NY Post: Knicks mailbag: Talking NBA Draft plan and if LaMelo Ball fits

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hey farf, you leaving the house and going somewhere?

I don’t mind having LaMelo ranked #1. Personally I have Hayes there but reasonable minds can disagree.

I will be very mad if they trade up for him, though. I see no way the difference between Ball and Haliburton/Hayes justifies that.

This is so dense from so many perspectives. The knicks are devoid of frontline NBA talent with the exception of Mitch.

The best player available is the only way to go. If they actually believe La Melo is the BPA then fine….. but taking a point guard when there is a better ranked player available is sheer lunacy. The Knicks have 4 gaping holes and need to fill at least one of them one of these days.

We keep thinking we have a big hole at point guard. The truth is our biggest problem was lack of shooting, not lack of point guard. Of course, our point guards aren’t good shooters, so getting one who shoots better would help. But I’m not sure that’s LaMelo Ball. Actually, I think of Peyton as Raymond Felton II. Their stats are pretty similar. But the Knicks with Felton weren’t as bad as these Knicks are. We could get better even with Felton if we got better in other areas. So I’m not convinced drafting for need means having LaMelo our top priority. On the other hand, the BPA is could easily be Wiseman, and he’s a center. If he’s available when we pick, I’m going to be thinking maybe we should trade him to Boston for Hayward.

So It looks like the Celts will have picks #17, 26 and 30 or something like that. After that, they will have no surplus picks. Kemba and Brown are maxed, and even with Hayward off the books in 2021-22, Tatum will need to get paid. So between those 3 and Smart, they will be around the $100 million mark. The picture doesn’t look anywhere near as rosy as it did when they first signed Hayward.

Now watch Ainge draft two sleeper superstars with this year’s picks.

Respectfuly, trading a lottery pick for Hayward would make no sense for us. If anything, the Celts should offer sweetener to take him off of their hands. Let them take back DSjr and Randle plus filler and give us one of their #1’s.

Not that they would do that. Some playoff team that needs shooting, like Milwaukee or Philly, might take him on. Maybe the Spurs could use him.

If we drafted Wiseman (and I’m pretty convinced that when all is said and done he will go in the top 5, maybe even #1) I wouldn’t trade him unless someone wanted to trade up for him and gave us a lower lottery pick plus another decent pick or asset.

Haha, no, my new car works just fine! Which is Alanis’ way about irony

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In the middle of a pandemic

But anyway I’m not going anywhere, sadly 🙁

Better safe than sorry, after all

Z-man, forget I ever mentioned it. It’s not a good idea

LaMelo Ball is the same caliber point guard prospect as Luka Doncic and Trae Young. He’s that good with a ball in his hand, and I think he would have won the NPOY if he went to UCLA instead of Illawara. At the same time, his decision making scares me so much, and I’m not comfortable starting him at the point from Day 1.

The only way I’d be comfortable with LaMelo Ball is if we traded for Chris Paul (with Julius Randle leaving in the same deal), and if we bring back Marcus Morris on a two year contract to play power forward. You absolutely have to put Melo on a team where he’s around high character guys who won’t tolerate the 40 foot 3’s with 17 seconds left on the shot clock, and I like the idea of having CP3 and Mook there to punch him in the stomach every time he does something dumb.

Kira Lewis Jr. could wind up as the best PG in this draft.

That makes sense. Because of his age he’s a much better fit in Utah, where he would help them win now. And Gobert would help Boston a lot.

LaMelo is not Doncic. That is nuts. Doncic was the POY in the second best league in the world at the same age.

djphan: so what’s the case for lamelo? that he has a higher likelihood to hit his ceiling? with a broken jumpshot? without any hope of creating an off the dribble shot at all? to me… haliburton has similar warts but is much quicker, can defend the position very well and a much better baseline of a shooter…. lamelo is a year younger and that’s really it…

LaMelo’s passing and rebounding numbers jump off the page. By the numbers Haliburton isn’t the passer or rebounder that LaMelo is. He has a great handle and his passes have that extra wow factor to them that makes him look capable of making something out of nothing rather than taking advantage of teammates who get themselves open. Few scouts question Ball’s athleticism or ability to blow by defenders, lots of people question Haliburton’s ability to do the same. That’s why Ball is going #1 and projected ahead of Haliburton.

