With just three games left in the season and his team long eliminated from playoff contention, head coach Jeff Hornacek said late on Thursday night that the Knicks will be “careful” with Kristaps Porzingis down the stretch this season. As Ian Begley of ESPN.com tweets, Porzingis – who has missed the club’s last two games with back spams – may ultimately sit out those final three games as well and focus on getting healthy for the summer.
As we wait to see how the Knicks proceed with Porzingis, let’s round up a few more notes on the league’s two New York teams…
- In the wake of a report that Knicks owner James Dolan confronted and yelled at a fan who told him to sell the franchise, Frank Isola of The New York Daily News and Tim Bontemps of The Washington Post take Dolan to task. Isola suggests that the Knicks owner ought to focus more on ways to improve his struggling team rather than protecting his own image, while Bontemps argues that Dolan hasn’t learned a thing since he assumed ownership of the team in 1999.
- A year after aggressively pursuing – and striking out on – multiple restricted free agents, the Nets are expected to be in the RFA market again. With that in mind, could Brooklyn target Bojan Bogdanovic just a few months after sending him to Washington? Brian Lewis of The New York Post explores that subject and gets some quotes from a noncommittal Bogdanovic, who says he remains focused on basketball for now.
- Tommy Beer of Basketball Insiders makes the case that, if they want to move forward as a franchise, the Knicks need to ditch the triangle and adopt a more modern offensive system.
- Earlier today, we passed along Brandon Jennings‘ comments on how this year’s Carmelo Anthony trade rumors took a toll on the Knicks.
The Nets GM is going to get blackballed if he keeps offer sheeting all these players double what they’re worth.
Marks is a genius you just don’t understand
Dolan is the WORST OWNER IN PROFESSIONAL SPORTS!!!!….every Real Knick fan wants him gone…praying for him to Donald Sterling his way out of the league….freakin coward!!!
I’m tired of all the blame on the triangle. First off it is used in many ways in the NBA and it’s a system just to get good shots and it had many plays , but the Knicks can run any offense , the point is it’s not the triangle or anything it’s the damn defense. Yesterday I was watching the Knicks game and they switched on everything so many times like even if you switch do it aggressively. The problem is the Knicks need a defensive plan that they can stick too and if the triangle is the offense then fully buy into it because commitment on both ends usually make you a winner in basketball. So enough of blaming the triangle , blame the defense.
The great Clyde Frazier even pointed this out like the Knicks got so many layup opportunities on hard cuts , but in defense they kept switching on big to little (which had been the Knicks theme on defense ever since after that 54 win season).