Comments on: 2020-21 Game Thread: All-Star Julius Randle and the Knicks vs. Warriors

By: JK47

JK47 — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 06:50:11 +0000

Well, our boy Julius Randle deservedly made the All-Star team.

Congrats big guy.

By: geo

geo — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 06:37:13 +0000

just wanna give credit where credit is due…

having a much more pleasant knick fan experience this year, in part because of their improved play – but, also a result of adapting a modified version of the donnie walsh fan plan…

I think I may have seen the final quarter on perhaps 2 or 3 of the team’s losses this year…I’ve most definitely watched every win, start to finish to post game when available…

thank you donnie, for helping to get me to knick fan nexus…

By: nicos

nicos — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 06:16:43 +0000

While pondering the Steph question I looked David Robinson’s numbers and holy shit was he good. I assumed Hakeem’s career numbers would be better but Robinson was solidly better- 7.5 career BPM 82 VORP vs. 4.7/74.4. That he was better in VORP despite playing almost 10,000 fewer minutes is really impressive. His career best BPM matches Steph’s from 15/16. If he’d started his career at 21 rather than 24 he might have had top ten numbers- I didn’t appreciate him enough at the time.

By: Donnie Walsh

Donnie Walsh — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 05:13:07 +0000

***I want to find one credible person who saw Curry becoming perhaps the greatest offensive player in league history***

Jimmy Patsos… https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jun/04/nba-finals-stephen-curry-davidson-loyola-scoreless

And I loved Olajuwon, and I respect Duncan, but I put Curry ahead of both those guys. They played the game, Curry changed the game.

By: Z-man

Z-man — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 04:45:41 +0000

So who predicted we’d be 0.5 games behind the Celts 32 games into the season? I wonder what odds I could have gotten in Vegas for that bet…

By: Z-man

Z-man — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 04:39:50 +0000

I can tell you that the ~7,000 voters who picked Brad Stevens weren’t posting on CelticsBlog this week…

By: vincoug

vincoug — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 04:38:52 +0000

Z-man:
i think Curry is the probably the greatest pure shooter who ever lived. However, he doesn’t dominate on both ends. He’s in the James Harden class of player, although clearly better than Harden in my book.

Jordan, Kareem, Wilt, Lebron are my Mt. Rushmore. You probably have to include Bird, Magic, Russell, Kobe and West. Then Oscar, Shaq, Duncan, Durant, and Hakeem. That’s 14 players. I don’t think you can knock 5 of these guys out to bump Curry into the top 10.

I think he’s a lock for top-10 of the 2000-2050 era, along with Durant and LeBron.

He’s unquestionably the greatest shooter of all time. Not even taking into account degree of difficulty, just based on percentage and volume no one’s really close. Add in the crazy 30 footers that he hits regularly and I don’t think anyone will ever be able to catch him.

By: vincoug

vincoug — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 04:34:33 +0000

DRed:
I was just reminded of one of the funniest NBA tweets of all time:

@SIChrisMannix
You are the GM of an expansion team. You have your choice of any NBA player—or Brad Stevens. Who do you choose?
The Player
65.8%
Brad Stevens
34.2%
20,878 votes
·
Final results
8:06 PM · May 5, 2018·Twitter for iPhone

Holy shit, not even a GM/POBO who actually builds the team. Like it’s not totally unreasonable to say you’d want Masai or Riley or someone but a coach?

By: Z-man

Z-man — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 04:33:43 +0000

i think Curry is the probably the greatest pure shooter who ever lived. However, he doesn’t dominate on both ends. He’s in the James Harden class of player, although clearly better than Harden in my book.

Jordan, Kareem, Wilt, Lebron are my Mt. Rushmore. You probably have to include Bird, Magic, Russell, Kobe and West. Then Oscar, Shaq, Duncan, Durant, and Hakeem. That’s 14 players. I don’t think you can knock 5 of these guys out to bump Curry into the top 10.

I think he’s a lock for top-10 of the 2000-2050 era, along with Durant and LeBron.

By: The Honorable Cock Jowles

The Honorable Cock Jowles — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 04:29:55 +0000

Owen:
Not many guys have changed the game like Steph. That will be his legacy.

I want to find one credible person who saw Curry becoming perhaps the greatest offensive player in league history, and doing it with shit that no human being should ever be able to do. It’s not even that he hit so many threes. It’s the threes he actually hit. I just still can’t believe he hit that weaving-dribble turnaround three against the Clippers. I keep expecting it to not go in when I see replays.