Personally I put Haliburton ahead of Ball, but Ball has superstar potential few players possess. Of course that’s still nowhere near Luka’s actual production, or even Young’s.

I still don’t understand why Tyrese Halliburton isn’t #1. Elite Beyond-3pt shot despite form, Great catch and shoot, great passing, great finishing, great shot chart, great man/team defense- Very high iq defense and offense. The only issues are #athleticism, #flashydribblemoves, #notriskyenoughonoffense. Sounds good to me.

LaMelo would be an easier sell if the Knicks didn’t just draft R.J. Barret, one of the worst shooters in the NBA. I don’t see how playing them together would be possible unless the Knicks are going for the lowest TS% in the league.

Knicks need more efficient scorers above all else.

The NBA right now is all about efficient scoring. It’s very difficult to find a great player who can’t efficiently score. Can’t even name one.

I really don’t see the hype for LaMelo. He’s literally only a great passer with some rebounding. Poor shooting, defense, finishing… Is passing enough?

The way I see it, Haliburton>Hayes>Edwards>LaMelo…

Also – Does a broken shot mean anything if the percentages are good?

Just watched a few YouTube videos of Wiseman, Ball, Edwards, Anthony and the rest of the players who are probably going to be drafted on the first round.

If i were a GM I’d have a LOT of study to do to pick the right one.

Now if i were playing tavli (backgammon) while drinking ouzo on a greek island with an nba GM and he asked me to rank the 3 first ones I’d lightly say:
1Edwards – 2Wiseman – 3Ball

Or this one…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aajorJBru4

Listening to people talk about LaMelo, he reminds me of Ntilikina; not in their specific skills but in the general situation of their appeal. They both played in a foreign league that isn’t one of the best ones and they both have a skill that inspires some people to really like them. For LaMelo it’s passing, for Ntilikina it’s defense. They both have a long way to go on offense. Sure, LaMelo could improve his shooting. So could Frank. It’s not surprising to me that opinions on LaMelo are polarized. It was the same with Frank when he was drafted. If we draft him, be prepared that he could take a while to develop.

Also – Does a broken shot mean anything if the percentages are good?

It does when the percentage is from a small sample. That was Markelle Fultz’ deal.

I’ve never thought shooting form matters much. I think most players have an innate shooting sense that matters much more than their actual form. Making adjustments can help improve shooting, but they will never transform a bad shooter into a good shooter and a good shooter will be able to hit shots despite the form.

It’s also worth noting that Ball & Fultz were sub-70% from the FT line. Haliburton is above that mark, but took only 71 FTs over 2 years.

A tall PG that can handle, rebound, and pass sounds great, but not when he’s a bad shooter, bad defender and has questionable character and basketball IQ issues.

The desire for an upgrade at PG is understandable, but I don’t think the team should throw away a very high lottery pick or even worse trade up to get one for a very flawed player that doesn’t even fit on the team. It’s quite possible the Knicks answer to “PG of the future” is not in this draft.

The Knicks need shooters at several positions. Rose should also consider SGs, SFs, and PFs that can shoot and not focus squarely on PG unless the right player is there.

For me, LaMelo is a hard “no” for almost every reason imaginable.

“What character issues does LaMelo have, aside from being Lavar’s son?”

Isn’t that kinda like asking, “Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln….. how did you like the play?”

I think Lavar probably wised up to the fact he could cost his sons a lot of money.

I think it’s cool that Lamelo went to Australia. I haven’t heard any negative reports about him like the ones that seem to swirl around Wiseman. Seems like a typical 18 year old hoops star with the usual pathologies but nothing too crazy.

