Comments on: Knicks Morning News (2024.02.18)

By: Knick fan not in NJ

Knick fan not in NJ — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 02:17:00 +0000

I can only hope various elbows and shoulders and achilles and hamstrings and feet were healing while it was all going on.

Amen

By: Donnie Walsh

Donnie Walsh — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 01:57:06 +0000

They should have a Ref’s Skills Challenge, where teams of in-person refs try to out-score the remote refs in Secaucus for a 5 minute scrimmage.

By: TNFH

TNFH — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 23:23:29 +0000

I watched all the festivities for the first time in a while because I was genuinely excited for the Steph/Sab shootout, which lo and behold was the only thing worth anyone’s time. Was genuinely really cool to see her more than hold her own. Maybe Caitlin Clark gets involved next year.

There were some cool dunks–McClung can definitely throw it down. Agree with DRed that one of the garbage teams should give him a look. Would probably generate a couple of extra ticket sales and he’d get a chance, seems like a win-win.

I don’t think it topped the relatively low “it’s better to just watch the highlights later” bar though.The scoring was an atrocity. How about live fan voting? No way it could be any worse, warts and all.

Only really cared about Brunson in the regular 3PT contest, and the Skills Competition is like watching paint dry for me.

I can only hope various elbows and shoulders and achilles and hamstrings and feet were healing while it was all going on.

By: DRed

DRed — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 21:19:17 +0000

I mean it’s not like the Wizards have anything better to do

By: DRed

DRed — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 21:08:09 +0000

Maclung is small, light and has short arms, he’d really have to fill it up to work in the league. That said, still kinda surprising nobody has given him a shot as a bench scorer.

By: geo

geo — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 20:29:06 +0000

howdy and hello…

resting up a bit this sunday…I’ve always liked watching westerns on a sunday…slow paced stuff usually…

unfortunately, for like every good western, there’s like 15 bad ones…

just watched about 10 minutes of The Old Way, nope couldn’t do it…Hostile Territory looked sort of interesting, read the review, nope, no thanks…

may just have to watch Deadman again for like the zillionith time…

Point of story – anyone have any good movie western suggestions?

Good show last night at the Toyota center…the tinnitus in my head is at a pretty consistent white noise level…hopefully that’ll be gone some time today…

I may be getting too old for rock n roll…

By: Early Bird Writes

Early Bird Writes — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 19:51:11 +0000

Why hasn’t McClung stuck with a team yet. He has great gleague stats, played well in summer league, and has obvious nba athleticism.

Could he be a good use of one of our open roster spots or a two-way spot over Brown or Washington?

He’s 6’1″ and supposedly more of a SG than a PG. Looking at the g-league numbers, he’s getting 7.7 ast/36 but his 3.6 TOs/36 is unplayably high. He’s like a shorter Allonzo Trier.

Seems like a guy we could’ve at least tried next to Grimes/Hart/Achiuwa to give the 2nd unit some scoring punch.

By: Ben R

Ben R — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 19:34:47 +0000

Why hasn’t McClung stuck with a team yet. He has great gleague stats, played well in summer league, and has obvious nba athleticism.

Could he be a good use of one of our open roster spots or a two-way spot over Brown or Washington?

By: DRed

DRed — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 18:31:20 +0000

Steph vs Sabrina was very fun. The dunk contest was an embarrassment. Maclung shouldn’t even be in it, but he is an excellent dunker.

By: Donnie Walsh

Donnie Walsh — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 18:26:41 +0000

I watched McLung’s first appearance, which I guess was last year(?). The thing about his dunks were that you had to watch them in slow motion to fully see and appreciate everything he was doing. To the naked eye they look a lot more mundane, and the judges didn’t get to watch replays. That’s why Nate Robinson won the event so easily. A short person dunking doesn’t need any nuance, and the judges are blown away.

[edited to add that Z-Man already said everything I just did during the 50 minutes it took me to type this 4 sentence post]