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If Mitchell Robinson had played 6 games instead of 3 while putting up numbers at the same pace, he’d be leading the league in Total Orebs with 38. Jalen Duren, the player in 1st whom Mitch would pass, has played 8 games and 10mpg more in those games than hypothetical Mitch.
Mitch might lead the league in offensive rebounding if we can get him 60 games at 16mpg.
I enjoyed that one a lot. Neither KAT nor Jalen were playing that well, yet we hung tough for a half with a very good team having a hot shooting night, then we pounded them into submission over the final two quarters. What Brown has done with OG and Mikal is so impressive, and I believe better shooting nights will start coming consistently for Jalen and KAT.
Oh, yeah:
* OG: 3.3 BPM this year, his best full season is 1.2 BPM
* Mikal: 5.5 BPM, previous best 3.3 BPM.
OBPM:
* OG: 2.0 this season, 0.8 previous high
* Mikal: 3.6 this season, 2.4 previous high
(The Mikal season is probably not the season you’re thinking of, he put up a 4.0 OBPM in his half season w/ Brookly though. This is basically Brooklyn MIkal.)
Swift, I didn’t even realize you made the comment. I was replying to Doogie and talking about how ridiculous the cult of Thibs is sometimes. The idea that these guys might not have fortitude any more is a pretty good example of that. You know how we know these guys can win a tough playoff game? Because we just saw them do it. Thibs didn’t do it for them. You may even recall they were having players only meetings and coaching themselves through the hard times without him.
All that said, I am sorry that my random spray volley turned out to be a bullet to your chest. Not my intention at all.
A fw other thoughts:
1. Obviously Josh will not shoot that well from 3 every night. But it’s impressive how quickly we’ve gone from “The Knicks should order him to have the surgery, even if he’s gone until close to the playoffs” back to Josh the indispensable spark plug.
2. Deuce/Clarkson backcourt is working well. Neither’s a point guard, and each has their flaws (Deuce can’t get to the rim in the halfcourt, Clarkson’s a spotty defender), but they complement each other well enough to keep the offense afloat in the non-Brunson minutes.
3. Mitch is ridiculous. I love him so much. A healthy Mitch in the playoffs would be so huge.
Combining your last 2 points, we’ve only gotten 11 minutes of Clarkson and Mitch so far. I feel like this is an electric duo waiting to happen. They could take the Kobe Assist to levels never seen before.
I think MB is thinking the right way, you need to give preference to maximize the other players, because of course Brunson and KAT will adjust and perform. That’s what star players do.
We need this. I’m going to light a candle for it to come true. 😉
In ho hum news Jokic put up a 33-15-16 line last night vs the Heat
Is he eventually gonna be in the top 5 of all time? Seems inevitable…
Interesting thought, which I’m hesitant to embrace. But at the same time I’m not sure that’s what’s going on.
If you maximize your supporting cast and ask the stars to adjust, I think it will cause trouble eventually. Either the stars get unhappy or the supporting cast fails to deliver because they’re not as good as the stars.
That being said, I don’t think that’s what is happening. I think KAT’s just bothered by his quad and Brunson is still in first gear. This looks to me like the offense that will ultimately maximize both of them, the other guys are just adjusting to it quicker.
(Side note: I’m curious if anyone can find pick and roll data. I usually get it randomly when an author or podcaster looks it up. It sure seems like we’re not running much Brunson-KAT pnr, that they’re getting involved more through handoffs and such.)
Knicks are up to #4 in offensive rating (#2 in the East), only #16 in defensive rating (#9 in the East), but #5 in SRS (#2 in the East behind the Bulls) given their schedule.
Funnily this is kind of like the Thibs offensive efficiency so far: they are below average in eFG%, but super good in OREB, TOV% and FT rate (which is kind of scary for the league because I am confident that eFG% will go as their two highest usage players are below their career averages there by a significant amout).
Another eye test observation that I’d love to find data on: seems like KAT is driving to the basket more this year. I think that’s why his FTAs are up from 5.8/36 to 7.5/36. He also seems more decisive when he gets the ball. One of Brown’s points of emphasis was speeding up the game not by pace but by decision making, and KAT looks like he’s making quicker decisions. I hope it’s not small sample noise; getting him to the line more seems like something we can engineer. He’s a physical beast, and teams have to foul him when he gets close to the rim.
