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Re: Grimes vs Mikal
Grimes has the most marginal of leads in every per 36 counting star except blocks, TOs, and rebounds. In rebounds he’s doubling Mikal.
Grimes also has a .605 TS% while Bridges is at .576, roughly league average.
All that said, the AIOs tend to favor Mikal. Obviously, I can’t give any specifics but Mikal has a +6 on/off compared to Grimes at roughly -3, so the RAPM component likely makes a big difference.
Grimes is the new Cole
https://x.com/djacenba/status/1896182593328169335?s=46&t=0wqff4cNt-sCGcDs-uMExw
DJ Zullo on Mitch’s return
Grimes lost his starting spot here and fell apart. I’m sure he wanted and needed a fresh start. He was also injured, and we needed depth for our playoff push. The results weren’t good, but the trade made sense at the time.
Mitch is back. This is the moment I’ve been waiting for all season. If he can stay healthy, he will give us the boost we need on the defensive end. 20 games or so is plenty of time for Thibs to figure out the rotation for the playoffs. If he gets it right, we will be dangerous.
This is a bad take.
Cole never played more than 16mpg. Grimes played 17mpg as a rookie and played 30mpg as a sophomore, starting 43 more games than Aldrich did in his career.
GKhenman-this is my feeling as well. It was so great to see Big Mitch back looking light, happy and in shape (cardio and timing notwithstanding). There really was no one on the Knicks that had his skill set and can alter a game on defense and corral offensive rebounds leading to more attempts. If healthy, I see him as a key missing piece. Lets go sign Moses and give him some burn to ease Mitch back and give Kat a break here and there.
Nah, the whining about a player who time has demonstrated is an overrated garden variety player is pretty familiar.
Grimes in now on his 4th team in 5 years. He has has opportunities to prove his value on all of them, yet was largely used as a low-budget shiny object in those trades.
The Knicks trade didn’t work out, but it was more due to injury than anything else. When he was traded, there was still hope that Randle and Mitch were returning, and that the new players would add offensive punch to the bench, while Grimes was whining about his role and injured. Most pundits lauded the trade as a steal for the Knicks. We can debate how it worked out, but Burks played pretty well when he finally got consistent minutes and Bogey had his moments. In any case, Grimes was not going to help the team in the playoffs.
But more importantly, what has Grimes accomplished since being traded? Other than being traded twice more in eight months? He had a golden opportunity to establish himself as a valuable player in Dallas, and yet they dumped him for fucking Caleb Martin and his shitty contract, and needed to include a 2nd to do so.
I’m not a fan of the Mikal deal value-wise, but he is a legit starter on a championship-level team. We can debate whether keeping Grimes and using those picks in a different trade would have been a better way to go, but whatever, we don’t need to inflate the hidden greatness of Grimes to do that.
I’m not saying Grimes is an all-star, but he’s clearly a rotation player and borderline starter. Cole Aldrich was barely a rotation player.
This year Grimes is averaging 2 more rebounds and nearly 4 more points per 36.
I’m not sure what being traded has to do with it. Players get traded. Even good players get traded.
Dallas also punted on Luka, so I’m not putting much faith in their judgment. But Grimes is a FA this off-season and Martin isn’t.
Detroit traded Grimey for the not-so-great 32 year old Tim Hardaway. Dallas flipped him for one of the more pedestrian players in the league in Caleb Martin. For whatever reason he hasn’t gotten a lot of respect around the league.
He’s having a pretty nice season though, and he’d be a guy I’d be looking at as a free agent if I had cap space. He has shot the 3 well on high volume and has actually created his own shot a fair amount of the time this year. Usage is up too.
I was never a huge believer in the guy as a franchise cornerstone, but he can play.
Is Jaquez going to target Mitch tonight? He seems to enjoy ruining our seasons.
Fun stat of the day -last night the two Johnsons on the Nets combined for 23 points on 6-35 shooting
“I’m not saying Grimes is an all-star, but he’s clearly a rotation player and borderline starter. Cole Aldrich was barely a rotation player.”
IIRC some of the fine folks here were arguing at the time that Cole was “clearly a rotation player and a borderline starter.” Remember the “Free Cole tee-shirts?
