Comments on: NY Post: Knicks fade late in loss to Jazz to end road trip with dud https://knickerblogger.net/2021/01/ny-post-knicks-fade-late-in-loss-to-jazz-to-end-road-trip-with-dud/ Knicks, Stats, Humor, Analysis. Sat, 30 Jan 2021 01:08:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: The Honorable Cock Jowles https://knickerblogger.net/2021/01/ny-post-knicks-fade-late-in-loss-to-jazz-to-end-road-trip-with-dud/#comment-728427 Sat, 30 Jan 2021 01:08:23 +0000 http://KnickerBlogger.Net/?p=18621#comment-728427

Brian Cronin:
RIP, John Chaney. I always respected the shit out of that guy.

In the video montage of Chaney that ESPN created for their talking heads to blow hot air over, you can very clearly see his body shake before he angrily shouts, “Shut up!” at what I can only assume is one of his players on-court.

]]> By: Z-man https://knickerblogger.net/2021/01/ny-post-knicks-fade-late-in-loss-to-jazz-to-end-road-trip-with-dud/#comment-728378 Sat, 30 Jan 2021 00:09:00 +0000 http://KnickerBlogger.Net/?p=18621#comment-728378 game thread?

]]> By: Z-man https://knickerblogger.net/2021/01/ny-post-knicks-fade-late-in-loss-to-jazz-to-end-road-trip-with-dud/#comment-728377 Fri, 29 Jan 2021 23:32:18 +0000 http://KnickerBlogger.Net/?p=18621#comment-728377

Hubert: I wish I was one of those guys with all the bookmarks, but my memory is pretty good on this one. I thought Paul could make us a 42 win team that could be better with some internal improvement and smart additions around him, and the consensus was he would turn a 20 win team into a 28 win team so don’t bother.

As it turns out, we did make smart additions and have gotten internal improvement, and I think his addition would have been wise.

but again, it’s all academic bc he didn’t want to come here and phoenix put a package together that we couldn’t beat.

42 in a 72-game season is probably too rosy, but for sure he makes us a .500 team. Still, it’s nice to have those assets in the bank, and a 5-10 game better record would only diminish the value of our best pick…if we didn’t use it (and more) to acquire CP3. It would have been a very shortsighted move. Fun, but dumb.

]]> By: Z-man https://knickerblogger.net/2021/01/ny-post-knicks-fade-late-in-loss-to-jazz-to-end-road-trip-with-dud/#comment-728376 Fri, 29 Jan 2021 23:29:32 +0000 http://KnickerBlogger.Net/?p=18621#comment-728376

Brian Cronin: Right? Remember how happy we were at the start of the season of the future? And then it’s, like, “Hey, how many of these picks can we trade?”

I’ll add, though, that that’s why I wanted to keep the #33 pick. I’d be even more excited about this team if they had someone like, I dunno, Isiah Joe or somebody on the team, as well. Or heck, if they had just kept Oturu!

I get that but we have plenty of young guys now and 2023 is right around the corner. Considering Thibs as pretty much a “win now first, development second” coach, chances are that whoever we drafted at that spot wouldn’t be in the rotation unless it was a guard who could shoot or someone to take Knox’s minutes. Mitch, Noel, Randle and Obi were rotation locks. So were RJ, Bullock, Burks, Payton and Rivers. So Quickley being the 10th guy is a nice draft outcome. It’s not the way I would have done things, but I’m so in love with Quickley I’m cool with the punt.

]]> By: Hubert https://knickerblogger.net/2021/01/ny-post-knicks-fade-late-in-loss-to-jazz-to-end-road-trip-with-dud/#comment-728375 Fri, 29 Jan 2021 23:05:00 +0000 http://KnickerBlogger.Net/?p=18621#comment-728375

No one thought Paul wouldn’t improve us. The consensus was he would be the best guard to grace the court since Clyde.

