Ira wrote:Drexler had a quicker first step, which made him a top scorer. I love the Fields pick, but I don't see the comparison to Drexler. Fields' greatest asset is his basketball smarts. He has a way of being in the right place at the right time.

Fields is still #3 on the rookie rankings @ nba.com - right behind the two #1 picks - Griffin and Wall.

It is amazing that Fields is outproducing all rookies other than the #1 picks from the past two years and we got this guy in the second round. The Knicks scouting department has really redeemed itself from the Jennings fiasco.

Ira wrote:Drexler had a quicker first step, which made him a top scorer. I love the Fields pick, but I don't see the comparison to Drexler. Fields' greatest asset is his basketball smarts. He has a way of being in the right place at the right time.

Fields is still #3 on the rookie rankings @ nba.com - right behind the two #1 picks - Griffin and Wall.

Yeah, I don't mean to slam Fields AT ALL by saying he's not Clyde Drexler. He's just nothing remotely like Clyde Drexler as a basketball player.

He's a very very very good and smart player though. He hustles and runs and that's exactly what we need.

knicks1248 wrote:He's easily playing like a top 5 pick..He's numbers aren't going to light up broadway, but he's has been as clutch as they come..Talk about timely plays, if he was in the MOB, his nick nmae would be "Larry (big play) Fields..

I will say, the way he got those plays wasn't special, but they were BIG. That 3 was clutch as hell, the scrappiness of grabbing that loose ball at the exact right moment, which fittingly enough, he was there b/c he was hustling (But unsuccessfully) from going after the rebound just before, and then hustling to the basket just in case the layup didn't go in. He should have gotton the MSG player of the game over Douglas, even though the scoring stats read different.

I would have given it to Felton though. He played his heart out. Still shows some bad shot selection though, but he's playing much better.

knicks1248 wrote:He's easily playing like a top 5 pick..He's numbers aren't going to light up broadway, but he's has been as clutch as they come..Talk about timely plays, if he was in the MOB, his nick nmae would be "Larry (big play) Fields..

SMH

You serious man? Landry Fields is not a lottery pick. You should try watching other teams rookies.

martin wrote:

AnubisADL wrote:

knicks1248 wrote:He's easily playing like a top 5 pick..He's numbers aren't going to light up broadway, but he's has been as clutch as they come..Talk about timely plays, if he was in the MOB, his nick nmae would be "Larry (big play) Fields..

SMH

You serious man? Landry Fields is not a lottery pick. You should try watching other teams rookies.

expand on that. What are those lottery picks doing to help their team win? Cause we all know there is straight up concrete chatter that Landry is doing exactly that for the Knicks.

Fields is indeed playing like a lotto pick. He's smart and not doing too much. That's why I love that kid. He's fitting in and could actually do more but realizes that he doesn't have to force anything. With really good players around him, he can do the little things that put us over the top. He's a D'Antoni player. Mike has always had guys like Raja Bell, Hill, etc. that are smart and know what do at the right time. Guys that have complete BB skills.

martin wrote:

AnubisADL wrote:

knicks1248 wrote:He's easily playing like a top 5 pick..He's numbers aren't going to light up broadway, but he's has been as clutch as they come..Talk about timely plays, if he was in the MOB, his nick nmae would be "Larry (big play) Fields..

SMH

You serious man? Landry Fields is not a lottery pick. You should try watching other teams rookies.

expand on that. What are those lottery picks doing to help their team win? Cause we all know there is straight up concrete chatter that Landry is doing exactly that for the Knicks.

The only rookies getting 20+ minutes a game are John Wall, Eric Bledsoe, Evan Turner, Wesley Johnson, Landry Fields, DeMarcus Cousins, and Derrick Favors. Hard to put up stats sitting on the bench.

Those other guys are expected to carry a large load for their teams to be successful. We have Amare, Felton, Gallo, and Chandler carrying the load here.

AnubisADL wrote:

martin wrote:

AnubisADL wrote:

knicks1248 wrote:He's easily playing like a top 5 pick..He's numbers aren't going to light up broadway, but he's has been as clutch as they come..Talk about timely plays, if he was in the MOB, his nick nmae would be "Larry (big play) Fields..

SMH

You serious man? Landry Fields is not a lottery pick. You should try watching other teams rookies.

expand on that. What are those lottery picks doing to help their team win? Cause we all know there is straight up concrete chatter that Landry is doing exactly that for the Knicks.

The only rookies getting 20+ minutes a game are John Wall, Eric Bledsoe, Evan Turner, Wesley Johnson, Landry Fields, DeMarcus Cousins, and Derrick Favors. Hard to put up stats sitting on the bench.