“I’m not sure what being traded has to do with it. Players get traded. Even good players get traded.
Dallas also punted on Luka, so I’m not putting much faith in their judgment. But Grimes is a FA this off-season and Martin isn’t.”
Nico Harrison is not a paragon of wise executive decision-making. But Dallas is hardly committing to a rebuild. They brought in a perennial MVP candidate in his late prime and are gearing up for a playoff run. Are you suggesting that they were worried that Grimes was going to command a massive overpay as a restricted free agent and were worried about losing him for nothing, to the point that they traded him for an on-paper worse player and included a non-negligible 2nd? Sounds more like they didn’t think that Grimes was going to help them win in the short run as much as Martin will.
As far as his next contract, what would you place the over/under at? DDV money? Is he worth that? What would be the highest “realistic” deal you would match to keep him?
Look, I think Grimes definitely has a higher ceiling than Cole ever did, and might turn out to be a decent 7th man on a good team. I don’t see him ever being a plus starter, or a 6MoY candidate. I wish him the best, but imho he’s not a player to spend even a second pining over losing. He clearly didn’t have much trade value, and his bloated cap hold alone would be a reason to move on from him, let alone what it might cost to match whatever overpay he was offered.
Grimes didn’t fall apart. He was averaging over 17 pts and 5 rebounds per 36 off the bench.
He’s not better than Mikal Bridges but he is exactly what we need in the rotation right now.
People projected Cole as a rotation player or starter. Grimes has played as a rotation player and starter. These two things are not the same. Cole never actualized those projections, and Grimes didn’t need to because they weren’t projections. Saying that “Grimes is a rotation player” is describing what he’s already done and is currently still doing.
I’m mostly fixated on Grimes’ decision to model his facial hair after Val Kilmer’s as Doc Holliday.
Cole Aldrich was kind of a unique case. On a per-minute basis, he was reasonably productive. He also had possibly the worst conditioning of any NBA player I have ever seen. A few trips up and down the court, and he’d be breathing heavily. A five minute shift would leave him looking like he had just completed an Iron Man triathlon. He was talented enough to play in the league, if the games were all five minutes long.
But Cole WAS a rotation player. He played in over 60 games for 3 consecutive years. The year after he played for the Knicks he played 60 games for the 53-29 Clippers to a 2.3 BPM and the hand-wringing here was pretty pronounced.
Problem was, Cole hit a hard ceiling and bounced off of it, and had health/conditioning issues. I’ll concede that Grimes possibly hasn’t yet, but again, if this actually is his ceiling, there’s nothing to get all that worked up about. If he were not jettisoned in that trade, it would have surely been in a subsequent trade, largely as salary filler instead of all the crazy cap maneuvering that Aller had to do with Duane Washington Jr., etc. He surely wouldn’t have taken the place of DDV in the KAT trade, or any of the picks in the Mikal trade.
By the way, Cole Aldrich is only 36 years old, maybe we should check in on him for that 15th roster spot…
What a weird jeremiad, to talk down Grimes like he’s Cole Aldrich or Frankie Smokes. He was more than cromulent, if a little inconsistent. Clearly, as with IQ, Leon didn’t want to pay whatever Grimes’ camp felt his value is, but comparing him with Aldrich is just dumb. He has been a good starter on a playoff team already, at 35mpg. Aldrich was good as a 15mpg sub who was projected to do more but couldn’t because he couldn’t get in good enough shape. Nonsense take.
I hated the trade at the time and hate it more now. Short-term thinking with limited upside, which wasn’t even realized because of Bogie’s injury.
Edit: people complain all the time about recognizing win curve and making moves congruent with that, and that trade failed in that respect as well. We weren’t gonna beat the Celtics either way.
Why did the Grizz start that bogus lineup without Morant and Bane last night against the Spurs? Neither one of them was hurt at the end of the game against us. They kind of deserved to lose a heartbreaker last night because of that.
What I liked about that game was that the Spurs starters played 59 minutes while their bench played 71.
