cybersoze:
Knicks basketball is around the corner? Can’t even believe it! 😛

So finally we can try and see progress (even if there’s none) on the play of Mitch (likely), RJ (probably), Obi (total mistery).

Been missing that, and also been missing the one thing the Knicks are #1 in the NBA… our beloved broadcasters Mike Breen and Clyde! 🙂

Oh sorry, there’s another thing we’re #1… Farfa’s game recaps! Been missing that a lot, as those were epic recaps… and sometimes watching the games i wondered ‘how can Farfa write about this!?’ LOL!

Farfa:
Well, if anything this prolonged hiatus gave me a chance to refill my gas trunk and get ready for the upcoming season! I’m also quite bullish on the recappability of this roster (barring a Westbrook/Wall trade, that is).

So glad to see so many new posters 🙂 and more glad that some are fellow Europeans like you, cybersoze!

Had to retrieve this from the previous thread, for you guys to know Farfa is alive, well… and planning some more epic recaps! 🙂

And thanks Farfa, i think we’re at least 4 europeans… me (Portugal), you (Italy), KYN (greece) and an Arsenal fan that i don’t remember the username!

So glad to see so many new posters 🙂 and more glad that some are fellow Europeans like you, cybersoze!

So finally we can try and see progress (even if there’s none) on the play of Mitch (likely), RJ (probably), Obi (total mistery).

Been missing that, and also been missing the one thing the Knicks are #1 in the NBA… our beloved broadcasters Mike Breen and Clyde! 🙂

Oh sorry, there’s another thing we’re #1… Farfa’s game recaps! Been missing that a lot, as those were epic recaps… and sometimes watching the games i wondered ‘how can Farfa write about this!?’ LOL!

geo:
always appreciate folks though whom strive for and accomplish more…oh, and if anyone happens to know this andre fellow, we need to bring him aboard…

Are you trying to take away my chances to be KB Rookie of the Year? LOL!

1 – Don’t play Knox 1100 minutes
2 – RJ doesn’t play like Knox for 1700 minutes
3 – Noel plays better than Taj
4 – Bullock returns to pre-injury form
5 – Someone steps up when Payton gets injured
6 – Keith Smart doesn’t wreck everyone’s shot
7 – Thibs is the genius his record shows
8 – DSJr doesn’t make Knox look like Jordan for 500 minutes

Other teams did get better more obviously than we did. So I’m torn. Let’s say our defense is between 15th and 20th in the league, that is, slightly better than last year. Then if our offense is improved over 29th in the league, we should be better overall than last year. You can wave your hands and hope that Toppin someone better than EJ will be better than Knox and Portis, but l don’t have any faith in that. So I’m left with we’ll be slightly better on defense and the same on offense. Vegas predicts we will be worse than last year, so I should bet the over, but I just can’t bring myself to believe.

Teams that probably got substantially worse:
TOR
OKC

The rest pretty much stayed close to where they were last year.

So while we were on a 28 game pace per 72 last year after Payton/Miller took over, there are more improved teams than declining teams. So even if we are “marginally” improved, we’re not winning 30 games. We’d have to be “significantly” improved.

Bold prediction as we enter the preseason?
Snellings: The Knicks will trade for a former All-Star guard before the preseason ends. They used the draft to address youth in the frontcourt, but there’s still a major lack of talent and production in the backcourt. While the smart play might be to go full youth movement and player development with an eye toward the future, with so many former All-Star guards in play, it proves too tempting for the Knicks to resist bringing one in.

needless to say, it was the only knick mention in the article (things to look forward to in the upcoming season)…i was curious to see who this crazy Snellings character was to be even thinking about the knicks in terms of the national basketball organization and the games it plays…got a quick link to his linkedin thing, saw this:
I do Fantasy Basketball & NBA Analytics for ESPN. I’m still a Neural Engineer. Dad first. Created The Hoops Lab. Sports analyst alum of Rotowire, Nylon Calculus, Fansided & TYTSports. Biomedical engineering/electrical engineering/neuroscience/neural prosthetics alum of Georgia Tech, Michigan and Duke.

my brain suddenly feels the need to cover itself in modesty…

was talking to a school buddy (i only really got one i stay in touch with) the other day who laughed at me for majoring in cultural geography (yep, we all had to do a full boat engineering thing, but – given the choice on an additional “track” – i went geography)…basically my senior year wasn’t so painful academically – i spent a lot of time in the gym and not doing school work things…

i just wanted to graduate and leave…

always appreciate folks though whom strive for and accomplish more…oh, and if anyone happens to know this andre fellow, we need to bring him aboard…

It’s not the roster I would have wanted but I’ll take bad Knick basketball over no basketball or basketball without the Knicks..

It could make for some weird games, a dependence on extreme ‘adaptive’ coaching, and abnormal results.

It could happen to us, too.

Yep. Could be a very strange season. The play-in games make a lot of sense in context.