” But they are both controversial players with major weaknesses whose stats are difficult to evaluate because of the leagues they played in.”

Frank isn’t really controversial. He is an excellent defensive player with an sucky/embryonic/virtually non existent offensive game. He’s only controversial if you expect him to be Clyde Drexler.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/pcm_finder.fcgi?request=1&sum=0&player_id1_hint=Frank+Ntilikina&player_id1_select=Frank+Ntilikina&player_id1=ntilila01&y1=2020&player_id2_hint=Ricky+Rubio&player_id2_select=Ricky+Rubio&y2=2012&player_id2=rubiori01&idx=bbr__players

Halliburton’s funky shot doesn’t bother me. It seems like there’s a large enough sample size to believe his numbers are real. And his shot, while funky, isn’t “slow.” He actually seems to wind it up and release it from high, not low, so I think getting the shot off won’t be an issue for him.

I like Halliburton for a myriad of reasons. He is the dude I hope we pick. My hope is that we get a high enough spot to pick him (and not risk trading up) but Ball is off the table by then.

I’m not sure I follow you, wetbandit.

Are there guys you’re thinking of with bad form who are good shooters? If a guy has bad form and shoots well over a large sample, then yes, who cares about the form. Often – but not always – guys with bad form and good percentages are just experiencing luck. We saw it first hand with our own Landry Fields.

Another reason form is important in draft analysis is because good form is required to get your shot off. You want fast, compact, hitch-less motion or you’ll be closed out quickly.

I think the shoplifting was LiAngelo, no? (edit: I see you removed your post)

I think pretty much every major hoop star is pretty self centered on some level.

I’d like to say that shooting form doesn’t matter, that there is more than one way to do it. But then I think about, like, Ray Allen, and how pure his form was and how much he worked on it.

If you are extraordinarily athletic you can get away with it. Durant could get away with it if his form weren’t pristine already. Dirk could. But it’s got to be an issue you worry about.

I think Lonzo will come right but it’s hard to ignore the difference between his college numbers and his pros numbers and how that lines up with scouting evaluations. It’s gone exactly as the eye test people said.

swiftandabundant: Halliburton’s funky shot doesn’t bother me. It seems like there’s a large enough sample size to believe his numbers are real.

In his 2 years of college ball, Haliburton only took 40 more 3s than Lonzo Ball in 1yr and less than half as many FTs as Fultz in 1 yr.

The best argument in favor of Haliburton isn’t sample size, but his FT%. As TNFH pointed out previously, FT% is more predictive of NBA 3pt shooting than college 3P%. Here, sample size weighs against him.

I don’t think shooting form adds anything to this analysis. There’s probably as many players with good form who end up sucking in the NBA, despite good college numbers, as there are players with bad form. Derrick Williams comes to mind as a player with good form, good college numbers, and terrible NBA 3PT shooting.

So the form wouldn’t matter that much, then?letic

It’s like, ok this dude’s got a wingspan, or so-and-so vertical, or has some athleticism… who gives a shit, if we look at the numbers anyways

KnicksfaninNJ,

I mean, its kind of weird/random to ask “is her really going to be as good as the better names on the list above?”

Well, I don’t know. He’s 18 (or 19 years old) and one of the top prospects in this year’s draft, so he could be as good (or better) than some of the better names on that list.

I could also ask “is he definitely better than the not so good names on this list?” That list has guards that score a lot, guards that are great passers, guards that are good on defense…it’s a nice list but its also a wide variety of players.

I have no idea what Ball can or can’t be. I guess that’s why they call it a LOTTERY? But if he’s one of the top picks in this year’s draft, then I would say there is a chance he can become as good (if not better) than the people on that list.

