Comments on: Knicks Morning News (2024.01.07)

By: TheClashFan

TheClashFan — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 17:12:33 +0000

So, at what point do the Knicks try to lock up iHart and look to deal Mitch?
🙂

By: JK47

JK47 — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 06:25:21 +0000

If this team continues to play great defense the rest of the year and ends up as one of the better teams in the NBA you really have to give a lot of credit to Thibs. He has been trying to piece a good defense together here despite not really having the horses, and now he finally has the right personnel to really show what he can do.

By: Downtown Doogie Brown

Downtown Doogie Brown — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 06:02:52 +0000

Lou Williams never coached the Clippers; he only played for them.

By: Director NYC

Director NYC — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 05:56:58 +0000

iHart has been a statistical quagmire for last few years. He was amazing in LA during 2nd half of the season in a switch heavy defense and ball movement motion type offense under Lou. He learned to excel in Thibs drop coverage defense and to never touch the ball on ofense while becoming the best back up center in the league last year.

Adding OG put him in a perfect position to be sucessfull defensively. Removing RJ and IQ, gets him more touches offensively, – so his assist ratio has improved but it should go a lot higher.

For the first time in his pro life, Hartenstein has found himself in a perfect situation on the defensive side of the ball. All the data points to iHart finishing the season as a top 5 center in the Eastern Conference leading NY to a top 3 defense resulting in a 50+ win season.

By: The Unbearable Knicksiness of Being

The Unbearable Knicksiness of Being — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 04:58:47 +0000

I think we’re mostly shadow-boxing. The obvious thing to say here is that 4 games is simply too small of a sample to conclusively establish anything. The second obvious thing to say is that—for 4 games— Hartenstein has been showing out *and* OG’s defense has been excellent. I don’t think anyone’s wrong here. What should we conclude at this point ia that we’ve had a season best 4 game stretch post trade—the causes are known, but the degree of contribution of each isn’t. So we have to wait a bit longer.

By: Stratomatic

Stratomatic — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 04:43:05 +0000

OG is guarding the best offensive guard or wing player on the opposing team every night.

The overall defense has been improved since he joined the team.

OG has the highest on/off over his first 4 games in Knicks history.

Very few things are black and white. Other factors may be contributing to our recent success and better defense (like I-Hart), but if we are debating OG’s defensive impact it’s only because the stats that try to capture individual defensive impact are so bad. Not only do they not capture individual defense well, regression analysis underrates the impact of defense relative to offense because the defensive component of the data is so inaccurate.

By: Raven is a Big Black Bird

Raven is a Big Black Bird — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 04:02:10 +0000

“ok i’m gonna drop it after this… so let’s just drop it…”

https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=Princess+bride+Liar!&mid=DBAF070259D5F8F05430DBAF070259D5F8F05430&FORM=VIRE

By: djphan

djphan — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 03:53:42 +0000

I guess you are entitled to your opinion that OG Anunoby himself has nothing to do with that

again.. i am not saying that…. i have no idea where that came from… but it’s really hard to make the case that OG is making iHart both rebound.. block shots and steal the basketball more as well as contest and impact all those shots at the rim… the most logical thing is to attribute those things to the guy doing it right?

and so if OG is making an outsized impact on the defense… where do we see that? we don’t see it in the contested shot metrics… we don’t see it in the defensive box score numbers… we don’t see it in defensive rating…

so where is it? that’s what i’m challenging you guys.. there’s clips on nba.com where you can look at segments and make your case too…. this isn’t an open and shut case… you guys think i’m doing that because you are essentially saying… trust me bro… well no i don’t do that…

here’s what i believe.. here’s why i believe it…. you don’t have to believe it… but don’t tell me what you’re saying has more evidence or whatever… cause that’s not the case as i’ve shown.. if you have something to present… let’s talk about it… until then it’s not worth talking about because you don’t care about what i show and you want to say that smaller samples are worth more… i can’t do that…

By: Nicos

Nicos — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 03:53:19 +0000

Here’s a stat that I think leans towards synergy rather than having iHart being responsible for the bulk of the defensive turnaround. iHart fouls per 36 before the trade was at 4.6; He’s been under three over the last four. Given that he’s had two easy matchups and two really tough matchups I’d say they balance out to average competition. So did iHart suddenly become far more disciplined or has the improved perimeter defense put him in fewer bad spots?

By: Rough

Rough — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 03:52:51 +0000

I read Golden State has locker room issues as well. Tonight, Kerr changed three (!) starters to begin the second half. As of RJ, if he were playing at the level he played tonight, the falling apart Warriors team notwithstanding, he would still be a Knick. Alas, he will regress to his mediocre median, no doubt. We wish him good luck.