Brian Cronin:
Man, Evan Mobley is so fucking good.

He’s real nice. The Cavs’ neo-Twin Towers look is actually kind of cool and is very likely a future force to be seriously reckoned with.

Z-man: To be fair, no one is actually currently arguing that Mitch is better than Allen per se.

It’s not even close. The KB love for Pogo Stick Mitch was overblown, but at least in the vicinity of reality; Rubensque Mitch is nothing like his KB portrayal.

ess-dog: We suddenly have a fairly old and un-athletic team while other teams’ high draft picks have just started to ripen. I like our few young guys, but they aren’t the same as having future stars like Jalen Green or Evan Mobley.

This times ten thousand.

Donnie Walsh: As a resident objective reader, I have to say, I’ve had a hard time understanding the Mitchell Robinson love here. Most times when I’m watching the Knicks, I don’t even notice Robinson at all. I know there’s always been a low-usage/high-efficiency fetish at KB, but Allen has always seemed like the better prospect to me. He got 15 rebounds more this week than Robinson has gotten in his career. Oh, and he’s younger.

To be fair, no one is actually currently arguing that Mitch is better than Allen per se. However, there are posters who a) have stated on multiple occasions over the past 3 years that Mitch is our best player, b) suggested for much of his first 2 years, if not longer, that Mitch was a better prospect than Allen, RW III, and others, c) believe that Mitch is significantly better than Noel, despite their stats on balance being similar in many/most regards, if not favorable to Noel. There seems to be a dread among posters that we are in danger of losing him in free agency by not offering him the max he can get right now. Yet, as high as I was on him his rookie year, I am pretty much done with the hype, which now has zero justification in 3 years of potential over production.

Yesterday he got yanked by Thibs for glaring defensive lapses (including an embarassing blow-by for a dunk), yet one prominent poster who has been the conductor of the Mitch hype train remarked about how the defense fell apart as soon as he was pulled and how that should “show the haterz.” Yet Mitch’s on-off stats are a ghastly -18.4 thus far this year. Like you, I just don’t get the love, at least before we see some actual consistent production.

Good morning! Would it be a much better morning had Ricky Rubio gone, say, 4-of-9 from deep, instead of having a once-in-a lifetime, “of course this shit happens to the Knicks” sort of game? Why yes, yes it would. But we deal with what we have.

And another thing, we’re not overachieving (as the bunch of new Knicks 20-21 teams you guys are talking about) and we’re still up there, so i find this as a positive. When we regress to our new (and higher) mean, and the overachievers do the same, we’ll see where we are. Much likely ahead of them and on pace for the season we expected. Well, at least the ones that applied more caution and predicted wins for the season in the 40s.

Man, Evan Mobley is so fucking good.

In this game, if RJ is shooting a bit better and Rubio doesn’t turn into Esteban Curry, we have a good chance of winning. I do hope however that Thibs is deep in the tank thinking about how to get the defense back on track, because we’ve been getting torched way too much by open shooters and guys who should never be scoring as much as they are.