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What’s the deal with Yabusele?


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Knixkik
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Figured this would be best as a poll. He was highly regarded coming in and was great in euro play. The perception is he took a discount to be here. So far he seems completely unplayable.
Undisclosed injury
Just simply out of shape
Not being used correctly
Just isn’t very good
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Panos
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11/23/2025  6:50 PM
Let's just say that early concerns about him opting out and Knicks not having his Bird Rights were premature.
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Nalod
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11/23/2025  10:18 PM
Panos wrote:Let's just say that early concerns about him opting out and Knicks not having his Bird Rights were premature.

LOL,, you might say. Bit baffling as he had great season last year a good summer with Team France.
One might say it went to his head? It might appear it went instead to his ass!

Knixkik
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11/24/2025  11:55 AM
He can’t move and now he doesn’t even want to shoot threes. We need him to be a floor-spacer if anything.
Panos
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11/24/2025  3:30 PM    LAST EDITED: 11/24/2025  3:31 PM
Knixkik wrote:He can’t move and now he doesn’t can't even want to shoot threes. We need him to be a floor-spacer if anything.

Fixed. 0 for his last 6 3pt shots.

VDesai
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11/24/2025  10:31 PM
I watched him play at least 10 times last year. I think he was legitimately good. A good post player and hit the above the the break 3 regularly. He went from cheesesteaks to Halal Carts I guess and that white sauce has more calories than you think
martin
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11/25/2025  9:26 AM
VDesai wrote:I watched him play at least 10 times last year. I think he was legitimately good. A good post player and hit the above the the break 3 regularly. He went from cheesesteaks to Halal Carts I guess and that white sauce has more calories than you think

lol

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nycericanguy
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11/25/2025  9:44 AM
I really cannot believe how bad he is. He's just unplayable at either end. He gets blown by pretty much every single time. He's so slow and heavy footed. He makes KAT looks like OG out there defensively. And offensively he does nothing. Feels like we were bamboozled into signing this guy.

We really needed another big and rotation player with that money. Maybe he can be trade bait at the deadline if we attach an asset to him.

SergioNYK
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11/25/2025  10:00 AM
I'm choosing to be patient with Yabu. I see some positive signs but he's still a little far away from what I was expecting him to be for us. He's def out of shape and I also think he hasn't adapted to his role at either end.
Knixkik
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11/25/2025  1:50 PM
SergioNYK wrote:I'm choosing to be patient with Yabu. I see some positive signs but he's still a little far away from what I was expecting him to be for us. He's def out of shape and I also think he hasn't adapted to his role at either end.

What’s concerning is he doesn’t even look at the basket. He’s just a screen setter on offense and a traffic cone on defense.

What’s the deal with Yabusele?

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