Nalod wrote:

BRIGGS wrote:

Cartman718 wrote:

BRIGGS wrote:

Cartman718 wrote:The Knicks are building some good mojo, I think.
A connection to Obamas.
Only team where team leadership reflects the percentages of players by race.
There are players who are going to be looking at us and going, I want to play with KP, Frank, Timmy and work under a management that understands me.

What?

What's your question?

It past the stupid barrier so Ill refrain.

Trumpettes have a thing about Obama.
They think if they can knock down his image it makes Donald look better.

Both Barak and Donald are creatures of the past.
We need president who is Rainbow Asian or Latino. Time of black-and-white America is over.
At least it will be someone all new immigrants from last 100+ years can stand behind.
This will be The Process...

https://nypost.com/2018/03/16/where-the-knicks-most-productive-work-is-getting-done/

Where the Knicks’ most productive work is getting done
By Marc Berman

Under the development strategy devised by first-year executive Craig Robinson, the Knicks have a new motto: “Trust The Practice.’’

As the season continued down the drain Thursday, when the Knicks blew a 13-point second-half lead in a 118-110 defeat to the “Trust The Process’’ 76ers, at least they can still say they are winning the practice.

In the wee hours of last Saturday morning, the Knicks returned from a 10-night trip and were back at practice at noon. The Knicks staged a light walkthrough to prepare for an early 1 p.m. matinee vs. Toronto.

Still, it was unprecedented for them to be away that long and not take a day off. The Knicks staged practices before games all of this week and even held a two-hour marathon Wednesday. They will practice again Friday and probably Sunday.

The no-day-off policy is just a part of the new “innovative, transformative” philosophy Robinson has brought to the Knicks. Practices, especially with the club playing out the string, are as important as games. The loss to the Sixers, coupled with a Bulls victory, improved the Knicks’ lottery seeding from ninth to eighth.

It’s no coincidence coach Jeff Hornacek has talked a lot about how terrific the practices have been during the 1-17 slide. Hornacek’s comments praising practice occasionally have raised eyebrows from media members covering this crash since Kristaps Porzingis’ season-ending ACL tear.

“It’s really hard to develop during the season because you don’t have as much time to have practice,’’ Robinson said during a 30-minute sit-down at the Knicks’ Tarrytown practice facility this week. “The more games you have, the more development you’ll have to see over the summer. With the Westchester Knicks, why you see so much more development is that we have way more practice days, and the ability to teach and to have developmental aspects on a much more regular basis.”

Hornacek said he realized no club is practicing every day, as the Knicks are.

“Playoffs teams are trying to rest bodies and that stuff,’’ he said. “If you’re not in the playoffs, you’re still driving to get better.

It’s all the repetitions, the rotations, giving them the tricks the coaches have learned over the years. You’re not going to catch it the first time you tell them. Hopefully it will pay off some day.’’

One of Robinson’s top priorities after he was hired by Knicks president Steve Mills, his former Princeton teammate, was to better integrate the Westchester Knicks with the big club. Westchester owns the G-League’s best record (30-16).

“It’s vertically integrating,’’ Robinson said. “We look at the New York Knicks’ player development, the Westchester Knicks’ player development, as if it’s 25 players trying to develop. It’s not like two separate organizations.”

If nothing else, the 2017-18 Knicks are winning G-League games and winning practice.

Vmart wrote:

martin wrote:

Vmart wrote:I’ll believe the process if and when it bares fruit. Until then it’s just talk.

5 starters from the GLeague team are in the NBA. How's the fruit tasting?

Maybe those were 5 players that shouldn’t have been there in the first place. I thought Hayes should have been given a roster spot. Kornet probably makes the team if not for glut at the Center position. Burke I don’t consider him to be a G leaguer. Let’s give credit where credit is due good job. Just maybe the process is in works Phil was pushing the G league development process. I thought Phil team was drafting and adding players well.

CrushAlot wrote:

martin wrote:Kinda interesting, a few more details from Berman today:

https://nypost.com/2018/03/16/where-the-knicks-most-productive-work-is-getting-done/

Where the Knicks’ most productive work is getting done
By Marc Berman

Under the development strategy devised by first-year executive Craig Robinson, the Knicks have a new motto: “Trust The Practice.’’

