First, statistically Bandon Knight’s first two years look very similar to fellow pgs Jrue Holiday, Chauncey Bllups, and Steve Nash. Although they are phenominal players now, or were in their hey day in the cases of Chancey and Nash, it took all three of these guys until their 4th or even 5th years in the league before they became consistently good players and now all of them are or have been all stars with Steve Nash and Chauncey both likely being HOF bound.

Second, he seems pretty intelligent, he’s reasonably athletic, seems to have his head on straight, and has good work ethic by all accounts. Although his basketball iq may not be high atm, if he can get things to click, he can be a very good player still. Right now he’s having a poor 2nd year and still averaging 13 and 4.5. If he has anything near a breakout year next year, which I think he’s due for, we’re looking at a guy who could very well give us a good 16 and 6 per game which wouldn’t be bad at all for his 3rd year and good for any starting pg.

The most important thing to remember, imo, is that all players don’t progress at the same predictable, robotic pace. Sometimes a player digresses for a year trying to figure out different aspects of the game before things click and they are able to be consistently effective.

For those reasons, I’m not ready to give up on him as a quality staring pg. I know the franchise can only afford to be but so patient, but

And I’m actually very flattered that you don’t like my writing. If you did, I’d be worried I was on the wrong track. 

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1. So what’s your point? It’s kind of the most important story surrounding the team. Also, judging by the traffic on posts discussing Drummond/Maxiell, I’m far from the only one who cares about it.

2. That’s creepy.

3. They were moved to remove negative influences from the locker room and because they were overpaid, but a byproduct of moving them was to free up minutes/roles for younger players with more of a future here — Knight and, to a lesser extent, Stuckey.

4. “I just think, as we both pointed out, putting the franchise in his hands and expecting him to be a starting calibre point guard in years one or two is wrong-headed. ”

They didn’t. He started his rookie season off the bench. Injuries to Stuckey and Bynum forced him into a larger role. Once he was in that larger role for an extended period, it didn’t make sense to take him out of it, especially considering the veteran guards were similarly inconsistent (Stuckey was legitimately awful for the first month or so after he returned), were more injury prone and, in Stuckey’s case, don’t seem to work as hard.

“The kid gloves that they treat Andre with SHOULD have been applied to a young guard, and in failing to do this, the might have hurt his development. “ 

If Maxiell had been injured, Drummond likely would’ve played more. Their plan with Knight changed out of necessity. Plus, Knight came out of college much more mature than Drummond, in better shape than Drummond and he plays a less physically demanding position. He also did get slightly better as his rookie season progressed, so there was little evidence that the workload was too much for him.

5. Well, I think it’s more fair to compare his situation to Irving’s than it is to Kravstov’s like you did. And somehow I’m the one who is making nonsensical arguments?

7.  ”So much changes between High School and the NBA… sure they were rivals that entire time, but you’d think Knight would have gone somewhere in the top 5″

Chad Ford and DraftExpress both had Utah taking him at three in their mocks close to the draft. Reports also had Toronto considering him at 5 until Jonas V fell to them. There were credible people who had Knight as a top five talent in that draft.

“You’re right about one thing though, you have written hundreds of thousands of words on this site.  Maybe you should reconsider that in the future.”

Sincerely, the guy who has apparently followed my entire writing on the internet career.