The Knicks Are Starting To Get A Bit OVERRATED… | YTNM

The Knicks Are Starting To Get A Bit OVERRATED… | YTNM

So a fresh new week has arrived and here on this channel that means one thing and one thing only every weekend I post an episode of this series we do called your take not mine where I Turn to You the viewers to give me your hottest NBA

Takes of the week based on what’s going on at the time and I then choose my favorite submissions and discussed them in a video this week was a roller coaster of emotions in the NBA world as we saw some incredibly unfortunate injury news and even more trade rumors

Have begun to swirl with the trade deadline just a few few days away so we definitely have plenty to discuss in order to submit your takes I make a community post on either the day of or the day before the video similar to the one that you see on your screen now so

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From Louie and he says that the Lakers are about to do the same exact thing as they did last year where they completely turn things around after the trade deadline and in the end it’s still going to be them and Denver battling it out in the west well this is definitely a take

That is pretty clearly writing off most of the Western Conference as weak and fraudulent because the Lakers have looked as mediocre as it gets this year currently sitting in ninth place in the west standings there really hasn’t been a whole lot to inspire faith of a run

Back to the Conference Finals for this group as they still need to worry about making the playoffs in the first place but as the original take States they’re no stranger to these circumstances last year at this time in the season the Lakers were in 13th Place in the west

Standings looking dead in the water but after a few big moves they rejuvenated their season and made the run that everyone expected of them they’re obviously capable of competing with any team on any given night the alarming issue is is that they have most of the same core from last year’s team post

Deadline still here and they haven’t maintained the level that they were playing at at that point last year making it seem like the lightning in a bottle that they caught has been lost the trade market this year isn’t lacking in big names being potentially available but the question of whether they would

Be enough to sway the season is a serious question Deonte Murray is the player most heavily linked with the Lakers and while he would be an upgrade at the point guard position but over D’Angelo Russell objectively I’m not sure the Lakers present a different situation for Murray than the Hawks do

In terms of how he’d be used the issue for Atlanta is that Trey young is such a high-usage player so deon’s presence isn’t quite the game changer they thought it would be and in La LeBron is still a high usage guy Anthony Davis is still their go-to scoring option and

That moves deante even further down the totem pole and realistically the Lakers need all the shooting that they can get because their spacing is pretty poor right now so moving D’Angelo Russell who is the team’s best shooter right now for Murray only creates more spacing issues

I’m going to be honest with you I wouldn’t be surprised if the Lakers somehow figured it out because any team with LeBron James is capable of doing so I just personally don’t see it happening this year then when it comes to the postseason it’s fair to question the unproven groups like the Timberwolves

And the Thunder at the top but barring injuries the Clippers have an AB absolutely loaded team the nuggets are not going anywhere and the suns are back healthy playing good basketball lately so there is a tougher Road this year than there was last year too the next

Take we’ll be discussing today comes to us from short Bala and he says that the Knicks are actually overrated despite their hot streak because they beat up on all the losing teams but still have a losing record against the teams with winning records we’re getting to the

Point in the season where fans and analysts alike are really starting to hone in on which teams can legitimately compete compete for a championship and which teams are only good enough to make the playoffs but not actually make any noise once they get there for years the

Knicks have been stuck in the lad of those two groups if they even did make the playoffs but something feels different about this year’s Knicks team the Knicks made a big trade for OG anobi at the end of December and since his debut with the team they’ve only lost

Three total times with a record of 15 and3 since Anin noi’s trade the team moved up to fourth place in the Eastern Conference standings just a half game back of the Cavaliers for third and only one and a half games back of the bucks for the two seed so with a lot of

Basketball left to be played they very well could finish top two in the conference and secure homecourt Advantage until the Conference Finals when the anobi trade went down there was some hesitations over the price that they paid for him because it did seem like a lot to give up for someone

Expected to hit free agency this summer but assuming they get a contract extension worked out the pairing has been a match made in in heaven going back to the original take though nitpicking over their record against winning teams versus losing teams seems pretty dumb all things considered

Because pretty much every single team in the league has a worse record against better competition than they do against the teams at the bottom of the standings however I will say that it is worth acknowledging that the matchups that heavily weigh down the Knicks record against those winning teams are the

Matchups against the Celtics and the Bucks who are a combined 6 and one against the Knicks this year and obviously those are the two teams most likely to stand in their way in the Eastern Conference so while I think it’s a bit much to call them overrated I’m

Not sure if I can place my trust in them to eliminate either of those two contenders quite yet and finally the last take we’ll be discussing today comes to us from happy boy and he says that the new rule requiring players to play 65 games in order to win Awards

Should not have been made because voters already took those things into consideration amongst other reasons I chose this take to discuss because I think it nearly Nails it on the head entirely we’re already seeing the ramifications of an arbitrary games played limit set on winning Awards and

It’s only going to get worse the league tried going this route in order to prevent players from taking as many rest days throughout the season but not only has it not stopped players from resting on occasion but it’s also incentivized injured players to put their health on

The line and risk it in order to make the cut you all may think that winning Awards and being being named to things like the all NBA team and the all defense team don’t really mean much in the grand scheme of things but when it comes time for players and their

Representation to negotiate their next contracts those things literally affect the amount of money that players can demand in those negotiations suffering an injury that causes you to miss more than 17 games in a season can mess with their money in a big way which results in them trying to play through those

Injuries suffering through the pain which then opens them up to the greater likelihood of of reinjuring themselves and we literally just watched exactly this happen to MVP favorite at the time Joel embiid embiid’s been nursing a swollen knee for a few weeks now and when he was a late scratch from their

Game against the Denver Nuggets the entire basketball World ridiculed him relentlessly so he then tried to play through the pain a few days later against the Warriors which resulted in him reinjuring his knee and is now likely out for a long time voters already took into account how much a

Player’s production and impact came into play on the year even with the amount of games that they missed so setting a line at 65 will only cause more bad than good and with that being said that’s all I have for you today make sure to like the video subscribe to the channel and

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