Comments on: Knicks Morning News (2023.01.11)

By: Knick fan not in NJ

Knick fan not in NJ — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 23:26:22 +0000

I read the Athletic article and ended up feeling you don’t need to assume lack of experience or tiredness or anything special to account for the number of games lost to big comebacks. If 25% of league games have such a comeback, then the average team is involved in roughly ten such games so far (25% of roughly 40 games played). That would be five games lost that way and five games won that way. But you wouldn’t expect all teams to have the same number of such games. Teams that are really good, like Memphis, should have larger margins of victory and lose fewer such games and teams that are bad, like Detroit, will have less chance of being ahead that much in the first place. So seven such games for the Knicks seems about right.

By: Early Bird

Early Bird — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 22:09:16 +0000

Nerlens & Rich Paul settled. Noel needed to pay Paul his full commission, which he previously hadn’t paid him. Unclear what the other terms of the settlement were. Hope Noel recouped some money but guessing the money only flows one way.

I wonder if that was part of the impetus to trade Noel, staying on good terms with a power agent.

By: deeefense

deeefense — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 22:08:09 +0000

Huge game tonight. The Pacers are ready to play. Look for Hali to have a chip on his shoulder.

By: Early Bird

Early Bird — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 20:48:57 +0000

Looking at Trae’s numbers he’s weirdly only up to 35% assisted 3fgs. It’s a definite increase but you’d think hed take more catch and shoots with Dejounte on board.

Dejounte is basically right where he was in SA on assisted 3fgs.

Fwiw, I do think IQ is much more willing to work on his game than Trae and adjust. He seems a lot more mature. Of course Trae had a 60.3TS% last year so he doesn’t necessarily need to.

By: djphan

djphan — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 19:28:39 +0000

IQ is a good shooter.. always has been… but so is trae young… and they tank their percentages because of the pullups he takes… he’s been taking less of those and being the pg in most lineups he’s going to be expected to take a lot of unassisted fg’s but he’s just not good enough on those pullups (30.4%) to be taking them as often as he is…

the easiest way for anyone to improve their shooting is just to shoot catch and shoots… RJ and Randle have done that… altho we are seeing some regression on Randle last week or so… IQ has made progress too but that 72% assisted 3pt number should probably be closer to 90% until he can shoot those pullups well enough… and he just hasn’t…

that does come with a price tho since he’s already has declining usage… so if you want to see IQ fulfill his upside you may have to live with mediocre 3pt% to see if he can develop that…

By: cybersoze

cybersoze — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 19:25:47 +0000

They are the absolute worst fans, it always pissed me off that they got the Heatles and those multiple championships.

Agreed on Heat fans being the worst. When thinking about Miami’s achievements, sometimes i wonder how are the Knicks faring in the alternative reality where we kept Pat Riley here.

By: d-mar

d-mar — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 19:10:45 +0000

Btw, I watched the end of the Heat-Thunder game and with Miami down 5 with about a minute left, there were a whole bunch of empty seats in the lower bowl.

They are the absolute worst fans, it always pissed me off that they got the Heatles and those multiple championships.

By: Early Bird

Early Bird — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 18:55:29 +0000

IQ does shoot 84% at the ft line, effectively the same as Brunson, so I do have hope for Quick on the shooting front. But he’s also much less in control than Brunson when he pulls and takes them at a higher rate.

Brunson didn’t start hitting 3s at a high % until he was 24, so there’s still time and shooting is one if the easier fixes.

By: JK47

JK47 — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 18:38:51 +0000

I’m far from an expert in this department, but Quickley’s shooting form makes me think he’s never going to be a consistent 3PT shooter. His form looks like a heave, like it’s not very repeatable.

Overall I like him as a player, and I’d keep him because he’s good at other stuff, but he’s not really the sniper I’m looking for.

By: Early Bird

Early Bird — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 18:30:14 +0000

Even Fournier is at 31.3% from 3 and that’s the one thing he’s supposed to do well.

I worry that RJ and IQ are just the shooters they’ve shown themselves to be this year. Taking out the empty stadium year they’re right around their career average (although for IQ that’s only 1 other year).

I do think Deuce will end up around 34%. Don’t think he’s a particularly good shooter but he’s also not this bad.

Getting Obi back should help our 3pt shooting