Also, he is not Lonzo Ball. He is LaMelo Ball. I only say this because I see a lot of people making assumptions about him based on his brother. Even if they have similarities to their game, they are different people and will therefore develop on different paths. Brook Lopez and Robin Lopez are different players. Giannis’ brother wasn’t as good as he is. It seems when a player comes into the league and is really good, then people think his brother will also potentially be good. But if a player comes into the league and isn’t good, then people assume his brother won’t be good.

My brother is great at math, I’m an artist. We are not the same person even if we share personality traits and have some overlapping skills.

Well, I don’t know. He’s 18 (or 19 years old) and one of the top prospects in this year’s draft, so he could be as good (or better) than some of the better names on that list.

You could be right, and I hope you will be because I suspect the Knicks will pick him if he’s available. But I worry that the analysts are right, this is a weak draft, and no one on in it is as good a prospect as the top names on the list I posted.

lamelo’s comps with his brother aren’t just lazy….. they have a lot of similarities right down to the numbers and the shooting form….

yes lamelo is taller… and yes lamelo drove to the basket more…. but essentially the games are very similar…. lamelo from my estimates based on his 2pt fg% is going to struggle driving and scoring efficiently because of it…. that’s essentially is lonzo’s problem…. that also is frank’s problem…. and also a problem for most tall pg’s who fail for that matter… if you can’t do that the bar for you to shoot well .. and not just in 3p land… is higher….

what lamelo has going for him is that he gets to the line better than lonzo did… it’s a lot better actually…. but it’s still not anything close to elite territory…. so what you have is essentially lonzo who gets 1-2 more ft’s a game…. which is a difference but it probably won’t make a huge one….

all this of course changes if he completely overhauls his game…. which is possible… he’s not completely untalented… and good passer’s generally adjust their games well to be productive…. what my concern is that lamelo’s version of productive is more ricky rubio than jason kidd….

and when ppl say he has all this upside… i challenge someone to bring a comp…. what level of upside are we talking here? it’s not unlimited… he is not magic… he is not even penny hardaway… so what is it?

Donnie – LMFAO. Best comment of the day!

this is a weak draft but it doesn’t really take much for a weak draft to turn into a pretty strong one….

the 2011 kyrie irving draft was looked at .. aside from kyrie… as a very weak draft… derrick williams came out of nowhere.. kanter never even played.. thompson rated well analytically but rated poorly with scouts… a couple of not so well known euro prospects and that was the top 5… the rest of the first round was made up of soso upper classmen….

and those upper classmen came through… klay, kemba, butler, the morris brothers, kawhi of course… and a first round littered with the who’s who of solid nba role players….

coming in… this is a weakish draft compared to what we had in the last few years…. but there are plenty of guys with talent that can contribute and pan out in big ways….. this also could be a draft where there aren’t many useful players either but sometimes when you flip a coin 10x they all come up heads….

just because it’s a weak draft doesn’t mean you can’t come away with a good player…. in fact it’s probably easier to draft one in a weak draft…

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what lamelo has going for him is that he gets to the line better than lonzo did… it’s a lot better actually…. but it’s still not anything close to elite territory…. so what you have is essentially lonzo who gets 1-2 more ft’s a game…. which is a difference but it probably won’t make a huge one….

one of the many weird things about Lonzo is he can’t make even half of the infrequent fts he attempts.

Just sniffed around the Shaun Livingston factoids and things I did not know — he never broke 10 pts per game, ever. And he is just barely ahead of Ben Simmons in the number of 3pters he took, with only a few going in his whole dang career. Even after all that time with GSW. So an interesting comp.

As for LaMelo, I also don’t think Lonzo is a lazy comp. Besides the genetic similarity (that Swift correctly batted away), they both play the same position with similar size, and seem to have similar skill sets and gaps. Lonzo seems to have suddenly learned how to shoot the 3 — maybe – after two years of suckitude and looking lost (yes it was the pre-Lebron Lakers mess, but still). You’d expect LaMelo to spend two years being lost as well, just because youthful point guard. But will he also suddenly learn to shoot? Not impossible, especially if Lonzo shares tips over Thanksgiving turkey or something. But good lord, even two years of a point guard with lousy shooting and lackadaisical defense would make me weep, since this team is already defined by those two traits.

