Knicks Players to Watch This Season
@TheKOTShow
's J. Ellis joins
@DHenryTV
to break down the Knicks Roster and expectations for this season
Full Interview:
Tom Thibodeau on the Knicks young players playing in any situation, even if losing:
"There's nothing you can do in practice that can replicate the intensity of a game. Why would you not use the game for your young guys to develop?"
RJ Barrett on the difference between the starters and the reserves:
"The guys we have coming off the bench could start, on this team or any NBA team. They've been playing better than the starting unit.
They have their chemistry, we're trying to get ours."
Message to Knicks fans.
Please allow Rj time to grow and make mistakes.
I know people want RJ to be the guy, but let's not transfer that pressure of missing out on Durant on to RJ.
Hoping some of the new FA signings take pressure off of the Kids.
KOT Management
Brunson dropped 50 on your heroes KD and Booker and nothing.
Now this is the convo we are getting about the Knicks a week later?
Man this really just making me think, screw the third star BS. Get some 3 and D guys and lets go to war.
ESPN Becky Hammon on Knicks: “They’re not getting into that tier…don’t have the personnel…don’t have the manpower…pretty good team…but at the end of the day they don’t have a Dude…you gotta have a 1A Dude”
Kendrick Perkins: “…They do have that dude. Jalen Brunson“
Hammon:
“If you’re the Knicks, you’re going to give up so much capital to acquire him. Quickley…Toppin…I like both of them, they can ball…So to give up them and 4 first-round picks…I think that’s too steep…because Donovan doesn’t have an ‘S’ on his chest yet”
— Jalen Rose
When Kendrick Perkins is the voice of reason, we in trouble. Felt like I was putting out fires all last night.
We praised OKC for stock pilling picks then crap on our office when they do it with the same picks OKC had. Lol
Fun fact, I like to learn something new every year.
Some may know I am an artist. This year I'm learning 3D. My homework assignment was to make your favorite place.
I had to do it.
Quentin Grimes is reportedly frustrated in New York and the Knicks are ‘actively’ trying to trade him, per
@SbondyNBA
The Dallas Mavericks are a team with interest in Grimes
“There's also speculation that Thibodeau soured on Grimes for sitting out the last two games in the
Is the Toppin is one dimensional and can't play crowd still around?
18points 11rebs 6 ast 1stl 1blk with the highest plus minus of anyone in the game with 21!!!
Post game coming up
Looks like moving on from Porzingis and not signing KD and Kyrie both worked out better for the Knicks despite the public out cry at the time.
Porzingis was paid 158M to nurse injuries for 4 years, and the KY Kyrie Circus was better than Universoul Circus.
Random. Thankful for everyone who genuinely rocks with us from the very first supporter to the last. and the people who are so willing to collaborate.
KOT started the year Derrick Rose first came to NY with 4 people who just liked to talk smack in my boys garage. Full circle
Honest question, is Randle choosing not to talk to the media or are the Knicks noticing dude is mentally falling apart and are trying to protect him from falling deeper?
Randle hasn't smiled since Christmas
Is this what development taste like??
Rj 27pts 5 rebs 5 ast
Frank 11pts 4ast 50fg%
Mitchs 12pts 13rebs
And a win over a legit playoff team in the west?
I love it!!
#NewYorkForever
Too many wild overreactions over a loss. Shouldn't be screaming fire Thibs after losing a close games to a contender when we are a team with mostly young players and RJ not playing.
My dad was the breadwinner in his house and lost his job in his 50's. He then was diagnosed with alzhlimers a few years later.
Those events changed how I viewed working for companies and was one of the reasons KOT is here.
Happy birthday to Dad, a great man and my inspiration
Knicks have their own picks and this is the deepest the draft has been in a while.
I'm not saying tank, but this is the best time to give players like Obi and Cam way more minutes.
If we lose we get a higher pick in a deep draft, if we win, Obi and Cam prove they are ready
Obi Toppin: “There’s nothing like being in the game…These past couple games…I’m getting a lot more minutes, & I’m starting to see little mistakes I’m doing, I can easily fix…I wouldn’t know what to fix if I wasn’t put in those positions…that opportunity is helping me a lot”
So
@alanhahn
said on his live that Cam wanted to keep playing after he stepped on the refs foot, but the Knicks took him out.
Cam actually told everyone he was fine.
This seems like good news, hopefully when Cam gets checked out everything is fine.
