Last 18/19 NY Knicks season transmission: "F*** all the haters from you to SAS" See y'all in '20
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Columbo
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Enes Kanter is out there looking dieselworking on defense with his lead feet
Footspeed
I need his ass to play more games when hes available .how many games does he average a year?Wristflops
I'd prefer to see him not use any weights at all because of his height. He needs resistance bands/body weight exercises and he needs to be eating alot of fruits, vegetables and carbs. And at least a half hour of yoga a day
KnickstapeCity
RIP Big Dikk :wow: :mjcry:
:philjacksonlol: My nikka said Canal Street.
:philjacksonlol: I’m done. Goodnight, y’all.
:philjacksonlol::philjacksonlol::philjacksonlol:
Miles Davis
Prince of Darkness
Dude in the back grilling Fiz lol
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Damn
To be fair, this is an assumption that suggests you believe coaching staff overhaul had no bearing on player behavior.Spurs have DeMar DeRozan, LaMarcus Aldridge, and Rudy Gay in their starting 5 for next season and will probably still find a way to shoot less midrange J's than we did last season
Do you have doubts about Fiz?
Miles Davis
Prince of Darkness
Frank better be sending them lobs to money Mitch via western union.
ISO
Pass me the rock nikka
I was talking about last season. I’m sure things will be different under Fizdale.
Can Kristaps Porzingis defend the perimeter?
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We already know he can protect the paint.
By Drew Steele@ScooterToots Jul 23, 2018, 10:03am EDT
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If you’re like me and followed the New York Knicks consistently throughout the 2017–18 season, you have managed to come across some version of the following statement posted by Anonymous Knicks Fan X: “Kristaps Porzingis cannot defend on the perimeter; he is simply not good at it.” Anonymous Knicks Fan X would then follow up with something resembling this statement: “Porzingis needs to play the five in order to protect and stay closer to the rim because this is what he is best at on defense.”
Anchoring the defense and not defending players outside the paint is an easy stance to take. In spite of playing 88 percent of his time at power forward, Porzingis managed to average the 16th most defended field goal attempts within six feet of the rim and was second in defended field goal percentage differential amongst high-volume rim protectors, per NBA.com (Note: high-volume is defined at averaging at least four defended field goal attempts per game. Also, I am not counting Luol Deng as second because he only played one game). Based on the defended field goal percentage differential statistic, Porzingis is an elite rim protector in this league; he’s consistently been a top 10 player in this statistic for his career, improving each season.
But what about his defense not associated with defending this rim? Porzingis also ranks well in the various adjusted plus-minus statistics. The Unicorn was 35th in defensive RPM (2.27), 46th in defensive RAPM (1.4075), and 24th in defensive PIPM (1.96). Positionally, Porzingis ranked eighth in defensive RPM amongst power forwards and would have been 12th amongst centers, 12th amongst “bigs” (players who primarily player power forward and/or center), and 14th amongst “bigs” in PIPM (Note: if you want a layman’s understand of RPM and RAPM, this is the best article, and here is the methodology on PIPM). Furthermore, the Knicks are 5.9 points per 100 possessions better on defense on when Porzingis is on the floor, which is in the 91st percentile, per Cleaning the Glass.
No matter now you slice it, Kristap Porzingis is a significant defensive plus when he on the court for New York and consistently ranked in the top 15 amongst big-men defenders. So why is it that a good chunk of Knicks fans say that Porzingis cannot defend in space? Well for one, opponent three-point shooting frequency increases 6.1 percent — 4.9 percent of that coming from the corner — when Porzingis is on the floor, per Cleaning the Glass, which is in the second percentile. Fortunately for the Knicks, opponents were not converting those shots as their three-point shooting percentage was 5.0 percent worse with Porzingis on the floor.
In conjunction with those team stats, here are Porzingis’ defensive play-type metrics for last season:
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The pick-and-roll roll man and the spot up figures are alarming and what individuals point to as the basis of their “Porzingis cannot defend in space” claim. Averaging 1.06 and 1.12 points per possession in pick-and-roll and spot up defense, respectively, is far from being just mediocre.
