Knicks Morning News (2024.12.21)

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Today Hubs will try to argue that the linsanity team is better than this year’s squad. After all, they won 7 games in a row and this years team has not.

“As Nassim” has now replaced “Happy Holidays” at my house.

I keep waiting for this Cavs team to cool off but it doesn’t seem to be happening

“As Nassim” has now replaced “Happy Holidays” at my house.

But how are you pronouncing it? As in a sentence like, “As Nassim woke up, he smelled the unmistakable aroma of his wife making coffee?” Or are we getting funky with it?

Haha. With the even stressed inflection of “Peace be upon you.” —-> “As Nassim.”

I keep waiting for this Cavs team to cool off but it doesn’t seem to be happening

I tell myself it has to happen eventually in some way – Caris Levert and Okoro are not 50% three point shooters – but it could just be that these guys have finally figured it out and are for real. Nothing their top four guys are doing seems to be especially unsustainable

The Mets shouldn’t break the bank for Pete Alonso. They can replicate his production, and potentially improve the team overall, by strategically using their resources.

Consider this:

Move Mark Vientos to first base: He’s projected for a 119 wRC+ and 3.3 WAR, primarily at first, offering similar offensive output to Alonso (125 wRC+, 2.8 WAR) with superior defense.

Bring in Joc Pederson as DH: He provides power (125 wRC+, 1.8 WAR) comparable to Alonso.

Trade for Nolan Arenado: He offers a 106 wRC+ and 2.8 WAR. While there’s risk involved, his defense is exceptional, giving him a higher floor than Alonso.

This strategy avoids long-term commitments to declining players. Arenado on his remaining contract, while older, is a safer bet than Alonso on a 4+ year deal if his defense remains strong.

Alternatively, consider signing Ha-Seong Kim. He’s younger, a better defender, and projected to be on par with Arenado offensively (around a 106 wRC+ and 2.8 WAR). His versatility allows for positional flexibility and creates opportunities for prospects.

By exploring these options, the Mets can achieve comparable or even better results than signing Alonso, all while maintaining financial flexibility and prioritizing long-term team building.

While I’m not gonna move off of my general position that the proving ground for this largely finished product will be in May, they went a long way in winning me over in just walloping Minny on their court. KAT and Mikal both did everything you hoped they would do when we traded for them, and the result was a two-way ass kicking of a solid team that was sort of on a roll.

Randle was largely a dud after an amazing first Q, but none of his teammates stepped up, especially Gobert (he sure didn’t look like a 4X DPOY vs. KAT, a step late on everything, almost seemed like he was letting KAT have his way on tribute night) and Ant-Man, who has been bitching and moaning all season.

Meanwhile, this matured version of KAT seems to be saying and doing all the right things, nary a peep about his previous travails with Thibs, even giving a few flashes of workmanlike team defense rim protection. Mikal took responsibility after getting benched and came back as the star 2-way role player we were hoping for.

I know we will be heavily favored on Christmas Day, but it is a matinee on national TV and Wemby went nuclear last time he was in MSG. It’s sort of a “we better fucking win” game, but honestly, this is a very boring stretch of games. I can’t wait until January 3 vs. OKC.

Randle was largely a dud after an amazing first Q, but none of his teammates stepped up

It’s hard to step up and get into a rhythm when your team has been cowed into playing iso-heavy Randleball on offense for most of the first half. The biggest difference between KAT and him in Minnesota was how seamlessly the former’s scoring looked within the flow of his team’s offense compared to the latter. The Timberwolves offense wasn’t built for Randle to dominate the ball as much as he had in the first of the last game, just like how our offense evolved to become greater than the sum of its parts during his injury last season.

Yeah, that was The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Julius Randle all in one game. He’s certainly not doing anything to merit taking the risk of opting out.

I truly don’t get how Minny couldn’t find a better return for KAT. It’s like they compounded the dumb decision to dump him over Gobert with an even dumber decision to trade him for a return that didn’t involve any unprotected picks and that would fatally disrupt the chemistry of a conference finals-level team. Cheap and dumb are a bad combo.

“…just like how our offense evolved to become greater than the sum of its parts during his injury last season.”

I dunno, the offense was freakin’ humming in January before he got injured.

KAT averages about the same 25 ppg Randle did for us for some years but watching them go against each other really shows the enormous difference between a efficient 25 that happens in rhythm with the offense, and the way Randle gets his points, forcing shots, pounding the ball, etc. I’m very glad we’re on the other side of the equation this time.

Josh Hart should be back for today’s game, which is nice, let’s get a good winning stretch going.

But how are you pronouncing it? As in a sentence like, “As Nassim woke up, he smelled the unmistakable aroma of his wife making coffee?” Or are we getting funky with it?

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