Thibs also included development as an option to NY having a star.
He didn't just say let's trade and sign for someone. THESE DAMN HEADLINES ARE MISLEADING.
Per
@WindhorstESPN
on Donovan Mitchell to the
#Knicks
on Get Up this morning “some believe everything the jazz are doing is to get the BEST offer from the
#Knicks
” 👀
Key Points.
#Knicks
won't go after 2nd tier free agents (Jimmy Butler, Tobias Harris) this summer if they miss out on the 1st tier.
Knicks will go after Anthony Davis Next season if they don't sign 2 top tier free agents.
via
@FirstTake
@stephenasmith
#NewYorkForever
“Frank really just took the challenge … that’s one of the best players in the league and he really played good defense and got a stop so all credit to Frank.”
— RJ Barrett (🎥:
@MSGNetworks
)
RJ is the future.
He made every correct play tonight.
Blow up all the scouting reports from this summer
19pts
75fg%
6rebs
3ast
1blk
#knicks
#NewYorkForever
Woj:
"The Jazz are committed to starting a rebuild after trading All-Star center Rudy Gobert"
Jazz fans and Jazz beat writers were certain Utah was not in a rebuild. They called Knicks fans all sorts of dumb for telling them it didn't make sense.
Woj said it! Now what? Lol
A few notes on OG Anunoby, a possible expanded role for Isaiah Hartenstein, rotation shifts, Knicks’ trade capital post-Anunoby trade, Robert Randolph and more here:
I don't know any other role player who is going to give you multiple triple doubles a year and play as hard as Josh Hart does every night.
Josh Hart hate must stop
Looking at the schedule thinking I really want a 9 game winning streak before we play the Suns, or maybe ill settle for winning 5 out of the next 6.
Next games:
Mavs
Pels
Hornets
Hawks-back to back
Raptors
Dejounte can stay in Atlanta. I'm rollin with the high volume 40+ % 3 point shooter who plays passing lanes like no ones business.
Get me a playmaker off the bench.
@TMKSESPN
@alanhahn
Thibodeau stunted the value of our assets by not playing them in certain rolls when they improved or played well.
For the Knicks to take the next step, the young have to have more responsibility. Next season is a failure if IQ, Obi, Grimes, and McBride do not have a bigger role
An emotional Taj Gibson on winning a playoff game with Tom Thibodeau and Derrick Rose after all they've been through:
"This is some magical stuff right now. I don't know how to explain it. I don't take anything for granted, but every day I come in, it's just surreal."
Now when Deuce only played 4 minutes in Toronto and never saw the floor again, I'd bet money Deuce was feeling the same way Obi did. Not relaxed, looking over his shoulder.
"I definitely feel a little bit more relaxed now, knowing that I'm not coming out if I make a mistake. Having that opportunity's helping me a lot."
-- Obi Toppin (career-high 35 points after starting in 4 straight games)
Knicks are motivated to get a deal done, but I think people are confusing motivated with desperate.
I'd the Knicks were desperate the deal would have been done already,, and the team would have 0 picks RJ, RANDLE, BRUNSON, DONOVAN AND THE BALL BOY.
"Members of the [Knicks'] organization have sought information on which teams have strong interest in Ivey"
Sources weigh in on how Jaden Ivey would fit with the Knicks (via
@IanBegley
)
Brunson is suppose to sign with the Knicks today but it isn't official yet, I'd have to think some type of sign and trade deal is in the works with Dallas.
Ian said the Hawks asking price for Dejounte is 2 1st...Now the Hawks are trying to work out a trade for one 1st and a swap with the Lakers.
Is this the Knicks tax all over again?
This play pissed me off!
The sequence.
Burks makes 3 shot in a row, Randle drives and colapeses the defense and swings to Payton who ignores a wide open Burks who just hit 3 in a row!
I was told on the show, J Ellis, there was no angle to pass to Burks.
Exhibit A!
Frank consistently hit that mid range jumper off that pick and roll. I wanted him to go for 20 tonight but it was clear only Randle and Morris were going to shoot the ball in the fourth.
17pts
75fg%
50%3p% (2-4)
1 reb
1blk
IQ and McBride Should have been looked at a long time ago. They've always had chemistry.
It annoys me how much IQ gets hated on when he is a 2nd year player trying to figure it out just like it annoyed me when people hated on RJ for the same reason. Let the kids develop in Peace