I think that’s overstating the role KAT played in that specific outcome.

Point taken (OG was also out that game) but without serious spacing and a dual threat from KAT the lane was a complete “no go zone” for B runson that night. He didn’t play well (4 for 20) and Detroit shot it out of their asses, but the entire Knick’s offense is predicated on spacing and brunson driving those creases and dishing when he gets the defense moving.

He can guard wings but he’s a big, not a wing. He’ll play the 4 and 5 here, not the 2 or 3.

Call him Rumplestilskin if you please, but as a 4 he’s a weak rebounder and as a 5 he’s a poor rim defender. He is a pretty good wing defender. But he is a zero on the offensive end, and hence he was cut.

I have no problem taking a flyer on the guy, but realize his shooting will have to make a quantum leap to be meaningfully playable. Let’s just say the career arc of his 3 point shooting is about as impressive as Mitch’s free throw shooting. Where there is life, there is hope.

Here is their reaction after the move.

Mitch Johnson coudn’t figure out how to use him because he clogs the floor for Fox same as he will for Brunson.

My sense is that he just had better players to use. They just took Carter Bryant with the 14th pick and he has tantalizing potential.

Releasing him seemed like one of those moves where an organization decided to do right by a player.

We saw what happened to Brunson’s ability to sniff the lane vs Detroit when KAT wasn’t spreading the floor,

I think that’s overstating the role KAT played in that specific outcome. The Knicks scored 88 in the Detroit game without him, but they also scored only 90 against the same team a few weeks earlier when he did play. That suggests the issue wasn’t simply his floor spacing. Detroit was able to bog down the offense regardless, which points more to overall execution, matchup dynamics, and motivation than the presence or absence of one spacer.

He is a wing who can handle the ball,

He can guard wings but he’s a big, not a wing. He’ll play the 4 and 5 here, not the 2 or 3.

Watched a few videos on him today and he’s an OG, Thompson, Reid, Jones, Johnson and Dort level wing defender who makes one less three every two games than OG does.

Kid is 22yrs old. Pop loved him. Picked him in the lottery and let him learn. His shot is not broken. I have to believe that he can get up to 35% with peoper coaching and flirt with league average.

My insticts say that OG will likely be out another 2-3 weeks and Sochan will play alot until he comes back, catch DNPs after but will be used sporadically to guard Cade or Tatum in the playoffs. Love Hart and Shamet but they can’t guard neither. Even Jaylen Brown lights them up 1v1.

Jeremy Sochan is 22 years old. No one knows when a player will stop developing, but saying that everyone knows precisely what he is strikes me as silly. He is more than two years younger than either Kolek or McCullar, and a year younger than Hukporti.

The best coach in the business had the wonderful idea of playing him at PG, which for some reason didn’t work out…go figure! He’s actually been jerked around quite a bit, as Mitch Johnson wasn’t able to find a role for him and played him at C quite a bit, which is not as bad of an idea as playing him at PG but far from ideal.

“He is a wing who can handle the ball, stay in front of big guards and cannot shoot a bloody ounce outside of 3 feet.”

He can also rebound (8 rebounds per 36 for his career) and is pretty switchable. He is quite comparable to Ryan Dunn, who is playing 20mpg for a pretty good PHX team. And around the rim he’s actually a pretty good finisher…he shot almost 60% from 2 the last 2 years at pretty decent volume. There are others who can’t shoot a lick that are pretty good rotation players…Ausar Thompson seems pretty good. So does Dyson Daniels. (all three of these guys are slightly older than Sochan)

Obviously Sochan is not as good as Ausar or Dyson, but thankfully we aren’t depending on him to fill a void in the rotation, at least for now, but I like the move a lot, and think it’s worth messing around with him in different lineups to see what he can bring in short bursts. Especially when the main alternative in his role is a 20yo rookie with 318 minutes under his belt.

I’m wondering if Brown will start giving Sochan some of Diawara’s minutes. I love me some Mo, but he’s probably not ready for prime time and the playoffs are creeping up on us. Seems like he needs to find out what he has in Sochan while there’s still time.

I’m fairly sure everyone knows precisely what Sochan is about from his 5300+ minutes most of it coached by the best coach in the business.

He is a wing who can handle the ball, stay in front of big guards and cannot shoot a bloody ounce outside of 3 feet.

Putting him on the floor will collapse the defense because there is no need to cover him. We saw what happened to Brunson’s ability to sniff the lane vs Detroit when KAT wasn’t spreading the floor, now imagine Mitch and Sochan on the floor at the same time.

He might have some utility guarding Cunningham heads up for a few moments or key possessions, but I don’t see how the Knick’s offense can function with him on the floor.