martin wrote:

Panos wrote:

BigDaddyG wrote:

gradyandrew wrote:

BigDaddyG wrote:Rokas puts on his big boy pants and shows out for the varsity Barca club

Let's lower the expectations here. My Team Lithuania practice squad friend couldn't believe this guy was drafted. More Darko than Donicic was his comment.

There are no real expectations. He was simply the only Knick playing games until last night. That said, you have to be impressed with what he's doing for Barca. These are tough physical games and he's proven that he's up to the challenge. More Darko than Doncic applies to 99% of the NBA. That said, I see more shades of an in shape Beno Udrih, which is a solid player. Let's just hope he continues to make progress.

Personally, I'm curious the rationale for drafting him before even McBride. Was there really a market for him? Seems like this kind of pick should be available at 58.

Yes. More than one mock draft had him going later first round.

fishmike wrote:on a side note I am really looking forward to this game. Feels like Tatem/Brown are better than any of our players, but Jules/Rj/Kemba/Rose/Fournier are all better than the next Celtics guy.

We will learn really early how well RJ's new role of guarding the best scorer is going to go if he's chasing Brown and I hope he is. I also expect to see Kemba/EF really go at Schroder and showing out vs. their old team.

So basically its a random Tuesday in October and I just need yall to know Go Knicks and PHUCK Bahston

Always a source pride to do well agains the team that dumped you. Randle vs Tatum is a good match up. Tatum is a hard matchup for anyone. Brown has been out with a bad wrist.
Real games for real stats!!!!!

smackeddog wrote:

knicks1248 wrote:The lakers look down right terrible, they look like a damn pick up game squad. Even on paper it's just talent that don't fit

Thinks it's a bit early- older veteran teams (and players) often look poor in preseason as they aren't really trying (mainly just a light work out and trying to avoid injuring themselves). We'll find out as the season progresses- remember the past few seasons Westbrook seems to have started slowly then gone into beast mode towards the end of the season

This so very strangely the status quo for a lot of sports fans. Forget all the sports they've already seen.

It's like Memento. They wake up having forgot everything they experienced the day before.

In practice, the most recent example is the mavs last year and it went on for months.

First Doncic was out of shape and was going to have a bad year.

Then his supporting cast was awful and didn't play defense and no matter how great Doncic was they weren't going to qualify for the postseason and the Knicks would get their lottery pick.

FIEST rule of sports - WAIT.

To bury the Lakers on October 12 is just ... unnecessary AND shortsighted.

Nalod wrote:Im sure 1248 has studied tape and broken down the endless statistics in his high quantitative proprietary models thats been back tested and certified by MIT engineers to lay some assurance the models are within a reasonable variance of accuracy.

At best even the top heading into a full season team has a 25% chance of winning it all. So even a savant like 1248 has a 75% chance of saying he was right.

Could be just me, but I'm beginning to get the sense you and 1248 don't see eye to eye...

Knickoftime wrote:

smackeddog wrote:

knicks1248 wrote:The lakers look down right terrible, they look like a damn pick up game squad. Even on paper it's just talent that don't fit

Thinks it's a bit early- older veteran teams (and players) often look poor in preseason as they aren't really trying (mainly just a light work out and trying to avoid injuring themselves). We'll find out as the season progresses- remember the past few seasons Westbrook seems to have started slowly then gone into beast mode towards the end of the season

This so very strangely the status quo for a lot of sports fans. Forget all the sports they've already seen.

It's like Memento. They wake up having forgot everything they experienced the day before.

In practice, the most recent example is the mavs last year and it went on for months.

First Doncic was out of shape and was going to have a bad year.

Then his supporting cast was awful and didn't play defense and no matter how great Doncic was they weren't going to qualify for the postseason and the Knicks would get their lottery pick.

FIEST rule of sports - WAIT.

To bury the Lakers on October 12 is just ... unnecessary AND shortsighted.

I have seen all of those players play for years, they don't compliment each others games. That's not a knock on them from an individual stand point, but unless there is some serious sacrificing, it's not a championship caliber team.

knicks1248 wrote:

Knickoftime wrote:

Nalod wrote:Im sure 1248 has studied tape and broken down the endless statistics in his high quantitative proprietary models thats been back tested and certified by MIT engineers to lay some assurance the models are within a reasonable variance of accuracy.

At best even the top heading into a full season team has a 25% chance of winning it all. So even a savant like 1248 has a 75% chance of saying he was right.

Could be just me, but I'm beginning to get the sense you and 1248 don't see eye to eye...

he's just troll i ignore, you'll notice i never respond

Cuz you only make your deficiencies more apparent.

wargames wrote:

Knickoftime wrote:

smackeddog wrote:

knicks1248 wrote:The lakers look down right terrible, they look like a damn pick up game squad. Even on paper it's just talent that don't fit

Thinks it's a bit early- older veteran teams (and players) often look poor in preseason as they aren't really trying (mainly just a light work out and trying to avoid injuring themselves). We'll find out as the season progresses- remember the past few seasons Westbrook seems to have started slowly then gone into beast mode towards the end of the season

This so very strangely the status quo for a lot of sports fans. Forget all the sports they've already seen.

It's like Memento. They wake up having forgot everything they experienced the day before.

In practice, the most recent example is the mavs last year and it went on for months.

First Doncic was out of shape and was going to have a bad year.

Then his supporting cast was awful and didn't play defense and no matter how great Doncic was they weren't going to qualify for the postseason and the Knicks would get their lottery pick.

FIEST rule of sports - WAIT.

To bury the Lakers on October 12 is just ... unnecessary AND shortsighted.

Mavs were bad most the year and the counter narrative to that was people saying Doncic was going to be the MVP.

It’s funny now we need the Hornets to be good to get their first rounder (sooner then later hopefully) and they get blown out by what I believe is a record 68 points… by the Mavs… which is a bad sign of things to come lol.

Was that a coach who did not get a proper response from his players and let them be humiliated as to send a message? I did no find a write up on the game but that kind of blow out is unsusual.

Should be interesting how new coach uses KP.

martin wrote:ugh

Tweet was deleted or there was problem with the URL:

https://twitter.com/StevePopper/status/1449791583155593216

Thought you were ugh'ing Mitch's availability.

It's ok. Let Nerlens get to 100% before this becomes a nagging injury. Mitch is back, Taj is looking good, and Thibs suddenly sounding open to a Julius/Obi frontcourt since Friday's rally. After C's on Wednesday, we play two against Orlando, who I am not scared of down low after trading Vucevic. Rest up, big man.