Put Some Hornacek On Our Game: 2016 New York Knicks Offseason Thread

[Victim of Racism]

I wasn't referring to either of them. I was basically asking if you factor intangibles when it comes to players and teams or do you just base your opinions on hard stats.

Kool. Did my post answer your question?

 

[OsO]

3rd in the East in scoring at Forward (5th overall in the East)
5th in the NBA in assists at Forward
2nd in the NBA in rebounds at SF

 

[GhostoftheMan]

My ballot

this nikka really voted for lopez :techlaugh:

 

[storyteller]

This isn't my work at all, a cat from Realgm posted it but these are really impressive numbers and I think worth discussing.

http://stats.nba.com/league/player/defense/#!/lt6/

So I think we have all noticed how sick Porzingis's defense has been lately. But do we know how well? Hes been shooting up defensive lists over the last few weeks. The #'s back it up. He has defended the 9th most shots inside of 6 feet in the NBA (6.5 fga) and has a -11% fg differential on these shots. Hes pretty much playing Rudy Gobert level defense (a players defense people were going gaga over). Only Andrew Bogut has a better fg differential, though on a less shots (4.3 fga, 47th most fga inside 6 ft). His defense within 10 feet is almost just as good. 3 pt defense, which was a weakness at the begining, is now also slightly above average (-1.7 diff, was + when i checked a few weeks ago). His BBall IQ and ability to focus on weaknesses is awesome. Let us take a moment to appreciate that we have someone who has defensive player of the year potential in the future.

Now the raw numbers are nice here, but I'd argue that spacing PF's have been a problem for KP. He's prone to back off and deny inside play but give up jumpers. This would go a long way to explaining why he's checking out as one of the better interior defenders league wide at PF while majority of those accolades belong to C's. Long story short, he's one offseason of strength training away from being much more valuable as a C than a PF because C's just don't have the range to make him pay for trailing off as often. But regardless, the two factors here that are really exciting are 1) he's already putting up elite protection numbers against interior offense and 2) he's improving his numbers defensively all around which gives the sense that he can continue his growth and really be a DPOY type of presence in time.

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

His plays says he ain't an all star. :babyrose:



Of course fans are gonna vote him in.:lolwut:

Who is better ? Paul Milsap?

 

[DPresidential]

this nikka really voted for lopez :techlaugh:

Lmao word.


Imagine how devastating it'd be to see the West ALL STARS...


I REPEAT...

THE WEST ALL STARS completely get in the Knicks ass during the break.

That little kid who cried when Porzingis was drafted would probably end up jumping off a fukking building.

That shyt would be so embarrassing. ..........

 

[K-ZOE]

Kool. Did my post answer your question?

Just the part where you directly answered the question. The rest of it was

 

[KnickstapeCity]

this nikka really voted for lopez :techlaugh:

:philjacksonlol::philjacksonlol:

 

[K-ZOE]

My league pass was cancelled by the time they picked up Shved last year. But damn he was better than Sasha right? Cuz yall know we haven't seen the last of Mr Vujacic...

 

[Derek Lee]

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:willface:
This deserves a neg train.

 

[KnickstapeCity]

:willface:
This deserves a neg train.

Tell the troof


I saw Concussion this past weekend and the movie was so dope


Will Smith >

 

[Miles Davis]

:willface:
This deserves a neg train.

Had me trying for a good minute to get that discount, wanted them M12's

 

[Victim of Racism]

Rolo has been playing some solid defense lately. He punked Drummond. He punked Gasol, which led to the refs sitting Rolo down in bogus foul trouble. Hopefully he can bring that tonight.

 

[storyteller]

Rolo has been playing some solid defense lately. He punked Drummond. He punked Gasol, which led to the refs sitting Rolo down in bogus foul trouble. Hopefully he can bring that tonight.

The past two match-ups with the Hawks, he's really put in work so I've got high expectations for him. He's too big for anyone not named Tiago Splitter on that team and Splitter ain't playing.

 

[Victim of Racism]

Some keys to tonight's game:

Take care of the ball (NY coughed it up 22 times in Atlanta)
Get back in transition (NY gave up 26 points off of those turnovers)
Rebound (that's a weakness in Atlanta that NY can exploit)