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    • 32 replies on “Knicks Morning News (2025.03.06)”

    Josh Hart is a shell of himself. He’s obviously hurt and he is hurting the team. Is it on him or is it on the organization to sit him?

    Weird that we have 2 players –Josh and Mikal–that have yo-yoed from month long stretches of All-Star level to stretches of middling rotation level without any injury-like explanations.

    I know it’s blasphemy to compare anyone to Jordan, but SGA is doing some Jordan-esque shit this season. And more efficiently.

    And to think the Clippers sent him and 5 first round picks to OKC to get Paul George.

    Paul George was still pretty great at the time. The next season he outscored SGA by a 21.5-19.0 points per game margin.

    Because the NBA’s new collective bargaining agreement has made it more difficult for teams to carry players who are either injured or no longer productive at a large salary on their roster, teams are expected to operate more cautiously on extensions for their own players than they have over the past few years. Evidence of this approach, at least on some level, came when the Dallas Mavericks traded away Luka Doncic ahead of an offseason in which he could be offered a five-year, $345 million supermax. The Mavericks were reportedly as afraid of Doncic signing the supermax as they were of him rejecting it.

    The Philadelphia 76ers have become a cautionary tale as they now have Joel Embiid and Paul George on immovable contracts after they were expecting to be a title contender.

    Meanwhile, the Phoenix Suns have a roster they cannot repair due to second apron constraints despite a pair of All-NBA talents in Kevin Durant and Devin Booker because their third max contract player, Bradley Beal, isn’t the player he was just a few years ago.

    https://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/279552/NBA-Teams-Expected-To-Operate-With-More-Caution-Extending-Their-Own-Players

    Luka isn’t a great example here. Maybe, this is why Mikal avoids contact because being an Iron man holds the most value going forward.

    Yeah, you’d actually think we’d be happy to have a guy who’s 1) always available and 2) pretty decent (17/3/3 on 49 percent FG shooting). What we paid for him, opportunity cost, blah blah blah. I know. We paid too much, for sure. But that really doesn’t matter right now, does it?

    Weird that we have 2 players –Josh and Mikal–that have yo-yoed from month long stretches of All-Star level to stretches of middling rotation level without any injury-like explanations.

    No explanation for Bridges but Hart has always been like this. He went from shooting 30% from 3 in Portland to shooting 50% after we traded for him. And look at his monthly splits from last season: https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/hartjo01/splits/2024

    And to think the Clippers sent him and 5 first round picks to OKC to get Paul George.

    Well, it was really for Paul George and Kawhi Leonard. Kawhi told LAC he would sign there if they also traded for Paul George so you kind of have to bake Kawhi into the price of that trade.

    That makes it an even more cromulent trade. Again, at the time only. Clippers wouldn’t make that same trade now.

    teams are expected to operate more cautiously on extensions for their own players than they have over the past few years

    Will be interesting to see if we are one of them.

    There seems to be two popular ideas in the KB Collective that shouldn’t coexist:

    1. We can’t get anything good for Mikal Bridges bc he’s tanked his trade value.

    2. We’re going to extend Mikal Bridges at around $35M AAV and that’s fine.

    I might be too optimistic about Mikal’s trade value. I’m relying heavily on Dejounte Murray as my baseline. But if I am wrong, that means his market value is around $10-12M and extending him at the level he wants in this punitive environment would be catastrophic.

    I wonder if Mikal would even want to extend coming off a shitty year or would rather put faith in himself having a bounceback year going into FA

    We’re going to extend Mikal Bridges at around $35M AAV and that’s fine.

    Can you cite more than a single poster who advocated for this?

    Meanwhile, the Phoenix Suns have a roster they cannot repair due to second apron constraints despite a pair of All-NBA talents in Kevin Durant and Devin Booker because their third max contract player, Bradley Beal, isn’t the player he was just a few years ago.

    Beal gets all the blame, but he’s not the main problem. He can still play OK. They have had a lot of injuries and the team is contructed poorly. If they were all healthy and played together regularly they’d probably have one of the better offenses, but they’d still suck because their defense is terrible.

    Speaking of offenses, the Knicks have dropped to 4th and I read that over the last few weeks we are 7th. I’m not sure how much of that has been related to injuries and missed games, but if the offense starts slipping we are deep doo doo given our defense.

    At the time of the SGA trade no one on earth (including Presti) thought he was going to become an MVP candidate. He was a solid rookie guard (6th in ROY voting) that projected to be a consistent solid starter and maybe eventually an all-star. His amazing development totally changed OKC’s rebuild from many more years to what we see now.

    I am not in favor of giving Bridges 35 million a year. Going to be brave and go on record with that.

    If there is some cap thing that explains it where it doesn’t matter if we give him 20 million or 35 other than Dolan dollars, well then fine.

    But he hasn’t played to that number.

    I can’t explain Bridges. He should be playing a lot better than he is. I actually think that the squad on paper should have been just about perfect for him to be very productive. But it’s not happening so far.

    Just to be clear, I wasn’t saying that the Clippers made some massive blunder trading away SGA, at the time it made sense based on their timeline.

    But it sure as hell has to sting a little watching this guy turn into an MVP candidate.

    Speaking of offenses, the Knicks have dropped to 4th and I read that over the last few weeks we are 7th. I’m not sure how much of that has been related to injuries and missed games, but if the offense starts slipping we are deep doo doo given our defense.

    We’re tied for 4th. Denver passed us and Boston. OKC is tied with us and will pass us soon.

    Our offensive rating is currently 1.4pts better than last year. Our defense is 1.7pts worse.

    Last year was our year. We traded 6 picks, Randle, and Donte, yet still have a worse team than last year.

    The funny thing about SGA is that he is the platonic ideal of the stan position so many of us take about young players, be they the Franks of the world or the RJs. Somehow SGA went from something kinda cromulent to something spectacular. And he didn’t do it by being able to jump out of the gym, either. To quote Alice, “Curiouser and curiouser!”

    Last year was our year.

    No team with Donte as the 2nd scoring option is winning a title.

    No team with Donte as the 2nd scoring option is winning a title.

    Maybe, and that’s assuming we ignore Randle, but that’s not really the point.

    We spent 6 picks, Randle, and Donte for a non-championship team.

    I do vaguely remember one particular poster here who suspected that passing on Shai was an error that echoed Donovan Mitchell’s draftastrophe.

    We spent 6 picks, Randle, and Donte for a non-championship team.

    The Knicks had 2 options
    1. Pray Giannis asked out and you could trade for him /somehow Luka would’ve landed here because you need another top 5ish player to try and beat Boston

    2. Trade Brunson and blow it up because you’re wasting his time here

    * they chose Mikal and decided to overpay because they felt they needed to do something

    Yeah, I think Brunson leaving significant coin on the table is also built into the chips push.

    The defeatism on this site sometimes is super annoying.

    I love all the proclamations about how we can’t win or we’ve reached some ceiling when we’re on pace to win more regular season games than last year.

    Let’s play the freaking playoff games first before we make these doom and gloom proclamations.

    Brunson shows out in the playoffs. Hart was great in the playoffs last year. Mikal was on a finals team. KAT went to the WCF last year. OG played big for us in the playoffs last year.

    We have the dogs to run.

    Is it really that weird to lose a regular season game to Steph Curry when we don’t have KAT?

    Is it really that weird to lose a regular season game to Steph Curry when we don’t have KAT?

    How did you feel about Bridges playing soft with Curry defending him? How does he not punish Curry on offense? I heard the MSG crowd was angry at that.

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