On the surface, these numbers in a vacuum are discouraging; however, we cannot evaluate defense in a vacuum. Play-type data as well as three-point shots allowed when on the court isn’t quite as straightforward as we would like it to be. Hell, the defensive plus-minus statistics don’t provide much context either, but rather a very general understanding of “is this person a net positive on defense when on the floor?” The defended field goal percentage differential is the most straightforward of the statistics currently presented so far. Evaluating defense needs not only the available individual defensive metrics, but a significant amount of context via film and a defensive metrics of that player’s teammates.
So, the question at hand becomes what is causing the public perception stated in the beginning of the article and those ghastly play-type values related to Kristaps Porzingis? Let’s begin by examining which teammates Porzingis played with the most and their respective individual adjusted plus-minus figures:
41
We already know he can protect the paint.
By Drew Steele@ScooterToots Jul 23, 2018, 10:03am EDT
If you’re like me and followed the New York Knicks consistently throughout the 2017–18 season, you have managed to come across some version of the following statement posted by Anonymous Knicks Fan X: “Kristaps Porzingis cannot defend on the perimeter; he is simply not good at it.” Anonymous Knicks Fan X would then follow up with something resembling this statement: “Porzingis needs to play the five in order to protect and stay closer to the rim because this is what he is best at on defense.”
Anchoring the defense and not defending players outside the paint is an easy stance to take. In spite of playing 88 percent of his time at power forward, Porzingis managed to average the 16th most defended field goal attempts within six feet of the rim and was second in defended field goal percentage differential amongst high-volume rim protectors, per NBA.com (Note: high-volume is defined at averaging at least four defended field goal attempts per game. Also, I am not counting Luol Deng as second because he only played one game). Based on the defended field goal percentage differential statistic, Porzingis is an elite rim protector in this league; he’s consistently been a top 10 player in this statistic for his career, improving each season.
But what about his defense not associated with defending this rim? Porzingis also ranks well in the various adjusted plus-minus statistics. The Unicorn was 35th in defensive RPM (2.27), 46th in defensive RAPM (1.4075), and 24th in defensive PIPM (1.96). Positionally, Porzingis ranked eighth in defensive RPM amongst power forwards and would have been 12th amongst centers, 12th amongst “bigs” (players who primarily player power forward and/or center), and 14th amongst “bigs” in PIPM (Note: if you want a layman’s understand of RPM and RAPM, this is the best article, and here is the methodology on PIPM). Furthermore, the Knicks are 5.9 points per 100 possessions better on defense on when Porzingis is on the floor, which is in the 91st percentile, per Cleaning the Glass.
No matter now you slice it, Kristap Porzingis is a significant defensive plus when he on the court for New York and consistently ranked in the top 15 amongst big-men defenders. So why is it that a good chunk of Knicks fans say that Porzingis cannot defend in space? Well for one, opponent three-point shooting frequency increases 6.1 percent — 4.9 percent of that coming from the corner — when Porzingis is on the floor, per Cleaning the Glass, which is in the second percentile. Fortunately for the Knicks, opponents were not converting those shots as their three-point shooting percentage was 5.0 percent worse with Porzingis on the floor.
In conjunction with those team stats, here are Porzingis’ defensive play-type metrics for last season:
The pick-and-roll roll man and the spot up figures are alarming and what individuals point to as the basis of their “Porzingis cannot defend in space” claim. Averaging 1.06 and 1.12 points per possession in pick-and-roll and spot up defense, respectively, is far from being just mediocre.
On the surface, these numbers in a vacuum are discouraging; however, we cannot evaluate defense in a vacuum. Play-type data as well as three-point shots allowed when on the court isn’t quite as straightforward as we would like it to be. Hell, the defensive plus-minus statistics don’t provide much context either, but rather a very general understanding of “is this person a net positive on defense when on the floor?” The defended field goal percentage differential is the most straightforward of the statistics currently presented so far. Evaluating defense needs not only the available individual defensive metrics, but a significant amount of context via film and a defensive metrics of that player’s teammates.
So, the question at hand becomes what is causing the public perception stated in the beginning of the article and those ghastly play-type values related to Kristaps Porzingis? Let’s begin by examining which teammates Porzingis played with the most and their respective individual adjusted plus-minus figures:
