nycericanguy wrote:

DLeethal wrote:If Randle is just out weeks then we can simply stay the course. A move needed to be made before, it still needs to be made now, to get some scoring help. But we don't have to do anything seismic and I don't think we prioritize guys who won't fit when Randle is back. We don't really need a Randle replacement, we need scoring help and we can shift around bodies to fill the positional gaps.

OG can play the 4, Sims/Precious are young bodies who can give us a lot of mins, iHart is a beast. We are fine adding a wing scorer who can eat up minutes and just give us a scoring lift while Randle is out. We don't need to seek out a PF.

agreed, this doesn't change anything long term, just magnifies that we are currently too reliant on Randle/Brunson and we need that 3rd creator/scorer/ballhandler. every contender has that 3rd guy at least.

not so sure DJM is that guy anymore if there are character concerns there. if he's not that guy we might as well wait and try to get Rokas over this summer.

Yea, that was magnified when Brunson went down for a few games right after the trade. Magnified again here. But everyone knew we needed to add scoring depth. A lot of guys out there that can help us so I'm not worried.

We get that

nycericanguy wrote:

DLeethal wrote:If Randle is just out weeks then we can simply stay the course. A move needed to be made before, it still needs to be made now, to get some scoring help. But we don't have to do anything seismic and I don't think we prioritize guys who won't fit when Randle is back. We don't really need a Randle replacement, we need scoring help and we can shift around bodies to fill the positional gaps.

OG can play the 4, Sims/Precious are young bodies who can give us a lot of mins, iHart is a beast. We are fine adding a wing scorer who can eat up minutes and just give us a scoring lift while Randle is out. We don't need to seek out a PF.

agreed, this doesn't change anything long term, just magnifies that we are currently too reliant on Randle/Brunson and we need that 3rd creator/scorer/ballhandler. every contender has that 3rd guy at least.

not so sure DJM is that guy anymore if there are character concerns there. if he's not that guy we might as well wait and try to get Rokas over this summer.

From what I have seen I would just stay the course here. Ideally we get Randle and Mitch back for the playoffs, but if not I want to just resign IHart, OG and run it back. Use the picks get some prospects in here. Let Rokus compete for a rotation spot w/ Grimes, McBride and the draft picks

BigDaddyG wrote:

HofstraBBall wrote:

DLeethal wrote:

nycericanguy wrote:we'll be fine with what we have for now.

Dare I say we will be even better defensively.

I think you can start Precious at PF or move OG to PF and start Hart or Grimes at SF.

Gallo would be a good option as a buyout candidate soon

The obvious move is to start OG at PF IMO. But Thibs might want to keep his bench unit intact because that's kinda what he does. I could see them starting Precious unfortunately.

OG at PF you could retinker the lineup to be dangerous, especially on D. But you are pretty light on reinforcements at that point. I think Thibs views our best depth piece as Jericho so he will probably utilize him to fill in for Randle.

Never good to fill a hole by switching ANOTHER player out of the position that has been working. So my vote is just to fill the PD spot with Sims or Precious. Let OG, IHart and Devo make up the scoring while Randle recovers.

I don't think OG's role changes that much offensively if you move him up to the four and he's guarded up and down the opposing team's lineups. Players are going to play outside their normal comfort zones anyway. It's just figuring out the move you can live with during the next couple of weeks.

Maybe right. OG should be a good rebounder and keeps teams double teams on JB honest.
Add JHart at 3 and the rebounding and defense looks good.

just rub some dirt on it and get back out there

all kidding aside happy for him (and us) that it's not worse

Good news though.

DLeethal wrote:Nothing really new here besides the MRI didn't show much damage

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Sources: Knicks star Julius Randle is expected to be sidelined for at least a few weeks with a right shoulder dislocation. Appears to be a sigh of relief for New York as initial reviews of MRI reveal no significant damage.

All signs pointing to this being the case and I think it's amazing news in the wake of what we feared.

I got that right?

Cause it seems reasonable

KnickDanger wrote:

martin wrote:So if I understand everyone correctly, we are coalescing around Randle just removing the bad arm cause the recovery may be short and much less spinovers anyway?

I got that right?

Cause it seems reasonable

As long as he doesn’t make any faces.

This would also reduce the probability of future thumbs down by 50%.