“…but comparing him with Aldrich is just dumb. He has been a good starter on a playoff team already, at 35mpg. Aldrich was good as a 15mpg sub who was projected to do more but couldn’t because he couldn’t get in good enough shape. Nonsense take.”
First of all, no need to be an asshole about it.
Second, I am not comparing Grimes to Cole. I am comparing the hype and hand-wringing about Grimes to that over Cole.
What is “nonsense” and “dumb” to me is wasting a single keystroke pining over a guy who isn’t worth the energy to pine over. And Grimes isn’t. He won’t be pined over in Detriot, or in Dallas, and if he gets traded yet again for peanuts, in Philly.
IMO we were the 2nd best team in the NBA last year with something like a 20% chance to win the title if we were healthy. The trade didn’t work out, but that was the right time in the win curve to make a win-now move.
BTW let’s not forget that Grimes played like dogshit in the 2023 playoffs, then lost his starting role to DDV after over a month of playing like dogshit as a starter, when he was afraid to take a shot and missed most of those he took. Then he went on to play like dogshit for the next 33 games as a reserve.
At the time, Leon probably thought that Randle and Mitch were coming back, and that they had a puncher’s chance against the Celtics. He rolled the dice on swapping out a player playing like dogshit for two vets with playoff experience to round out the bench. Lo and behold, Alec Burks puts up an 8.3 BPM on a .694 TS% while Grimes was shut down for the season and would have either been unavailable or compromised.
Was it a good call by Leon? No, definitely not, it didn’t work out as he hoped it would. But there was certainly a valid rationale for it, and nothing that Grimes has done since should be inflated to suggest that it was some kind of disaster.
The idea that Grimes being traded for multiple times means he is not good is very stupid.
Detroit is the most improved team in the NBA and Hardaway has started almost every game for them. They wanted veterans and it has clearly worked. The Pistons also got three second round picks for him. They traded Grimes for value, and it was a good trade.
Yeah, Dallas traded him for Martin. Dallas also traded Luka fucking Doncic. They’re idiots. They remember Caleb Martin being awesome in the playoffs and they traded a good chip to acquire what they think is a clutch player.
These trades prove Grimes is valuable, not the opposite.
If we had Grimes on our bench right now we’d be in much better shape. The drop off from Mikal, Hart, OG to Grimes is acceptable enough to not have to grind all three into dust every night, and he could definitely start in a pinch when OG or Hart are injured. We’re not talking about a 15th man here. He would be the elixir to our ailing wing depth.
Grimes is just a guy with a bit of upside (which is fine). We could definitely use another guy.
I guess it depends on your view of Grimes’ upside. I think it’s considerable – in the most recent game I checked out the highlights to see if it was just him being hot from 3, and no, he drove a lot and went left a third of the time. His handle is still very loose, but he’s very bouncy, very good on defense, and that kind of player can continue to grow. All-star? Unlikely. But he’d be a fuckton better than Shamet or Payne. Or, for that matter, Precious, though obviously we are short on bigs at the moment and Grimes is a 2.
Not calling it a disaster, just a mistake. It’s not up there with picking Obi, even. But good cheap players on rookie deals are valuable.
I wish I agreed that we were second to Boston last year. I suppose if Randle and Mitch were healthy, sure. I’m probably letting hindsight influence me here, but at the time my memory was that Julius coming back was 50/50 at best – there was a lot of chatter how that kind of injury generally needed surgery and a return was unlikely. And Mitch had always been fragile, but yeah, we did expect him back. Still, a 20% chance at a title seems high.
How much faith do we have in Westchester? I think claiming Davis was a shrewd move, but time will tell if it was a smart move. I am intrigued by it, though..
Grimes clearly did not want to be here anymore. When we signed Donte, it meant Grimes was not going to get paid. Donte proved to be the better player and that was that. They were redundant. Not to mention we also had IQ and Deuce.
Johnny Davis is not good at basketball.
PJ, don’t be the lone holdout – we need things the entire board can agree on, and one of them should be that Johnny Davis is turrible
Agreed. But i wonder if they can work their magic on him there. In college he reminded me of Jordan Poole, but it appears Poole has better basketball IQ..which is shocking because Poole always does dumb shit on the court
I think he got hot in the tournament and fooled some people. He has moxie. I’ll give him that.
