Why is it taboo with us knicks fan to say a player is bad or is not showing any improvements. I can only imagine how highly you thought of landry fields 10yrs ago lol.
Let’s be honest, if any team saw potential in frank they would of been throwing a draft pick at us, but no one willing to part with even a 2nd round pick should tell us all we need to know about Frank.
I’ve waited a few years to say anything negative about him, so I’m definitely not in the same crowd that’s been dogging him for years.
It's not taboo, I think most people (maybe I'm just projecting) just don't agree with taking such strong stances on something when there is further context to consider.
It's one thing to say give him time, he's still young.
It's one thing to say, he hasn't shown much in 2 years.
It's another thing to say, after 2 seasons, that you've been waiting "a few years" to speak negatively on him. Like people are holding on to some concept or theory and don't want to be wrong for a minute when he's just now entering his 3rd year and has been under scrutiny from day 1.
Facts are, dude has had injuries and under 2 different coaches, he's never been given a consistent opportunity to be the primary ball handler.
That just is. We can get into all the reasons WHY and speculate, but like that vid dude pointed out earlier, this is going to be his 3rd year and the 3rd consecutive year where the front office has created a logjam at the PG position, making him the odd man out. You have a 6'7 defensive player and offensive facilitator and you're still trying to figure out his position? The man wants to dish the fukking ball out. Play him at PG. Let him work through his mistakes. Give him the same rope you have everyone else. But they don't value his strengths, so his weaknesses are magnified. And everyone eats it up. And I say this as someone that is sick and tired of timid ass Frank, but guess what? I'd be timid too if I felt like every mistake I made was going to define ME as a player, ME as a person. And I'm 32 - how can I judge a teenager, now early 20something for the same thing?
Speak to dudes body of work and say that it hasn't been impressive so far? Fair. But speak to the whole story. Speak to a GM trading for ANOTHER young player at the same position, trying to prove himself in the middle of the season, the very 1st year you're in the league. Trying to build competition? Fair. Except one gets all the chances to fukk up and the other doesn't. Not so fair. Speak to him being injury prone? Fair. Say the man didn't improve his 2nd season when he didn't play in half the games and when he did, had few instances of playing consistently? Not so fair.
The conversation about Frank is incredibly slanted and is always met with "we could have had DSJ, we could have had Mitchell" so it's never going to go in his favor. If we had a coach/front office that valued what he DID bring and try to maximize it despite his current limitations, we probably wouldn't be having this discussion. But they don't, so we won't, and we'll get pennies on the dollar for this kid and be shocked when he actually becomes serviceable elsewhere. We still want him to be DSJ when we HAVE DSJ. Man had like 6 or 7 assists in 15 minutes of play and people are crying that he didn't drop 45 on them instead. Come on now.
We didn’t get Zion or Jah . We could of tanked and developed Knox
the fukk man, we got a possible gem in our hands and y’all wanna throw him to the bushes because he’s not scoring at will?! I swear to god some of y’all NY Nikkas only like flashiness, cross over, score first type point guards that don’t get us nowhere.
no fiz was a bad coach based on actual results and he didn’t try to put Knox in the best position to succeed to me . This season since he is a great coach according to you then he has 0 excuses