Comments on: Knicks Morning News (2025.05.30)

By: Raven is a Big Black Bird

Raven is a Big Black Bird — Sat, 31 May 2025 04:03:47 +0000

Those are both fantastic stories, brilliantly told. Thank you both.

And while I’m not very confident in this take, it does seem like scandals have been a part of the NBA going way back. Kobi. Arenas. Len Bias. Michael Ray. Vin Baker. The entire league being addicted to cocaine.

I do think the social media coverage makes the results fairly different now.

By: rama, lord of the loge

rama, lord of the loge — Sat, 31 May 2025 03:54:45 +0000

Z-man phone home

By: rama, lord of the loge

rama, lord of the loge — Sat, 31 May 2025 03:48:19 +0000

The lesson here is that sometimes setbacks are blessings in disguise. There are many paths to success, and the most seemingly obvious one can end up leading to failure

Exactly. For every effort to create success, sometimes ish just happens. Something I’m going to try to keep in mind when I’m calling for Thibs’ head.

Steveoh, love the Road Beef story lol

By: ras

ras — Sat, 31 May 2025 03:12:38 +0000

Yeah, Ben has dual U.S.-Australian citizenship. I know he plays for Team Australia in the Olympics, but he was developed in the North American system going to High School and college there. That’s how I look at talent development. So, for example, Hakeem Olajuwon is Nigerian, but he learned in the U.S. system over in Houston. That’s different than someone like Giannis, who is Greek-Nigerian but went through the European system.

By: gkhenman

gkhenman — Sat, 31 May 2025 02:26:37 +0000

Isn’t Simmons from Australia?

Just goes to show you that tanking is not all it has been cracked up to be.

@Geo For all its’ flaws, this has been the most entertaining team we have had this century. I can hardly believe it. If we make it to game 7, I’m seriously considering going.

By: ras

ras — Sat, 31 May 2025 02:20:33 +0000

I dunno. I think there’s a noticeable trend among some recent elite prospects where talent hasn’t been the issue—it’s been priorities, maturity, or injuries. While that may be partly a generational thing, it’s also tied to how drastically the pressures and visibility of the game have changed. It’s not that this generation lacks greatness—it’s that the path to greatness has more traps than ever

By: ras

ras — Sat, 31 May 2025 02:14:41 +0000

Also, I hate to be that guy, but I do think there’s something generational going on with some of the top American talent. When I look at players like Ben Simmons, LaMelo Ball, Zion Williamson, and Ja Morant, it doesn’t feel like they were held back by a lack of talent—it feels more like issues of entitlement and misplaced priorities. I don’t remember seeing this as much with earlier generations of NBA stars. Of course, maybe that’s just my curmudgeonly side not accounting for how our social media age magnifies every flaw today’s athletes have. But something about the trajectories of these guys feels different from how great prospects have fallen short in the past.

By: geo

geo — Sat, 31 May 2025 02:12:24 +0000

hey g-man, hope all is well on your Friday evening…

I would really really like to see us beat the pacers…those first two games really took the hope out of me though, getting down 3 – 1 didn’t help…

real proud of the group for performing so well last game, still kind of pissed though that it took the team so long to put together a strategy: smother hali, score in the paint and even worse to find a rotation…

not really stressed about saturday’s game…if somehow they can put together another 4 quarters of good play, who knows…

By: ras

ras — Sat, 31 May 2025 02:04:18 +0000

The allegations about Zion are really the nail in the coffin of that draft. The fact we got RJ at 3, and he wasn’t that great but was still probably the best pick is kind of amazing. You can make a case for Garland, but that’s about it. A handful of decent players, a boatload of busts.

Obviously Ja and Zion might both still become franchise players, but all the off the court darkness makes them unappealing anyway. Would hate to have to root for them.

Yet another reason to appreciate YOUR NEW. YORK. KNICKS!

Imagine if we had gotten the #1 pick and used it to draft him? It would’ve been peak LOL-Knicks. The lesson here is that sometimes setbacks are blessings in disguise. There are many paths to success, and the most seemingly obvious one can end up leading to failure

By: cgreene

cgreene — Sat, 31 May 2025 02:00:03 +0000

There is literally a zero percent chance that Zion Williamson becomes a franchise player. I think he’s out of the league in less than 4 years.