Frank is a steal-first pg

Which is probably not a bad thing….

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-hidden-value-of-the-nba-steal/

Is a pretty perfect explanation of why raw +/- is so useless. It doesn’t tell you much at all about an individual player’s performance and the way in which it fails to do so means it doesn’t improve much with increasing sample size.

Frank had a pretty terrific game last night. I’m trying to think of the last time a Knick player had 9 assists with ZERO turn overs and 6 steals……

And to taunt the haters (the dump Frank crowd who “knew” players don’t improve after 20)….. a word from the noted philosopher Satchel Paige…. “Don’t look back…. someone might be gaining on ya!”

Frank’s WS/48 = .065 VORP = 0.2 (second to Mitch on the Knicks)

As to Randle the difference between this year and last year is the lack of the floor listing to the port beam every time AD had the ball and commanded double/triple teams.

He is miscast in the Land of the Misfit Toys as a primary option in any sense of the word. He should look at Oakley tapes. He has the body to set stout screens and the strength to be an offensive rebounding machine. He also has the skills and hands be be adroit around the basket. Launching contested 3’s isn’t his bailiwick nor is posting up when double teamed.

I completely sympathize. I’ve worked on shows that had around 300 hours of footage for an hour long episode. It can get ridiculous.

Totally insane. Really does take courage to go through so many rushes.

Talking about great actresses, Barbara Stanwyck lights up any film she’s in. One of my all time favorites.

He didn’t have a very good first half and the rest was mostly noise. He was just on the court while they were kicking our asses. He had a very good 2nd half and kind of spearheaded the attempted comeback.

Is a pretty perfect explanation of why raw +/- is so useless. It doesn’t tell you much at all about an individual player’s performance and the way in which it fails to do so means it doesn’t improve much with increasing sample size.

Those things all seem like the same thing really.

It’s not about Randle being the first option, it’s that he has the ball way too much. For some reason Fiz has made him the playmaker and he has no idea what he’s doing; plus, he’s actually a poor ball handler.

Put him with a true PG and a smarter coach and I’m sure his stats would be much closer to last season.

I mean, it’s not like the league has figured out his game, he’s just being used totally wrong.