I wonder if Hawksblogger.net is aptly disappointed in their team the way we are with the Knicks.

Exhibit J as to why no one likes LA fans: my wife switched from being a Niner fan to a Rams fan right after the Super Bowl. This was the conversation:

Her: GO L.A!!
Me: but your team is the Niners tho.
Her: I’m a Rams fan now. LA won!
Me: that’s called bandwagoning. You had ZERO interest in the Rams before they made the SB… by beating YOUR Niners, btw.
She pauses briefly.
Her: so I’ll root for them both!
Me: That’s cap! they play in the same division!
Her: So?
Me: you can’t do that! That’s violation! (Imagine being a fan of, say, the Eagles AND WFT…errr the Commanders of the NFC East. I’m sure that’s a felony somewhere)
Her: I can do whatever I want! Go LA! Go Rams!

I hate it here… lol.

cybersoze: Deuce (on the 5 games playing more than 5 mins):
MPG 24.1, FG% .342, 3P% .250, FT% 1.000, TRB36 3.3, AST36 5.1, STL36 1.8, TOV36 0.9, PTS36 9.6

Unfortunately, 3 of those 5 games came against Detroit, Houston, and OKC, which are effectively g-league-plus teams.

And if you remove his superb Houston game, where he accumulated most his counting stats, then Deuce really looks unplayable.

I’m pretty sure this also came at the height of the covid-19 g-league call ups. So as much as I’d like to see Deuce, I’m not convinced he’s as good as those numbers make him seem.

We should play Deuce because he’s young. If he’s any good that’s just icing on the cake. 🙂

Cybersoze, your post makes it sound like he played forty or fifty minutes total, but apparently he played enough games with less than five minutes that he ended up with the equivalent minutes of four or five games as a starter. I was actually surprised how many minutes he has played. I don’t think you can cherry pick the games with more than a certain number of minutes to do statistics.

I admit, if we had a different coach maybe he’d get more playing time, but my point is you can’t just look at G league minutes and say of course he has to play. There more data than that and it’s not a slam dunk type of decision.

I have to say that the news article quoted above doesn’t make total sense to me. Nerlens’ salary isn’t that far from the maximum the Knicks can offer Mitch as an extension. 

Noel is on a three year deal for roughly $28 million, with only the first two years ($18 million) guaranteed.

Mitch’s max extension starts at $12 million a year, but with raises, can hit 4 years/$54 million.

That’s a significant difference. I think that they should definitely offer it, but if you’re pinching pennies for some odd reason, it’s basically twice the money for twice the guaranteed years (and I think the years is actually what worries them the most. It shouldn’t, but I think it does).

i don’t think capela’s been the same this year. he is just so much slower to rotate to my eye, and you can’t have that when you’re backing up a defender as horrendous as trae. i don’t feel like okongwu can truly cover that sort of fulcrum role at this point, but they should try him a little more with trae, because he is just so much more spritely than capela right now — and their starters in general look like a bunch of guys playing with a step count limit. i kinda wonder if capela soured on trae a bit and just kicked it back a gear, but it could also be physical. hard to tell. they’re the 4th worst defense in the nba.

last night there were a couple tatum drives where he’s the dead obvious help candidate and capela never even made to the lane. that’s definitely not the capela that terrorized us in the playoffs.

Burks (last 10 games):
MPG 26.7, FG% .356, 3P% .281, FT% .829, TRB36 7.3, AST36 3.6, STL36 0.7, TOV36 1.6, PTS36 12.1

Quick (last 10 games):
MPG 17.9, FG% .329, 3P% .261, FT% 1.000, TRB36 5.0, AST36 5.2, STL36 0.4, TOV36 3.2, PTS36 15.3

Raven:
Miles McBride. 11-17, 29 points, 5-7 from 3, 7 assists, 2 steals, 1 block, 2 turnovers.

I want to print that out, staple it to a log, and beat Thibs with it.

I know those numbers look great, but so far he hasn’t looked at all good in NBA action. He’s played a total of 153 minutes and made 15 of 59 shots for a 25.4% shooting percentage and a 31.3% true shooting percentage. He shot 16% on threes and took four total free throws. Those numbers are terrible. He does have a reasonable number of assists and the limited defensive stats I found are ok. If his NBA practices are like these stats I can imagine why Thibs isn’t giving him a lot of minutes.