I love Cade Cunningham. I believe he has a chance to be an alpha-level player in the playoffs, the best player in any series type of guy.
However, I did not like what I saw with Cunningham's shooting mechanics in this series. A lot of his minor flaws during the regular season became much more pronounced as the speed of the playoffs kicked in. This is a sign that he's "thinking" about shooting, and the mechanics aren't locked in even close to well enough yet.
This needs to be priority #1 during the off-season. I'm interested in seeing what it looks like in November.
That's good context, thanks! I'm also looking forward to seeing if Jaden Ivey's shooting improvement he showed early in the season was real. Those guys need to hit shots if they want to co-exist.
Did the Gary Trent Jr. play make Beasley’s fumble worse or more passable? I feel like he won’t get crushed as badly today because we just saw it happen.
Second hand embarrassment, to be sure. Tragic, really.
Yeah definitely better to be second ha, and for whatever reason (how vicious the dribble move prior, the New York limelight, whatever), people are way more fixated on Brunson's game-winner than they were on Tyrese Haliburton's! That takes some of the attention away, too.
Author states that the team needs a better coach than Thibs...yet cannot articulate whom that is.
Can we please just agree that coaches in the NBA generally don't matter? Denver just won a series with a janitor coaching the team over a former NBA Championship winner player AND coach.
It's a players league. The success (or failure) of the Knicks will be if Brunson can effectively manage the how (to get your teammates involved) and when (it is time to take over). The only 6 foot guard in league history that understood that was Isaiah Thomas.
Naming potential replacements wasn't the point, but I can list some guys if you'd like. Boston's Sam Cassell has been voted the league's best assistant coach; he'd be someone I'd look at hard. Speaking of Denver, Michael Malone is better. I think Taylor Jenkins would be, too, although that one's harder to say for sure.
You might disagree, which is fine; you and I can only see the iceberg-tip of what coaches do for their teams, which is one of the reasons why evaluating coaching from the outside is so difficult. Talent is by far the most important thing, as you say, and I agree with your assessment on Brunson.
But even if you don't think coaching matters much, championship contenders must maximize everything they have. I'd like to see the Knicks try to upgrade given the obvious schematic issues they've had.
In a way, the two coaches in this series remind me a lot of each other -- they'll make your team a lot better than it was before they came along, but neither one IMO is good enough to put your team over the top and win the big one.
Beasley was shooting that ball before he caught the pass. The hurry hurry mindset of the last second shot.
For sure, same with Trent. Sucks to see!
I love Cade Cunningham. I believe he has a chance to be an alpha-level player in the playoffs, the best player in any series type of guy.
However, I did not like what I saw with Cunningham's shooting mechanics in this series. A lot of his minor flaws during the regular season became much more pronounced as the speed of the playoffs kicked in. This is a sign that he's "thinking" about shooting, and the mechanics aren't locked in even close to well enough yet.
This needs to be priority #1 during the off-season. I'm interested in seeing what it looks like in November.
That's good context, thanks! I'm also looking forward to seeing if Jaden Ivey's shooting improvement he showed early in the season was real. Those guys need to hit shots if they want to co-exist.
Did the Gary Trent Jr. play make Beasley’s fumble worse or more passable? I feel like he won’t get crushed as badly today because we just saw it happen.
Second hand embarrassment, to be sure. Tragic, really.
Yeah definitely better to be second ha, and for whatever reason (how vicious the dribble move prior, the New York limelight, whatever), people are way more fixated on Brunson's game-winner than they were on Tyrese Haliburton's! That takes some of the attention away, too.
Author states that the team needs a better coach than Thibs...yet cannot articulate whom that is.
Can we please just agree that coaches in the NBA generally don't matter? Denver just won a series with a janitor coaching the team over a former NBA Championship winner player AND coach.
It's a players league. The success (or failure) of the Knicks will be if Brunson can effectively manage the how (to get your teammates involved) and when (it is time to take over). The only 6 foot guard in league history that understood that was Isaiah Thomas.
Naming potential replacements wasn't the point, but I can list some guys if you'd like. Boston's Sam Cassell has been voted the league's best assistant coach; he'd be someone I'd look at hard. Speaking of Denver, Michael Malone is better. I think Taylor Jenkins would be, too, although that one's harder to say for sure.
You might disagree, which is fine; you and I can only see the iceberg-tip of what coaches do for their teams, which is one of the reasons why evaluating coaching from the outside is so difficult. Talent is by far the most important thing, as you say, and I agree with your assessment on Brunson.
But even if you don't think coaching matters much, championship contenders must maximize everything they have. I'd like to see the Knicks try to upgrade given the obvious schematic issues they've had.
In a way, the two coaches in this series remind me a lot of each other -- they'll make your team a lot better than it was before they came along, but neither one IMO is good enough to put your team over the top and win the big one.