So what? No one here is the GM of the team, no one here has any decision making power over the team’s roster, so why would it matter to you so much if they’re all wrong? Or let’s say there’s a fan who ranks players mostly on the pointz they score. Who cares if that person exists? So what?

Nobody cares about that person existing. We just don’t want them wasting everyone’s time by posting here.

Let’s say everyone is wrong about Frank. They aren’t, but let’s say they are. So what? No one here is the GM of the team, no one here has any decision making power over the team’s roster, so why would it matter to you so much if they’re all wrong? Or let’s say there’s a fan who ranks players mostly on the pointz they score. Who cares if that person exists? So what? It’s beyond your powers to just let the guy enjoy following the sport and the team the way he wants?

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Let’s say everyone is wrong about Frank. They aren’t, but let’s say they are. So what? No one here is the GM of the team, no one here has any decision making power over the team’s roster, so why would it matter to you so much if they’re all wrong? Or let’s say there’s a fan who ranks players mostly on the pointz they score. Who cares if that person exists? So what? It’s beyond your powers to just let the guy enjoy following the sport and the team the way he wants?

Very compelling argument for no one here ever responding to anything anyone else says, with every poster simply using the board as a kind of personal diary on the topic of their Knicks fandom. Bold vision!

What I do care about is the same people constantly saying that only the truly enlightened basketball observers can see that the -4.0 career BPM guy has untapped potential the likes of which we’ve never seen. That shit gets annoying,

Nobody has ever said that or anything like it and the fact that it would make you so annoyed is really your issue to deal with, not ours. Pretty much every “bad, smug take” you’ve responded to is a take no one has made. They’re all straw men.

When you see a guy making a stupid purchase at the grocery store or the shoe store, do you go up to him and remind him that the Nikes or the lettuce is on sale?

Let’s say everyone is wrong about Frank. They aren’t, but let’s say they are. So what? No one here is the GM of the team, no one here has any decision making power over the team’s roster, so why would it matter to you so much if they’re all wrong? Or let’s say there’s a fan who ranks players mostly on the pointz they score. Who cares if that person exists? So what? It’s beyond your powers to just let the guy enjoy following the sport and the team the way he wants?

I made a joke in the game thread about Frank hitting 50 TS. DRed followed up with a one-liner today about it and I mentioned RPM and implied that it very well could just be noise. That was it. A total of 2 sentences. But Noble couldn’t let it stand and jumped in with his usual elongated tedious diatribe about Frank.

Actually posts 62, 64, and 67 are all about Frank and, as you can see, were posted before I said a word about the guy. I’m not sure I’ve ever brought Frank up unprompted, largely because I find the topic to be rather dull for the reasons djphan outlined. Outside of extraordinary scenarios, he’s pretty simply an open-and-shut draft bust. Even his good outcomes involve him becoming a kind of player that’s often available in the second round, cheap on the free agency market, etc. So I don’t feel very strongly about the guy one way or the other.

What I do care about is the same people constantly saying that only the truly enlightened basketball observers can see that the -4.0 career BPM guy has untapped potential the likes of which we’ve never seen. That shit gets annoying, especially when the dialogue on here is usually so stellar.

Believe me, I’d much rather talk about Mitch, RJ, the 2020 draft, Morris trade scenarios, potential free agent targets, or hell, even Randle. I think all of those topics are more relevant to the Knicks’ future than Frank Ntilikina.

But yeah, I do have a bit of a thing where I feel the need to respond to bad, smug takes, and that’s true whether the topic is Frank Ntilikina or anything else.