Comments on: NY Post: Mitchell Robinson is showing off skills we’ve never seen before

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Sat, 23 May 2020 10:11:20 +0000

In reply to Z-man.

Yeah, look at how good a totally forgotten team like the Dougherty/Price Cavaliers was!

By: Z-man

Z-man — Sat, 23 May 2020 09:30:59 +0000

Ewing and Embiid are very similar, although I think Ewing was better in pretty much every regard except maybe passing. So, yeah.

Man, watching so many vintage games during this dead period reminds me of how freakin’ great basketball was in the early-80’s-early-90’s. Today they showed the Bird-‘Nique duel, and damn, that Atlanta team was dynamite!

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Sat, 23 May 2020 09:10:55 +0000

In reply to Z-man.

Ewing’s actually another guy who totally would have been taking threes in the modern NBA.

By: Z-man

Z-man — Sat, 23 May 2020 08:43:46 +0000

Oh, I think for sure he would have expanded his game out to the 3-pt line. My point is that even without that, he’d have been a force in today’s NBA.

More generally, just about all of the truly great basketball players that dominated in any era after the 1950’s would have found a way to adapt to whatever the NBA threw at them.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Sat, 23 May 2020 04:32:14 +0000

In reply to Z-man.

Sure, but he would shoot the three. He actually talked about it recently, noting that he came into the league without an outside jumper and he added one of the best ones in the game, so it seems hard to believe he wouldn’t have added the three, as well.

By: The Infamous Cdiggy

The Infamous Cdiggy — Sat, 23 May 2020 03:50:26 +0000

Melo is trending 95.1K strong on Twitter right now…

By: Z-man

Z-man — Sat, 23 May 2020 03:36:59 +0000

Ask the prime Larry-Parish-McHale Celts how good Bernard King was. In today’s game, even if he couldn’t shoot the 3, he’d be like DeMar DeRozan on steroids.

By: Z-man

Z-man — Sat, 23 May 2020 03:33:07 +0000

It’s cool and all to re-litigate the ’90’s teams through the lens of advanced stats, but I’ll stick to my impressions from living through it. For example, I agree that X-Man was disappointing during the regular season, but he came alive first vs. the Pistons in a grueling 3-2 series (I was at game 5 with my wife). DET was aging but still very formidable and X really stood out as a huge positive for the Knicks. Derek Harper might have been the most solid all-around position player Ewing ever played with in his prime, he was a very hard-nosed defender whose value is not fully captured by advanced stats.

The main reason we never won was because of management (including Pat Riley to a degree. He’s the one who had the hots for Charles Smith.) Sure, Ewing got outplayed by Hakeem, but Hakeem was clearly the better player, so even if the supporting cast was equal, it wasn’t really Ewing’s fault. It wasn’t like Tyson Chandler getting abused by Roy Hibbert.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Sat, 23 May 2020 03:28:34 +0000

In reply to KnickfaninNJ.

Yeah, his TS% numbers for a guy who shot that many long twos were astonishing. Don’t get me wrong, he did plenty of drives and took pull-up jumpers, too, but he still shot a lot of long twos and made them at a ridiculous rate in his prime.

By: KnickfaninNJ

KnickfaninNJ — Sat, 23 May 2020 03:07:59 +0000

That’s awesome. I remember him being hard to stop, but I didn’t know that number.