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Nalod
Posts: 68482 Alba Posts: 154 Joined: 12/24/2003 Member: #508 USA |
7/25/2019 11:32 AM
Dude gets a bad wrap around here. Some of you paint a dour picture.
Rookies are inconsistent. This kid got a ton of opportunity few Rooks get, let alone at age 19! I prescribe that If you break it down not a full season, but month by month it gets interesting. Dec 17.1 ppg on 31.6% shooting
He had 9 games he shot over 50%. 17.4 on 52%. what if we then took out the stinkers. I mean the really bad games, say the bottom 20. That's how many games he shot below 30%. Some he got yanked quick. Others Fiz let him bomb away. They were really bad. Rookies have them. Im too busy but I suppose I can connect the dots to find a way to make him bad. At the same time anyone can make him look bad. My point is this kid had a very unusual season given the perceived free reign he had but we don't know what fiz was trying to do. MY opinion is Knicks think he has potential and let the kid go to school of hard "Knox" and play thru it. If there are good samples of what he is capable of at 19 then you kind of get the wiff of the potential. Dolan has nothing to do with this. Nor Lavar Postel, Or No Dice Freddy Weis....or Oak, or any Mummy Curse that might be spelled on when Checketts left us. Fill the glass half full, or half empty. Or , make the glass smaller? https://www.espn.com/nba/player/gamelog/_/id/4278075/kevin-knox |
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HofstraBBall
Posts: 27152 Alba Posts: 1 Joined: 11/21/2015 Member: #6192 |
7/25/2019 1:09 PM LAST EDITED: 7/25/2019 1:12 PM
Nalod wrote:Dude gets a bad wrap around here. Some of you paint a dour picture. Agree. The jackals around here expect MJ year one at 19. The kid has a good 3pt shot, good build , not afraid of the moment and is able to get off his shot easily. His Bball IQ will and has gotten better. Think he has the potential to develop into a player that can take over a game offensively. No reason to not be excited about him. Think he was a solid pick. Once again want to remind those who think he is not very good that it takes 3 to 5 years for a player to develop. Even though he "didnt dominate in the SL". Cuz we all know how important that is, exvoted to see him develop with the Knicks 'Knicks focus should be on players that have grown up playing soccer or cricket' - Triplethreat 8/28/2020
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GustavBahler
Posts: 41138 Alba Posts: 15 Joined: 7/12/2010 Member: #3186 |
7/25/2019 9:35 PM
Something to build on. The talent is there. The conditioning, experience wasnt. Needs time to learn.
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blkexec
Posts: 27793 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 9/3/2004 Member: #748 |
7/25/2019 10:09 PM
knox problem is he was drafted by a knicks team with fan hungry for a super star, especially home grown. His other problem is he ran through summer league his rookie year. And he was a high pick.
With all of that, comes high expectations he clearly wasn't ready to meet. Lets see if there's improvement this year. Born in Brooklyn, Raised in Queens, Lives in Maryland.
The future is bright, I'm a Knicks fan for life!
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Nalod
Posts: 68482 Alba Posts: 154 Joined: 12/24/2003 Member: #508 USA |
7/26/2019 4:15 AM
Some you have Knox already in a box.
Rainman1248, we not talking about Dolan. He is not on the court. We took a kid who is obviously not ready for prime time and let him play thru it. A teen hung 25/15 and instead of thinking “kid might develop into someone we point to his deficiencies and drag Dolan on the court. Draft a teen and let him play. “Same old Knicks”??? Hardly. |
smackeddog
Posts: 38386 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 3/30/2005 Member: #883 |
7/26/2019 10:27 AM LAST EDITED: 7/26/2019 10:29 AM
Judging a player this young and raw by his performance in his first year is just ridiculous- if the Knicks had drafted Jermaine O'Neal back in the day, fans would be screaming to trade him after his rookie season. Zero patience.
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