Comments on: Knicks Morning News (2022.12.08)

By: cybersoze

cybersoze — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 11:25:23 +0000

Well, if you only post what you now brought to your last comment, and remove bits like this “But why stop with Randle? Let’s trade all of them and make sure it’s for nothing!” that was the ending of that comment, i think everything will be fine. Just state more what you think, what you’re seeing that is positive, and so on. That’s what can bring hope back to the debate.
In my case, i’m very disappointed with how the season is going because i thought RJ could make a leap to at least borderline all-star, and he has been a disaster, so bad that now we can’t even pivot from him by trading him for another player with high potential that is also not fulfilling expectations. So we have to watch RJ struggle and keep believing he’ll get out of this. It’s really hard to keep the optimism by watching him play. But our other pieces can give us some hope that we have 3 starters on a good team, and some good reserves. Now it’s Leon’s job to go get those other 2 starters, or at least 1, maybe RJ or Randle can be the other. As i said before, i think having both is a mistake, they overlap a lot. We need to choose one and trade the other.

By: darules

darules — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 08:40:12 +0000

so to combat the devastating lack of joy and thoughtfulness you’ve decided to conduct 100pct of your posting here as a mewling complaintbot

First highlight the problem, then see how things turn around (an optimistic take, for sure). Immediately after my post people started talking about how well Grimes is playing. And he is!

Also see this from my original post in this thread: “A young team learning how to play and hopefully win together. Two previously rotation vets now sit and watch from the sideline […]”

So, far from being a complaintbot. In fact I’m as joyful as a sunny day in the middle of the NY winter.

By: Donnie Walsh

Donnie Walsh — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 06:00:48 +0000

Where did this RJ Barrett/Jimmy Butler thing come from? Did Thibs state it, or did we make it up here? (I’m just wondering because those two guys have next to nothing in common, either from a narrative or from a production standpoint, as evidenced by Butler’s 26 points on 12 shots tonight— a feat Barrett will most likely not match anytime soon)

By: outlier files: geo

outlier files: geo — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 05:09:19 +0000

and yet, for some reason – i remember being happy to see tony douglas do what dony douglas do when he was out on the court…

so, what is it – better interviews?

those numbers look nothing alike…

i’ll be honest, i’m still a little heartbroken by the fact RJ looks so lost and slow out on the court…

the second to last turnover where he just stumbled through the paint and then fell to his knees without the ball…that was neither a very athletic nor heady basketball play…

By: d-mar

d-mar — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 03:59:59 +0000

Ok before we retire for the evening, the answer to the best RJ similarity score comp is…..

TDWTDD!

By: DRed

DRed — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 03:40:17 +0000

The Blazers are a lot better than I thought they would be this year. Some really fun young players on that team and Dame looks somewhat rejuvenated

By: Nicos

Nicos — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 03:37:03 +0000

And I presume those gals with the swaying candle things were involved in some sort of prayer for his dead three point shot…

If RJ came out as Wiccan he’d immediately become my favorite player.

By: Raven is a Big Black Bird

Raven is a Big Black Bird — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 03:25:17 +0000

Do we think RJ was chanting out his advanced statistics into his finger phone?

And I presume those gals with the swaying candle things were involved in some sort of prayer for his dead three point shot…

By: DRed

DRed — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 03:24:48 +0000

Last I saw Tacko highlights he was hooping all over people in the chinese league. He looked like Wilt Chamberlain

By: outlier files: geo

outlier files: geo — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 02:35:31 +0000

it wasn’t until the beginning of this season that I started focusing on RJ’s defense…

there’s no excuse for ever being below 30% on 3 point shots 25 games in…

it’s not his offense that’s the problem though – it’s his defense…

I’m kicking myself for listening to all that I wanna guard the toughest cover one thru three last year and not noticing just how slow and plodding he moves around the court…

for some reason I also failed to notice how poor his basketball IQ is…

he might just have the lowest basketball IQ of any player in the rotation at the moment…

I don’t know – his strength helps get him to the free throw line, but, he needs to drop some weight, do more agility drills and just once make it over a screen…

his body language is taking a real hit lately…I know the crowd and media afterwards has to be letting him know about all the sloppy turnovers he’s been committing…

the game isn’t all about statistics – however, numbers certainly help tell a clearer story…

I give thibs and the front office credit – we got a rotation of younger players mostly below 25, three signed as free agents and the rest we drafted…

and we’re around a .500 club with that…

as much as I think thibs is stuck in the past, I give him credit for this move to shorten the rotation…

took some resolve (concern for his job) to reach that point, but oh well…

I’m kind of curious to see how he handles RJ…can’t imagine no one on the bench looks at player statistics…

can’t imagine the RJ situation isn’t being discussed internally…

man, I have wasted way too much time thinking about this…