@pizza_91@jones_zamboni@AdamDavis Jokic is widely viewed as the best offensive center ever, Steph is a top 2 pg, Bron is a top 2 player of all time, KD top 3 SF, SGA b2b mvp, you don’t have to eclipse them at their peak to be top 5 itl. Other multi-time all nba guys have not peaked that high and still been T5.
@pizza_91@jones_zamboni@AdamDavis This just feels like a bad faith argument, those guys at their peaks all had legit claims for possibly the best in the league…
@EuroHarden I feel like this I such a terrible take. Specifically in reference to Dame, suggesting that he didn’t want to take the challenge of being a 1st option when he was that almost his whole career is crazy. Also Kyrie put himself out there sure but after 1 real year of that he dipped.
He blocked me but this isn’t defending playing Porzingis, this is saying his minutes were already reduced, he’s still bad in these spots and he’s accounting for 20% of our salary. We don’t have this abundance of talent people are claiming we do.
@TA1297 It’s matchup based, Porzingis when healthy provided stuff that we didnt have without him. If he cant be half of the player he is when healthy and nobody knows what’s wrong with him I think it’s kinda crazy to just say bad on the coach for him stinking up his reduced minutes
@TA1297 It’s matchup based, Porzingis when healthy provided stuff that we didnt have without him. If he cant be half of the player he is when healthy and nobody knows what’s wrong with him I think it’s kinda crazy to just say bad on the coach for him stinking up his reduced minutes
@TA1297 If we reviewed the tape together we could point out what’s a good quality look and what’s not. What led to the shots is the process. Whether the shots fell or not isn’t, that’s just outcome. I’ve watched that series a lot, so I’m just not in the camp of saying Tatum p&r bad.
@TA1297 My analysis isn’t just that the players could be better but my point is that’s a talent issue just as much as a process issue. One of our go to counters when teams loaded up in lanes and forced Tatum to beat the with threes was Porzingis. He sucked. That’s a talent issue.
@TA1297 We shot 60 threes in game 1 of that series and made 15 of them. If you want to sum it up to the outcome being more important than the process that’s fine, but I’m not. Joe could’ve done things to ease the offense sure, but Joe can’t make the pass for Tatum or Brown.
@TA1297 It wasnt just a blanket statement of we got good looks and they didnt fall. The problem was when we rushed or settled and didnt get good quality looks. I think you live with the outcome of good shots not falling, it’s a problem when we’re not taking good shots due to tendencies.
@TA1297 My point is that at some point it’s not the coach’s fault for players settling. I’m not in a camp of saying our coach or players are perfect so I’m fine with saying they could be better but that’s a two way street which it feels like we aren’t acknowledging when we say “process”
@TA1297 When the Knicks put KAT on JB in the fourth and let him sag off was it process that made JB settle for pull up twos in isolation instead of driving or was that on him?
@TA1297 I mean we can keep going on this series. The Knicks at one point in game 1 and 2 let their defensive adjustment be hard hedging with Brunson to stunt at Tatum instead of switching. It’s process that on those possessions we take a pull up three as opposed to driving hard?
@TA1297 Also just to answer the question defensively is where most of the changes were made. Tatum back to consistently guarding bigs, exploiting Hart as a non scoring threat by putting our bigs on him and letting them sit low in help to take away advantages and limiting their 3’s.
@TA1297 You feel like it’s entirely process based that we shot like we did to end games 1 and 2 of that series on the amount of open looks we generated? If so I fear mazzula never had a chance in your eyes.
@TA1297 I would say it wasn’t great and I can acknowledge that we lost a lot of what made us great throughout the reg sez but ultimately Sam Hauser, Jordan Walsh, Baylor Schiermann and what we got from DWhite isn’t a wellspring of great talent. It’s several one dimensional players.
@TA1297 I’m not all the way there with this. We made adjustments in the Knicks series and our players didn’t perform. I’m just not in the camp of saying it’s all on Mazzula when players stop using their brains. This year I can acknowledge moreso but not last year.