“Mitch might lead the league in offensive rebounding if we can get him 60 games at 16mpg.”
not sure that hed actually lead the league because it might not be enuff to qualify vis a vis nba statistical minimums for leaders
Knicks shooting .375 from 3, slightly up from .369 last season.
Denver, 76ers, & Houston are ahead of us in Ortg. Houston & 76ers are shooting .400+ from 3 and will regress. There’s a decent chance we pass them just based on 3p%.
Denver is currently shooting .335 from 3. That team scares me.
Comparing the offenses (by FGA, league rank) year to year (small sample size disclaimer!):
2024-25 ->
Restricted area: 5th most
NonRA paint: 20th most
Midrange: 6th most
Corner 3: 11th most
ATB 3: 29th most
Total 3s: 27th most
2025-26 ->
Restricted area: 7th most
NonRA paint: 28th most
Midrange: 16th most
Corner 3: MOST
ATB 3: 9th most
Total 3s: 3rd most
I have to imagine that is among the most dramatic changes in shot profile in the league.
The Mitch extension discussion is so interesting. I kinda think we need to bring him back, even if it’s at the cost of losing Deuce, which it might be.
id still like to see more trey jemison iii
It’s a pain in the ass to navigate but NBA.com/stats has an incredible amount of play by play for free.
It really is incredible, and one of the reasons why I think their eFG% will end up increasing as the season goes along.
Hubs,
I completely overreacted and I’m sorry for what I said, too.
I don’t know what it was. I had been off the blog for a few hours. Wasn’t really watching the game just checking the score. Logged in to read the comments after what looked like a VERY satisfying win, and that was the first comment I saw and it just really irked me as it felt personal.
I realize now I way overreacted.
I don’t think Thibs has some magic grit dust that he’s able to sprinkle on the players. I was more pointing to how the shoot a lot of three’s playstyle can make your team look incredible but then you go cold in the playoffs (like Boston did against us in games 1 and 2) and suddenly you exit the playoffs earlier. I guess Thibs style was lower reward but lower risk and there’s less variance and since we did get to the ECF last year, I was simply making the argument that there is a benefit to that style of play too.
but the team needed a change, no doubt. And having Jalen ISO for crunch time in the back pocket is an excellent advantage for us.
I don’t have any major complaints so far with Brown, but I’d like him to find 5-6 minutes a night for Kolek with some real players and see if that can be another option for the backups in case the Deuce/Clarkson backcourt gets bogged down against some defenses. But it’s a long season so it’s more than fine for now.
I think the Sixers will come crashing down relatively quickly. Edgecomb’s shooting has started to regress the last few games, Maxey is on fire but will not keep shooting 48% from deep, Oubre is shooting 44% from deep on 7.6 attempts/game, and I think Embiid is really done.
Look at Embiid this season: lowest eFG% of his career (.479 vs .533 career average), lowest FTAs per 36 (8.2 vs 11.3 for his career), lowest rebound rate, lowest assist rate since 2021-22, highest TOV rate since his sophomore year, lowest BPM, lowest WS/48. And that’s with a significant minute restriction (he has averaged about 23 min/game). He’s shooting 10 3s per game, double his career average, which tells me he knows he can’t get to the rim anymore.
And the Sixers owe him 70m in 2028-2029.
rip marshawn kneeland
It’s cool, Swift. I didn’t realize I was calling you out, but from your POV I certainly did. My fault.
As someone who gets told his takes are dumb 2-3 times a week (usually by half a dozen people at a time), it’s useful to keep in mind our takes are not us. It’s easy to conflate “that’s a dumb take” with “you’re dumb”, but if you can practice not doing that it keeps the blog fun even when folks disagree with you.
I hope we suck it up and go over the 2nd apron next year. None of the penalties for doing so are more harsh than losing Mitch or Deuce.
The harshest penalty is freezing our 2033 draft pick, but I think the CBA allows us to trade it first and then go over the apron in the same summer.
On that note, Macri almost seemed to be responding to this point with a lot about how ‘gritty’ the win was.
I’m kind of (very) bummed there’s three days off, as there are a lot of qualities the team has shown, positive and negative, and it would/will be great to have more data points to assess what’s true and what are blips, what’s trending, etc.
Solid win against a solid opponent, however. Even if Ant was just back and not at full motor, and their defense seems to be struggling (mentioned it was 20th before the game, and I suspect nothing they did last night improved that ranking).
