Comments on: Knicks Morning News (2022.10.24)

By: Early Bird

Early Bird — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 23:08:14 +0000

Quentin Grimes absolutely cooked Haliburton twice last season. I like Grimes’s penetration upside but he didn’t exactly go at guys last year.

I don’t have anything else to go on, but I’m standing by the claim that Hali is a bad defender until proven otherwise.

PG is so damn valuable it might not matter though.

By: dtrickey

dtrickey — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 23:04:41 +0000

Admittedly only a casual Yankees observer, but I feel like a lot of discourse on their season underrates losing King from the bullpen and Benintendi and LeMahieu on offence.

On the Knicks front, this one feels like one of those danger games. Plucky young Magic team looking to play well at MSG similar to what we saw about this time last season.

By: pepper

pepper — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 22:36:15 +0000

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/34871315/adam-silver-says-nba-changes-greatly-reduced-incentives-tanking

By: deeefense

deeefense — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 22:24:00 +0000

“It will never not be amazing that we passed on Haliburton and then 3 more teams did as well.”

I believe the common thinking was that he was a good passer but not a highly athletic modern penetrating, scoring, P&R PG. I’m not sure what the thinking was on his defense.

In other words, he looked like the kind of PG that would fit perfectly for a team coached by Phil Jackson, Steve Kerr, or Gregg Popovich, but not for most teams.

By: deeefense

deeefense — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 22:18:05 +0000

“What’s ironic is that their most prolonged period of success was with a team who could both hit HRs and scratch out hits when necessary, where Jeter was the heart and soul rather than A-Rod. Seems like the Astros are all-in on the late 1990s model of the Yankees. They don’t have HR hitters per se, they have good hitters who are HR threats.”

That’s what I was saying the other day.

Obviously, the team that can hit more homeruns has an advantage. But hitting homeruns tends to be streaky. So even if you have the best team over a season of 162 games and even if homeruns are an important part of winning the World Series, there’s a significant risk the best teams will go cold or get shut down by excellent pitching over a short series and get knocked out by an inferior team if they are too dependent on them. I want homeruns. I just don’t want to be too dependent on them. I’d sacrifice a bit of homerun power for some balance.

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 21:57:21 +0000

@IanBegley
Doesn’t sound like Quentin Grimes has been cleared for contact yet as he rehabs from lingering soreness in the middle of his left foot. Tom Thibodeau says Grimes has done ‘some’ one-on-one/two-on-two work recently. Reiterates Knicks are being cautious with the process.

By: Raven is a Big Black Bird

Raven is a Big Black Bird — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 21:24:49 +0000

I’m looking at this Hornets team and it should be a laugher but some part of me is afeared. DJS is trying to pull a Mickey Rourke in Sin City, Kelly Oubre’s hair is on fire in a good way, the corpse of Gordon Hayward is raising from the dead like the widow of Zarephath’s son, somehow there’s still a Plumlee of one sort or another, and some guy with a name from a random bad ’70s sitcom was 9-9 with 11 rebounds in their last game.

Plus they absolutely thrashed the Hawks.

By: cybersoze

cybersoze — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 21:05:19 +0000

(I love me some small sample size…)

On the bright side of the small samples, at least he is 7 of 8 on FTs for .875

By: ThisChicanery

ThisChicanery — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 20:58:44 +0000

I know the minutes distribution has been great so far but, beyond the obvious reasons to not trade for Anthony Davis, I wouldn’t trust Thibodeau to not grind him into dust.

People have accused me of being a shill for Leon Rose, but I felt that passing on Haliburton to draft Obi Toppin was a massive blunder, probably the biggest one Leon has made to date. Nearly everyone here was unanimous and thinking that Haliburton was the best pick at that spot. That’s what incinerating a chunk of the value of a lottery pick really looks like.

It will never not be amazing that we passed on Haliburton and then 3 more teams did as well.

By: Z--man

Z--man — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 20:51:41 +0000

People have accused me of being a shill for Leon Rose, but I felt that passing on Haliburton to draft Obi Toppin was a massive blunder, probably the biggest one Leon has made to date. Nearly everyone here was unanimous and thinking that Haliburton was the best pick at that spot. That’s what incinerating a chunk of the value of a lottery pick really looks like.

Obi still has a legit shot to close the gap somewhat, and he’s far better than Frank or Knox were, but there’s really no sugarcoating that unforced error. In my view, that is 10 times worse than trading out of a 19th pick.