Comments on: Knicks Morning News (2024.07.01)

By: marechal

marechal — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 21:53:30 +0000

Boston has some of the craziest contracts in the league, every starter makes 30m+, and it somehow works.

By: KBA

KBA — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 14:49:34 +0000

Re new med staff. It’s old but Casey Smith was on a panel about how “new” data acquisition has “greatly changed” his ability to help players rehab from injuries as well as lengthen their careers (link below). He specifically mentions improved detection/care for tendinopathy and also discusses incorporating “other” data like sleep patterns and mental health self-reporting to keep players fit over a long season and career. IMO he’s saying all the right things but who knows if the previous Knick guys were basically the same.

Apparently for ~ 20 years Smith was on the bench and travelled with the Mavs, had “great rapport with Dirk, Luka” etc (presumably Brunson) so he seems hands on. In his last year in Dallas Smith was demoted, and the Mavs/reddit blogs are split as to why: Half “Cuban conspiracy hiding malpractice”: Half “it was time to move on.”

https://youtu.be/ZNIVzarJwPg?si=f5Oq8o-mLPOrbCN1

PS: Of note re Thibs, Smith also says something like “too little practice/playing time” can actually make a player more injury prone. I laughed.

By: gkhenman

gkhenman — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 14:42:02 +0000

This is the biggest FA signing in OKC history. It looks like the days of big market teams poaching talent from small market teams is over.

By: ess-dog

ess-dog — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 14:37:27 +0000

Tobias Harris is the basketball equivalent of the guy who wrote My Sharona. Had one good week and never had to work again.

DW, why’d you have to do The Knack dirty like that?

By: Knick fan not in NJ

Knick fan not in NJ — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 14:35:46 +0000

In the next day or so, maybe we will see if there is plan B.

By: ess-dog

ess-dog — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 14:35:43 +0000

I’m suddenly feeling a lot less confident. Our big situation (both starters injured) is shaky af, and it’s definitely possible that neither Randle nor Mitch will ever be 100% effective again. Argh! My inner Pags has awoken!

By: marechal

marechal — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 14:35:17 +0000

I suppose I’ll try to remember how I-Hart had very little impact against the Sixers and the Knicks had to go to a hobbled Mitch to the rescue.

By: gkhenman

gkhenman — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 14:35:00 +0000

This is a nice get by OKC. They have to be prohibitive favorites in the west for the next 3 years. Knicks have their work cut out for them. I would shoot for Bitadze and also bring back Precious. Also, one thing I know about Knickerblogger is that it always vastly underestimates what players are “worth”. It’s the Umarrell Effect.

By: Donnie Walsh

Donnie Walsh — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 14:34:42 +0000

Tobias Harris is the basketball equivalent of the guy who wrote My Sharona. Had one good week and never had to work again. (Just when the well dries up… “oh, look, it’s on the Reality Bites soundtrack, yay!”)

By: ptmilo

ptmilo — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 14:33:26 +0000

given the reports that ihart’s third year is not guaranteed, then the deal would really look like 2/60 with no player option. this is far less of a risk for okc and does not leak into the year they have to extend chet and jdub. this make it less of an “overpay” than it looks compared to the 4/90 declining deal with a player option that seemed like the most dangerous option. although it could turn out to be partially guaranteed, so it’s hard to say.