“The idea that Grimes being traded for multiple times means he is not good is very stupid.”
I expected that you would weigh in as the undisputed hand-wringing champion of KB. And that you would weigh in in hypocritical asshole-ish fashion by distorting what was being said and taking it out of context is no surprise either. Never change, dude!
Grimes is not “not good.” He’s just not worth pining over. His being traded a bunch of times for shitty vets is hard evidence that he has not had much value on the open market. Anyone who wanted him could have had him.
Westchester (and the g-league in general) is the perfect place for reclamation projects like Davis, so sure, why not?
One of my few tenets is that players who were drafted by us, or sort of rescued/revived by us (ala Bernard or Julius but not Amare or Melo) and are no longer with the team I wish the best for, no matter where they end up (Nate in Boston), and even if it means we were wrong to let them leave. Thought the Grimes for BandB trade was good at the time, still thinks it made sense but if a Grimes breakout occurs to negate that I would be happy
BE exactly.
I hope you aren’t trying to make some correlation between those two statements. looking at TH’s BPM, VORP ,TS%, ws/48, PER or whatever and one would conclude he has played like home made shit.
Grimes price was 3 #2’s but a large part of that was for Detroit to absorb the 12M difference in salaries.
I think the Grimes trade was old fashioned fine process, bad results. It was a future equity for present equity trade and I absolutely think we were good enough to justify making one at the time. The fully healthy 2022-2023 Knicks had a shot.
Alas, Jaime Jaquez, OG’s hammy, etc. We all know what happened and if Grimes can make something of himself it will look bad in hindsight.
His upside doesn’t really keep me up at night, but to his credit Rama did stake out this position from the start and Grimes is undeniably having a good season. I’d definitely rather have him than Shamet.
The number of trades is genuinely kinda weird, IMO. It may well just be that everyone is trying to cash in on his rookie contract without having to pay him, but there were also always murmurings about him wanting a bigger role and the like so it could be related to that too.
He’ll certainly get a shot (or 20, per game) on the current Sixers!
I wholeheartedly agree with TNFH’s level-headed take, including the part about rama (and Ben R for that matter) predicting that it would not work out as well as everyone (including most savvy pundits) thought it would. Alas, water under the bridge. I’m glad we have Pacome to wishcast on in that role going forward.
FWIW I think all 3 of our rooks could be at least replacement level as soon as next year. Maybe not Pac-Man, but I do think Kolek’s passing offsets his deficiencies, and Huk has already tantalized. That would help a lot.
Although this seems reasonable, we did not get players of value. People were hung on who was Bogie 2 or 3 years before, and Burks was not a solution for our ball handling problems. I thought at the time that we got worse both at the short and long term. Grimes may not be a player worth to pine over, but he is useful, we drafted him, and then we just dumped him for very little in return, which is a bit sad.
Certainly rather have Grimes than Shamet… he’d certainly not make KAT a better defender.
The primary hand-wringing around Grimes has to do with the fact he was a cost-controlled young player that would have been very valuable last year and this year coming off the bench for us. The fact that he had some upside was just gravy.
He seemingly is hitting at least a bit of that upside now and will probably be a career mid level starter or very good bench player moving forward. That is a player we could really use right now and having him would give us the option of using bird rights this off-season to keep him if we end up over the 2nd apron and money doesn’t matter as much.
It’s not like we traded away a star it’s just another example of very poor asset management at the edges of our roster. Bad asset management that really harmed our bench this year and last and might continue to haunt us moving forward.
Don’t forget about McCullars. He has 9th/10th man potential also.
It’s not like we traded away a star it’s just another example of very poor asset management at the edges of our roster
Brock Aller may want to have a word…
Brock Aller is doing amazing work when it comes to salary cap manipulation. Zero notes. But that has nothing to do with asset management.
I as well felt very strongly at the time that the Grimes trade made us worse both in the present and the future. Bogey seemed clearly washed to me and Burks is mediocre at best and can hijack the offense at the worst times. I thought the trade was a disaster when we did it and it still worked out even worse than I had imagined.
“…that would have been very valuable last year and this year coming off the bench for us.”
