KnickDanger wrote:Maybe former Knicks like Joakim Noah, JR Smith, or Michael Ray Richardson could be helpful in instructing young players how to fill their evenings.

Just glad it isnt Triple Yahtzee. Lost some good friends....

Dont believe Fizdale was making this a moral issue, like it was "Footloose", lol. Believe he's mainly concerned about the amount of sleep his players are getting. To play a demanding game, with a demanding schedule. Being young helps, but only goes so far.

Havent played online games in 6-7 years. Saw some gameplay from Fortnite on youtube. Doesnt look any better than what was available back then. Run of the mill.

arkrud wrote:

knicks1248 wrote:

Cartman718 wrote:Sounds like a parenting and priorities problem, not a fortnite problem, or a nightlife problem.
If the game is like crack, would you allow your kids to taste crack and see if they like it or want to taste it every now and then?

Ok..not crack..How about smoking then? How many would allow their kids to do that?

That's why when your developing youngsters, it's mandatory to have a bunch of high character veterans and good leadership around them, I'm not talking end-of-the-bench vets either.

All these kids do is develop bad habits, especially when you have nothing to play for, and 65 games of garbage minutes. Anytime you got players coming to practice happy and cool with losing 30 of 32 games, they know winning is not important, and the team they play for is hell bent on losing games, do you really think anyone is going to be focus?

Professionalism has nothing to do with how team or organization one works for does.
It is personal thing. If someone stop working on himself because of team is losing or winning he is hopeless.

you could be professional all day, but if your heart isn't really in it, then your not going to give it a 100%, and if you don't see that from these players then your not paying attn..

You see a different kind of energy and focusness when the game means something...How hard do players play in garbage time..I mean seriously, do these guys look like they are all on the same page?

knicks1248 wrote:

arkrud wrote:

knicks1248 wrote:

Cartman718 wrote:Sounds like a parenting and priorities problem, not a fortnite problem, or a nightlife problem.
If the game is like crack, would you allow your kids to taste crack and see if they like it or want to taste it every now and then?

Ok..not crack..How about smoking then? How many would allow their kids to do that?

That's why when your developing youngsters, it's mandatory to have a bunch of high character veterans and good leadership around them, I'm not talking end-of-the-bench vets either.

All these kids do is develop bad habits, especially when you have nothing to play for, and 65 games of garbage minutes. Anytime you got players coming to practice happy and cool with losing 30 of 32 games, they know winning is not important, and the team they play for is hell bent on losing games, do you really think anyone is going to be focus?

Professionalism has nothing to do with how team or organization one works for does.
It is personal thing. If someone stop working on himself because of team is losing or winning he is hopeless.

you could be professional all day, but if your heart isn't really in it, then your not going to give it a 100%, and if you don't see that from these players then your not paying attn..

You see a different kind of energy and focusness when the game means something...How hard do players play in garbage time..I mean seriously, do these guys look like they are all on the same page?

This is a time when organization can separate professional (or will be professionals) from slackers who continue to think that NBA is fan and cool. Professional sport is hard earn bloody money not a joke or computer game.
It is hard, boring, and frustrating to be good in any field. And in pro sport 10 times more.
So if some of our players come to have fun let them go kick rocks somewhere else.

knicks1248 wrote:

arkrud wrote:

knicks1248 wrote:

arkrud wrote:

knicks1248 wrote:

Cartman718 wrote:Sounds like a parenting and priorities problem, not a fortnite problem, or a nightlife problem.
If the game is like crack, would you allow your kids to taste crack and see if they like it or want to taste it every now and then?

Ok..not crack..How about smoking then? How many would allow their kids to do that?

That's why when your developing youngsters, it's mandatory to have a bunch of high character veterans and good leadership around them, I'm not talking end-of-the-bench vets either.

All these kids do is develop bad habits, especially when you have nothing to play for, and 65 games of garbage minutes. Anytime you got players coming to practice happy and cool with losing 30 of 32 games, they know winning is not important, and the team they play for is hell bent on losing games, do you really think anyone is going to be focus?

Professionalism has nothing to do with how team or organization one works for does.
It is personal thing. If someone stop working on himself because of team is losing or winning he is hopeless.

you could be professional all day, but if your heart isn't really in it, then your not going to give it a 100%, and if you don't see that from these players then your not paying attn..

You see a different kind of energy and focusness when the game means something...How hard do players play in garbage time..I mean seriously, do these guys look like they are all on the same page?

This is a time when organization can separate professional (or will be professionals) from slackers who continue to think that NBA is fan and cool. Professional sport is hard earn bloody money not a joke or computer game.
It is hard, boring, and frustrating to be good in any field. And in pro sport 10 times more.
So if some of our players come to have fun let them go kick rocks somewhere else.

The FO put this roster together in the hopes of tanking. one of the youngest rosters in the league, yanking guys in out of the rotation, signing players for one yr non guaranteed deals, shifting players to different positions every other game, stating everybody is pretty up for trade discussions, the results should not be surprising at all

Young players don't really care until yr 4 or 5 (if they somehow make it that far) it's all talent and no brains until then.

There is wisdom in your words but you don’t understand it.
You take young players with talent and give them an opportunity to grow. Some make it, some don’t.
FO is not expecting all of them to succeed. If you don’t have a core and rebuilding this is what you do. If along the way you don’t win, you are getting a better pick.
Thus winning is secondary. It doesn’t build bad habits, they are already there. Is why some are here. Some improve and mature, others won’t. Some learn and grow, some won’t. Michael Beasley on his way to china. He could not get it together. Tim Thomas was another example. All star talent but a lack of mental discipline.