Judge, who was hired by the Giants last week, spoke about his evaluation process at his introductory press conference.

“I didn’t look at them as a receiver, I didn’t look at them as a tight end, I didn’t look at them as a linebacker,” Judge said. “I’m used to looking at things from a big picture perspective on players in terms of what they bring to the team as a whole.

“Don’t try to shove round pegs into square holes. Figure out what you have. Let them play to their strengths.”

This is why Joe Judge will probably be a good coach. Trying to shove square pegs into round holes is a big part of what the Knicks do. God forbid they try to play their young players to their strengths…..

good day mate and a m?rena to you (couldn’t remember exactly if you were in australia or new zealand)…

Australia, so g’day 🙂

that’s interesting you mentioned the band’s “timing” dtrickey…i’m not a huge tool (fan), but i am familiar with their music…really though this was the first time i ever intently focused on what i was hearing from them – after about 40 minutes in to the show i realized they had the most: unusual/unique/odd/creative/distinct/different timing i’ve ever heard…

the only thing that came to mind for comparison was that the music sounded like the exact antithesis of rhythm and blues…such unusual “beats” and breaks…certainly nothing necessarily rhythmic about it in a move your body gracefully kind of way…

I think you have pretty much hit the nail on the head with Tool. I think even you don’t dig them sonically, if you are a technical boffin there is some really interesting stuff to dive into.

someone just told me tool’s timing on one of their songs, lateralus, has something to do with fibonacci numbers…

IIRC The syllables in the lyrics of the first verse follow the first 6 numbers in the sequence in both ascending and descending order and the second verse starts with the 7th number then descends back down following 13, 8, 5, 3. Math isn’t my strong suit, so I probably haven’t done it justice in my description!

Thus the crazy genius of Lynch’s structure is essentially a “bright side” result of the same kind of corporate confusion and ineptitude that troubles our own Knicks 🙂

The New Yorker piece here (warning: Long Read) is wonderful on it if you care to dive deep. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/09/06/creative-differences

It sucks that our own draft picks don’t seem that they’ll be able to improve the team on their own, because then we could have the type of inside out improvement a team like the Clippers has before they attracted FAs, but simply adding guys like VanVleet or Bertans is not enough.

We need some hits at the draft before we start thinking about throwing 4 year contracts at role players.