He was not valuable at all last year coming off the bench, or as a starter. He actually sucked…is that really disputable? He was also injured and likely not to help at all until this season.
The “cost-controlled” thing is also overstated. He’s making $4.3M this year and is an impending RFA. Could we have signed both him and Precious? In not, who did we need more? At the time of the trade, Grimes was playing at replacement level, if that. He showed virtually no development since his rookie year and may have actually regressed. So how much “surplus” value was at risk at the time of the trade? Plus, what would his cap hold be next year as a RFA? Isn’t it like 250% of his salary? What kind of offer would he get? If anything over $10M AAV, wouldn’t the choice be between either matching for the right to overpay an 8th man in the rotation on an above-market deal or to lose him for nothing? And has anything happened to suggest that he could be traded for anything but overpaid rotation filler guys like TH2 or Caleb Martin, i.e. the same kinds of guys we traded him for?
Ben, respect your opinion and your take looks more and more prescient. But salary cap manipulation and asset management are exactly the same thing for top teams with the new CBA.
On the day of the trade, Bogey was averaging 20 PPG with a 60% TS and had even better numbers the prior season. Totally fair to critique the trade but this is pure revisionism.
“Brock Aller is doing amazing work when it comes to salary cap manipulation. Zero notes. But that has nothing to do with asset management.”
This is illogical. While they are not synonymous, asset management and salary cap manipulation are very much intertwined.
And calling the trade “even worse than a disaster” might be the most hyperbolic statement ever made on this site. Pivoting away from it was pretty simple.
It would be revisionism if I was changing my opinion from the day of the trade, which I am not. Bogey was having a -2.2 bpm season for a worst in the league detroit, was often injured, and about to be 35. He was going to be the weak link in the defense, and I have always thought that not having weak links is way more important on defense than on offense.
Breaking News
The Knicks waived Ryan and Toppin.
Both were on 2-way contracts.
Beat me to it Max I wonder who we’re going to add
“It would be revisionism if I was changing my opinion from the day of the trade, which I am not. Bogey was having a -2.2 bpm season for a worst in the league detroit, was often injured, and about to be 35. He was going to be the weak link in the defense, and I have always thought that not having weak links is way more important on defense than on offense.”
These were fair criticisms, but again, the vast majority of respected pundits were positive, even gushing about this trade, and most here felt it was at the very least a decent win-now gamble, especially given that Grimes was injured, had played horribly all season, was whining about Thibs, was only locked up for one more year, and was redundant with DDV, Deuce, and to a degree, Hart.
Is Okeke still elegible for a 2-way?
They can only be replaced by guys with four years in the league or less, correct? That means no TJ. Moses? Not sure if Okeke counts.
Well at least now we can move on from Grimes.
(Ahahahaha, as if…)
Holy shit, waving Toppin is perhaps the most surprising thing that has happened this hour. Who is Leon?
TJ, Brown, and Okeke are all ineligible since they have more than 3 years of service time. I welcome the move because I think we can make better use of the spots than Ryan and Brobi Toppin, but the options aren’t all that exciting.
Some guys who might be able to give you minutes in a pinch (no particular order): Chris Duarte, Usman Garuba, Kenny Lofton, David Roddy, Adama Sanogo, AJ Griffin, Olivier Sarr, Isaiah Livers, Marques Bolden
Can’t believe all this talk about Cole and no-one mentioned he led the Knicks in FT
(Fake Tooth)
Kenny Lofton plays center field and records with Jim Messina.
Ok, but since we are talking about how we feel about Grimes today, hindsight gets in the way, along with “the grass is always greener”, nostalgia, etc. Also not everyone felt the same way about Grimes or Bogey at the time of the trade, and I did have a soft spot for him.
So, all in all, I just wanted to say that it is pretty normal to see a good Grimes game and ask “what if”, even if a cold clinical take would say everything was a minor mistake at worst, and most likely a wash.
I think this was the latest they could be waved and still be eligible to play in the playoffs if some other team picks them up.
I’m not sure where the less than four years of service requirement comes from. I thought it was the that their previous salary could not be too high.
Notably, they did not waive Delon Wright.
