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71 replies on “Knicks Morning News (2024.04.06)”
As much as I’d love Johnnie Bryant to stay on staff, I don’t want the team to hold him back. It’d be awesome to see him land that Nets gig if they foolishly don’t retain Kevin Ollie. I think Ollie would do fairly well with a full offseason and a re-tool with that roster. On the flipside of that..Kenny Payne is free and I’d love to bring him back- especially with an ascending Mitch and Hartenstein. I believe he’d also help Achiuwa alot too. That’s if we can afford to bring Hartenstein and Achiuwa back.
Last night was disappointing. Bit of a weird game to me. I believe we’ll rebound though and close the season strong now that OG is back. But we’ve gotta get that 4 seed. We don’t wanna see Orlando when they have home court advantage- even with all the Knicks fans there.
One last point. I LOVE Deuce’s confidence right now. I thought it might take him longer to readjust to coming off the bench but it seems to me his ascension is legit. We don’t need to force another PG on this roster. Between the draft and Rokas looking to come over, we’re probably set at that position and it is such a relief. We can truly go BPA in the draft and develop good players if we keep the picks. It’s not optimal by any stretch, but we’re in a good spot even with the injury concerns
Feeling pretty glass half full today on account of OG looking good last night.
It’s funny, we’re so accustomed to being shorthanded but right now we’re heading into the postseason with a better team than last year.
I didn’t get to watch the game and I know hart got ejected. But with OG back does it make more sense to have Hart come off the bench and keep starting McBride? Have OG at the 4? Maybe Thibs doesn’t want to risk OG having to go up against bigger players. But McBride is good at defense and a good three point shooter and you give Brunson two options to kick out too and OG is bigger than hart. Plus I think Harts energy might help Burks and Bojan? I don’t know
Follow up on this year vs last year…
The same:
Brunson
Hart
Mitch
Hartenstein
Different:
Randle > OG (projects to be a major improvement)
Barrett > Donte (projects to be a major improvement)
Grimes > Deuce (even)
Obi > Bojan (improvement)
Quickley > Burks (an unquestionable downgrade with limited impact)
Hard to believe that Javonte Green would have gone off as he did if JHart was playing. Refs should not determine games. Also, Giannis did not play last night. Will he on Sunday?
Good question on Hart vs. Deuce
Hart replaces some of the rebounding and playmaking we are missing with Randle out but Deuce gives us better spacing and scoring if he can sustain what he’s been doing.
Btw I watched the replay this morning… guys Josh Hart legitimately and seriously kicked Green in the head! He had to be ejected for that.
Just look at the still shot:
https://www.espn.com/nba/game/_/gameId/401585747/knicks-bulls
He’s not trying to land there! He got hacked, he was pissed, and he reflexively/angrily kicked him in the head.
hubert i thought i was probably the lone shooter here who thought the hart ejection was reasonable and that the flail didn’t look innocuous. to avoid getting banned i’ll keep my theories on whether jalen has been foul baiting excessively to myself (still think he’s getting a bad whistle).
a key part of your yoy comp chart is that jalen and ihart have meaningfully improved. we can maybe attribute much the improvements more to team context than abstract internal change but it doesn’t really matter. jalen being able to soak up more usage with his high efficiency low turnover profile while also improving his spacing factor is an important difference, and ihart has improved his role in the offense markedly. on the other hand mitch still looks very far away to me and i am concerned about where and when thibs think he can usefully use achiuwa.
Probably. Dolan’s razor (see SGA).
RE: Hart Ejection
It wasn’t a “natural” move, I was expecting a Flagrant 1 foul (and the unsufferable Bulls announcers too).
But he did look toward Green before kicking him and maybe that was the tiebreaker…
Let’s close the file and maul them in the next 2 games…
BTW Scott Foster is DIRTY, he must be fired.
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501773938/kings-of-the-garden/
This sounds interesting: a history of the Knicks between the 1973 championship and the arrival of Patrick Ewing, and parallels their struggles with what NYC was dealing with over those dozen years.