Is Trump gonna take credit for the peace agreement between Hubert and Swifty?
(sorry, I violated the no politics rule)
Last thing, Swift… I’ve consumed alcohol very rarely the last few years, and last night I met gkhenman and felt that was a good excuse to imbibe for the first time in a while. This resulted in an unnecessarily aggressive tone.
I would agree with you, it certainly looks like he’s driving more. NBA’s tracking says he drove 8.0 times last season and is at 7.5 this year. So IDK, sample this year is small enough for an outlier to really throw it though.
Maybe he’s driving from above the arc more instead of the high-post and NBA doesn’t distinguish it.
If you go to the funnel/filter symbol (not the advanced filter drop-down) immediately above the player list (should be above rightmost column) and click that to bring up the player filter, it’s much easier typing in Karl than clicking next page 4-5 times to find him like I first did.
Should also have PnR data if you change ‘Tracking’ to ‘Playtype’ above the season selection.
the NBA dot com stats UI is malicious
The Athletic:
Most consecutive 20-point games in NBA history
Wilt Chamberlain
126
Oct. 19, 1961, to Jan. 19, 1963
Wilt Chamberlain
92
Feb. 26, 1963, to March 18, 1964
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
80
Nov. 1, 2024, to present
Oscar Robertson
79
Oct. 22, 1963, to Oct. 20, 1964
Kevin Durant
72
Nov. 23, 2015, to Nov. 9, 2016
Michael Jordan
72
Dec. 29, 1987, to Dec. 6, 1988
Also, it’s dumb I have to go to the league leaders page and can’t just find this or playtype data on KATs player page.
I have really liked the energy from the bench. It is nice to have 3 guys who fly around in Hart, Deuce and Shamet. And even Clarkson has been trying on D.
only one nba game tonite is weird
It’s bc 22 teams play tomorrow in the NBA Cup.
makes sense i guess last thursday the nba wasnt so extreme about it with four games on the docket tho hate that we have to wait three days for our next game against the michael porter jr led nets
The all-time record for ORB% is 20.83 by Dennis Rodman. Mitch is at 39 in 3 games. When Mitch is on the floor and the Knicks, miss a shot, 39% of those missed shots result in a Mitchell Robinson rebound. 🤯. Steven Adams has begun the season at around 27%, btw.
There was one point yesterday when one of the Twolves (Gobert?) shoved Mitch trying to get an offensive rebound, and when the Twolves were on offense the next possession, Mitch kinda angrily shoved him back. I thought it was going to escalate, but I think that’s as far as it got.
If we’re up going into the 4Q, we should try just run out the clock by intentionally missing every shot on Mitch’s side of the basket to reset the shot clock for 12 straight minutes.
Four corners for 20 seconds, pass to Clarkson at the top of the key, drive, miss, Mitch rebound, repeat.
Also, not sure why Duren is only playing 26mpg, but his per 36 numbers are:
* 4.1 OBPM
* 24.4pts
* 15.5 rebs
* 1.9 blks
* .683 TS%
Looks like he’s in the beginning of a true breakout.
And I do want to offer my condolences to Donnie. It was only 2 games but Mathurin put up All-NBA numbers in those 2 games:
* 6.9 OBPM
* 31.0 PPG
* 7.0 RPG
* 13.0 FTA/g
* .730 TS%
* .500 3P%
His .500 three point shooting will drop, but 26 FT attempts over 2 games is a lot of FT attempts over 2 games.
no condolences to donnie from me besides he has the dodgers so hes good
Posting waaaayyyy too much this morning, but anyway…
Strat, I think James Edwards wrote this article for you. Mike Brown on using coaches to evaluate 3PAs instead of tracking data, specifically in regards to OG shooting more 3s this year:
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6782775/2025/11/06/knicks-og-anunoby-doing-everything/
I like that EB…good and simple way to break down the quality and condition of the shot…
Forgive me but I am obliged to mention that Leon traded this guy to Detroit to dump Kemba Walker’s salary.
we also didnt seem to be interested in him when we were discussing what big men to try to get at the beginning of the offseason
I was reticent to post it, but it’s true either way.
