Comments on: NY Post: RJ Barrett already showing he’s ‘stud’ Knicks hoped for

By: dtrickey

dtrickey — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 23:08:12 +0000

I think the problem with Fiz so far (this season) is he is just throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks at the moment. Admittedly there have been some real head scratching moves in game, but given (outside of Randle, RJ, Morris and Mitch) no one has really shown they are a clear rotation piece, it’s probably not controversial to think that the rotations are still a working progress 3 games in. Today is probably the real test. I don’t think we should necessarily beat up on the Bulls, but given the team has (for the most part) been able to hang with playoff teams it should be expected we at least look competent. That may be expecting a lot though ha ha

By: Z-man

Z-man — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 22:12:29 +0000

Tonight’s game will be a good measuring stick for our team. We’ve lost to 3 playoff-level teams and should be hungry for a win. My fear is that Randle will continue to blunder us out of close games down the stretch.

By: Z-man

Z-man — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 22:10:58 +0000

I don’t think Fiz “sucks” as much as he’s coaching like a bottom-half coach but has a clunky team to figure out. The Grizzlies situation was clunky and murky and the Knicks situation last year was an abject tank that he executed perfectly given the personnel he had to work with. He’s most likely on a level with Woodson, Hornacek, Donovan, Brett Brown, etc. He’s not on a level with Pop, Budz, Stevens, Kerr, etc. But I don’t feel there is enough information to conclude that he sucks.

fwiw he has been spoken very highly of by his mentors.

By: The Infamous Cdiggy

The Infamous Cdiggy — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 21:31:06 +0000

@31… you know, didn’t KOQ go through a funk during his Knick tenure his first year and we found out later it was bc his dad died?
If DSJ is trying to play through a death in the family, then he should take time away from the team to be with his family and not force basketball right now.

By: The Honorable Cock Jowles

The Honorable Cock Jowles — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 21:27:27 +0000

Sure, I agree with all of that, especially on Ntilikina not having earned the right to be on the floor. I think it’s clear that he lost the respect of Gasol there, but it’s largely irrelevant to the guys in the Knicks’ locker room right now. Does it show poor judgment? Maybe, but maybe that was an isolated incident.

The bigger issue I have is that he’s apparently shit at being a clipboard coach. That Woj podcast with Draymond and Myers had some interesting insights (although I found Myers a bit smarmy and a little disingenuous regarding the value he places on relationships over winning, even though Green returned the praise about Myers) about Draymond’s suspension last year.

He said that at first, he felt betrayed by Kerr and Myers about the suspension, but he took a step back and realized that he was at fault too, and that he apologized to KD only when he recognized himself as the agent of that transgression. Does anyone think that Green is as likely to have that kind of epiphany without the immense success he’s found in Oakland? My point here is that if you play winning basketball, you can duke it out behind the scenes and come back to a place of solidarity, because you know you are capable of being successful again.

And I’m not saying that you can’t garner goodwill outside of winning. Monty Williams never won shit and he was one of the most respected people in the whole NBA. My point here is that you can’t be bad at both of those things. That’s how you get fired.

By: djphan

djphan — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 21:08:30 +0000

it’s not the greatest look to be doing that but all these secondhand info from reporters generating headlines and clout chasing on social media… this is literally high school gossip type of shit…. you shouldn’t be drawing any conclusions based off of that.. it’s entertainment and memes and water cooler fodder… you have no idea if it’s true and you have no idea what the context was…. most of the time it’s people feeding stories to the media with the express purpose to cover their ass or make them look good…. most of the time it’s management as knick fans are all too familiar with but agents and players are capable of that too…

i’m sure a lot of stuff happened in memphis but i’m also sure that environment produced a lot of questionable and toxic coaching environments.. from hollins to joerger to fizdale…. that team was very good but it was also on the decline that had questionable decisions from management and ownership meddling…. when teams decline shit happens… and every good team eventually declines and gets broken up… such is life in the nba…

if fizdale fails here… it is certainly not gonna be because he didn’t play frank more… in fact that’s probably been his best decision to date….

By: DRed

DRed — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 21:07:19 +0000

To give fiz some credit Allen and Randolph were completely washed and Gasol was past his prime.

By: bidiong

bidiong — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 20:59:47 +0000

Fizdale just plain sucks.

I’m cautiously optimistic with Barrett currently though!

By: JK47

JK47 — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 20:59:25 +0000

I think if there’s one thing just about every Knickerblogger is unanimous about it’s that Fizdale, as a coach, tops out at “sucks.”

By: The Honorable Cock Jowles

The Honorable Cock Jowles — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 20:49:16 +0000

I don’t think it implies that he thinks European players are inherently bad. It seems that he thinks that Euroleague is a second-rate league, which, even if true, is something you probably don’t want to say to one of the most famous and decorated international players of all-time. It shows the emotional intelligence of a newt.