KnickDanger wrote:

EwingsGlass wrote:Not for nothing, this year he isn’t starting out slow. Two games against two solid defensive teams and he is averaging 25points on 50% from the floor with 40% from 3 and 85% from FT line. I mean. If that’s what we have been waiting for, I may have been a bit impatient but damn I hope it continues.

So don't trade him?

I mean, I guess the question is whether these two games are the start of a streak or an outlier. We know from the playoffs and FIBA that he is capable of playing at this level. We also know he can play a bit loose and regress quickly. But the Knick fab in me wants to believe, so in the absence of a clear improvement to the team, I’m not ready to dump him as a salary play.

Despite the loss to Boston, I love how this team has played so far even when they looked like Stormtroopers shooting the ball.

EwingsGlass wrote:

Nalod wrote:

EwingsGlass wrote:Not for nothing, this year he isn’t starting out slow. Two games against two solid defensive teams and he is averaging 25points on 50% from the floor with 40% from 3 and 85% from FT line. I mean. If that’s what we have been waiting for, I may have been a bit impatient but damn I hope it continues.

The playmaking and timing has been good. Better last night. He came up big when the moment called.
He looks like Jules body wise at similar age. Kid is growing into a monster.

As for Jules, his hands are a bit unsteady but Im guessing he has not played much in the offseason. His pace is a bit slow compared to the rest of the team.

He’s hesitating using the pump fake to try and get defenders off their feet, but it’s become so commonplace that I don’t think anyone falls for it. So, he then results in passing up the open look to dribble a lot before the double team or triple team or quadruple team sets in and players know he isn’t passing until he leaves his feet and then it’s a coin toss whether he puts up a shot or rotates his body awkwardly to try and make a tough pass. Now, this is not the spinover of old, but he is telegraphing it all day. He needs to to just let it rip more quick and make decisions more quickly. He’ll be fine, but someone should show the tape of him making the same pump fake into triple coverage turnovers.

LOL, yes, someone should.
We have seen Jules do this before and then not. He is way out of synch

DLeethal wrote:RJ looks pretty good this year. Knicks are waiting for the blockbuster trade. Lots of players will be included in that trade. Probably RJ, maybe Randle, but there is no point of trading RJ until "the big trade" IMO.

I don't know what the Big Trade is supposed to look like any more. A few teams are now stacked with three superstars, and are still not considered runaway favorites.

Suppose we get to keep Brunson, and trade for an Embiid or a Giannis. Does not make us a contender even on paper.

ESOMKnicks wrote:

DLeethal wrote:RJ looks pretty good this year. Knicks are waiting for the blockbuster trade. Lots of players will be included in that trade. Probably RJ, maybe Randle, but there is no point of trading RJ until "the big trade" IMO.

I don't know what the Big Trade is supposed to look like any more. A few teams are now stacked with three superstars, and are still not considered runaway favorites.

Suppose we get to keep Brunson, and trade for an Embiid or a Giannis. Does not make us a contender even on paper.

we are already a low key contender, Brunson with either Embiid or Giannis is ABSOLUTELY a contender. Giannis won a title without anyone as good as Brunson.

No one has 3 superstars.

Some of you guys seem to want a dream team now, be happy we have such a good young team flush with assets after almost 3 decades of misery.

When 2 of the big 3 shoot inefficient, we lose 90% of the time.