Thanks Alan!
The Bulls are 27-25 without Zach LaVine. They were 10-15 before he went down. I have no idea how they’re going to move that contract. Maybe the Lakers will gamble on him?
The Bulls are 27-25 without Zach LaVine. They were 10-15 before he went down.
his career on/off is -3.4/100. this is a full point worse than any of the 90 players who made an all nba team (lavine hasn’t) and debuted since the on-off stats are easily available (1996). in fact, only 6 of those 90 players have negative career on/off totals.
I think it was not intentional, Hart was clearly off balance, his foot came up naturally, and it didn’t look like he had anywhere else to go with the foot, it was kind of wedged on Green’s shoulder. If he jerked his foot at all, it was to get his foot back on the ground, and Green’s head just happened to be in the way as Hart’s foot slid along his shoulder. There doesn’t necessarily need to be intent to warrant a flagrant 2, and foot-to-head with a bit of a herky-jerky foot move is a no-no, but I think a flagrant 1 would have been sufficient, especially given the Josh’s decent reputation and the lack of obvious malice. Ejecting a player should involve a clearly intentional or an extremely reckless and dangerous play. Mike Breen is pretty level-headed about such things, and I agree with his take that it was unintentional, but disagree with his opinion that it wasn’t flagrant. I just think it didn’t warrant an ejection.
Was there any wincing or that kind of stuff from OG last night? Missed it.
Seems like it would be worth a shot to me
I didn’t see it but I can be wrong.
His shot looked “normal” and he even went for a strong dunk.
Yeah OG looked a bit rusty but didnt’ seem to be uncomfortable, Mitch looks much more out of shape than OG does
His stroke was fine from 3, he attacked the rim with abandon and seemed to have no problems with anything. If you didn’t know he had elbow surgery, you never would have guessed it. But like the old Rheingold commercial… it is the test of time that matters. He passed this test with flying colors.
Alan, that looks great. Just ordered it, thanks so much for the heads up.
I am so, so sorry to rehash this but I skimmed yesterday’s thread and it seems like some folks are unaware that the fed tracks the native-born unemployment rate specifically. This includes the U3 through U6 rates, of course. So…there would be no way to hide the ball if immigrants were taking all the new jobs. That phenomenon would appear in the native-born unemployment rate not improving as the rest of the country’s did.
Alas, the native-born U3 rate is 4% while the national figure is…3.8%. So there doesn’t seem to be a conspiracy afoot.
Interesting, Noble. Thanks. And now I know what U3 and U6 unemployment is.
And a special shout-out to Rough for a well-written post a thread or two ago, couldn’t compliment it at the time.
Yeah that was a good post. A bunch of good posts lately… except for that ptmilo knucklehead intimating JB foul-baiting. Heresy! Burn him!
watching women’s sport yet again…US soccer ladies are in a tough one with Japan…
doesn’t look like a full stadium in Atlanta, but well over 40k…
what a wonderful world it can be…
TNFH,
There’s no conspiracy.
First, it’s an almost impossibly difficult task to measure economic activity in the US accurately. People that follow these things know the government data is faulty, typically gets revised multiple times and is spun by politically motivated people in media more interested in winning elections than measuring realty and telling the truth to the public. That much is certain.
The unemployment rate has been among the most misused and faulty stats out there.
We sort of know there’s a flood of immigration into the US now (both legal and illegal). So no one really knows what the hell is going on with employment relative to all the potential workers. The BLS data posted yesterday (which is also an estimate that’s probably wrong and will get updated) is probably picking up on the fact that many of the new immigrants are getting the part time and other jobs we are creating (mostly part time).
IMO, that’s a good thing. Who the hell wants new immigrants not working? We want them to succeed ASAP. If they don’t that’s the kind of thing that could mess up city services, budgets, healthcare systems, school systems, criminal justice systems etc..
