Comments on: Knicks Morning News (2025.05.19)

By: llcoolbp

llcoolbp — Tue, 20 May 2025 04:10:36 +0000

Cdiggy, and dred, I graduated from science in 1993. I had many friends at stuy. You are just one year younger. My sister graduated from stuy in 1988. She was there when the beastie boys were at stuy. I’m sure some of the guys on this blog have crossed paths with each other over the years. Less then six degrees of separation.

By: DRed

DRed — Tue, 20 May 2025 02:51:20 +0000

Cdiggy I graduated from Stuy in 94 so I guess we overlapped briefly

By: DRed

DRed — Tue, 20 May 2025 02:50:03 +0000

Oakley had a jumper. I think he could’ve developed a 3-ball.
But the biggest candidate to who could’ve been a stretch-5 was… Patrick Ewing! Could you imagine his ability to stretch the floor and pull opposing Cs out of the paint in this day of age?

We only have late career data, but Ewing shot 41% from 16-3pt range for the last few seasons he played in the NBA and he attempted 125 3s across his entire career

By: TheInfamousCdiggy

TheInfamousCdiggy — Tue, 20 May 2025 01:44:31 +0000

We aren’t coming all this way to lose the fn Pacers again.

Feels apropos that if we’re going to win it all, we need to beat our historical playoff nemesis en route.

By: TheInfamousCdiggy

TheInfamousCdiggy — Tue, 20 May 2025 01:42:13 +0000

Llcool I enjoyed that origin story. When I moved from Yonkers to the Bronx full-time late in the summer of ‘92**, I was only able to take the exam for one of the specialized high schools (instead of all of them) bc of how late I registered for school in the city. My dad’s new house was in the southern end of Castle Hill in the Bronx, and for some odd reason I didn’t want to bus it across town to Bronx Science. Trying to commute to Brooklyn Tech was out of the question, so I decided to apply for Stuyvesant.

**this was a convoluted plan my dad hatched to get my brother and I to move in with him and away from our mom. Very long story in which only two goods things came of it: me graduating from Stuy, and my ironclad love of the Knicks.

By: ephus

ephus — Tue, 20 May 2025 01:35:52 +0000

I hope that Randle gets paid. One Bill Simmons affectation that I hate is when he “announces” that a player he believes to be overpaid “will be picking up his player option.” He did that to Randle many times this year.

Meanwhile, his Celtics have multiple “bad contracts” that they are going to be hard pressed to move: Porzingis, Holliday & Hauser

By: JollyRoger

JollyRoger — Tue, 20 May 2025 01:16:38 +0000

We aren’t coming all this way to lose the fn Pacers again.

By: TheInfamousCdiggy

TheInfamousCdiggy — Tue, 20 May 2025 00:56:29 +0000

DRed the Celts don’t quite have the Lakers’ level of author’s saving throw/ass-pull if Brooklyn can’t bail them out.

Can you think of a 1990s playoff rotation player who wouldn’t even be playable in the modern NBA? Could Chris Dudley play in the NBA today?

Oakley had a jumper. I think he could’ve developed a 3-ball.
But the biggest candidate to who could’ve been a stretch-5 was… Patrick Ewing! Could you imagine his ability to stretch the floor and pull opposing Cs out of the paint in this day of age?

By: MKinLA

MKinLA — Tue, 20 May 2025 00:37:00 +0000

Re the Pacers:

Should we have OG guard Turner & KAT guard Siakam?

This negates Siakam’s size / seeking mental advantage vs OG & complicates the Hali / Turner pick & roll.

By: hubert

hubert — Tue, 20 May 2025 00:36:27 +0000

The Randle sweepstakes will be interesting. He probably made himself a lot of money this spring, and that’s exactly what Minnesota did not want.

Detroit will have plenty of cap space and can probably open up more if they need to. His physical style and secondary playmaking would fit in very well there.