Plan has to be to sign Warren to an NBA deal, and then sign a pair of eligible big men to two-ways for in case of emergency situations. Otherwise, they would have just signed Moses Brown to our 15th spot.
The issue with Grimes being traded so much is that he wants a bigger contract than he has demonstrated he’s worth on the court. He’s had some trouble proving his point because he hurt his knee and rotation spot in NY and that carried over to the Detroit.
Dallas offered him an nice extension but he refused it. So they traded him rather than lose him for nothing if he opts out.
The market will ultimately determine what he’s worth, but we clearly made a bad trade in terms of long term basketball value terms as I was screaming at the time. He’s a good 3&D role player and he’s only 24.
You’re confusing two-way eligibility with the first-apron buyout market restriction. Anyone with under four years of service time is two way eligible. Teams above the first-apron can’t sign buyout guys previously making the MLE or above.
I guess there could theoretically be a player that falls under both categories but it seems extraordinarily unlikely!
Here’s a list of current free agents. Sort by years of service and anyone at 3 or below is eligible (a few guys listed at 4 are eligible because there was a year in which they got zero NBA minutes for whatever reason).
The vast majority of pundits were wrong.
We were trading Grime’s future prime years for one year of a guy that played absolutely no defense at an age where he was close to being washed. It made no long term sense and not much short term sense either because he wasn’t the kind of piece that was putting us over the top. He came in handy for a trade, but we already had Fournier.
If people want to make the case for trading Grimes, you can say he was unhappy with his minutes, wanted more salary than leon wanted to pay him and they wanted to do Fournier a favor and trade him but hold onto an expiring contract. That all makes sense, but in basketball value terms it was a bad deal.
“We were trading Grime’s future prime years”
No, we were trading the right to pay Grimes an unknown amount for his future prime years or losing him in free agency.
“If people want to make the case for trading Grimes, you can say he was unhappy with his minutes, wanted more salary than leon wanted to pay him, and stunk up the court in the playoffs and then all of the next season prior to the trade.”
fify
Waiving Wright wouldn’t allow us to sign another player.
I’m guessing that the first 2-way deal goes to Johnny Davis. Seems logical to assume that they want a good, hard look at him beyond just bringing him in to fill out Westchester’s roster.
The list is a bit “redundant”, NBA’s free agents aren’t necessarily “free agents”* and some of the players in the list are out with season ending injuries (i.e. Bojan).
* examples include Fournier, Garuba, Vezenkov, Yurtseven, Wayne Gabriel, Thanasis, Armoni Brooks and many others.
P.S. and Frank is in the list too! 😀
18 years in and Horford is more valuable to the Celtics than KP. I’ll have what he’s having.
I think Thibs likes Wright as a situational defensive player at the point of attack.
I bet Alan or Brian or Mike could get Brock Aller to do a live thread/discussion of asset/cap management and aprons on KB.
(I want this so much.)
I was going to say that adding Kai Jones to one of the 2-way spots would be a good idea, but then i read this.
Grimes is still on his rookie contract. He’ll be lucky to get a deal at the MLE. And he is approximately 100x better than Shamet. This is all very stupid.
Bring back Joan Rivers.
If we sign a person to a minimum contract and also add one or two two-way players I think we will still have only fourteen players on full contracts. Could we convert one of the two ways to a regular contract on the last day of the season and then have them playoff eligible? (Two way players cannot play in the playoffs). Or would our cap situation prevent this?
Thanks TNFH
Gotta miss the game, going to the Kyiv Ballet of all things. Which is weirdly coincidental as I’m working furiously to get three colleagues out of Kyiv on a study tour to San Diego. It’s all Ukraine, all the time.
I’ll look forward to the reading the game stream and perhaps try to watch the game on delay at the same time. Always hard, though, someone always gives up the next play…
We currently have 14 NBA contracts. If we sign a minimum player, our roster will be full.
However, because we waited (at least) an extra day to sign a minimum player, there will be enough salary on the final day of the season to cut Shamet or Delon and sign a final minimum player.
For instance, sign TJ today. Cut Delon on last day of season and sign Okeke on last day of season.
Thanks EB
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