He looked shockingly slow. Like he was legit out of shape.

I’ll have to watch his minutes again. I thought he looked terrible defensively at the beginning of the season, but he’s looked better lately.

When you have

Brunson
Clarkson

Or

Brunson
Kolek

Backcourts you aren’t even thinking about defense .

One of the reasons Kolek probably hasn’t been getting many minutes at backup PG is that Kolek/Clarkson is not a good combo either.

We have some useful players, but they are not the right players.

A lot people that cover the NBA loved our off season. I didn’t.

Brian, I give Brown props for running Kolek out there more than a ceremonial 3-4 minutes, and he threw Diawara out there a few different times. He actually had Dadiet up but then some damn thing happened (play review?) and he never made it onto the floor (until the last bit).

So he is playing the kids more. My confusion and irritation is that I think Huk actually solves a problem, in that he can play a junior version of Mitch and avoid too much time with either KAT at the 5, or worse, KAT at the 5 and Yabu at the 4. Sure he’s not much more than passable but he’s a bench player, and a young one at that — you can’t expect all-star. And he’s not going to get real reps and get better playing 10 seconds until the last 2:30.

Oh sure, I never said he wasn’t playing the young guys. My issue is more that none of them look even slightly decent, except Huk. I can’t even wishcast these guys as being key contributors in the future. That’s very disappointing.

But yes, the bigger issue is that, as you note, Huk looks like he can actually be a rotation guy and he just…isn’t.

Why is everyone so down on Yabu off this game?

He looked shockingly slow. Like he was legit out of shape.

He looks better to me lately than at the start of the season. He’s going to have to hit 3s to have a role because he’s not a C, but I haven’t totally given up on him.

So he is playing the kids more. My confusion and irritation is that I think Huk actually solves a problem, in that he can play a junior version of Mitch and avoid too much time with either KAT at the 5, or worse, KAT at the 5 and Yabu at the 4. Sure he’s not much more than passable but he’s a bench player, and a young one at that — you can’t expect all-star. And he’s not going to get real reps and get better playing 10 seconds until the last 2:30.

Franz Wagner even said postgame Knicks defense sucks

It was pretty obvious before the season started the defense was going to be an issue, but without OG and Deuce it figures to be a nightmare.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.