Knixkik wrote:BRIGGS wrote:Knixkik wrote:BRIGGS wrote:Monk started off the season on fire-- looked great. The last third of the season he looks like a second round pick. No way the knicks
You judge guys strictly off their last game so I knew you would say this. Look at his season as a whole. He had a great freshman year. His scoring numbers are strong. And the system limits him, like it did Booker.
I think you do Knox. monk has been poor most of the last 15 games . I think hes been exposed as a smallish 2 guard who doesn't rebound or pass-- nor does he handle that well. Could he be a Lou Williams-- absolutely -- but he is no Knick pick 0/100 no chance
booker is 6-6 200+ monk looks 6-2 185
You won't find me flip flopping opinions. I don't judge guys on small sample sizes. Monk is 6'3-6'4 with a 6'6 wing span. Booker is 6'6 with a 6'7 wing span. And monk is a much much better athlete.
Monk is a fantastic athlete... so is JR Smith though (and I'm kind of a fan of JR), not saying Monk has the head case issues JR has, but I see a lot of similarities in their games. JR can get red hot, I believe he's second in the league behind Steph Curry in games with more than 5 3pt fg for their careers. If Monk goes toward the high end of his potential - he's more in the Beal, CJ McCollum, healthy Eric Gordon world. But I think if he doesn't hit the high end of his potential, he could more like a JR or Jamal type guy... which would not be terrible, both guys have won Sixth Man awards... (And I remember people saying both Jamal Crawford and JR could both run point when they first came into the league and it just never worked)
It's just really hard to judge whether Monk can run an offense based off what we've seen from him. I've watched Kentucky pretty closely the past two months since it became clear we'd be a lotto team and I liked Fox and Monk. Monk can get hot and fill it up... but I don't see much else there. He's not a smart defender, and he kinda sinks into the background in UK's offense.
I think Cal ran a bad offense for Monk this year. He should've had him running off more pin down screens to free him up, maybe let him try to create off the dribble. But he was just sort of hidden (which is weird to say since he led the team in scoring, but definitely the last month or so, he sank into the background on that team)