The KnicksFix wrote:NoStatsGuy wrote:The KnicksFix wrote:
Kenny Atkinson would have had this team rolling
as far as i know kenny atkinson is coaching and paid by another team. so hes not on the market for coaches to get. we can dream and fantasize about coaches of course but i like to keep it realistic. And there are just no better coaches, that we could realistically get.
we would have to gamble on one, and im not a fan of that. we gotta hope we stay healthy, thats just how it is.
You like to keep it realistic? How about this as well, the injuries have piled up under Thibs, at no point in watching the Knicks for 30 years have i seen so many injured players, and definitely not 3 so early in the season. And only 6 players in the playoffs, You think thats just due to luck or attrition? Lmao, you want to be realistic right?
yea it has something to do with luck. attrition increases the potential of getting hurt its not a gurantee. Jokic, edwards, jaylen brown, deandre fox and many many other players all playing the same amount of minutes per game as our players. you guys always act like thibs is the only coach playing his players these kind of minutes. last year we had 0 players in the top 15 minutes/game and still got hurt.
obviously id like to see thibs playing a larger rotation aswell, dont get me wrong. he will though. once mitch, precious and deuce are back. He will play a 9 man rotiation. and btw none of our current injuries (just like last year) have a direct correlation to attrition. Mitch is still hurt from last year/the offseason, precioius pulled a hammy in the pre season and deuce didnt even play many minutes. so what are doing here? blaming everything on thibs just for the sake of it?
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In fact, i went out of my way to double check most of the teams from the last 30 years on basketball reference. and its clearly a myth that thibs plays our players more than previous coaches and runs them into the ground. look it up... marbury, crawford, spree and houston for example had multiple seasons, where they played almost 40 a night. ewing from 89 to 97 played betweend 36 and 38 a night. exactly what mikal and hart play right now. players in the playoffs consistently played 45 or more minutes in the 90s and early 2000s. We also definitley had seasons where 3 or more players were injured towards the end of the season. players these days just sit out more and get injured more, maybe because they are softer who knows. for whatever reason players are injured, in our case its definitley not too many minutes.






