What that BLS data posted yesterday was also suggesting is that since most of the jobs are part time, many of the new jobs are probably lower skill lower paying jobs. I would guess that other than very specific high tech jobs, that also makes a lot of sense given the wave of immigration. .
Again, no one knows what the real numbers are.
The rest of the debate is about immigration politics and the impact on wages. Each side will spin it to be what they want. It either means a booming economy (nonsense) or the old standby that foreigners are taking all our jobs (nonsense).
man, can’t wait to hit 62 and start drawing that social security…
good luck noble finding anything left of it by the time you’re an old man and ready to kick back 😮
government for the people – what a crazy idea…
how does one kick a man in the “head area”
No conspiracy, but the idea the “unemployment” is 3 point something percent and therefore we need unfettered migration from other lands is at odds the BLS’s numbers.
As you mentioned there is such a thing as U6, which is a far better metric. The U-6 unemployment rate in the United States, which includes total unemployed, underemployed, marginally attached, and discouraged workers, remained unchanged at 7.3% in March 2024. This rate is the highest level recorded since December 20211. The U-6 rate provides a broader perspective on employment conditions beyond the traditional U-3 unemployment rate, which only considers total unemployed individuals actively seeking work during the past four weeks. And neither of these metrics capture the millions who are completely out of the work force under 65 which is why there is a labor participation rate.
The notion that x-million people migrating into the US illegally hasn’t depressed the unit cost of unskilled labor or have taken potential employment opportunities from citizens is difficult to rationalize.
Whether one might think there are other mitigating circumstances that make unfettered migration into the US a net positive can certainly be argued, but the notion it hasn’t depressed the unit cost of labor and taken opportunities from citizens is hard to argue. The unemployment picture isn’t nearly as rosy as the U3 rate makes it appear.
I wasn’t going to mention how stupid Thibs was for playing Brunson 42 minutes in the second night of a back-to-back in a game we lost wire-to-wire but since y’all turning this into Unemploymentblogger I might as well tee off on him for once again failing to see the forest through the trees.
For anyone hoping Thibs would have learned his lesson, he didn’t, and he won’t.
Two weeks til the playoffs and we’re gonna be some banged up MFs who’ve been playing game 7s for a month.
Brunson does look a little fatigued in some of these games, leaving lots of shots short of the rim.
This is another reason that I’d prioritize another shot creator over another 3-and-D guy. We could use more shot creation.
Brunsons played 38+ minutes in 4 games in the last month, or as a realist would put it, game 7 minutes all month
Last night was a schedule loss from the second the game tipped off, and he ran him into the ground anyway. Nice work, Coach.
well then, he should be well-seasoned and ready for the playoffs…
if you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready…
jalen is ready, the whole team is ready…except for maybe mitch who may need another week or so to round in to game shape…
edit: i’m not sure when the decision on re-upping thibs comes along, but yeah – it might be helpful to have a better medical staff in place until he leaves…tunnel vision extraordinaire…
It was a winnable game. They’re trying to win games. I think there is a huge difference between the 3 seed and the 6 seed. They need to go for it.
Hubs if we avoid the play in the team gets a full week off. Will Brunson still be tired then?
It is not impossible for us to have to play in the play in. These games matter in that regards. Would you rather have Brunson play more minutes now or not have a week off before the playoffs?
Hubert idk why you can’t just say I wish thibs took Brunson out earlier instead of making shit up
The way we’re playing in these first halves, geo, suggest we are anything but ready.
Down 21 to Spurs.
Down 15 to Heat.
Down 21 to Kings.
Down 20 to Bulls.
