“Cutthroat business, Our Defense Lifted/What is it, THE WINGS?!?" Official 2024 NY Knicks Thread

[RippTheRuler]

How ya feel about calling up Dwight? Won’t cost us much. Even at his age, he’s still better than Sims.

MSG not in Harlem but it's close enough that his skin might burn like a vampire in the sun if he steps toot in the arena

 

[Serious]

Why is this thread so chatty patty about who these knickas are fukking

 

[firemanBk]

What made IHart such a perfect pickup is the Knicks found a starting quality C for a backup paycheck
There's no guarantees they luck out like that again
I don't trust Mitch to stay healthy at all especially for a deep playoff run

 

[RippTheRuler]

This SHOULD mean more Julius center minutes. None of the centers we can pick should be seeing more than 12 mins a game anyway.

48 Center minutes:
28-30 to Mitch
10-12 to whoever the back we sign
8-10 to Julius, closing each half unless we're facing Embiid or Jokic

This is perfect. Dudes were talking about the possibility of that small ball lineup with Randle at the center last season before we even had bridges. But imagine Randle at the 5 and the the nova knickas on the court together at the same time. Or even Randle at the 5, OG at the 4, bridges, Ragu, Brunson. Any combination will be wild honestly.

 

[Serious]

What made IHart such a perfect pickup is the Knicks found a starting quality C for a backup paycheck
There's no guarantees they luck out like that again
I don't trust Mitch to stay healthy at all especially for a deep playoff run

You guys could always trade for Zach Collins

@duckbutta

 

[AntoineWalkerShimmy]

I like the idea of Wiseman theoretically, really strikes me as the same point of his career Hartenstein was when he got to New York. If he's got the work ethic, Thibs will make a player out of him

 

[Shogun]

Damn.
Good for him.

 

[Grand Master Scotty]

Knew I hart leaving was inevitable smh

Hopefully leon got somebody on the fly

 

[storyteller]

Go get Goga. If even he's too expensive, I guess bring back Precious and play the trade market when options come up. I think the best version of this team has a healthy Mitch starting, but they can't rely on that.

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

Honestly I’m just waiting on the inevitable call

 

[RubioTheCruel]

I like the idea of Wiseman theoretically, really strikes me as the same point of his career Hartenstein was when he got to New York. If he's got the work ethic, Thibs will make a player out of him

Oh god no. Wiseman is awful. Bad BBIQ, not physical, loves to shoot jumpers but can't. Complete opposite of what the Knicks need from their big

 

[RippTheRuler]

Gonna miss IHart's BOARDwalk

...and, they really gonna give OG Allan Houston & Carmelo Anthony dineros

My Knickas

Our win percentage with him healthy is insane. If he only plays 40 games we winning 36 of them.... I'm sure he will play more than that though. Ihart will be missed and did his thing but he got worked by embiid and Turner back to back... sonned to bolivian. He deserves a check but teams gotta realize he can't guard perimeter bigs

 

[RickyGQ]

I like the idea of Wiseman theoretically, really strikes me as the same point of his career Hartenstein was when he got to New York. If he's got the work ethic, Thibs will make a player out of him

This seems to be the question mark. IHart, like with us, was only available because of cap reasons. Clippers would have happily kept him, they could only offer the Min and we gave him the mid-level. Wiseman is being flat-out abandoned by two franchises. One a GREAT organization and another a terrible one. I don't see how we could do any different.

 

[ISO]

This SHOULD mean more Julius center minutes. None of the centers we can pick should be seeing more than 12 mins a game anyway.

48 Center minutes:
28-30 to Mitch
10-12 to whoever the back we sign
8-10 to Julius, closing each half unless we're facing Embiid or Jokic

Back up center playing 10 minutes a game

Ideally you want Mitch around 25 minutes. We had it perfect with Hartenstein they could split the minutes evenly.

 

[firemanBk]

I like the idea of Wiseman theoretically, really strikes me as the same point of his career Hartenstein was when he got to New York. If he's got the work ethic, Thibs will make a player out of him

Wiseman is not an NBA player
Might as well look into Marvin Bagley who also sucks but idk maybe Thibs can unlock something there. Idk if Knicks can match up salaries to get him though cause he's not a free agent.