Comments on: Injury partially explains Brandon Knights performance against Golden State

By: Big Rick

Big Rick — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:45:33 +0000

Right. Knight is a work in progress still. Greg Monroe still isn’t a finished product yet. So I really don’t understand the philosophy that you can’t win with playing young talent, especially when the young talent exceeds or supercedes the talent of the veterans (Drummond in particular). It’s possible to do both. But why is Knight able to play through his mistakes for the most part? isn’t that reinforcing those mistakes? It was pointed out that his game total recently surpassed that of a whole 82 game season so the arguement was made that he was still a rookie basically. But he seems to have been given the reins to the team and we either sink or swim with him at the point. It’s just frustrating that you hear coach speak about Drummond, and making mistakes while it’s obvious that he helps us more than he hurts us. At the same time Brandon Knight makes at least 3 or 4 crucial mistakes a game and usually hurts us more than helps. Anyone see that Golden State game when there was 46 seconds left we were down by 3, Knight grabbed the offensive rebound and tried to force an ill advised pass to Prince through 3 of the Warriors big men, ultimately resulting in another costly turnover. Those mistakes seem way too common as of late, injury or not. As was stated earlier, if you play hurt but it limits your play then sit until you’re 100% unless you’re Kobe or Lebron, lol. I guess he’s trying to hold on to his starting position at PG. Afterall, that’s how he became our starting PG because of injury. I do agree with Patrick tho, as of late surprisingly Stuckey has been our best PG.

By: tarsier

tarsier — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:21:00 +0000

At some point, you or Dan should do a post on whether Greg Monroe is worth a max deal.

By: Patrick Hayes

Patrick Hayes — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 17:52:28 +0000

An idiot?

By: Crispus

Crispus — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 17:43:14 +0000

If Knight had sat, we could have had a Kim English sighting!

By: bugsygod

bugsygod — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 17:30:26 +0000

If they had not traded billups and not signed CV and BG, then knight would not even be on this team!
Its gotta be the ownerships fault for not spending enough money on the medical staff to keep knight healthy.
If Joe would have made a trade down on ’09 draft we could have ty lawson instead of daye, then we would be championship contender!
If we didnt try and give curry & kuester there first HC opportuities we would be further along in this rebuild!
If the coach would just start all the rookies and cut the vets we would be a more pleasing team to watch and get excited for.
If they would cut those dumbass half time shows, they could take that money and spend more on player development!
If we would have drafted Blair instead of Summers then we would have the best rebounding team in the league!
If we would have kept Hammond, then Joe would have a brain and not made all these poor decisons as Hammond has the bucks in championship race this year!
If we would just follow the warriors, kings, raptors, suns, magic, bucks, nets, pacers, plans we would be a much better organization and have championships like them!

Who am I?

By: vic

vic — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:44:37 +0000

playing bad doesn’t help the team win. you can try hard, but when you see that things are difficult, sit out.

By: I HATE FRANK

I HATE FRANK — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:23:07 +0000

I agree….Knight was playing well up until the injury ….Stuckey has played better since the migraine ….

By: Victor

Victor — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:59:03 +0000

I really don’t understand Stuckey and Knight playing through injuries. They’re no Kobe Bryant. We can wait for full recovery… If you’re hurt, go see the doctor and don’t play. No hero pose. If your hurt, your hurt.