Comments on: Knicks Morning News (2023.05.24)

By: gkhenman

gkhenman — Thu, 25 May 2023 11:55:20 +0000

Ok Cyber, we all want prime Kawhi or PG, but in ’22 or ’23 who are you going to get that is better? Don’t say we don’t know yet. The league is only so big.

By: cybersoze

cybersoze — Thu, 25 May 2023 11:50:55 +0000

I’d prefer a two-way superstar, or else just keep getting better with smaller steps. Why not get only OG and not LaVine? I’d support this idea.

By: cybersoze

cybersoze — Thu, 25 May 2023 11:49:35 +0000

Well, if we can get OG, then it’d be a different scenario. But OG reportedly wanted out of Toronto last year because he wasn’t getting the touches he wanted. Playing with Brunson, LaVine and Randle, good luck getting touches, OG. 😀 And then there’s LaVine’s injury history, i think with the Knicks usual luck, he’d blow his knee in the first month here or something. 😛

By: Early Bird Writes

Early Bird Writes — Thu, 25 May 2023 11:43:06 +0000

I don’t find much value in listing positions. Grimes guards the opponent’s best player, RJ guards the 2nd best, Brunson gets hidden on the 3rd guy. RJ spent the entire playoffs defending opposing guards.

And RJ was terrible on defense all year. I’m not sure we’re going to miss him. LaVine is perfectly capable of running into screens and closing out too slow.

By: gkhenman

gkhenman — Thu, 25 May 2023 11:42:40 +0000

Don’t forget about Hart Cyber. He’s a very good and versatile defender. Also, the other half of my fantasy, is to use RJ and the rest of our assets to acquire OG. That would give us a core 6 of Brunson, Randle, Mitch, Hart, OG, and LaVine. Those six plus whoever doesn’t get dealt is a contender my friend.

By: cybersoze

cybersoze — Thu, 25 May 2023 11:20:11 +0000

That’s even worse, GKHenman, RJ is a bad defender. We’d have 3 bad defenders 1 to 3, a guy that only puts effort on D half of the time at 4 and Mitch to try to clean up this mess all by himself.

By: gkhenman

gkhenman — Thu, 25 May 2023 10:47:59 +0000

If we made a move for LaVine, Grimes would be the more likely candidate to go. Then you still have RJ at the three and Hart off the bench, providing solid D at both spots. LaVine is an all-star and he might be attainable at a reasonable price. RJ or Grimes will never be as explosive as LaVine. I don’t have any data to back it up, but I don’t see LaVine as someone who gets picked on the defensive end. It’s not an easy call at all, maybe the young core continues to develop and trading for LaVine could blow up in our faces, but this is the type decision Rose will be faced with. I’m cool with giving the kids one more year, but after that if the Knicks don’t make a big splash, the new cba will probably take that opportunity away from them. If it were up to me, I would pull the trigger if he was available for less than what Mitchell would have cost.

By: cybersoze

cybersoze — Thu, 25 May 2023 10:27:04 +0000

It actually proved my case, Cyber, as this is only the third time in the last 40 years a team down 3-0 won game 4 on the road. We’re already in rarified air.

Hahaha, you’re funny. So winning a game or two is super hard, but now that the Celtics won one, they’ll somehow win 3 more in a row easily. I don’t know what to tell you, except that you most likely don’t understand the law of probabilities. LOL

By: cybersoze

cybersoze — Thu, 25 May 2023 10:23:20 +0000

LaVine is a bad idea. Grimes is a good defender, but not good enough for a backcourt of Brunson and LaVine. We’d need even better defenders at the other positions to make up for the backcourt’s bad defense. Mitch would be fine, and if we kept Randle, the SF would need to be a DPOY candidate for it to work. And then there’s the injury history. Let Chicago go down with that “core”. It’s a good way to eliminate the competition. 😀

By: Z--man

Z--man — Thu, 25 May 2023 10:00:05 +0000

*in the sense that at worst, given his age and durability, RJ’s contract can be easily dumped, while LaVine’s has a much more significant probability of becoming a massive albatross.