I wish I was one of those guys with all the bookmarks, but my memory is pretty good on this one. I thought Paul could make us a 42 win team that could be better with some internal improvement and smart additions around him, and the consensus was he would turn a 20 win team into a 28 win team so don’t bother.

As it turns out, we did make smart additions and have gotten internal improvement, and I think his addition would have been wise.

but again, it’s all academic bc he didn’t want to come here and phoenix put a package together that we couldn’t beat.

]]> By: Brian Cronin https://knickerblogger.net/2021/01/ny-post-knicks-fade-late-in-loss-to-jazz-to-end-road-trip-with-dud/#comment-728374 Fri, 29 Jan 2021 22:54:06 +0000 http://KnickerBlogger.Net/?p=18621#comment-728374 In reply to Z-man.

As shitty as our team is right now, I like watching them and am drooling over the four picks we have in this year’s draft. giving up even one of them is not something I would do, especially a likely lottery pick.

Right? Remember how happy we were at the start of the season of the future? And then it’s, like, “Hey, how many of these picks can we trade?”

I’ll add, though, that that’s why I wanted to keep the #33 pick. I’d be even more excited about this team if they had someone like, I dunno, Isiah Joe or somebody on the team, as well. Or heck, if they had just kept Oturu!

]]> By: Z-man https://knickerblogger.net/2021/01/ny-post-knicks-fade-late-in-loss-to-jazz-to-end-road-trip-with-dud/#comment-728373 Fri, 29 Jan 2021 22:46:21 +0000 http://KnickerBlogger.Net/?p=18621#comment-728373 Truth is that our window of being anything but low playoff fodder is not going to change with adding Beal or LaVine. We need to find a superstar or at least a star in the draft, and we aren’t gonna do that if we piss away picks for flawed second-level players who either make max money or will when they hit free agency in a couple of years.

As shitty as our team is right now, I like watching them and am drooling over the four picks we have in this year’s draft. giving up even one of them is not something I would do, especially a likely lottery pick.

]]> By: Frank https://knickerblogger.net/2021/01/ny-post-knicks-fade-late-in-loss-to-jazz-to-end-road-trip-with-dud/#comment-728372 Fri, 29 Jan 2021 21:46:51 +0000 http://KnickerBlogger.Net/?p=18621#comment-728372 I don’t think we are in the right place for Beal, especially if it costs RJ.
I think this will go the same way as Thibs’s time in Minnesota, at least as it pertains to when the big splash comes. Unless a really great opportunity presents itself, I think Thibs and the FO will take this year to see what they have, then make their move in/before year 2. I especially wouldn’t trade this year’s pick – even the shine has come off on some of the players, there are still a ton of guys in the top 8 that could be difference makers.

(by really great opportunity – being the high bidder on Bradley Beal is not what I mean).

]]> By: Ntilakilla https://knickerblogger.net/2021/01/ny-post-knicks-fade-late-in-loss-to-jazz-to-end-road-trip-with-dud/#comment-728371 Fri, 29 Jan 2021 21:45:29 +0000 http://KnickerBlogger.Net/?p=18621#comment-728371

agree…stay the course…stay the course…stay the course…

play young’uns….evaluate….parse…draft….rinse…repeat…

THIS. I don’t understand the rush to become a middling playoff team at best. Why not just collect young promising players and assets until a real needle mover is available in FA? It was good enough for Miami last seasonm. KAT, Giannis, or who knows else could be available down the road.

]]> By: Owen https://knickerblogger.net/2021/01/ny-post-knicks-fade-late-in-loss-to-jazz-to-end-road-trip-with-dud/#comment-728370 Fri, 29 Jan 2021 21:41:01 +0000 http://KnickerBlogger.Net/?p=18621#comment-728370 No one thought Paul wouldn’t improve us. The consensus was he would be the best guard to grace the court since Clyde.

Most people also thought it wasn’t a great idea for building a long term contender.

I will agree I didn’t anticipate him being the difference between us being a relatively high seed and not making the playoffs at all, which it seems at the moment he could be.

I think 40 games in there will be less regret

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