Comments on: Knicks Morning News (2023.10.01)

By: Z--man

Z--man — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 03:28:23 +0000

Well that sucked. Although they did cover the spread so there’s that.

By: Z--man

Z--man — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 02:20:49 +0000

Zack Wilson is Da Gawd

By: Z--man

Z--man — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 02:10:31 +0000

Here’s some interesting stats:

Jrue Holiday has a career playoff shooting percentage of 42% in a season’s worth of minutes (2,651), including shooting under 40% in his 3 seasons with the Bucks…and 40.9% in his championship run. In his last 5 playoff runs (300+ attempts) his 3pt% was .250, .320, .303 (his championship year), .316, and .286. Jrue shoot the Bucks out of the playoffs vs. the Celts in the second round in 2021-22…36% from the field, 30% from 3, while Smart shot 41% from the field and 39% from 3. He was terrible against the Heat in the playoffs last year, especially considering how much the Bucks needed him to step up when Giannis was struggling.

KP had a very good season on a terrible team with absolutely no pressure in a small market with no media and no storied history and no entitled, insufferable fans. He has played a total of 327 playoff minutes. In his first year he got hurt after 3 games. In his second year he played all 7 games and was hardly noticable…13.1 pts, 5.4 rebs, 0.7 blocks in 33mpg, while shooting .296 from 3.

By: ess-dog

ess-dog — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 01:59:29 +0000

Jets are hangin in there

By: The Honorable Cock Jowles

The Honorable Cock Jowles — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 00:33:34 +0000

I love this kind of analysis; quoth The Ringer’s trade analysis:

remember how thoroughly Holiday’s Pelicans destroyed Lillard’s Trail Blazers in a 2018 playoff sweep

remember how thoroughly six years ago that was

By: TNFH

TNFH — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 00:33:06 +0000

Also it pains me to say it, but man, the Celtics might be the best team in the NBA.

They took a team that already had the best SRS and net rating in the NBA, subtracted:

-Timelord (+1.8 EPM* in limited minutes)
-Marcus Smart (+1.7 EPM)
-Malcolm Brogdon (+0.2 EPM)
-Grant Williams (-1.4 EPM)

Added:

-Porzingis (+5.1 EPM)
-Jrue Holiday (+4.9 EPM)

It is much, much easier to replace the lost depth than it is to acquire these kinds of impact players. There are absolutely health and age concerns, but no team has zero question marks. With just average luck, they’re going to be an absolute menace.

*If you are going to respond with a soliloquy about how no one metric is the end-all-be-all I am going to ignore it.

By: BJ

BJ — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 00:00:45 +0000

Any interest in sending Fournier for Brogdon? The salary is close enough to not require any other players. Not sure what it would take in terms of pick compensation, but the injury scares me tbh and I don’t see much of an upgrade…

By: TNFH

TNFH — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 23:59:15 +0000

A silver lining for the Knicks here is the Sixers weren’t able to parlay the Jrue sweepstakes into solving their Harden problem. So they’re still a total shit show and an Embiid trade demand is looking as likely as ever.

That said, both the Dame and Jrue trades clarified that we are not particularly close to genuine contention without another major move. The trades also clarified that the major move is Embiid. There’s no point in kvetching about his injury history or mixed playoff record, we don’t have a choice if he hits the market. We either get him and have a chance to do big things, or don’t and enjoy some second round exits.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 22:57:44 +0000

In reply to Early Bird Writes.

Damian Lillard maybe?

Ha! That’s fair.

By: thenamestsam

thenamestsam — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 22:48:10 +0000

That Celtics team is pretty nasty on paper but KP, 37 year-old Horford and nothing else up front just isn’t enough without really exceptional health luck. Would be a minor miracle for both those guys to be upright in June and they need both otherwise it’s Kornet time.