Also not sure Rubio is a good comp, outside of good passer with no shot. He was/is a savant, and had six years of professional experience before coming to the NBA. I think he was only 20 (he started as a pro at 14!), but he was emotionally ready to lead a professional team.

I just want someone who can shoot. I’d take Trent Tucker.

You’d expect LaMelo to spend two years being lost as well, just because youthful point guard.

Its settled then. We draft LaMelo and trade for Chris Paul. Let CP3 run the show while LaMelo learns from the best there is. Then LaMelo takes over once CP3’s contract is done!

I joke…or do I?

I’ve thought about this alot actually.

If we don’t give up assets to get CP3 (like real assets..not Knox)…and in fact maybe get a draft pick back from OKC…this wouldn’t be the worse plan.

Next season will start later and be a shorter season. So you’re looking at one and 3/4’s season of CP3. LaMelo could even start some games if we rested CP3 on back to backs and in year 2 maybe LaMelo could start more or they could even start alongside each other in some 2 PG lineups with RJ at the 3.

I don’t think CP3 has given up on trying to win a ring. I suspect he and his agent will do everything they can to avoid a trade to the Knicks. I doubt he wants to spend his last couple of years in the league mentoring our recent draft picks. OKC may want to move him, but even they will probably respect his wishes enough to try to find a contender. Maybe the Knicks can somehow help facilitate a deal.

Well, he’d be in NYC, not OKC for one thing. That’s a pretty big deal. Have you been to OKC? Its fine but it ain’t NYC.

Also, the East sucks. CP3, if healthy and starting, would make us a playoff team.

Also, people keep doing this on this blog where they act like our team was one of the worst teams in the NBA and we have absolutely no talent. That just isn’t true.

Under Mike Miller we were on a 30 to 32 win pace for the season.

Mitch Rob would be the next Tyson Chandler/DeAndre lob partner for CP3.

The Knicks probably wouldn’t be as good as OKC was this season but we’d be a playoff team in the East and he’d be playing in the Garden and would be the main draw/attraction. Plus, its 2 seasons and he could be traded to a contender potentially.

Also, like, the Knicks could make other moves AFTER they trade for CP3, right? If the idea is we are trading for him and not giving up assets in return (Knox would be fine, LOL), then we’d have draft picks and maybe some left over cap space to get another star or a good role player or two.

I agree, CP3 would probably prefer to go to a contender. But what contender could trade for him?

If the choice is between being on a good team in OKC in a tougher western conference or being on a playoff team in the East at Madison Square Garden..I think there are reasons he would prefer the knicks.

Dude, we need unbridled optimism right now!

Look, I don’t know what Chris Paul wants. Just saying its not crazy that he would be ok coming to The Knicks and I’m having a hard time finding a contender team that could make a move for him.

If the choice is between being in OKC on a decently good team in Oklahoma City that never plays on national tv and would most likely lose in the first round of the western conference or playing for The Knicks in NYC and losing in the first round of the playoffs, I think its not crazy to want the Knicks over OKC.

I just go back to when STAT came here in 2010 and was good for that first season. Before Melo showed up, STAT was the toast of the town, on the cover of magazines, got endorsement deals he had never gotten before. The garden was packed every night, ticket sales went through the roof as did jersey sales, etc.

A star player in NYC making The Knicks respectable gets a lot of attention. We’d be decent with CP3. Not contenders but decent. And we’d have a lot of young players and picks to get better over the next few years.

Plus, he could be traded at the deadline the following year to a contender if it doesn’t work out.

I NEED OPTIMISM JOWLES! NOW MORE THAN EVER!!!

