THJ kicking butt !
In a losing effort by the Knicks, Tim Hardaway put up 17 points, a rebound, an assist, and a steal. If that hasn't already impressed you enough, he shot 7/14, and 3/7 for 3 pointers. Looking more and more like the Knicks got a steal.
Considering that a lot of us on the board were thinking he might just be an average bench player, he is coming on strong and may be deserving of a start one of these days. If the Knicks didn't have all of their talent loaded at the wing, it probably would have happened already . . .
EDIT: On ESPN Insider, David Thorpe lists Trey Burke as the #2 and THJ as the #3 rookies in his top 50 list. Not bad!
February 1st, 2014 at 11:19 PM ^
Obligatory: SCREW YOU DUMARS
February 2nd, 2014 at 1:45 AM ^
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February 1st, 2014 at 11:22 PM ^
KCP 12 points tonight with fantastic defense. Pistons win big.
Also KCP has the fewest turnovers in the NBA.
February 1st, 2014 at 11:33 PM ^
Not so difficult when your only job is to shoot on the one of every ten possessions your teammates allow you to touch the basketball.
Also ... do you mean per a certain amount of minutes? Because I'm pretty confident that even 1 turnover would put him ahead of at least a few dozen scrubs who don't play.
February 2nd, 2014 at 1:04 AM ^
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February 1st, 2014 at 11:40 PM ^
Michigan alums in the NBA have been hard to come by for years and years. Its awesome to see Trey and THJ sticking and hopefully McGary, GRIII, Nik, and Caris will find themselves there someday too.
Still incredible to think that last year's team will likely end up having 5+ 1st rounders on it
February 1st, 2014 at 11:44 PM ^
Manny Harris may be making a comeback too!
February 1st, 2014 at 11:42 PM ^
February 2nd, 2014 at 12:34 AM ^
And apparently so is Dolan, so we might actually have a rookie that we don't try to flip with a future draft pic for the corpse of some overpaid star from 2005.
February 2nd, 2014 at 12:52 AM ^
I didn't think he had the game to stick in the league, much less succeed. I am eating crow right now and it's quite yummy.
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February 2nd, 2014 at 4:37 PM ^
A grown man can use whatever term he wants.
February 2nd, 2014 at 1:19 AM ^
I'm happy to admit this. Last year when he declared I thought he was making a big mistake and was destined to be playing in Europe within a year. I posted it here, and I was totally wrong. He went in the first round and he has exceeded any excpectations of a player chosen so late in the first round. Kudos to him and it's great to see.
February 2nd, 2014 at 1:53 AM ^
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Our offense masked just how good he was as a player. He is excellent in transition.
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February 2nd, 2014 at 2:46 AM ^
Been burned by the Knicks so much in the last decade that it's hard to completely get excited about THJ. To paraphrase and disagree with the poster above I guarantee they WILL squander him in the process of signing a washed-up 34-year-old at some point. That said, it's great that he looks like he will be a player wherever he ultimately ends up.
Jeremy Lin with a triple-double tonight for a 32-17 team. SMH.
February 2nd, 2014 at 5:41 AM ^
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THJ's averages thus far:
- 20.1 minutes played per game
- about 9 points; 3-7, including 1-3 from 3-point land, 83% on free throws
- 1 rebound, 1 assist, 1 steal
Individual performances, especially lately, have been excellent, and indeed if you expand his numbers out to thw 36-minute standard that NBA stats seem to employ, he is guy contributing 17 points with an effective FG% of 57.8%. Not bad at all for one's first year.
February 2nd, 2014 at 8:19 AM ^
February 2nd, 2014 at 10:29 AM ^
THJ took it straight at Lebron on the break last night and scored over him. Also drained a three without a thought on an errant pass from Melo (intended for someone in the lane.
He seems unflappable, but not overimpressed with himself like many of the Knicks typical head cases. Doesn't attempt the ridiculous, but does push his limits.
As a long-time Knicks fan (god knows why I stick with them), hard to give credit to TH Senior, but I do think his influence has a lot to do with THJ's self-possession on the big stage.
February 2nd, 2014 at 10:50 AM ^
On the national broadcast, Van Gundy praised the great coaching that THJ got from Beilein in Ann Arbor. Good to hear the recognition and can't hurt recruiting. More please.
February 2nd, 2014 at 12:28 PM ^
While 4 of those points were THJ playing around in garbage time, he did have a 3 taken away earlier on an awful moving screen call in which the announcers called Bosh out for flopping.