Last 18/19 NY Knicks season transmission: "F*** all the haters from you to SAS" See y'all in '20

[storyteller]

They gave Knox a screen on his very first touch and he scored...I see you Fiz.

 

[storyteller]

Ja is very nice and fits a need. He's shot up the draft board and deserves it based on his recent play.

Rui is intriguing though, though no draft board I've seen that has him in the top 10 cause he is a tweener, and going to be 21 by the time he is drafted.

How do the Knicks draft that far back unless they are doing a trade for an additional pick, or their scouts have him being very underrated? On the flip I would love to trade some of our guys for a later 1st round pick, but that is another discussion.

Yeah, now that you mention it, even as a Freshman Rui was looking at double digit draft position. It's damn near all underclassmen in a typical top 10 and he hasn't blown up the way some projected, I'd expected him to be further down. Definitely would be dope to turn one of these dudes into a late 1st or even turn a couple into seconds that we can package.

 

[storyteller]

It's finally happening...there's ball movement!

 

[Ty-Fife]

Knox and Dot the future

 

[PIFF101]

THJR

 

[Derek Lee]

John Wall is trash. What a disgrace

 

[Columbo]

Seems like Mudiay is trying to see how many times he can get his shot blocked tonight

 

[tru_m.a.c]

Hezonja is trash on defense b

 

[DPresidential]

Nothing but zombies playing on our squad...

 

[Derek Lee]

Knicks looking like they've never seen hard traps before. Committing turnovers left and right

 

[tru_m.a.c]

this is one of the worst quarters of basketball I've ever seen

 

[tru_m.a.c]

god damn there is some real stupid basketball being played right now

 

[ISO]

Rui is a Junior Tweener, though he has been extending his shot to the mid range. Physically he's really good and can defend (most famously when his team beat the Duke big 3 and he personally stopped Barret from scoring the game winner) If I remember correctly his outside shot was bad. He would have been a first round pick last year near the end of the lottery.



https://www.si.com

Outside of the Duke boys who just have talent. It makes a lot of sense, Rui wouldn't be another project youth because he would be 21. So he wouldn't need to be on a team like now where even if we're losing we're giving (hopefully) players minutes. He's developing in college. So the fit makes sense. The Knicks should be a team gearing up for the playoffs with the return of KP and other FA's. Rui would have a good chance breaking the rotation. A lot of Big boards got Rui in the 8-10 range cause his ceiling isn't as high as some others. However, the ceiling is still high, it's just an age bias mostly.

Rui reminds me of a young Tobias Harris

 

[ISO]

If Fiz isn't gonna play Frank (or just gonna banish him to the corners), I'm cool with the G-league too. I don't think it's necessary because we're not chasing wins, so we can get him his reps while he works on defending the best players in the world but if we're not gonna do that...G-league is just fine. Frank's gonna have value. I'm still fully confident in his three ball. Between his 3 point shooting in October (8 games, 4 attempts per game and 39% on those attempts); his free throw shooting (94% from the line and FT shooting correlates well with developing a jumper); and also his form...It'll come around. Once you get him shooting 3's at even 36% than you can utilize him as a three and D player that can guard PG's through SF's plus some PF's on a switch...that's a player every team utilizes to some extent. With KP, Knox and hopefully one of the Duke boys; having a player who doesn't need the ball in his hands and offers elite defense will be a great fit. You bookend that trio I just mentioned with Frank up top and Mitch inside...that's a really balanced squad even without mentioning the weapons in Zo and THJ or a potential max FA we might add.

Knicks fans stay citing that 39% through 8 games

It’s a small sample size and a fluke. He had 2-3 good shooting games that inflated his %’s, he shot poorly in all other games. He bricks wide open looks. Even Marcus Smart and Ricky Rubio have hot streaks from outside.

Ntlikina can’t shoot. His FT% isn’t even worth mentioning he’s getting to the line 0.7 times per game, 16 free throws attempted in 23 games. Last season he only shot 72% from the line.

 

[JMurder]

D-Dot is clearly one of our most important players. We NEED him