Those other guys are expected to carry a large load for their teams to be successful. We have Amare, Felton, Gallo, and Chandler carrying the load here.

It's always nice for the Knicks to outsmart everyone on Draft Night, because it has rarely happened. ESPN's Chad Ford discusses how he and just about everyone else incorrectly dissed the Landry Fields pick. After the jump:

On draft night, the Knicks caught me by surprise when they took Stanford forward Landry Fields with the 39th pick in the draft. Fields was in our database ranked as the 116th-best player in the draft. He's the first American player ever to be drafted that wasn't in our Top 100 since we started doing this in 2003.

Clearly, I blew it.

Fields has earned a starting position for the Knicks and through three games is posting a very impressive 19.30 PER -- better than both Blake Griffin and Cousins.

How did I (and a number of NBA teams) miss so badly? Our Top 100 is based on the consensus of a number NBA scouts and executives. Fields wasn't mentioned by any of them. He was so off the radar that he wasn't one of the top 60 players invited by the NBA to participate in the Chicago predraft camp. The NBA selects participants based off of rankings by all 30 NBA teams.

But that's not an excuse. One NBA scout, along with a source close to the Stanford team, called me and told me I was sleeping on Fields. I pulled down some tape from Synergy and frankly, just didn't see it. Had I thought about him specifically for Mike D'Antoni's wide-open system -- maybe. But the truth is I thought he was a good European prospect, not an NBA one.

He's proven me and the rest of the league very wrong in the early going. From all accounts he's a very nice kid who's working really hard. Here's hoping he keeps it up over the course of his career.

martin wrote:

AnubisADL wrote:

martin wrote:

AnubisADL wrote:

knicks1248 wrote:He's easily playing like a top 5 pick..He's numbers aren't going to light up broadway, but he's has been as clutch as they come..Talk about timely plays, if he was in the MOB, his nick nmae would be "Larry (big play) Fields..

SMH

You serious man? Landry Fields is not a lottery pick. You should try watching other teams rookies.

expand on that. What are those lottery picks doing to help their team win? Cause we all know there is straight up concrete chatter that Landry is doing exactly that for the Knicks.

The only rookies getting 20+ minutes a game are John Wall, Eric Bledsoe, Evan Turner, Wesley Johnson, Landry Fields, DeMarcus Cousins, and Derrick Favors. Hard to put up stats sitting on the bench.

Those other guys are expected to carry a large load for their teams to be successful. We have Amare, Felton, Gallo, and Chandler carrying the load here.

i think you answered the question for my favor. those other lottery picked rookies are not getting playing time or are in the D-League.

Why are they not getting minutes? Most have veterans playing ahead of them.

6 - Ekpe Udo - INJURED
7 - Greg Monroe - Playing behind Maxiel and Villanueva
8 - Al-Farouq Aminu - Playing Behind Gomes and Butler
9 - Gordon Hayward - Playing behind vets like Bell, Kirilenko, and Miles
10 - Paul George - Playing behind Granger, Rush, Dunleavy, and Posey
11 - Cole Aldrich - D-League
12 - Xavier Henry - Playing behind Mayo and Sam Young
13 - Ed Davis - Recovering from injury in D-League
14 - Patrick Patterson - Has the guy Scola ahead of him along with Hill.
15 - Larry Sanders - Playing behind Gooden and Moute
16 - Luke Babbit - Playing behind Matthews, Fernandez, and Batum

I'd also like to add the guys playing ahead them are better or provide defense/scoring that is lacking in the lineup.

If Azuibuke was healthy would Fields have gotten those minutes? Probably not. Luckily for Fields he was competing with Bill Walker and Mason for the SG spot.

AnubisADL wrote:

martin wrote:

AnubisADL wrote:

martin wrote:

AnubisADL wrote:

knicks1248 wrote:He's easily playing like a top 5 pick..He's numbers aren't going to light up broadway, but he's has been as clutch as they come..Talk about timely plays, if he was in the MOB, his nick nmae would be "Larry (big play) Fields..

SMH

You serious man? Landry Fields is not a lottery pick. You should try watching other teams rookies.

expand on that. What are those lottery picks doing to help their team win? Cause we all know there is straight up concrete chatter that Landry is doing exactly that for the Knicks.

The only rookies getting 20+ minutes a game are John Wall, Eric Bledsoe, Evan Turner, Wesley Johnson, Landry Fields, DeMarcus Cousins, and Derrick Favors. Hard to put up stats sitting on the bench.

