nixluva wrote:

Panos wrote:Frank N. is Michael Sweetney, 2017 edition. He'll be out of the league once his rookie contract is up.

You know NOTHING! Tony Allen made a career Off Defense and he’s not even close to the passer Frank is. Guys like Frank tend to stick in the NBA! Fans are assuming Frank isn’t going to improve his offense but chances are he will.

It's safe to say he's just trolling with that comment.

Knixkik wrote:

nixluva wrote:

Panos wrote:Frank N. is Michael Sweetney, 2017 edition. He'll be out of the league once his rookie contract is up.

You know NOTHING! Tony Allen made a career Off Defense and he;s not even close to the passer Frank is. Guys like Frank tend to stick in the NBA! Fans are assuming Frank isnt going to improve his offense but chances are he will.

It's safe to say he's just trolling with that comment.

Not at all

StarksEwing1 wrote:

EnySpree wrote:

nixluva wrote:

Panos wrote:Frank N. is Michael Sweetney, 2017 edition. He'll be out of the league once his rookie contract is up.

You know NOTHING! Tony Allen made a career Off Defense and he’s not even close to the passer Frank is. Guys like Frank tend to stick in the NBA! Fans are assuming Frank isn’t going to improve his offense but chances are he will.

I think he will too but he's missing a certain aggressiveness. He's too passive. He's not on a Tony Allen level. He doesn't have that motor. It's not fair to say he's a bust yet, but it's also not fair to give him a pass cuz he's young. He signed up for this.

You gotta be more patient. I understand you want to win immediately,you want frank to be a success immediately but thats just not reality. I think you make some fair points about him BUT saying he sucks is just inaccurate. He has been up and down which isnt a unusual for a 19 year old kid. I think he has shown some good flashes on offense espcially when he has played with mudiay. Does he need to be more aggressive on offense? Of course but thats all about being a rookie and learning the pro game.

I'm not taking about wins and losses. I'm just talking about Frank and how we go about developing him. I keep saying over and over that I'm not giving up on the kid...

I keep getting the comment for me to be patient.... the same could be said to the ingress that want to force him to play minutes that he doesn't deserve. If you can be patient maybe Frank can earn his minutes if he gets better.

He has played so well at doing what he's been doing that he was rewarded a professional basketball contract in his mid-teens, and $3.5 million this year as a 19 year old in the NBA.

By the end of this season, I wouldn't be surprised if he'll have made over $4 million before the age of 20! More than most of us will make in a lifetime.

With all that said, I think he's very conscious about his offensive deficiencies - but he's been taught not to force the issue. By playing at an early age against bigger, stronger competition has helped reinforce that.

US-born and raised players are used to dominating same-age competition with their sheer physical talents that they develop a certain recklessness - they're used to going full speed into the paint with reckless abandon, with confidence that they can improvise once they're in the paint, and heck, I'm bigger than those "big men"! No problem!

GustavBahler wrote:Found this quote from the Berman article on Frank. Its in reponse to being ready to be a starting PG.

If it's going to be now for me, then why not?" Ntilikina said. "I'm taking care of being ready for the moment."

That comment concerns me as a fan because it sounds like someone who doesnt understand how bad he is on offense. Goes back to what I was saying about Frank not getting it. Doesnt look close to a starting PG.

I’m rooting for my man whose mother was a refugee and lived an exile of hell to raise three boys more impressive than most of us here. Family whose older brothers looked after the kid so he cold blossom and become perhaps a famous global athlete. A kid who given a chance could rise up.
I’m rooting for a knick rookie and if it’s a big delusional so be it. Not sure what all the hate toward his talent is but some of it is kind of over done.
Upside is about risk. In the face of what some of you are writing I applauded the risk and embrace it then the gutless wonders some of you exhibit. Knicks go know where when they trade picks for safe talent and y’all whine. Then they change gears and draft with upside and fear of the unknown and lamenting in hindsight is pretty weak in my opinion.
Many of you wanted Malik Monk as well. I would not write off his career either at age 19.

Nalod wrote:I’m not comparing HOF KG and Kobe to Frank. I said they had ups and down.
And nobody was comparing them to HOF players in their rookie years. KG was drafted 5th? I forgot. Kobe was 13th pick. Take a rookie tape, edit and look back.

I’m rooting for my man whose mother was a refugee and lived an exile of hell to raise three boys more impressive than most of us here. Family whose older brothers looked after the kid so he cold blossom and become perhaps a famous global athlete. A kid who given a chance could rise up.
I’m rooting for a knick rookie and if it’s a big delusional so be it. Not sure what all the hate toward his talent is but some of it is kind of over done.
Upside is about risk. In the face of what some of you are writing I applauded the risk and embrace it then the gutless wonders some of you exhibit. Knicks go know where when they trade picks for safe talent and y’all whine. Then they change gears and draft with upside and fear of the unknown and lamenting in hindsight is pretty weak in my opinion.
Many of you wanted Malik Monk as well. I would not write off his career either at age 19.

knicks1248 wrote:200 post about a kid who is avg 5 points..The bottom line is, if he doesn't show a vast improvement next season he will be traded. Clearly the knicks don't have a lot of faith in him, or else they wouldn't be scouring the nba circut's for cheap pgs to help

“Clearly the knicks don’t have confidence...” Again, your asking. Shit up.
Say “I think the knicks don’t have confidence”, then explain your view.
Otherwise your making things up.

BTW, do we think frank passes too early because he is afraid? If his coach wanted otherwise do we think he would not say it? And we then assume frank is ignoring him? “Frank, dribble deeper into the play!” Anything think there is a benefit to it? Or do we want a ball dominant stagnation like Wall? Wall is an allstar but is his game good for his team? Kylie is superior at this. Frank is not KYrie, and not yet Wall either, so why ask him to control the ball later in the cycle? Also, he can get the ball back. To me, he plays like a rookie, and he plays like a coach wants his rookie to play. A rookie not yet polished and has a lot of upside.

GustavBahler wrote:

StarksEwing1 wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:Found this quote from the Berman article on Frank. Its in reponse to being ready to be a starting PG.

If it's going to be now for me, then why not?" Ntilikina said. "I'm taking care of being ready for the moment."

That comment concerns me as a fan because it sounds like someone who doesnt understand how bad he is on offense. Goes back to what I was saying about Frank not getting it. Doesnt look close to a starting PG.

first off i dont think he is bad on offense. Im not saying he will ever be a bigtime scorer but he definetly has offensive skills that will get better with more experience. I actually like his quote. Frank is a humble kid but i like that he is starting to crave for more responsibility

I guess we will have to agree to disagree on Frank's offense.

To me it consists mostly of Frank giving up the ball ASAP, wether or not its in the flow of the offense.