Holy crap. Okay, I know it's only Summer League but there's something to remember, while Kevin Knox goes off - he's the youngest guy there. After going 22 and 8 and 19 and 7 through the first two games, Knox went 29 and 9 against the Lakers last night. We've spent years talking about youth and upside, but figure this as well, Kevin was a football first athlete until he had his growth spurt a few years ago, so what we're really seeing is a natural scorer who's probably played hundreds of less games than kids who were always hoops first. We're seeing a kid who picked up enough fundamentals on the fly to get recruited by Kentucky - though they clearly had no idea what he could do. Either that, or he is improving at an exponential rate.
When you watchd pre-injury games of Michael Porter Jr., you saw a kid super well schooled in fundamentals and playing above them. Danny Manning was like that back in the day. So was Magic. Kevin Knox, on the other hand, is nowhere near as schooled in fundamentals, but he is now flying above them against older kids. This means he's going to get better, a lot better and he's starting out great.
While we're at it, Mitchell Robinson sure doesn't look like a G Leaguer to me. He also thinks Knox is a "good kid." Robinson is all of 20.
The Knicks may have knocked a year off their rebuild with these two studs.
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So beyond the development of these two, goals for the season I think our identifying a point guard, or deciding that still remains in need, and finding a way to trade Lee, Noah, and possibly Hardaway to open up maximum space.
I think Burke and Frank cover PG, but hope the Knicks play like the championship Knicks and just have 2 guards. I also think if they could get another lottery pick and find one more KP, KK type value, we wouldn't need multiple FA's. I think our scouts are on point. It would be good to get rid of Lee and Noah, but we'll have to see how that works. I don't want to pair them with firsts to get rid of them.
Firsts are sacred. Trading them, especially unprotected, is probably the primary reason they have struggled to remain relevant off and on since the ‘70s.
I can see Frank as a “guard,” but not Burke as a result of his size.
Burke is a scorer/distributor who can sort of dart around our tall trees and get them great looks. As feared, btw, Trier is outplaying Dotson by a mile.
Remember the first Scottie Stirling gave the Sonics our for Gerald Henderson and a future one, and the pick we traded turned into Scottie Pippen?
Previously had traded a one to the Bulls for Jawan Oldham...
It's also been making bad picks when we had them and mostly bad or cash hungry coaches since Red.
I actually called the Knicks pretending I was then beat writer Fillip Bondy, in an attempt to get through to someone who would matter, when the rumor of the Gerald Henderson trade surfaced.
The guy I got through to recognized that I wasn’t Bondy, but heard my complaint, and said there was nothing he could do.
I wrote them, when Phil Jackson was coaching the Albany Patroons, who were just a 40 minute drive from Williams. Told them to hire him, because he was school of Red. They hired a series of Bob Hills and Stu Jacksons instead.
Kornet came down awkwardly on his foot, we will see what that is.
What I see overall though is that these big man need to hit the weight room and part of it’s just natural maturity.
Fran Frascilla loves Robinson
Denver has agreed to send Kenneth Faried, Darrell Arthur, a 2019 protected first-round pick (1-12) and a future second round pick to Nets for Isaiah Whitehead, league sources tell ESPN. Salary dump for Denver.
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