Andy Rautins has a quality that you can't describe in precise words. Forget the pull up three-pointer in transition. Forget the tasty dish to Mozgov on the wrap around pass. Rautins is poised on the floor in the same manner that Steph Curry walks around like he owns the joint. Perhaps it is the bloodlines - the familiarity with the pro environment - but whatever it is, The Answer Man likes the way he carries himself overall. There is a confidence in his walk. Some call it court awareness. Bill Bradley defined it as always knowing where you are on the floor. Bill Bradley knows what he is talking about. The fact that Rautins is 6'4 does not hurt.

Rumble young men, rumble

They say Rautins had a bad wheel in SL and that was why he looked slow and off. You hear that he has been good in camp and now you see in the game that it was the truth. GO DONNIE!!! Never question Donnie Walnuts eye for talent. LOL

nixluva - the best part is that Rautins is a New York kinda guy. He has that "don't mess with me/ I'll fight you on every possession" expression. He went to frikin' Syracuse fer cryin out loud. Sure, he is the second round reject that nobody wanted but so what? If NBA draft position guaranteed results, then John Wallace, Dontae Jones and Walter McCarty would have been the core of a dynasty after they were all selected by the Knicks in the 1996 first round.

The more Rautins plays, the more he will adjust to the pro game, which is tailor made for his game. No, he is not fancy, his measurements will never stand out on a scouting report and he won't jump out of the gym. He is a fundamentally sound basketball player.

I'm cool wit dat

scoshin wrote:Not only Walker, but Mason should be bumped from the rotation.

Give time to Fields and Rautins instead.

But I highly doubt D'Antoni gives the not to two rooks, at least at the start of the season.

I payed attention to Walker some but not so much Mason... I know his shot was off but he seemed scrapy on D. Not solid but the effort was there.

iSergio wrote:I'm rooting extra hard for Andy Rautins and Landry Fields just so they can be added to the list of prospects that our guru BRIGGS was dead wrong about. LOL

Very cruel.

I thought that Briggs came around on Fields after looking at the clip that were available of him.

... wouldn't it be classic "expect he unexpected" Knicks if Rautins turned out to be a diamond in he rough. No one, except the guy who worked him out him out up close - Donnie Walnuts - could see it. Rautins works his way into the rotation with solid effort and winds up earning the starting job. Crazy huh?

You heard it here first.

walsh has done a good job finding players with limited resources - fields, rautins and mozgov is a solid group of rookies to show for a team that traded away its 2010 first round pick in 2004.

misterearl wrote:You can never have too many of those Stanford guys

fishmike - is it just me or does Landry Fields remind you of a pumped up Matt Barnes? Nah, it's just me. I despise comparisons.

Never mind.

no comparisons but the way he moves reminds me more of our own Allan Houston.

but I despise comparisons