we need a healthy brunson and for julius to figure himself out…

I think we just need to work on our small forward and non offensive threat whatsoever center situation…

wow, just saw a highlight of gary sanchez in a padres uniform, who looked like he was in great shape…

every time he would run to first you never knew if his hamstrings would survive the trip intact…

you can play with it here

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Thanks pt

Looks like the Knicks without RJ are +17. But that’s not terribly indicative of how we’d perform.

The most frequent RJ lineup is +7.20 while the most frequent non-RJ lineup is +4.41 in the regular season (IQ replacing RJ).

The gap does close if we include the playoffs for a larger sample, with the non-RJ lineup jumping up to +6.46 and the RJ lineup having a smaller increase to +7.71.

And we should probably weigh the most frequent lineups more heavily because those would be disproportionately used if RJ wasn’t on the team. Plus a lot of non-RJ lineups are just going to be IQ & Hart beating the snot out of backups.

Don’t know if there’s much to take away from this data other than RJ is pretty good with the starters but pretty much every other lineup configuration he played in was terrible. He’s -3.99 in lineups that aren’t the starting lineup (I think I queried that correctly).

Unfortunately he played 2200 minutes outside the starting lineup and only 600min in it. So maybe there is a lot to gain there if somebody cares enough to do the math.

Either of the Bulls guys instead of RJ is the easiest short term swing there. They were both much better than RJ last year. DeMar has the much better contract for a sort term play, but is dangerously old and idk what to make of Zach’s knees.

Harden and PG can’t hold up for a season and Harden has terrible vibes. Jaylen Brown doesn’t seem like a realistic get, Paul isn’t coming to the Knicks if he can just go to LA, Ingram I don’t really like as a player and Beale is maybe washed and might have the worst contract in the league.

edit: or not 🙂

1. Kristaps
2. Towns
3. James Harden
4. Zach LaVine
5. DeMar DeRozan
6. Paul George
7. Jaylen Brown
8. Brad Beal
9. Brandon Ingram
10. Chris Paul

Please discuss…

He still talks about how he believed in the past they shouldn’t need a 200m payroll to win a championship and now the number is 300m. I mean shit his dad was running 200m payrolls in the early 2000’s yet in 2017 the Yankees reset their luxury tax by having a payroll below 200m.

I’m not saying Hal is cheap but he runs the Yankees as a business and doesn’t seem to really care about winning championships, he just wants to be good enough where they at least make the playoffs every year without blowing up the payroll. His mindset is the total opposite of his dad.

This guy never sees his own mistakes because his arrogance has no limit.