Those other guys are expected to carry a large load for their teams to be successful. We have Amare, Felton, Gallo, and Chandler carrying the load here.

i think you answered the question for my favor. those other lottery picked rookies are not getting playing time or are in the D-League.

Why are they not getting minutes? Most have veterans playing ahead of them.

6 - Ekpe Udo - INJURED
7 - Greg Monroe - Playing behind Maxiel and Villanueva
8 - Al-Farouq Aminu - Playing Behind Gomes and Butler
9 - Gordon Hayward - Playing behind vets like Bell, Kirilenko, and Miles
10 - Paul George - Playing behind Granger, Rush, Dunleavy, and Posey
11 - Cole Aldrich - D-League
12 - Xavier Henry - Playing behind Mayo and Sam Young
13 - Ed Davis - Recovering from injury in D-League
14 - Patrick Patterson - Has the guy Scola ahead of him along with Hill.
15 - Larry Sanders - Playing behind Gooden and Moute
16 - Luke Babbit - Playing behind Matthews, Fernandez, and Batum

I'd also like to add the guys playing ahead them are better or provide defense/scoring that is lacking in the lineup.

If Azuibuke was healthy would Fields have gotten those minutes? Probably not. Luckily for Fields he was competing with Bill Walker and Mason for the SG spot.

You just answered you own question, bill and mason are not rookies, and he out played them into a starting spot.

Most of those players you mention are on non contending teams, remeber last year people was smashing MDA for playing veterens ahead of the rookies despite us being a non centending team. Now that you look around the league and see that it's the norm, you want to make a case as to why these player's arent recieving the PT they deserve, how about they just aren't that good, or just not ready.

Fields earns every minute he's on the floor, you can't tell me he hasn't earn that starting role, cause I know for sure MDA is not going to let no rookie get him fired, he would have been yanked him in a heart beat.

knicks1248 wrote:

AnubisADL wrote:

martin wrote:

AnubisADL wrote:

martin wrote:

AnubisADL wrote:

knicks1248 wrote:He's easily playing like a top 5 pick..He's numbers aren't going to light up broadway, but he's has been as clutch as they come..Talk about timely plays, if he was in the MOB, his nick nmae would be "Larry (big play) Fields..

SMH

You serious man? Landry Fields is not a lottery pick. You should try watching other teams rookies.

expand on that. What are those lottery picks doing to help their team win? Cause we all know there is straight up concrete chatter that Landry is doing exactly that for the Knicks.

The only rookies getting 20+ minutes a game are John Wall, Eric Bledsoe, Evan Turner, Wesley Johnson, Landry Fields, DeMarcus Cousins, and Derrick Favors. Hard to put up stats sitting on the bench.

Those other guys are expected to carry a large load for their teams to be successful. We have Amare, Felton, Gallo, and Chandler carrying the load here.

i think you answered the question for my favor. those other lottery picked rookies are not getting playing time or are in the D-League.

Why are they not getting minutes? Most have veterans playing ahead of them.

6 - Ekpe Udo - INJURED
7 - Greg Monroe - Playing behind Maxiel and Villanueva
8 - Al-Farouq Aminu - Playing Behind Gomes and Butler
9 - Gordon Hayward - Playing behind vets like Bell, Kirilenko, and Miles
10 - Paul George - Playing behind Granger, Rush, Dunleavy, and Posey
11 - Cole Aldrich - D-League
12 - Xavier Henry - Playing behind Mayo and Sam Young
13 - Ed Davis - Recovering from injury in D-League
14 - Patrick Patterson - Has the guy Scola ahead of him along with Hill.
15 - Larry Sanders - Playing behind Gooden and Moute
16 - Luke Babbit - Playing behind Matthews, Fernandez, and Batum

I'd also like to add the guys playing ahead them are better or provide defense/scoring that is lacking in the lineup.

If Azuibuke was healthy would Fields have gotten those minutes? Probably not. Luckily for Fields he was competing with Bill Walker and Mason for the SG spot.

You just answered you own question, bill and mason are not rookies, and he out played them into a starting spot.

Most of those players you mention are on non contending teams, remeber last year people was smashing MDA for playing veterens ahead of the rookies despite us being a non centending team. Now that you look around the league and see that it's the norm, you want to make a case as to why these player's arent recieving the PT they deserve, how about they just aren't that good, or just not ready.

Fields earns every minute he's on the floor, you can't tell me he hasn't earn that starting role, cause I know for sure MDA is not going to let no rookie get him fired, he would have been yanked him in a heart beat.

Beating out Walker and Mason does not make you a lottery pick.

Jefferies is getting ZERO burn in Houston. There was little reason for Hill not to get play over Jefferies last year. Jefferies is TERRIBLE.