Admittedly, calming down a bit from the other day… the further we get from Rose drafting IQ, Grimes, and Deuce without another hit, the more I should reevaluate my opinion of Rose’s draft evaluation.
jrue experiencing a resurgence of sorts in portland after a down year in boston
feel for you pepper, waiting for the sub to run out, but canceled youtube tv cuz of the espn/abc removal from their lineup…
also canceled my disney +/hulu/espn + sub…had set it up through disney +, however they don’t offer any “live tv” options…
thinking about maybe picking up an old school tv antenna to get the local stations (for sports) and just adding an expanded espn sub…
or once that current disney plus sub runs out, will re-sub through hulu to get live tv included…
got prime, nba league pass but no peacock…
thankfully ma’s streaming service still carries espn, so got to catch last night’s game and do some family visiting 😊
I feel like we’ve discussed this before, but you should maybe consider that rebuilding teams aren’t likely to trade young productive players on their rookie contracts.
I said this the other day but Leon went all in for this year, and this year looks spectacular so far, so I’ll give him some grace.
On a separate note, ESPN has some looney tune on TV saying the Lakers and Knicks should do an OG for LeBron trade (which would also have to include Mitch for salary purposes). No thank you. But…
All this Kawhi/Aspiration stuff got me thinking…
Let’s say LeBron signed for the vet minimum next year, plays a couple seasons as a Knick, and then retires. And then in retirement, MSG Entertainment Corp starting paying LeBron’s production company $50M a year for content that they air on tv.
Assuming this is a handshake deal with no paper trail, couldn’t we get away with this?
Good article. I think the more you look at the details the better you understand what’s really going on.
Some people haven’t figured out that Lebron isn’t a great two way player anymore and with Doncic and the emergence of Reaves they don’t need his scoring and playmaking as much anymore. What they need is more defense, which he doesn’t do as much of anymore.
despite his injury woes, got a good feeling mitch will field some 20 to 24 million a year offers, maybe as many as 4 years…
ugh, hate to say it, but I’d probably go with 3 years at 22 per…so much team risk involved…when he’s right though, super impactful…
please no one ever say mitch to his hometown pelicans for zion ever again
Guitar Jimmy loves money more than winning so zero chance he breaks rules to find a way to spend more of what he values.
My least favorite thing to do is defend Dolan, but the guy absolutely tried his best to by wins for years. He was just very, very bad at it. (He once paid $30,000,000 for a mid-1st draft pick (Balkman). And the luxury tax he paid for those 31 win Eddy Curry teams was, like, x1000 the league average for those years).
Dolan will pay, and will disrespect the rules too. He just needs to email hubertdaviskb@gmail.com to get the good ideas on how.
geo, I was just wondering this AM about what Mitch’s next contract will look like.
It certainly doesn’t help his cause that he’s on a minutes restriction this year. Is any team going to invest $60+M (let’s say $20+M x 3) on a guy who has a rep of being significantly injury-prone, especially under these cap conditions?
I think there’s a fairly good chance that he extends here for something like 3/$45=50M.
finally got around to watching the game…impressive all around…coaching…offense..defense..basically its have the main rotation guys healthy at playoff time and see if they can get’er done in crunch time….everything between then and now is fine tuning…
Given i was shutout from this game and another (that peacock bullshit)…I did some multi view action (which NBA.com hasn’t quite perfected on the app but i heard if you get it through youtube the picture quality is much better)…Detroit and Cleveland will be tough battles..interested to see how we fare when we play those teams on the road…that will give us some data points on where we’re at in the conference…I guess sixers as well…but agree with someone else above that they will come back down to earth…still…if Embiid is even at 75%…they have plenty of firepower…
You know I’ve met a lot of folks through that email but never Donnie. I invited him to link up when I was in his hood once. I went to our favorite restaurant, Cholada Thai, to wait for him. I had them play Talking Book so he’d be happy when he showed up, but he never did. I hit refresh on my gmail every two seconds hoping to hear from him. “Excuse me, are you sure your wifi is working,” I asked the staff. They told me it was, so I glumly said “I think I’ll take my Tom Yum Goong to go”. And then I set the Pacific Palisades on fire.
Went back to the box score to see if anything stood out as to why we lost the first half but ran away with it in the second half. Nothing stood out. They shot 52% from three in the first half, 44% in the second (we were 44% and then 45%). Same number of turnovers for both in the first half (8), they had 9 in the second to our 6, so that probably helped a bit, too. We ate their lunch in rebounding all game (50-31), dominated there in the first half as well. We only took 9 foul shots all game, which is weird given that it was pretty physical (they took 17).
