KnixtapeH20 wrote:Watch RJ grow taller this off season and put on even more muscle and straight body **** next season
He's going to turn into Thaddeus Young?
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KnixtapeH20 wrote:Watch RJ grow taller this off season and put on even more muscle and straight body **** next season
nykballa2k4 wrote:robillionaire wrote:nykballa2k4 wrote:
One of the many problems is that, and this was said already, we have not been able to move up in the lotto. This year we actually got "lucky" to be 19 and 21, we could have been 20 and 24. All those kicks at the lotta can, we never moved up, heck we were never in the top 3. The last time we had the A winning combination of pingpong balls was the year the Bulls drafted LaMarcus Alderidge @2 and traded him to Portland for Tyrus Thomas.
We have pretty good options, we are actually in a better situation than the Nets were pre-KD/Kyrie/Harden.
The problem is we need a KD/Kyrie who want to come here. Really we need a KD because Kyrie didn't do anything special at all for Boston.
I’m gonna nitpick on this, we did have our lotto number selected for the 3rd pick 2 years ago, and despite the optics of falling back from 1st to 3rd that was actually a lucky outcome. Our greatest odds by a wide margin were to pick 5th. It didn’t seem lucky but it kinda is when you consider the actual odds of the new lotto system. I know we would have preferred top 2 but there was only a 27.4% chance of that. The worst team in the NBA only has a 40% chance of a top 3 pick and 60% chance of picking 4-5. And the average is 3.7. So 3 was still slightly above what a worst team in the nba should expect with new odds
So we didn't get as unlucky as we could have. Although we had the luck that the NBA changed the friggen rule once we had a team committed to a rebuild. The two top dogs in that draft both look like all-stars, super-stars.
Other teams move up. We don't.
robillionaire wrote:nykballa2k4 wrote:robillionaire wrote:
I’m gonna nitpick on this, we did have our lotto number selected for the 3rd pick 2 years ago, and despite the optics of falling back from 1st to 3rd that was actually a lucky outcome. Our greatest odds by a wide margin were to pick 5th. It didn’t seem lucky but it kinda is when you consider the actual odds of the new lotto system. I know we would have preferred top 2 but there was only a 27.4% chance of that. The worst team in the NBA only has a 40% chance of a top 3 pick and 60% chance of picking 4-5. And the average is 3.7. So 3 was still slightly above what a worst team in the nba should expect with new odds
So we didn't get as unlucky as we could have. Although we had the luck that the NBA changed the friggen rule once we had a team committed to a rebuild. The two top dogs in that draft both look like all-stars, super-stars.
Other teams move up. We don't.
Sure, I agree. But you still have people who want to tank despite the only guarantee, and in fact the BEST odds, being the 5th pick in the draft no matter how bad we are.
What do you think about @kporzee? Karl-Anthony Towns: PorzinGOD does not care or need my opinion for he is a higher life form then all of us.
snadler wrote:This is time for your daily reminder, the knicks are in one of the best situations in the entire league, coming off a 4th seed, lowest payroll, up 70 million in cap space, way too many draft picks, coach of the year. this doom and gloom from past knicks misery is getting boring and annoying..if you can't see that the knicks are on the right path then you are just being miserable and complaining for the sake of complaining
Although Thibs won COY for coaching the Knicks to twice their expected number of wins, he didn't pull Payton soon enough, half of us feel Quick should have had more playing time, some feel it was wrong to win more with DRose, and he overused Randle, so atually, Thibs is so much worse than the coaches who made us win so much less. Maybe he's the only coach in the NBA, or the whole of sports, who wasn't perfect. Fire him now! Hire Nate Bjorkgren while he's still available!
bearadonisdna wrote:Their fan will have bragging rights.
WargamesX wrote:bearadonisdna wrote:Their fan will have bragging rights.
Their fans already have bragging rights.... trust me I hear it every time I talk to them. That week before the playoffs was the only time they shut up. Plus that picture of deBlasio wearing their Jersey had them all embarrassed, ducking texts.
bearadonisdna wrote:WargamesX wrote:bearadonisdna wrote:Their fan will have bragging rights.
Their fans already have bragging rights.... trust me I hear it every time I talk to them. That week before the playoffs was the only time they shut up. Plus that picture of deBlasio wearing their Jersey had them all embarrassed, ducking texts.
nice.
Lol but I was just joking acting like they only had 1 fan.
Like how they have a little fan base .
BugginOut wrote:Giannis is a DPOY and they don’t have him on KD in the clutch. Embarrassing
Guano wrote:Fourni3r forgetting he has Bob cousy handles
Woodsanity wrote:Imagine trusting a team with World B Flat on it without Lebron keeping him in check.
Fury wrote:Guesstimate how many people will be at The Canyon of Heroes if the Nets win the title.
Fury wrote:Guesstimate how many people will be at The Canyon of Heroes if the Nets win the title.
thebuzzardman wrote:seren wrote:We won’t know this year unless Harden comes back
Nets will win it this year.
The league has achieved the mediocre parity it has long sought and the Nets are better than all the remaining playoff teams, who all have issues/injuries.
The playoffs right now is playing out the string, unless KD's achilles explodes again, god willing.
Little Italia wrote:Fury wrote:Guesstimate how many people will be at The Canyon of Heroes if the Nets win the title.
At least a million
ENYK wrote:KnixtapeH20 wrote:K-DOT wrote:I still don't get the "RJ is nothing but a 3-D guy, and will never be anything but a 3-D guy"
He scored 18 a game and only took 4 threes a game. Most of his offense came from things other than spotting up from 3
His Iso and PnR game were both pretty bad compared to the rest of the league (around 36th percentile each), but both were improved from last year, and show he has more than just 3-D potential. I fail to see how it's a bad thing that we have a wing who can shoot with a developing on-ball game. If it were the other way around, these same posters would be bemoaning the fact that RJ would never be able to work with another star, because he has no off-ball game
Some people just need to feel smarter than everyone else by being pessimistic all the time I guess.
Thats what I'm saying b he improved across the board when so many ppl wanted to write him off. I knew just by how this kid was raised and who he was brought up around that he was built for this. U can tell by his grown man body, his maturity, how he carries himself. He's not flashy, he's not a look at me guy. I liken him to Eli Manning in a sense. Both thrive in adversity and showcase that cold blooded assassin gene.
RJ still has a lot to prove and he knows it, relishes it. He even said himself "I'm 20 years old" the league better watch out next season he's going OFF. Yall can quote this, save it w.e u do
We'll see, I don't really buy it.
I think if IQ gets more minutes next season he'll surpass RJ. He has all the tools to be a much better offensive player, particularly in today's NBA.
IQ is a small 2 guard playing 19 mins a game with a 15.84 PER, only 41% of his shots are assisted, he creates offense.
But Thibs is a dinosaur and probably wants to re-sign rose and bring in another 30 something year old guard, so who knows if we get to see what IQ can become.
What do you think about @kporzee? Karl-Anthony Towns: PorzinGOD does not care or need my opinion for he is a higher life form then all of us.