Posted by TMS:

Posted by Marv:

i see a lot of lamarcus aldridge in him, who coincidentally was the 2nd pick of the draft using OUR pick.

aldridge's first 3 yeasrs in the league:

CAREER SHOOTING STATS 
Season TEAM G MIN FG FGA FG% FG3 FG3A FG3% FT FTA FT% PTS AVG 
2006-07 Portland 63 1392 241 479 50.3 0 2 0.0 83 115 72.2 565 9.0 
2007-08 Portland 76 2649 561 1160 48.4 1 7 14.3 227 298 76.2 1350 17.8 
2008-09 Portland 81 3004 601 1243 48.4 7 28 25.0 261 334 78.1 1470 18.1 
TOTAL   220 7045 1403 2882 48.7 8 37 21.6 571 747 76.4 3385 15.4 

 

MORE STATS 
Season TEAM G MIN REB RAVG A AAVG STL SAVG BLK BAVG TO 
2006-07 Portland 63 1392 312 5.0 24 0.4 22 0.3 73 1.2 43 
2007-08 Portland 76 2649 578 7.6 122 1.6 55 0.7 94 1.2 126 
2008-09 Portland 81 3004 605 7.5 157 1.9 77 1.0 77 1.0 121 
TOTAL   220 7045 1495 6.8 303 1.4 154 0.7 244 1.1 290 

if Jordan Hill put up 9 & 5 his rookie season people would still be expecting a lot more... that's just the nature of NY fans' expectations it seems... they wanna see LaMarcus Aldridge now in Jordan Hill, not Aldridge when he was a rook... it's a shame many Knick fans don't have more patience when it comes to the growth of our young players.

Aldridge played behind Zach as a rookie.

The Five Yoots

"If the Knicks go in the direction (of Sessions) and it appears they will - the obvious will be stated: they will go into the new season against an improved Eastern Conference as the Young Guns.

Sessions is 23 and, along with Toney Douglas (23) is the oldest of the young core, which will include Wilson Chandler, 22, Jordan Hill, 21, and Danilo Gallinari, 20."

- Hahn

Forget the expectations and the scouting reports. Forget Lebron. Do New York Knicks fans have a strong enough stomach, and patience, to tolerate the baby steps of this core crew over the next 2-3 years?

One more thing, Jordan Hill will be fine.

You have to factor the system & position we had him playing in summer league as well as the fact we had another rookie trying to learn the system at the point.

Hill spent most of his time at AZ on the low blocks - posting people up and grabbing rebounds.

In summer league he spent most of his time around the top of the key initiating the offense and rolling or popping to the elbows. He looked pretty good at this for the most part but I don't think he was perfectly comfortable with where his shots were coming from. He looked better over time.

The fact that Douglas was also learning via trial by fire and struggled with his offense couldn't have helped Hill out either.

In addition the weak ass squad we had around these 2 players -- did NOT force the opposition to spread the court or respect the outside shot - thus clogging the lane.

Not trying to make execuses but for me I'm optimistic about both Hill and Douglas.

I was really dissapointed when we initially took Hill but right now I think he was probably the best pick for our team.