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Preseason Game # 2


3 Bradley Beal SG
21 Carrick Felix SG
8 Tim Frazier PG
13 Marcin Gortat C
9 Sheldon Mac SG
28 Ian Mahinmi C
1 Chris McCullough PF
20 Jodie Meeks SG
5 Markieff Morris PF
32 Daniel Ochefu PF
12 Kelly Oubre Jr. SF
22 Otto Porter Jr. SF
7 Devin Robinson SF
31 Tomas Satoransky SG
30 Mike Scott PF
15 Donald Sloan PG
14 Jason Smith PF
2 John Wall PG
4 Michael Young


31 Ron Baker
8 Michael Beasley
21 Damyean Dotson
3 Tim Hardaway Jr.
Nigel Hayes
14 Willy Hernangomez
55 Jarrett Jack
00 Enes Kanter
2 Luke Kornet
91 Mindaugas Kuzminskas
5 Courtney Lee
20 Doug McDermott
13 Joakim Noah
11 Frank Ntilikina
9 Kyle O'Quinn
6 Kristaps Porzingis
17 Xavier Rathan-Mayes
1 Ramon Sessions
42 Lance Thomas

Only on MSG.

2nd game in the Porzingis-era post the you-know-who trade:

Starting lineup?

Noah
McBuckets
KP
THJ
Frank

I inserted Frank because this is a nice opportunity for him to get a taste of going up against one of the league's best PGs in Wall. The preseason is a good time to get Frank some exposure to them.

It baffles me that Horny is basically using the pre-season as tryouts. As the coach i think you should have your starting lineup sorted out by now. I'm not a fan of the constant shuffling.

EchelonNYK wrote:It baffles me that Horny is basically using the pre-season as tryouts. As the coach i think you should have your starting lineup sorted out by now. I'm not a fan of the constant shuffling.

Larry Brown 2.0

HarthorneWingo wrote:

EchelonNYK wrote:It baffles me that Horny is basically using the pre-season as tryouts. As the coach i think you should have your starting lineup sorted out by now. I'm not a fan of the constant shuffling.

Larry Brown 2.0

Derek Fisher 3.0

EchelonNYK wrote:It baffles me that Horny is basically using the pre-season as tryouts. As the coach i think you should have your starting lineup sorted out by now. I'm not a fan of the constant shuffling.

Isn't the preseason the time you get to figure out your rotations and lineup? You can't get the same sense at practice than you do at a real game. Nothing matters until the season starts. If he messes with the lineup during the season then it's a problem.

Polk377 wrote:

EchelonNYK wrote:It baffles me that Horny is basically using the pre-season as tryouts. As the coach i think you should have your starting lineup sorted out by now. I'm not a fan of the constant shuffling.

Isn't the preseason the time you get to figure out your rotations and lineup? You can't get the same sense at practice than you do at a real game. Nothing matters until the season starts. If he messes with the lineup during the season then it's a problem.

First 3 preseason games - lineup and rotation tinkering
Last 2 preseason games - starting lineup set and most if not all the bench rotation

I'd think this is what it'll be. If Hornacek plays lineup shuffle for all 5 games, it'll be another check in the box in the column "not a good coach"

Sark wrote:

HarthorneWingo wrote:

EchelonNYK wrote:It baffles me that Horny is basically using the pre-season as tryouts. As the coach i think you should have your starting lineup sorted out by now. I'm not a fan of the constant shuffling.

Larry Brown 2.0

Derek Fisher 3.0

yes that happens every **** year with this team

EchelonNYK wrote:It baffles me that Horny is basically using the pre-season as tryouts. As the coach i think you should have your starting lineup sorted out by now. I'm not a fan of the constant shuffling.

This season will be a tank, these games are not try-outs, they are tank-outs.

Reign23 wrote:

Sark wrote:

HarthorneWingo wrote:
Larry Brown 2.0

Derek Fisher 3.0

yes that happens every **** year with this team

And every other team, because it's PREseason.

To be fair Horny isn't the only coach that uses the different lineups for the first few games of pre-season. There are a few teams that come in knowing their starting lineup but most have positional battles throughout TC & Pre-Season. For us we know the starting PF & SG for sure and potentially the starting SF since it seems Dougie is starting again (although there are multiple guys that should be considered there) but I don't blame for trying different looks at PG & C. I think Frank will lock up the starting PG with this game especially since he'll get more run w/ Timmy & KP, which should help him. The center spot is tricky, I'd love to see us go with Willy (or to a lesser extent Kanter) and stick with it but I think Horny is trying to find some defense at that spot which is why he's tried out Kyle-O & Noah these first two games.

Willy rebounded great, but he'll get more scoring opportunities off the bench

sessions stinks
Jack is done
Beastly showing shades of Melo. Ball holding

Kanter is better than Willy. Sorry folks
Kp is not a center
Lee showing signs of life
McDermott if he could move laterally would be an allstar

Frank is the real deal will be an allstar some day
Thj. Still overly quick on the trigger.


Frank/baker
Thj
McDermott
Kp
Kanter

dotson needs more minutes he looked good

Damn we going to suck... LOL

Keeping it 100% there is no reason to have the Lee, Kuz, LT, Noah, KOQ of the world on this team... these guys have reach their ceiling and max out on their growth... they must go now. The Kanter's, Willy's, Dotson's, Baker's etc... should be playing 25+ minutes a game in preseason.... I bet you Horny has playoffs in mind... SMH. Dumb azz Knicks...

Bklyn&company wrote:Damn we going to suck... LOL

Keeping it 100% there is no reason to have the Lee, Kuz, LT, Noah, KOQ of the world on this team... these guys have teach their ceiling and max out on their growth... they must go now. The Kanter's, Willy's, Dotson's, Baker's etc... should be playing 25+ minutes a game in preseason.... I bet you Horny has playoffs in mind... SMH. Dumb azz Knicks...

I don't think we should get rid of all the vets. I do agree that the young guys should be getting the brunt of the minutes but unless it's a deal that clearly helps the rebuild I think there's value in keeping a guy like Courtney Lee around to mentor guys. Also to be fair other than Lee the guys that got the most minutes were Hardaway, Kristaps, Beasley, McDermott, Frank, Kanter, Willy, and Dotson in that order. So besides Lee & Beasley the focus was on the young guys in the first game.

Definitely want to see more of Dotson.

HarthorneWingo wrote:

EchelonNYK wrote:It baffles me that Horny is basically using the pre-season as tryouts. As the coach i think you should have your starting lineup sorted out by now. I'm not a fan of the constant shuffling.

Larry Brown 2.0

“Oh, we’re playing in your hometown? Then you get to start!”

Pretty much the +/- from the starting back court is going to get worse before it gets better.

Sark wrote:

HarthorneWingo wrote:

EchelonNYK wrote:It baffles me that Horny is basically using the pre-season as tryouts. As the coach i think you should have your starting lineup sorted out by now. I'm not a fan of the constant shuffling.

Larry Brown 2.0

Derek Fisher 3.0

Who Cares Tank 4.0