Oh well. We won.
I think he would, as long as Lebron actually did work for MSG after he retired and didn’t pull a Kawhi and just take money for bogus work that never materialized. This would be no different, in my eyes than Dolan hiring any ex Knick to work for MSG, which he has done many times.
Lebron has every right to get paid whatever he wants to get paid. It would raise eyebrows but, again, unless he was just being given money with no real work after he retired, I don’t see how this would be shady at all.
I mean, didn’t the Lakers help him get Space Jam 2?
Hubie, well played
I yield to no man in my love for Mitch but his injury history is terrible. Not sure I see 20-24 per in his future. He looked dominant last night though when he was on the court.
OG really was fantastic last night. He has more gears than people give him credit for. He’s actually a pretty good offensive player.
“…talking about how ridiculous the cult of Thibs is sometimes.”
There is no “cult of Thibs” here at KB. Never was.
lin and then ihart getting stolen away for a big boat load of money has made me a little scarred when trying to believe someone won’t snatch away a fave player…
mitch is such a tough calculation, lots of health risks, can that health situation even be successfully managed…the reward though is significant, like playing a big part in a potential playoff series win kind of significant…
we don’t know what these two folks know: VP of Health and Performance, Jesse Elis and VP of Sports Medicine, Casey Smith…
they know enough to have shut him down for a couple of weeks for not looking right in a pre-season game…
thankfully this contract stuff is a decision which doesn’t need to be made for some months (at least until the feb trade deadline maybe)…
not sure where else we can find someone whom protects the rim, paint area and can even defend all the way to the arc, and gobbles offensive rebounds at a historic rate…bombs away while mitch is around the basket, why not…
the more he plays, he will only improve, for years to come…talk about players as scratch-off tickets…
and now josh got his shot back and continues to rebound well, KAT definitely gets his share of boards…a player, just like mitch, just fits so well on our team…
if jesse and casey give a thumbs up, pay the man…especially with KAT and OG able to successfully slide over to the 5 and 4…need huk and jemison the 3rd to develop, or maybe give someone else a chance to back mitch up…
but hang on to mitch up to that low 20’s mark, guarantee him 3 years, until we find another mitch…
Edit: think what a healthy mitch is worth, whom his current comps are…sure, deduct from there, but still a great type of player to have on the roster…
“OG really was fantastic last night. He has more gears than people give him credit for. He’s actually a pretty good offensive player.”
re: OG’s offense, he really stayed in his lane last night. His drives were mostly straight-line affairs with maybe one wiggle vs. one defender. He gets into trouble when he tries to get crafty in traffic or when he challenges rim-protectors in the paint without great position. Last night he seemed to stick with what works best for him, and I do wonder if that’s subsequent to a talking-to by Brown. He said in the postgame “I’ve been on OG…” and although he was specifically referring to offensive rebounding in that context, it suggests that he’s pointing lots of stuff out to him. I think it would be easy to compile a lowlight reel of OG Follies from the last couple of years and the first couple of games this year. It is imperative that OG modifies his mindset, as doing that kind of shit in the playoffs could really hurt the team.
OG doesn’t look fast at all because he’s so long and gangly he can cover a lot of ground with his big steps.
I’m not closing my position out yet but I will admit I currently have a negative carry.
There’s two things he is doing now that I didn’t expect: he’s rebounding like a forward and he’s overcoming his injury history.
On a negative note, Mitch’s sole FTA (on a +1) barely grazed the bottom of the rim. However, starting him seems to be stemming the Hack-a-Mitch thing for now. Chalk up another win for Mike Brown!
MB, jalen, KAT, OG, and deuce post game…mitch was a point of discussion…
I’d tell you I’d meet you there when it was rebuilt, but… it won’t be rebuilt.
https://www.vogue.com/article/ode-to-cholada-thai-pacific-palisades-fires
(That Vogue story story doesn’t report it it turns out, but, in a nutshell, that stretch of PCH is on state land and rebuilding on it is precluded under current laws, so it’s gone for good)
He was gonna come but then a PacersBlogger asked him out
Which answers the question you never thought to ask: what do Cholada Thai and The New York Knicks have in common?
Neither can be successfully rebuilt.