I do wish some sports writer sitting on his hands between ‘When will the NBA open’ non-stories would make some calls and write the ‘What’s up with Alonzo’ story. It’s begging to be written, and it’s a good reason for a new thread, too…

I will happily give up my Haliburton fantasy for your pick-LaMelo-and-trade-for-Steph-and-Klay fantasy…

***Have you been to OKC? Its fine but it ain’t NYC.***

NYC ain’t NYC anymore either.

NYC ain’t NYC anymore if you’re a regular dude making regular money. If you’re a millionaire celebrity, its probably better than ever though.

What has happened to NYC is so sad though. My brother moved to NYC in 1990 and I used to visit him all the time in high school and college. Then I moved there in 1999 and lived there through 2013. NYC in the 90’s was the best. 9-11 started changing things but even in the 2000’s it still felt like NYC in a lot of places.

But by the time I left in 2013, I really felt the sea change. Like the city wasn’t for people like me anymore. I lived out in Woodside and I loved that part of Queens cause to me it still felt like the old NYC for the working class dude.

I’ve only been back to NYC once since I moved away. I went back in 2017 and even in the 4 years that I left, the change was remarkable. For most of my time there I worked around St. Marks (I worked stage crew for Blue Man Group and also front of house sometimes at The Public). Man, St. Marks place made me so sad when I went back in 2017.

My brother is still there, living out in Woodside and he says that Woodside/Jackson Heights is still pretty much unchanged but you can see the gentrification starting to seep in around the edges. I worry this coronavirus is going to be the nail in the coffin. My brother was never going to leave and now he’s for the first time saying “I can’t do it anymore. I gotta get out.”

Yeah, Jowles, I was. I get the fallacy of thinking the times when you were young were the best of times. Kind of like how everyone thinks the cast of SNL when they were in 8th grade was the best (but seriously, late 80s SNL WAS the best).

But you can’t honestly tell me NYC didn’t change significantly after 9-11. The insurance rates for bars and clubs went through the roof and this lead to many amazing night club and music venues going out of business in the 2000s.

When I moved to NYC in the 90s you could go to the LES/Tribeca and for a $5 to $10 cover, go see amazing live music or hear DJ’s spin in any number of clubs, lounges or music venues. Wetlands, SOBS, Smalls, Detour, Dharma, BOB, Coney Island High, CBGB (admittedly not as cool by the late 90s but still a place to hear live music), Knitting Factory, The Bottom Line, Brownies…I could go on an on. You wanted to listen to Jazz, Hip Hop, Rock, Folk music, trip hop/electronica/dj music…didn’t matter. It was all there and you could go to 3 or 4 places a night…all within walking distance or a short cab ride away. This isn’t even mentioning the mega clubs where you’d pay $20 to $40 cover to hear electronica dance music…limelight, tunnel, twilo, life, sound factory….you could dance the night away. Not to mention all of the bars that didn’t ID people or where someone could light up a joint and no one said anything and often times that joint got passed around by complete strangers (this happened several times to me).

Sure, there was/is still live music in NYC. But the nightlife scene changed in the 2000’s and NYC became a lot less fun than it used to be. Sure, some of that is getting older and not going out as much but the easy access to it all, the cheap entertainment that was available to people…it all changed after 9-11. Not all at once but the city, which had been cleaned up to some degree in the 90s, became hyper gentrified.

And while there are still plenty of ways to see live music in NYC…these days its going to be more high end. Expensive concert tickets at larger venues. Its been pretty well documented how 9-11, gentrification, the 2009 financial crash (and now covid-19) has made life incredibly difficult for working class/middle class artists to make a living. Its like everything. You can pay top dollar for Broadway or concerts or get a fancy cocktail at some super nice bar for $20 but the places with $5 covers where you hear some great jazz band or a funky but fun dive bar where you can drink all night with you buddies for cheap…these places, especially in NYC, are disappearing.

I’m waffling back and forth between optimism and pessimism when it comes to covid and the long term affects it will have.

