Two months into the 2017/18 NBA season, the Knicks are one of the most impressive turnaround stories. One of the major reasons why is that the club is learning to trust one another, Fred Kerber of the New York Post writes.
Consider Doug McDermott, a fourth-year forward who didn’t make a lasting impression during his first two stints in the NBA. This year the Creighton product is shooting threes at a .415 clip and commanding the respect of his new teammates.
“It means a lot. It feels good,” McDermott said. “Everyone feels like we all trust each other now. We’re almost 30 games into the season. We’re clicking. We have a good vibe going. We’ve just to continue to do it.”
There’s more from the Atlantic Division:
- The Celtics‘ second unit has made a name for itself because of its defense but sooner or later they’re going to have to start improving on the offensive end, A. Sherrod Blakely of NBC Sports Boston writes. Currently, he says, the bench lacks consistent shot-makers.
- The Sixers seem to be well ahead of schedule in their infamous rebuild and that can be attributed to a number of things, namely the emergence of Joel Embiid as a legitimate – and healthy – star, David Murphy of the Philadelphia Inquirer writes.
- The Knicks and Nets, with rosters jam-packed with promising young players, have set about rebuilding the right way, no small feat in the superteam era, a Nets Daily report opines.
And what unbiased commentator (non-NYer, non-Nets-promoter) first came out and said something like the Nets had a roster “jampcked with promising young players”? Only me that I have read.
Any more?
Also, the Knicks could make the playoffs if they tried– but would they try? Nobody answered that.
But that MSG would support a tanker, I doubted that, regardless what the wise folks on the internet wanted. All the talk was of losing enough to get one more lottery pick, but this runs afoul of what would please Zinger, who needs to be negotiated with next year.
Hayward as the new Celtic “sixth man” for the playoffs could be scary.