Jake Fischer has a notebook coming out this morning and Bleacher Report is releasing some snippets..
Nets are offering Kyrie a shorter term incentive laden deal, expected to talk up until the 29th deadline..
Knicks are trying to clear 25 million to sign Brunson
By all accounts Knicks have been 1 of the more agressive teams in trade talks..so we will see
Either they have intel on something or for some reason a ton of bets started coming in on Banchero
And that was definitely because of info leaking from Browns.
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Do you guys feel good about Thibs as his HC? I feel from what I am reading that it just isn't a good match. It sounds like Ivey is at his best when pushing the ball.
So was Derrick Rose, Thibs loves big guards who get downhil and attack the rim, Ivey is actually a perfect fit for him
Thibs likes to run, which is probably why his half court offense is so hard to watch lol.
They talked about pushing pace all year. They just didn't have the players to do it.
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Getting the sense that the Knicks won't make it up to No. 4. No. 5 remains a longshot but possible. And while I have Griffin in the mock to them if Sharpe falls I think the Knicks are where it stops. Most likely? Dropping back and grabbing a big to replace Noel - and maybe Mitch.
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Getting the sense that the Knicks won't make it up to No. 4. No. 5 remains a longshot but possible. And while I have Griffin in the mock to them if Sharpe falls I think the Knicks are where it stops. Most likely? Dropping back and grabbing a big to replace Noel - and maybe Mitch.
Posturing, the question is not how close they are now to a deal, the question is when the Kings are on the clock will they give into the Kings demands
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As team boards finalize today, the 1-2-3 of the NBA Draft is increasingly firm, per sources: Jabari Smith to Orlando, Chet Holmgren to Oklahoma City and Paolo Banchero to Houston.
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Getting the sense that the Knicks won't make it up to No. 4. No. 5 remains a longshot but possible. And while I have Griffin in the mock to them if Sharpe falls I think the Knicks are where it stops. Most likely? Dropping back and grabbing a big to replace Noel - and maybe Mitch.
Posturing, the question is not how close they are now to a deal, the question is when the Kings are on the clock will they give into the Kings demands
There are other teams in the hunt for #4, so Sac is in the drivers seat on the bidding.
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Getting the sense that the Knicks won't make it up to No. 4. No. 5 remains a longshot but possible. And while I have Griffin in the mock to them if Sharpe falls I think the Knicks are where it stops. Most likely? Dropping back and grabbing a big to replace Noel - and maybe Mitch.
Posturing, the question is not how close they are now to a deal, the question is when the Kings are on the clock will they give into the Kings demands
There are other teams in the hunt for #4, so Sac is in the drivers seat on the bidding.
Of course they are..They are in a good position and know it
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unless we’re talking about a legit top player. Murray is really good but he’s not Luka Doncic. The Knicks aren’t in a place where they can risk missing out on a guy that could be like Wembanyama.
I would counter that Murray IS a star PG. About his only weakness is shooting the 3- and he’s vastly better than Rose in that area. Murray is also a solid on-ball defender- lead the league in steals this season. He also had about a 3.5:1 Assist to turnover ratio.
I’d give up a good bit to get that kind of PG with the Knicks.
I'm well aware of how good Murray is but as the #1 option his team won 3 fewer games than the Knicks with one of the best HC's of all time. Maybe I'm just scarred from the IT years but it would remind me of the Marbury deal who at the time was a great player who hadn't won much anywhere he'd been.
Also, what does it say about Murray that Popovich and Buford would be willing to deal him if that is indeed true? I actually doubt he gets moved, I think it's just one of those noisy storylines this time of year. I don't see how John Collins would be interesting enough to them as a centerpiece to deal Murray.
Quite possibly the worst comparison I’ve ever seen. If AJ Griffin was “underwhelming” in college, then Cole Anthony had the most ignominious 4 months for a high recruit not named Pat Baldwin this century.
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He could have fooled me with playing guys like Randle and Burks a million minutes over the young kids who would run.
They talked about pushing pace all year. They just didn't have the players to do it.
I disagree. They had the players to do it and when they were doing it well, they were pulled for players that slowed things down.
Im not saying i want to offer SA the moon for him and i agree that i think this is mostly BS and he doesnt get moved.
Im not saying i want to offer SA the moon for him and i agree that i think this is mostly BS and he doesnt get moved.
For one, Keldon Johnson is a good player as is Poetl and Derrick White was on the team for half the year. It's not like the Knicks have a stacked team and they were better than SA even with Randle being a major net negative all year. Great players can usually carry a team to playing .500 ball, not winning doesn't mean not winning a championship or being a contender. If you're currently sporting a lottery roster then if you're going to trade 3 firsts (2 at least unprotected) and 2 pick swaps you should be getting a top 15 player
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He could have fooled me with playing guys like Randle and Burks a million minutes over the young kids who would run.
They talked about pushing pace all year. They just didn't have the players to do it.
I disagree. They had the players to do it and when they were doing it well, they were pulled for players that slowed things down.
They do have the players they are on the bench watching slow moving ISO Randle.
He did this with Rose in Chicago only because he had to based on the talent Rose was.
We have seen him slow the ball to a grind for 2 years Knicks are the worst in pace.
It's going to be funny watching Ivey push the ball and it taking Randle 10 seconds to get up the court.