On the one hand, I can see a world where more people have flexible work schedules and can work from home, making it easier to acomodate for their families. More sick time and people being encouraged to take that. I could see this leading to a stronger social safety net…medicare for all (or whatever you want to call it), UBI, etc.

At the same time, I see this leading to more income inequality. Automation and AI technology being ramped up even faster to replace workers in the name of health and safety and more widespread civil unrest.

As far as kids/young people today. I think they have a lot of things better than we did in some ways but also have a lot of things worse. I mean, it must be amazing as a kid to have something like spotify, get into a certain band and have access to all of their music and get instant recommendations of similar artists and music and listen to literally everything that has ever been made. And while I loved the movies of my youth, kids today have so much better television and movies to choose from and again can literally watch anything ever made if they so chose. To be able to learn about stuff like that must be amazing.

But they also don’t have the freedom to be bored like we did. Just being able to go out with your friends for hours at a time and not have to be in contact with your parents, just do whatever…not have every moment in their life accounted for and planned…I can’t imagine what that must be like.

Trust the process?

swift, I’m 100% with you. I went to school in NYC in the late 80s, graduated in 90 and moved into a basement in SoHo that I shared with two other people. Little Italy was still (barely) a thing, and I got fresh mozz and pasta every day (super cheap and delicious) and went out at night for almost no money. It helped that as a musician I could get into every club for free, but as you said, they were all $5 cover charges, and you could check out 6 different gigs in one night.

The key thing is catching a place between gritty despair and luxe gentrification. That was NYC in the 90s. The 80s were rough; the city had rebounded a bit after the apparently awful 70s, but there was crack and crime and plenty of white flight. And somewhere in the 2000s, it became Russian oligarchs buying penthouse apartments as investments. 9/11 was definitely a blow; it was a very quiet city for a year or two after that. But it was also the music places closing, the pizza joints being pushed out, the last of the grime being washed clean (at least in most of Manhattan). But between those decades, the 90s was awesome. Still some of the grit people associate with NY, still rough around the edges, the energy of growth was amazing.

NYC may have another moment, but there is no question that in music, letters, popular culture, finance, fashion – that was a peak period for one of the greatest cities in the world.

But I’m sure Cleveland is nice this time of year, too….

But I’m sure Cleveland is nice this time of year, too….

ha, yeah, no thanks 🙂

I love when dusty gen–x’ers slag the city nowadays.

okay, i’m old and ignorant – wtf does “slag” mean…

The political apathy of the average gen xer is more responsible for the hell world we live in than people care to admit.

Oaktree…that is probably true. We were so hell bent on not being the idealistic hippie baby boomer who then becomes a hypocritical yuppie that we just kind of removed ourselves from it all.

I’m a young gen x’er by the way. I guess I’d be in that weird Xennial generation where I have a bit of millenial and gen x’er both in me.

But Gen X’ers were also the original “generation that won’t do as well as their parents” generation. They did benefit from the 90s economy being good but many of them like my brother entered the job market in the early 90s when the economy was horrible. Then there was the dot com crash/9-11 around the 2000s and the financial crash. Millenials have had it worse, but gen x got it worse than the boomers for sure.

There’s also this thing when you’re a gen x’er where you get really annoyed at the fact that all of our culture wars are focused on boomers vs. millenials.

Yeah, it makes zero sense for Paul to end his illustrious career on a cellar dweller.

Until he actually washes up -something he has shown no sign of doing – any team that has Chris Paul next year will not be in the cellar.

PS I’m feeling the love for my namesake, #44.

I’m from a small city on the Hudson that’s recently gotten a ton of press for the cool, sleepy, artsy NYC bedroom community it’s become. I have townie friends who have for years pissed away what could have been a down payment on a modest home, and now they’re whinging about the explosion of home sales, especially in the few places that people really want to live. Most of the new residents are transplants from the city. They ain’t seen nothin’ yet.