Agreed, great name! Although now I’m mildly disappointed nobody thought to take it earlier.

I’m guessing Rose takes IQ’s minutes to add more ballhandling, assuming Grimes & Brunson don’t end up paying 48.

Until then, it’s what we got.

Smarter teams use these situations as opportunities to get looks at guys who might one day be contributors. The Heat discovered Max Strus could play during a stretch of games when Herro was injured. There are many such cases.

I can’t help but notice Randle is a part of most of those pairings. Is it really fair to characterize Randle, who has the 4th highest 3p% on the team leads us in 3pa/36 as a non-shooter?

Certainly he isn’t a great shooter, but we are a team of not great shooters.

Seeing as how Thibs isn’t the guy choosing our personnel, what better alternatives has he had? What lineups did he have the option to use that featured 4 shooters better than Randle?

I don’t understand this argument that Mitch sacrifices our offense on the altar of defense. We have the sixth best offense in the NBA (somehow).

First of all, thanks for coming out of the shadows. Secondly, great name.

I would like to clarify, though, that the argument is not about Mitch, it’s about Thibs. Playing Mitch doesn’t sacrifice anything. The idea is that Thibs sacrifices spacing by playing *two* non-shooting bigs at all times, and has for 3 years. Mitch & Randle, Noel & Randle, Taj & Randle, Taj & Noel (in the playoffs, no less!), Mitch & Obi, iHart & Obi, etc. Throw in the fact that RJ plays all the time and he can’t shoot, either, well…

This tactic is readily available to anyone in the NBA, but they choose not to use it because the tradeoff isn’t worth it.

As for the 6th best offense, I simply urge caution on that one. It’s January and both Brunson and Randle have been outstanding at making hard shots. I don’t expect that to last, but if we’re still 6th at the end of the year I will re-evaluate.

If you mean the tenor of sarcasm, then yes.

E, what offensive ranking do you believe we would have without Mitch? What do you feel Thibs should do with the current personnel? Bench Mitch? Advocate for a trade?

Thibs’ whole schtick is that he brings playoff intensity to regular season games, thus causing the team to overachieve when they buy in. The implication of that is that when playoff time comes around, other teams start doing that too. They have an extra gear, while we don’t, and thus we get exposed in the Hawks series. They’d have destroyed us whether we overachieved in the regular season or not. With the personnel we had, there was no adjustment to make.

And that’s the bottom line for more or less all of Knicks history. Do y’all realize that the best season ever by a Knicks player was an incredibly modest 5.5 BPM outing by Ewing in 1990? Every other team in the league except Charlotte has had a better player in its history, and most have had more than one. We have been so effective at avoiding elite talent that it’s like we were trying. That’s why we have seasons like 2021, and this year, and like I’m sure the next few will be.

That sucks. Fournier time?