Like BBA says, he should be taking even more shots, and we should build a lineup that suits him.

Quick makes sense as his 2-guard because 1. He can shoot 2. He can take over a lot of the distributing and 3. He plays great defense. Only problem is he’s too short.

Grimes maybe makes more sense because he should have more distributing potential but is bigger and a better POA defender.

But the main problem is RJ, who is duplicative of Randle in many ways except Randle is just a better all around scorer. So instead of RJ, we really need a big, lockdown 3&D wing, which is why people have been clamoring for OG.

And sadly, there just isn’t another available guy that fits that description. Maybe Thybulle? But then you might as well just start Grimes at SF.

Oh I know! Maybe Cam Red—oops nevermind.

looney hasn’t avg’ed more than 25mpg in his entire career… he’s more comparable to ihart both in role and production….

But that’s probably the role of “Championship Mitch”, which is who we were talking about.

I admit I haven’t watched a whole lot of Robinson. I don’t understand why he doesn’t get 5 or 6 lobs a game like Chandler and D’Andre and Jarret Allen and a whole bunch of other tall but otherwise offensively limited players. Not sure if it’s a Mitch thing or a coaching/PG thing, and maybe it’s more of a blessing than a curse. Cause if he scored 8-10 more easy points a game, he’d get paid like Jordan and Chandler, who both commanded 20%-25% of the cap. And then suddenly 80/20 would mean a whole different thing.

I have a question for you stat guys. Where do you go to get your matchup information on individual players and stats on how they perform in back to backs, etc….?

NBA.com has a lot of this info it’s just a terrible website to navigate.

this is all just talking about arbitrary endpoints…

I’m using the endpoints established by the previous post, they were absolutely necessary.

the defense was going to regress before then… and has in the exact way the numbers were showing… we are not causing nearly as many turnovers as we are.. it just so happened to coincide with defensive rebounding issues and issues protecting the rim with mitch out…

So it regressed the way we thought, but also a bunch of other ways. That’s actually pretty different than your claim the defense would only regress a bit.

But the fact is, Looney doing the Mitch stuff for cheap is what allowed him to play with the savants in the first place.

looney hasn’t avg’ed more than 25mpg in his entire career… he’s more comparable to ihart both in role and production….

the warriors center was.. aside from the tail end of bogut’s career… always draymond green… and who also happened to be their primary distributor setting up all their shooters along with fantastic defense… his role and signficance and scarcity is probably almost twice as valuable as whatever mitch provides…

Brunson: 19.1
Barrett: 18.7
Randle: 18.1

E, if you have access to this website you necessarily also have access to google.

Championship Mitch needs to be paired with offensive savants

Championship Mitch is D’Andre Jordan alongside Chris Paul, that makes sense. But since the Knicks don’t have a savant, championship Mitch is just Mitch.

If you take current Mitch and put him on Golden State Warriors from 2015-2123, I believe that he would have 4 rings. They employed 4 savants. But, not for nothing, Kevin Looney has averaged $3.5 million a year during that span, which, if my math is correct, is 20% of what current Mitch makes. I’m not going to do a deep dive into what percentage of current Mitch’s production Looney manages. But the fact is, Looney doing the Mitch stuff for cheap is what allowed him to play with the savants in the first place.

We had the 9th best defense in the 10 games before Milwaukee, so it wasn’t really a problem till now.

this is all just talking about arbitrary endpoints… the defense was going to regress before then… and has in the exact way the numbers were showing… we are not causing nearly as many turnovers as we are.. it just so happened to coincide with defensive rebounding issues and issues protecting the rim with mitch out…

along with some hot shooting and bad matchups it’s a confluence of events both unlucky and our own deficiencies that were masked early on… the same will occur for our offense likely just as soon as our defense gets on the other side of the luck curve…. we are not a top 10 offense much like how we were never a top 5 defense…