Speaking of young folks. IQ has clearly been one of their top players in training camp. Why would they wait until they’re down double digits to bring him in? That’s exactly what will happen with Elf on the floor. Now you’re bringing him in with other bench people in an unsettled situation and putting him in a position to fail. This isn’t an Eli / Daniel Jones situation. There’s really no incumbent. We’ve been talking about the PG position for years. Certainly all summer and fall. We were gonna draft one with the Obi pick. We were gonna make a run at Vanvleet. I mean, was anyone at the time saying, “We’ll be great with Elf” except as a stopgap tank commander? This is similar to Lin in that he’s the best we’ve got and he’s shown it. Maybe we’ll be smart enough to play him. This goes double for Mitch, btw, who we know is already a pro. Why do we need cosmetic faux starters? Just give the best players the job. Get the ball rolling on IQ. Mitch, RJ and Knox make a leap. Keep Randle in the starting rotation. Obi not quite ready. Immanual? YES

JK47: Bjorn

Oh man, Peter Bjorn & John. I had “Young Folks” in regular rotation when it came out because of the Pitchfork review, but looking back, all the song had was a whistle melody and the novelty of being a twee guy/girl duet song.

PS – I think we fucked up picking Obi Toppin over Deni Avidja.

-non-invested ppl…

Knew Your Nicks:
Frank is like a garage punk song with crude sound production, childish musicianship, meaningless Lyrics, extremely false fuzz guitar solo but addictive, catchy and liberating as fuk!
Just Feel it!

Frank is actually like that band you never heard of that had one great track on some Numero Group comp (maybe “I Shut Down Luka” sung to the tune of “I Shot the Sheriff”) so you track it down on Discogs, pay some mother-f-er in France about 5 times what it’s actually worth and wait three years for it arrive only to find out that’s the only listenable track on the entire album.

-non-invested ppl…

–djphan

There’s one pretty big difference between this and the Frank stuff. The Frankophiles enthusiasm is based on what they want Frank to be and ignores what he actually does on the court which is nothing. We’re excited about Quickley based on his actual on court performance.

i assume you weren’t around during frank’s 15 point scoring spree where apparently he ran away with the starting job early last year….

this is two preseason games folks…. the term actual on-court performance starts in the regular season.. this isn’t just about prognosticating about him starting.. there are plenty of ppl unironically making a lot of premature statements about him… and everyone has their own right to be optimistic and ridiculous… but then you have every right to also be told that you are being optimistic and ridiculous….

and that’s really all this is… pump the brakes ppl…. it’s a long season and there’s plenty of time to see how our young guys develop…. they can do it all on their own without ppl overreacting and you will get everything you want in the end either way without hysterics….