This team’s exhausted.
i keep thinking about these other teams’ fast starts hubie – it’s like they have in huge letters written on a white board in the opposing teams locker room: HIT THEM FIRST, HIT THEM HARD!
which kind of hurts my feelings because when we are playing well, that’s what we do…
it keeps happening to us over and over again…
there’s no question our team is physically run down…however – so is most of the league…the season’s coming to an end…
what i found most interesting recently, reference team dynamic:
a day after we heard josh exasperatedly exclaim: we got who we got in this locker room – the next game we find out julius is gone, the game after that OG returns…
come playoff time – i’m willing to trust in our ‘nova core…
i didn’t even pay attention to what deuce, OG and mitch looked like together on the court last night…
you are correct though hubie – at this point in time, the team looks gassed, and it is showing at the beginning of games…
We are shorthanded and tired, but we were in striking distance in the fourth quarter of all those games. Thibs is doing nothing wrong in minutes allocation right now.
Big Capital loves its perpetual army of surplus labor, and the Democratic Party loves its potential new voters.
Nimmo and Lindor are now a combined 2-for-49 on the season
What we love about this team, never giving up, always giving their all, is a state of mind that i think it’s not easy to turn on and off. We play like this, and maybe Thibs plays some players too much time, but probably they too want to play those minutes because they want to win at all costs. I don’t know, i think we’re doing just fine, the biggest problem is the injuries and Burks being useless. If we had a guy to rest Brunson a bit more, i think Thibs would do it. But please don’t ask any member of this team to throw a game, they are not built like that and i have to say i love that they fight for each and every game.
Me, too, Geo. But I’m leary of Thibs’ ability to get them there in one piece.
We’re 2 games into a 6 games in 9 days stretch and it’s looking like we’re going to treat ‘em all like game 7.
My baseball nerd friends say Lindor is hitting the ball better than normal he’s just had terrible outcomes
Don’t love the Lakers, but absolutely have to root for them to beat the Cavs today. They’re in the middle of a very tight game…….
Well…….it *was* a tight game when I initially wrote that (1 point). Now it’s up 13 for the Lakers.
The reason why they have had big deficits in these last few games is that opponents were hitting everything from 3PT. Maybe they were a step slow in closing on shooters, but I would think this is mostly random shooting fluctuations.
The Western Conference is much better than the current Eastern Conference. The 9th seed Lakers and 10th seed Warriors would be top 6 teams in the East.
Spoken like someone who has not kept up with recent changes in the party coalitions! This conspiracy makes no sense regardless though—the Democratic Party does not have unilateral power to grant citizenship and thus the franchise to undocumented immigrants. The only times in US history that has happened have been the result of bipartisan legislation.
No amount of U6 trutherism can deflect from the fact that the native-born unemployment rate is 4%, and the U6 rate has declined throughout the recovery. The U6 figure has always been more volatile because, well, you can’t predict when people will become disabled or retire, but we’re just not seeing the kind of divergence between the various figures you’d expect to see if for whatever reason all the new jobs were going to immigrants and/or the rosy U3 number was the result of widespread dropouts. The long-term trend in U6 unemployment is down for immigrants and native-born workers alike.
Trump claims March 2019 was basically the peak of the American economy, and the U6 rate was 7.4%. Now I’m being told 7.3% is indicative of a mirage economy.
To be clear, immigration is good and there’s nothing wrong with jobs going to immigrants. I’m merely pointing out that the data is clear as day—this is an excellent economy for anyone in search of work. Facts don’t care about your feelings Bob!
Reading this tweet and realizing Skip Bayless is Lebron’s Hubert
There’s very little “good” about an immigrant here illegally being given an illegal off-book job at low wages without the worker protections codified after much effort, sweat, and bloodshed into US law.
It’s good for Big Capital and the 1%, to be sure — but I don’t really count that as “good.”
I think a lot of people taking those jobs would rather take their chances without worker protections over the chances of getting mowed down by gunfire because they choose not to join the local cartel back home
we definitely need more bodies to keep growing…and to make sure they take care of us old folks…
people in the lower/middle of money and resources around the world seem to have figured out: children can be a bit of a poverty trap…
it’s not like we all own a farm or youtube channel where we might be able to profit off of our kids…emotionally uplifting and resource draining they are…
we need more bodies to kick in on our government for the people (read: socialist) system…until AI takes over the workforce…
I don’t love it when we spend the day arguing about Thibs’ minute allocations and/or rotations, but I much prefer that to…….well, whatever *this* is. And it’s not even that I disagree with a lot of you regarding what you are saying. And I love music quite a lot, but I don’t love it when this turns into Musicblogger, either. I could go other places for that.
