Comments on: NY Post: Streaking Knicks clip Hawks to move into fourth in East

By: Early Bird

Early Bird — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 22:34:17 +0000

djphan: derrick rose + ayo dosunmo

then back up the truck for zach lavine in 2022

Early returns say Vucevic isn’t gonna keep Lavine in Chi. I’m not sure that continues, but I’m in favor of this plan. Lavine has been excellent.

And generally, 2022 has much better FAs than 2021.

By: DRed

DRed — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 22:24:34 +0000

Macri’s draft expert is a college kid. I’ve listened to their podcast (Prep2Pro) a couple times, and they seem to know a lot about the college kids but they don’t have a ton of experience. They hated Haliburton last year, for example.

By: pepper

pepper — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 21:20:01 +0000

the lakers to pels to knicks path worked well with julius…maybe it bodes well for lonzo as well…

By: DudesTown

DudesTown — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 21:08:34 +0000

djphan: derrick rose + ayo dosunmo

then back up the truck for zach lavine in 2022

One of the comps I saw for Ayo is Elfrid Payton so maybe it’s destiny.

By: djphan

djphan — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 20:39:28 +0000

D) none of the above

derrick rose + ayo dosunmo

then back up the truck for zach lavine in 2022

By: Raven

Raven — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 20:33:51 +0000

Mike Honcho: I feel like we have a bumper crop of interestingly named players this year. Even “Julius Randle” is a fairly distinctive name, let alone your Elfrid Paytons, Norvelle Pelles and Nerlens Noels of the world. RJ would probably count as well if we actually called him Rowan.

Having Immanuel and Obadiah on the team is like taking a walk through a Revolutionary War-era cemetery in Massachusetts.

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 20:26:33 +0000

Lonzo also likely costs us a draft pick in a sign-and-trade, unless we just assume NOLA won’t match a big enough offer sheet. That has to be factored in.

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 20:18:58 +0000

I really like Lonzo but having someone who can really run the offense as the primary would be better I think… Randle has done amazingly well but having him on the ball all the time negates how great he is as a finisher and how great he would be on the short roll if he could play off a great shooter/initiator.

Speaking of that, we need more PNRs with him and Quickley.

Let’s say the choice is 2 years $50M for Lowry (Macri floated that #) vs 4 for 80 for Lonzo. I think you’d have to choose Lowry, right?

Actually – let’s say these are the choices:

A) CP3 at 3 for 90
B) Lowry at 2 for 50
C) Lonzo at 4 for 80
D) none of the above

what would people choose?

By: djphan

djphan — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 20:11:07 +0000

great video with drew hanlen and koc from theringer talking about rj’s improvements….

By: swiftandabundant

swiftandabundant — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 19:48:36 +0000

Lonzo Ball. He is a good PG and he’s young. The one knock on him is he doesn’t penetrate that great (ha) but you know what…we got RJ and Randle for that. He’s a great passer, good 3 point shooter, strong defender, would help us score more transition points. And he’s YOUNG. Lonzo fits perfectly with RJ’s timeline. PG’s do take time to develop and we could literally hit on Lonzo like we did with Randle. You get him, make the 2 first round picks, resign the vets and roll with largely the same team as this year but with a potentially big upgrade at the starting PG spot.

It seems like a no brainer to me.