What do you think of Keon Johnson?

he’s a real athlete that picked up basketball later than most (~high school)… and because of that some think that there’s a lot of upside…

i’m a bit neutral on the upside part.. he’s solid as a player right now and because of his age he does have decent upside…. he’s a solid prospect… probably slightly lesser grade than justise winslow .. both had questions about their shooting.. both had good playmaking chops… both had great defense… keon’s a better athlete.. .winslow better scoring ability…

he shouldn’t be too controversial… he’s a solid player with a diverse skillset …. and in this draft you can rank him anywhere starting from 6 or 7 to about 16 … but that goes for about everyone else in that range also….

But yeah, Knox has lived up to my expectations of him being awful. Frank has completely underwhelmed my expectations of him.

https://www.espn.com/nba/insider/story/_/id/31770784/big-nba-draft-2021-questions-no-1-locked-looking-trade

I am no expert on the draft, but there are people on this board who study the draft a lot. What do you think of Keon Johnson? Apparently NBA opinions are all over the map with him. They cited him as the most controversial player in the draft. He’s clearly a project but the Knicks have enough picks they can afford picking a player like that. He is intriguing to me so I’d like to hear other peoples opinions.

Nuggets had lost their own Devin Booker well before the playoffs. Not luck.

Clippers lost Kawhi mere games before the WCF. Chris Paul missed his first two non-DNPCD games of the season and returns perfectly healthy. Not luck.***

This is kind of a low-hanging fruit argument to make, and rather easy to refute. 1) AD getting hurt doesn’t rely on luck as it happens almost every year; 2) the Nuggets went 13-5 following Murray’s injury, still had the reigning MVP at full strength, and had just defeated a fully healthy Blazers team 4-2. Yet Phoenix swept them and none of the games were even close. Not luck; 3) The Kawhi Clippers weren’t exactly dominating the playoffs. They’d lost three home games in the first round against a team much worse than the Suns, and were very hot-and-cold against the Jazz. It certainly didn’t hurt the Suns that Kawhi didn’t play, at the same time, Paul missed those two games that the Suns won anyway (thanks to Booker), and when Paul came back he actually played very badly, shooting 19-60 over three games.

It’s not like the Suns are some #8 seed that got hot and got a bunch of lucky bounces to win games they shouldn’t have. They had the best record in the league, and stayed fully healthy. It’s really hard to diminish their path to the finals as “luck”.

Totes McGoats as Totes McGoats:
Yeesh. I just came across a Kevin Knox workout with Jahii Carson at Elijah Knox’s camp.

Yup. He’s not gonna be on the roster next season. Kid just doesn’t have it

Jumper still looks sweet. But when I say he doesn’t have it, I don’t mean exactly what we’ve seen on the court as a Knick. I mean he has no earthly idea to do with the ball in his hands. More specifically,he looks like he can’t find a way to apply whatever training he goes through. Mid move he just kinda looks confused. Seems like..I dunno..he can’t break out of that being used to the HS kid who’s too tall and athletic for the local competition to handle mode. If that makes sense. And that’s troubling to see after a year under Coach Cal and 3 years in the NBA. I think the kid’s close to fried. If he is on the team this coming season, he better focus on being a good to great defender and learning how to move off ball to get his shot off. Study the off ball movements of guys like Joe Harris, Reggie Miller, Steph Curry,and Kyle Korver. That jumper of his can be a helluva weapon, but it’s nothing if he can’t find a way to use it. I think he may be a bigger letdown than Ntilikina..which isn’t really too much of a difference at this point

I think they do him a disservice putting him in a clip with Jahii, who looks about a foot shorter than Knox. Jahii needs to be incredibly fast with the ball to play professional ball at any level (idk who he is, but I assume he does). It makes Knox look even slower by comparison.

Knox is 6’7″, he doesn’t need to be fast with the ball in his hands. He needs to shoot the 3 and use his long stride to attack closeouts… at this point everything else is gravy.

He does look godawful tho

So when you’re dead wrong, just play the “well, I was actually right but incredible luck intervened” card. Right

Lakers lose AD halfway through series up 2-1. Not luck.

Nuggets had lost their own Devin Booker well before the playoffs. Not luck.

Clippers lost Kawhi mere games before the WCF. Chris Paul missed his first two non-DNPCD games of the season and returns perfectly healthy. Not luck.

I’d have called the Giannis injury a superfecta had he not been built of adamantium. No luck to be seen here, none at all!