"Merci, GOAT" Frank's Players tribune!

[Juco24]

I, like some others, was hesitant on reading the article... so glad I did. Didn't realize what this MAN has already gone through. He'll be in the league a long time with his current ethics

[Knicks Byke]

Btw, that kid will be a chick-magnet, being an NBA player, looking like that, and speaking French? The Knicks has to hire a guy just for blocking the ladies wherever he goes. We don't want distractions, he can date when he is 40.

keep his out of the thots of queens.

[Besart19]

Stockton - Ntilikina
Hornacek - Baker
Russell - Hardaway
Malone - Porzingis
Foster - Hernangomez

Eisley - Sessions
Anderson - Lee
Morris - McDermott
Chambers - Beasley
Carr - O'Quinn
Keefe - Kanter
Ostertag - Noah

Sloan - Hornacek

That would be my wet dream. Those Jazz teams were beating super teams (except Bulls) and the Spurs were modelled after them.

LOL that's actually pretty close, Hardaway was no Russell though. Russell defends allll the greats. The bench is spot on though.

lol yeah know... but I did it physical frame-wise... THJ has a pretty good build of muscle frame and bone strength

[matchman]

He comes from a family who has been through the real battlefield, that will make him so different from others.

I sincerely hope he can live up his dream and achieve our dreams too (to win it all gradually). We will be patient to watch him grow in our eyes.

[MaseInYourFace]

His brothers both became doctors. Yeah they are doing something right in that family.

[BKlutch]

Not for nothing, but is anyone else feeling all these Euro Picks?

It's refreshing

I can see what Phil was doing,

Phil was hated and despised by the media and the average fan. He came here with almost no draft choices to use and a team bereft of youth and talent. Now we have KP, Willy, Frank plus possibly Dotson and Baker. And all of our draft picks going forward. In a year or two we'll be challenging for rings and no one will remember what Phil did for us.

I loved Phil when he first came here because he knew so much about basketball and seemed like a fresh start. As you and others have pointed out, he's done a lot of good for the team. He made 3 huge mistakes and had one other failing.

Mistake #1: When we lost our coach of the year choice to GSW, hiring Fish was a mistake. Fish was too inexperienced and we later found out he had a certain character flaw. Nobody misses him, with the possible exception of Matt Barnes, who may hope to see him once more just for revenge.

Mistake#2: Phil made us think he was great by resigning Melo. This was, of course, when he agreed to giving Melo the infamous NTC that took 3,000 pages of agonized comments on this board. And we may never know if Dolan played a role in forcing this signing.

Mistake #3: Signing the walking dead to a long contract (Noah).

In addition to these huge mistakes, there were smaller ones that didn't hobble us as much. Even trading away THJr, who had potential, before we gave him a chance to develop, lead to our having to pay more for him than we wanted to.

I see the biggest problem of Phil's tenure as not being these mistakes, but his inability to deal with people. He had few great relationships around the NBA and his relationships with his players and others on the Knicks were poor. I'm hoping that Scott Perry, who has exactly these people skills Phil lacked, also knows enough about the the players and the game to be a good GM for us.

Despite the negatives, Phil's tenure was not all negative. He did draft and or sign some good young players, and we have our picks too. He just wasn't the complete package, so now we're on to Scott. I wish him luck.

[BKlutch]

His whole family is smart. His mom is also nursing director too IIRC. They're hard working, blue collar type people (Hornacek was this type in his days too, a second round pick who SHINED!).

--Mags

thats the kind of guy every knick fan should be able to get behind

His brother Yves is now a surgeon, and other brother Brice is a physical therapist.

Ordinarily, we'd think of his brothers as being big successes. But chances are they won't earn even a fraction of what Frank will.

A smart family - let's think of Frank as a doctor who will operate on the court.

[Amsterdam]

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[BeagleBoss]

Be Derek Harper 2.0 and I'll be happy.

[Ferulci]

Awesome read. As a french who lived in Strasbourg, everyone had high praise about his character and work ethic. He'll be very good for a long time.

[thebuzzardman]

Figured I'd drop it here too

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[newyorker4ever]

“O.K., all your sons have reached their dreams. Now you can relax.”

She said, “O.K., now I can relax.”

That still freaks me out seeing all those tears come out of his eyes like that. I've never seen water works like that before seeing Moreno cry like that.

[newyorker4ever]

Stockton - Ntilikina
Hornacek - Baker
Russell - Hardaway
Malone - Porzingis
Foster - Hernangomez

Eisley - Sessions
Anderson - Lee
Morris - McDermott
Chambers - Beasley
Carr - O'Quinn
Keefe - Kanter
Ostertag - Noah

Sloan - Hornacek

Soooooooo we're never gonna win a championship is what you're saying.

[newyorker4ever]

Where is King Frank Hater Beagle Lost at?. Aka The French League Sucks. Aka He is nothing but a Daunte Exum Clone. Aka He wont be nothing but Iman Shumpert in the NBA. Aka I use Frank in 2K and he is nice.

He has yet to repent

All you Frankfooters better not have any excuses if this kid can't beat out hasbeens like Sessions and Jack and start for this bad team.

Repent? The kid hasn't played a game yet and he might not start over scrubs like Sessions and Jack lol.

But can Jack and Sessions write inspiring letters like Frank can?? Damn right they can't.