Comments on: Knicks Morning News (2026.10.13)

By: geo

geo — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:58:51 +0000

did your thumbs suddenly double in size 😊

for whatever reason whenever I’m on my phone i’m hitting the spacebar instead of the letter n 10 out of 10 times…even while intensely thinking hit the n, hit the n…nope, I’ll end up with a bunch of text, missing the letter n…oh well…

By: Knick fan not in NJ

Knick fan not in NJ — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 03:39:11 +0000

Sacramento is 0-3 in the preseason and currently lising big to Portland without playing some of their starters. That puts them in the sand boat as us, OKC and San Antonio. For tgeir sake I hope that similarity carries through to their regular season.

By: geo

geo — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:58:52 +0000

true, it also sounded theatrical when he first said it…luke when someone is bluffing and full of bullshit…

By: Z-man

Z-man — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:57:42 +0000

Wiseman looked mostly G-League material to me, Moses Brown level. He just has no quick twitch spark to his game. Seems partially mental (slow processing of all the variables in a given dynamic situation) and physical (can’t seem to fire his upper and/or lower body in any meaningful way until it is too late.) I keyed on him quite a bit, and it seems like he never gets a 50-50 ball, like, ever. The 80-20 balls become 50-50 balls with him.

Sure, he can catch and finish a lob, but it seems to me that whatever positive he does, he gives it back on the other end and then some. It makes the consistently god-awful plus-minus and on/off stats make total sense.

I wouldn’t mind figuring a way to stash him in the G-League (he’s not 2-way eligible) and see if there’s any development with extensive reps down there. But right now, he seems totally useless. Trace Jackson-Davis looked light years better than him.

By: Knicks in '26

Knicks in '26 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:52:01 +0000

Nope, it was already stupid when he said it.

By: geo

geo — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:34:28 +0000

great now I got dolan on repeat in my head haughtily proclaiming over and over again that going over the 2nd apron is suicide…

sounded way overly dramatic in the moment…now just sounds stupid…

By: ptmilo

ptmilo — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:29:25 +0000

I’m not smart enough to do that calculation, but if I say 2% that’s probably too much. It’s probably closer to 1%.

marginal championship equity for a mid level contract is always going to be modest, and taking one year of championship-only equity isn’t going to be the best way to look at the cost. if mitch brought trophy odds from 9 to 11pct, that’s a 22% improvement for a team with close to no options to find that improvement elsewhere. and championships are not the only thing that matters. it’s more fun to win early round playoff games than lose them. just ask the hawks fan who sat next to me at game and couldn’t get to their until it was 43-15. if you boiled every three year contract down to 1 year of absolute championship odds, no contender would ever sign a non-max player.

mitch is of course a big health risk but the contract is also an asset. the knicks would have a ton of optionality to get out of the second apron restrictions that really bit, even in a bad mitch case. if you’re not the kind of person who likes to suck the ink of the cba for fun, it’s easy to get caught up in the second apron ultraviolet catastrophe story that many teams are happily pushing out. it’s not impossible to screw yourself, but the knicks would have a ton of optionality to avoid the bad basketball outcomes even if mitch had gone south at 3/47.

good vibes to alan and hubs. as the similarly not so young parent of a grade schooler, i think every extra day of custody easily passes the shitty jurisdiction bar, unlike certain press secretaries.

By: geo

geo — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:18:14 +0000

wiseman just looks like mikal in that he’s contact adverse…

By: Knick fan not in NJ

Knick fan not in NJ — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:13:26 +0000

That is a good point about Wiseman. By the eye test, Wiseman was fine on offense. On defense, I wasn’t impressed, but his +/- on a per minutes basis isn’t bad compared to the whole team’s performance. Maybe he’s better than I thought.

By: Raven is a Big Black Bird

Raven is a Big Black Bird — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:07:54 +0000

Haven’t watched the game, but Mr. Boxscore says Wiseman has scored 16 pts in 17+ minutes, along with 5 rebounds (and 3 turnovers). Reads like a decent game…