Cholada Thai is coming back: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebuild-cholada-thai-in-malibu
And you can come back, too, Donnie. Now is the time. The mezzanine has been razed. Take off the Pacers shirt. Math doesn’t love you, man.
That GFM, unfortunately, was from before they were told by the state that they couldn’t rebuild.
I like how he dumped the Sixers and then they got a makeover, lost a ton of weight, and now look so much hotter than his new girl.
My new girl is world series champ.
those who hop from team to team indiscriminately are known as fansluts
Lots of girls become sluts when their love treats them like the Knicks have treated us. Hard to tell who is worse, Donnie the slut, or us with the two black eyes.
But this time I think he really loves us.
but how much?
I bet you we’re about to go on a tear, Doogie, and by Christmas this team is going to be something like 22-6.
I’m not indiscriminate. I have very high standards:
1. They must be able to make the NBA finals in amazing, unexpected, heart-stopping fashion.
2. They must be able to win the most exciting baseball game ever played.
the sixers havent been capable of either of those things in any of the past few years but yet there you were
Don’t lie to your friends, Donnie. We all saw you leave the club with that busted ho from Philly back in ’24.
I mean, clearly if OG plays like THIS he’s worth the contract. He has been stellar this season so far, with a .612 TS% on 20 USG, shooting .414 from 3PT on 7.7 attempts per 36, and playing his usual strong defense. This would be a career year if he keeps playing like this.
The shooting will fluctuate but if the rebounding is real and he plays 75 games again I will eat crow.
Haha, you guys: the record, I said the Knicks Sixers series was “kind of hot”, and I wanted it to go to 7 games. I never got into bed with them. I’m not gonna sully my reputation, or risk contracting chlamydia from a guy just because he plays a mean air guitar. I sleep with the GOATs, man. The ‘94 Knicks. The ‘98 Yanks. The ‘15 Warriors. The ‘25 Pacers. The ‘25 Dodgers. That’s the list. I’m the Pete Davidson of team-boning, and the knicks are just that forgettable homely girl I dated in high school cause I didn’t think I could do any better, given my relative shoe size.
Message job or coincidience?
https://nypost.com/2025/11/06/sports/massive-fire-breaks-out-at-home-of-heat-coach-erik-spoelstra/
OG’s play seems pretty sustainable to me, maybe the 3PT% comes down a bit, but nothing he’s doing seems freaky. As to his injury history, sure, he’s missed a bunch of games, but all from stuff that are of the “when you recover you’re as good as new” variety. He played 3400+ minutes in 92 games last year. Seems like he’s as healthy as pretty much anyone else right now.
The guy who seems unsustainably outlier-ish is Bridges. He’s mostly playing background music but doing it impeccably well.
now we’re talking
clarence yay!
all please hail clarences reemergence its way better than when pags does it especially since pags promised us that he would never post here again
As always Doogie’s comments are gratingly annoying and inaccurate. Clarence showed up a day or two ago.
Good to have you back though, Clarence.
The Colorado Rockies were pretty much the last MLB team standing that had not embraced modern analytics. Not coincidentally they have also been baseball’s shittiest team in recent years.
They finally threw in the towel. They hired Paul Depodesta, one of the main characters in Moneyball, to run the team.
Isn’t it funny how you just can never tell how players will react as PEOPLE x amount of years into their careers? When D’Angelo Russell was a prospect, one of the APPEALS of him was that he was so mature. And then he has been a decidedly IMmature guy in the NBA.
Similarly, how could you tell as a prospect that Jalen Brunson would be as dedicated as he has become? How could you POSSIBLY know that one way or the other? How could you know that Ja Morant would mature BACKWARDS as a person?
It’s such a bizarre crapshoot to pick players.
zion is another example think of how he was largely viewed when he was in college as opposed to how he is largely viewed now
I dunno, I think Zion has mostly turned out the way people were thinking. Everyone assumed that his health was going to be the biggest concern, and that HAS been his biggest concern, right?
i was thinking more in terms of his “personality” in college i believe he was viewed as a very hard worker disciplined etc. but he hasnt turned out to be that at least not in terms of his approach to his diet im not saying that hes a bad guy or anything he also had some weird thing with sex tapes porn star etc. obviously that doesnt make him a bad guy either i guess im just saying that i kinda remember him being seen as squeaky clean in college