Let’s go back to picayune arguments about the Knicks, please. Just sayin’. 🙂
Leon Rose loves incenerating draft picks because he knows too many new people destroy a culture, that’s why we can’t have immigration
LOL
Precious Achiuwa: Has the clock struck midnight?
In the last few games he has been “Burks-esque”, too small to play the bigs, too weak on offense to play the “4”, a liability on rotations and closeouts, approaching unplayability when the going gets tough.
Is he a fixture in your playoffs rotation? My answer is “no”, barring ejections and assorted catastrophes.
Do you want him re-signed this summer? My answer is “no”.
While we’re on the subject, I want Sims out of town too and I’d like to fill the role with one of our first-rounders…
* My personal playoffs rotation:
JB / DDV / J-Hart / OG / I-Hart / Deuce / Bojan / Mitch
Break glass in case of emergency: Shake / Precious
Nope. The reason we’ve been down 20 pts in 4 of the last 5 games is bc our effort on defense has been poor at the start of each game. We haven’t been a step slow, we’ve been leaving guys wide open. I presume it’s bc we’re exhausted but you never know. Maybe Thibs’ funnels just aren’t what they used to be.
To clarify, he has the tools to be a good defender, he’s quick and athletic and he showed flashes in the past.
But he’s raw, his readings are below average and often he looks like his mind is thinking at something else…
Poindexter’s call for Kenny Payne to act as a mentor isn’t a bad idea…
Lol he complaining about 36 minutes? That’s the dream!!
On the immigration debate, no one has mentioned that immigrants create jobs as well as take them. They rent housing, buy food, use medical services and so on. This adds to the economy and requires more jobs overall.
I’m nominating this for post of the year.
Why doesn’t Thibs just tell more people to get jobs?
The statement that today “is an excellent economy for anyone in search of work” may sound nice as a slogan for the Democratic Party but is out of touch with reality. May I remind everyone that the minimum wage in a lot of states still remains as low as $7.25 per hour. If the minimum wage were following the rise of the cost of living since the early 70s, it would be around $35-40 today. Furthermore, labor unionization, despite recent improvements, is still under 10%. It was about 40% in the early 70s. Labor in this country remains unorganized and powerless. Under these conditions, low unemployment rate does nothing to ameliorate economic contradictions and wealth disparities. Presenting it as a sign of improving life conditions only adds insult to injury.
For those same reasons, the other side of the discussion here is also off target, by an even wider margin. Undocumented labor was never in shortage in this country. It is true that additional rightless and desperate people entering the labor market make things more difficult, but this a minor factor in the plight of working people. The problem is that those “worker protections codified after much effort, sweat, and bloodshed into US law” are as weak as they have been in a century, and they are most aggressively targeted by those on the right and far right sides of the political spectrum. It will suffice to remind that the first MAGA labor secretary was calling the concept of minimum wage “obsolete.” Watch out if those people return to power!
Checked in. Not reviewing this thread in full.
Now Bojan is listed as questionable, y’all.
Darn! Who is gonna defend Giannis now?😂😂😂
UCONN is a show
Mark Sears of Alabama kind of plays like Brunson
Possible pick at 39…
Do you think Andre Miller was a star in the NBA? Never made an All-Star team. So…what do you think?
he played on some good teams…i remember him getting covered a good bit from sportscasters while he played, which seemed like a really really long time…
he moved in slo-mo a lot…
any chance zach edey becomes an effective player right away…he’s slotted around right after our 2 probable picks…
Oh, no, please not that. The only thing that makes this site worth visiting is the non-Knicks content. Music, food, immigration, anything!