[Game] Kings @ Knicks - 12/4/16 - 4:30PT/7:30ET
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To me it's more than that. Gay, Casspi, Collison & Lawson are set to be free agents. Tolliver and Afflalo can be easily cut loose too. None of the rookies are playing at all.
It does very little good for this team to progress under Joerger if most of the guys playing are gone next year and most of the guys that are left didn't play.
You can't build anything if the roster is being overhauled every season.
It does very little good for this team to progress under Joerger if most of the guys playing are gone next year and most of the guys that are left didn't play.
You can't build anything if the roster is being overhauled every season.
And I think he did with the freak lineup......as far as Afflalo and Koufos...I think it's a process. If you noticed in the second half when he called the early TO, he looked at some of the guys coming off the floor with his hands raised as if to say....well. That's when he pulled those guys.
I think it's a process with the vets out of respect possibly? Can't tell you about Ben. Only thing I can think of is he's going to get dealt in about 10 days when more guys can be moved on Dec. 15
I think it's a process with the vets out of respect possibly? Can't tell you about Ben. Only thing I can think of is he's going to get dealt in about 10 days when more guys can be moved on Dec. 15
Because inside waits Noah, Porzingis, and in case people have forgotten, and they may have, Kyle O'Quinn has always bothered Cousins because he can match his strength. Then you throw on 44 minutes and the putrid first half shooting causing the Knicks to feel they can drop down on him at will and...
Its absolutely too many threes for my taste, but I know what the optics looked like to him. Best thing the Knicks do defensively is trot out lots of length.
Its absolutely too many threes for my taste, but I know what the optics looked like to him. Best thing the Knicks do defensively is trot out lots of length.
I've made no secret of how much I loathe the three-point shot. However, comma, whenever I read someone complain about why Cousins takes some many threes against a team with an interior defense like New York had tonight, I feel like the unspoken subtext of that question is, "Well, why doesn't he just post up, anyway, and force the referees to call the foul, like Shaq would have?" And the answer to that question is, because the referees don't give DeMarcus Cousins Shaq-like calls, that's why. Several of the defensive "plays" against Cousins inside would have been fouls against Shaq. And you can point to the box score and say, "But Cousins got sixteen free throws, though!" Yeah, and if Cousins got the calls inside that he should get, then he would have shot twenty-six free throws. If anything, it's almost like a reverse-Shaq effect, where referees decided to overcorrect in the other direction, except that other star players still get all those calls.
So, what ends up happening is that Cousins either tries to go inside, doesn't get the call, and misses the shot, and Kings Fans criticize his decision-making, or he stays outside and misses jumpers, and Kings Fans question his decision making.
So, what ends up happening is that Cousins either tries to go inside, doesn't get the call, and misses the shot, and Kings Fans criticize his decision-making, or he stays outside and misses jumpers, and Kings Fans question his decision making.
I do not like our starting line-up but Joerger (jokingly????) mentioned right after saying he was going small in that post game interview "Who knows, a few games from now I might go back". It seemed at least a half joke comment at the time. In hind sight however..
If they are trying to showcase 2k for something, he plays better when he is the back-up for Cousins at the 5 so that doesnt make sense either. Afflalo was probably my least favorite signing coming into the season. Granted I knew little about Tolliver so did not have any preconceived notions on him.
If they are trying to showcase 2k for something, he plays better when he is the back-up for Cousins at the 5 so that doesnt make sense either. Afflalo was probably my least favorite signing coming into the season. Granted I knew little about Tolliver so did not have any preconceived notions on him.
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Temple have been good for us. Barnes is okay, as long as we don't rely on him to play heavy minutes; he should be a 12-15 minute guy, instead of the 26 minute guy he has been. We don't really know what we have in Tolliver: he was lights out in the preseason, missed his first couple of shots of the regular season, and basically hasn't been given any burn since. Afflalo has been the only unqualified bad signing, to this point; there are at least three guys on the roster I'd rather see getting those minutes right now.