As the season continued down the drain Thursday, when the Knicks blew a 13-point second-half lead in a 118-110 defeat to the “Trust The Process’’ 76ers, at least they can still say they are winning the practice.

In the wee hours of last Saturday morning, the Knicks returned from a 10-night trip and were back at practice at noon. The Knicks staged a light walkthrough to prepare for an early 1 p.m. matinee vs. Toronto.

Still, it was unprecedented for them to be away that long and not take a day off. The Knicks staged practices before games all of this week and even held a two-hour marathon Wednesday. They will practice again Friday and probably Sunday.

The no-day-off policy is just a part of the new “innovative, transformative” philosophy Robinson has brought to the Knicks. Practices, especially with the club playing out the string, are as important as games. The loss to the Sixers, coupled with a Bulls victory, improved the Knicks’ lottery seeding from ninth to eighth.

It’s no coincidence coach Jeff Hornacek has talked a lot about how terrific the practices have been during the 1-17 slide. Hornacek’s comments praising practice occasionally have raised eyebrows from media members covering this crash since Kristaps Porzingis’ season-ending ACL tear.

“It’s really hard to develop during the season because you don’t have as much time to have practice,’’ Robinson said during a 30-minute sit-down at the Knicks’ Tarrytown practice facility this week. “The more games you have, the more development you’ll have to see over the summer. With the Westchester Knicks, why you see so much more development is that we have way more practice days, and the ability to teach and to have developmental aspects on a much more regular basis.”

Hornacek said he realized no club is practicing every day, as the Knicks are.

“Playoffs teams are trying to rest bodies and that stuff,’’ he said. “If you’re not in the playoffs, you’re still driving to get better.

It’s all the repetitions, the rotations, giving them the tricks the coaches have learned over the years. You’re not going to catch it the first time you tell them. Hopefully it will pay off some day.’’

One of Robinson’s top priorities after he was hired by Knicks president Steve Mills, his former Princeton teammate, was to better integrate the Westchester Knicks with the big club. Westchester owns the G-League’s best record (30-16).

“It’s vertically integrating,’’ Robinson said. “We look at the New York Knicks’ player development, the Westchester Knicks’ player development, as if it’s 25 players trying to develop. It’s not like two separate organizations.”

If nothing else, the 2017-18 Knicks are winning G-League games and winning practice.

That is awesome. I know D'Antoni is the flavor of the month, but one of the things that bothered me the most about him as the Knick coach was the lack of practice time he had his guys put in on the court. His teams used to come out of training camp and lose for awhile until they got into shape and gained the chemistry other teams had that put the work in prior to the season.

Yep, D'Antoni was never in good shape... If he will be first in the gym the players will follow.
How players know that they need to come play in NBA in shape if coaching stuff not reminding them constantly in person, over e-mail and text messaging...

TripleThreat wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:That is awesome. I know D'Antoni is the flavor of the month, but one of the things that bothered me the most about him as the Knick coach was the lack of practice time he had his guys put in on the court. His teams used to come out of training camp and lose for awhile until they got into shape and gained the chemistry other teams had that put the work in prior to the season.

Sigh....

1) Just because the Knicks have practice every single day does not mean EVERY PLAYER on the roster is practicing every single day. There are a lot of young players who are raw and new players who are fighting to stay on an NBA roster. There's an incentive but also a CIRCUMSTANCE where more practice can be a good thing for the Knicks. A team like the veteran Grizzlies during the Gasol/Randolph/Conley/Tony Allen days might have to calibrate it much differently. In any case, any team, ANY TEAM, with players who are not logging NBA minutes, are going to be putting in extra work and practice. EVERY TEAM.

2) More practice does not change the fact that many players in the world, esp G League guys, simply are not skilled enough and/or talented enough to play in the NBA. If a guy doesn't have the bare minimum NBA athleticism for his position, then it doesn't matter how much practice and how much G League game time he gets.

3) It's the players responsibility to come to training camp in elite physical condition. It's your job. It's the coaches fault some douchebag can't put down the nachos and do some deadlifts?

Sigh! The Knicks are 1-17 in their last 18 games. They aren't trying to win. They are trying to see their young players on the floor as much as possible to evaluate for the future.