Cookies4Life wrote:cuyankees wrote:Cookies4Life wrote:Knox is shooting a little over 38% from the field which obviously isn't ideal. Rookies should get a lot of leeway, especially someone like Knox who is playing with a very bad starting back court that doesn't get many people involve on the offensive end. I'm pretty sure this team averages the lowest amount of assist per game in the league right now which correlates with them having the lowest FG% in the league. When you have very little ball distribution with your backcourt having a high usage rating and not getting teammates involved, everyone's FG #'s will be taking a hit.
Trae Young is shooting 39% from the field, and the great Luca Doncic is shooting just a shade over 43% from the field. Some people compare Knox to Booker who averaged around 42% from the field in his rookie season. Obviously I'd like to see Knox' FG % go at least above 40% before the season is over but when you look at who he's playing with in the starting lineup and I can understand why he sometimes takes some ill advised shots. He doesn't know when he'll be able to touch the ball again when you're playing with kamikaze pilot type of players in Mudiay and Tim.
Knox's efficiency is important bc when KP returns and whomever comes next season (draft and/ FA) Knox is a 3/4 option @ best. Sound familiar? We already have a debacle @ SG.
Regardless, it's hard to get excited when watching Knox throw up floaters, layups going away from the basket and playing matador defense all the while teams giving him room bc NYK are a joke and down by double digits.
Sense I get is there is a lot of box score cheerleaders who don't watch games/highlights and see how it's done in context.
I hope that last sentence wasn't some thinly-veiled shot at myself. I've watched almost every game this year including preseason and Summer League.
i have no problem with Knox taking floaters- that's a part of his offensive versatility. I agree with you 100% on his lack of defense. At times when he's engaged, he plays pretty good man to man defense. He gets beat a lot to the rim and his defensive awareness (opposing players making backdoor cuts, etc,) has to be improved upon.
I personally don't care what his averages are in a throw away season- I just want to see him develop and continue to improve as the season goes on.
I'd like to see him give better effort defensively, attack the glass a bit more, not put his head down so much when he makes a mistake, and play within the flow of the offense. As I said before, it's hard to be an efficient wing player when you're playing 20+ minutes a night alongside Hardaway jr and Mudiay. Those guys don't make a concerted effort to get their other teammates in good position to be efficient.
No just the sense I've gotten during this "hot" streak from KK, who's doing it in garbage time and wOUT a defender caring.
. I cheer for knox’s efficiency regardless I don’t need a bet as motivation.
If it's mine, I won't be as charitable as last time. That Bey one was pretty fly. 
