Comments on: Knicks Morning News (2024.09.25)

By: ess-dog

ess-dog — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 04:12:01 +0000

MLB hitters are batting .243 this season.

This is just woeful to a guy who grew up enjoying the likes of Tony Gwynn and Paul Molitor.

By: JK47

JK47 — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 04:00:17 +0000

The Yankees lead the American League in runs scored and are 4th in batting average. Lest you think that is because they play in a hitter friendly park, they are tied for the MLB lead with a 117 wRC+. That is park adjusted. They have the best record in the American League.

MLB hitters are batting .243 this season.

By: Knick fan not in NJ

Knick fan not in NJ — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 03:08:54 +0000

When I look at box scores of Yankee games, their opponents always seem to have a lot of lousy hitters too (at least by batting average). But I’ve only looked at a small sample. Has the analytical emphasis on walks and home runs driven batting averages down across the league?

By: Hubert

Hubert — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 02:02:16 +0000

Boone sucks and 7/9th of the lineup is pretty easy to keep off base if you’re a good pitcher.

By: ess-dog

ess-dog — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 01:34:15 +0000

As a baseball atheist, can someone clue me in on all the Yankee doom and gloom this season? They’re a top-2 team in the AL. What more do you want?

By: BigBlueAL

BigBlueAL — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:37:32 +0000

I’ve never had a stronger love hate relationship than I have with the 2024 Yankees.

By: BrunsonPeroneusLongus

BrunsonPeroneusLongus — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:10:06 +0000

Cool but the actual argument was that the Knicks’ hybrid method could have outperformed the Thunder’s asset hoard method with better execution.

Yes… any reasonable method executed perfectly with 100% hindsight could outperform anything a human might do. Excellent point. In other breaking news, if my mother had balls, she’d be my father.

By: Hubert

Hubert — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 23:28:38 +0000

This is a results oriented business and Leon’s results going from bottom 3 to top 3 in 4 seasons w/o a top 6 pick is well above expectations.

Cool but the actual argument was that the Knicks’ hybrid method could have outperformed the Thunder’s asset hoard method with better execution.

Maybe address this to E next time bc your points had nothing to do with anything I was talking about.

By: geo

geo — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 23:10:37 +0000

we missed you E 😊

and, for the record, I meant to say “odles”…it’s Swiss for: a whole lotta and your basketball ideas are bizarre…all in one word…

you are about to have a very quiet and lonely season of despair senor…

By: BrunsonPeroneusLongus

BrunsonPeroneusLongus — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 23:01:08 +0000

Your entire post was a non sequitur, and it’s extremely disingenuous to substitute “did a good job” for “managed assets well.”

No more food for this troll.

Blah, Blah, Blah, Hubie… This is a results oriented business and Leon’s results going from bottom 3 to top 3 in 4 seasons w/o a top 6 pick is well above expectations.

Did they make some sub optimal moves… certainly. I rank his performance as way above expectation generally… B+ to A-. Grade his asset allocation any way you might, but the only crew you love more is OKC and much of that was blind luck moving up in the lottery from 4 to 2 to have Chet fall into their lap and the 1-1,000 shot of a nice rookie morphing into a young MVP. Way to play results.