RHODEY wrote:Iron Mantis wrote:RHODEY wrote:When you take Mitch out of the starting lineup you diminish the team's biggest strength - interior defense and offensive rebounding - and make it into a huge weakness (w/Towns) ...all for the sake of stretching the floor. Mitch is our glue....I think he is singlehandedly keeping us out of the Lottery....
And while stretching the floor is a very big need, there are ways to do it without weakening what we do best. My suggestion is to insert a starting swingman of legit size who can really shoot. Someone like this guy...
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Sure Bogs would not be a permanent solution due to age, but he's exactly what is needed to balance out this roster while being cheap enough to retain assets for future moves.
If we keep our offensive rebounding intact, just adding one true sniper would pay huge dividends towards making us truly competitive.
Brunson
RJ
Bogs
Julius
Mitch The above lineup gives us spacing while retaining our Interior D and O rebounding.
Knicks need balance.
Mitch isn't lost...he comes off the bench to provide valuable minutes...we sacrifice moving down a few spots on defense to move up from being the worst on offense...maybe even surprisingly good.
Interior D and O rebounding is nice when your center can do more than that..ours can do nothing else...zero......Mitch is killing the offense: can't score, and his man is camping in the paint to challenge EVERYTHING. And if Mitch is having lackluster game....he's just a warm body because he can do literally nothing else.
KAT can create his own offense in the paint and draw doubles....so Maybe with KAT-centric offense....Grimes can get better looks and RJ, Brunson can score in the paint much easier without a camping 7-footer challenging them literally every single time...if they leave KAT open on the perimeter to challenge, he can quickly go off from 3........so offensive rebounding and a prayer will not need to be the primary offense. Actual organic scoring and passing can be.
Does this sound Familiar?
Mike Shearer wrote:But Towns has inarguably the worst decision-making of any high-leverage player in the entire NBA. He commits some of the most blatant offensive fouls you’ll ever see, throws ill-considered passes at the worst times, and is perpetually a minute late in help defense. And while these flaws come and go in the regular season, they erupt, like a once-dormant disease, every postseason.
With the ball, Towns becomes a car without a steering wheel. He doesn’t seem to realize ballhandlers are allowed to, you know, change direction. The Eurostep has been around for decades, yet Towns continually plows into defenders who have been parked in one spot long enough to incur a ticket. Watch him mow over LeBron James, who spent nearly the entire play motionless:
https://www.basketballpoetry.com/p/shrinking-violet-karl-anthony-towns
Still prefer him over Randle, for the reasons I mentioned.
Even if we just camp him in the corner or at the top of the key and don't let him create too much, it will do wonders for the spacing.
They way KP and Brook spread us out with 3's, but challenged any Knick who dared enter the paint ...KAT can have that same effect.
RIP mags
