as Russell but much taller and longer. I’ve been trying hard to come up with a valid comparison. Camby? Too small and narrow. Hakeem? Also smaller, but stronger and more skilled. Gobert? Much less athletic and agile, less of a motor, stronger. He’s pretty freakin’ unique.

By: bobneptune

bobneptune — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 02:17:45 +0000

Oh no Z-Man please don’t start another Wilt discussion, I can’t take it (I agree with you, he’s so coordinated for a guy with his raw athleticism)

A wilt discussion would be silly…. but Russell…. there’s a perfect comp on the defensive end…. quick super athletic leaper/shot blocker with a more limited offensive game.

By: Bruno Almeida

Bruno Almeida — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 01:55:34 +0000

Oh no Z-Man please don’t start another Wilt discussion, I can’t take it (I agree with you, he’s so coordinated for a guy with his raw athleticism)

By: Z-man

Z-man — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 01:35:28 +0000

Am I going over the top?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAfnMNBU4DY

By: Z-man

Z-man — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 01:27:42 +0000

In reviewing his full highlight reel from last year, obviously you have to factor in that he was a foul machine and made plenty of blunders on the defensive end, got pushed around, etc. But the sheer combination of athleticism, coordination and speed….play after play after play….I’ve never seen anything like it. On specific plays, one by one, he destructed all of the league’s big men…AD, Embiid, Vucevic, Jonas, Horford, Adams, Drummond…he ran down and snuffed Harden, Westbrook, Kawhi…he made one acrobatic mid-air-adjustment layup or and-1 after another.

This guy is the real deal.

By: GoNYGoNYGo - Dolan must sell

GoNYGoNYGo - Dolan must sell — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 01:03:47 +0000

@80 – I agree. It’s more than just a knack. I’ve rewound the DVR a couple of times when he’s blocked a perimeter shot. Those are open shots he’s blocking. His reach is astounding. But that’s half of it. How many players can control a blocked shot to himself? He’s still a kid and he’s growing. I think that, if healthy, he’ll become the real Unicorn.

By: Z-man

Z-man — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 00:48:12 +0000

I was just watching some highlights of Mitch’s summer league. I know it sounds like hyperbole from a rabid and delusional fan, but could he possibly be one of the greatest athletic specimens ever the play in the NBA? His combination of speed, size, length, agility, instincts, motor…less so strength…I truly can’t find anyone to compare him to. There’s just so many things to marvel at with him. He made a couple of plays on off-line passes that required a serious adjustment in mid-air, and he did it so effortlessly and smoothly. He seems to have a nose for the rim. He blocks 3-pointers and beats everyone down the floor. Kuz had like five assists to him where he recognized that once he gets the ball that close to the basket, there is just no stopping him. Even Knox is starting to catch on. He’s every bit as impressive with touch around the rim and on shot blocking form and timing than AD ever was, and yet he’s an even longer, better athlete! Agility-length-speed wise, no one’s highlight reel looks like his, except maybe young Wilt. I know it sounds crazy, but he did a lot of record-setting shit last year, right?

Put another way…imagine if I told you 3 years ago that we were going to trade away Porzingis for picks and scrubs, yet he is going to be surpassed by a freak of nature generational second-round pick?