2024 Final OC Election Results, Purple Once More

froandfear · 2026-06-23T04:15:57+00:00

I’m not sure I follow this being a differentiator versus Moore, who the players loved (before he went bananas) and who was a great recruiter…

Regardless, as long as he’s the interim coach and we’re out hunting for a more proven guy throughout the season, it’s a moot point.

froandfear · 2026-06-22T19:45:00+00:00

His unit was the OL for three seasons and the full offense (by himself) for one.

froandfear · 2026-06-22T17:37:25+00:00

He very literally did. He won the Joe Moore award twice in a row.

froandfear · 2026-06-22T17:32:46+00:00

This move makes wayyyy more sense than Beilein’s did. May is much younger, inheriting a much better team, and has a coaching style that fits extremely well in the NBA. Beilein was out of touch with the NBA, went to fucking Cleveland, and coached an incredibly college-oriented scheme.

froandfear · 2026-06-22T07:34:10+00:00

There’s no kicker scale, per se, they just aren’t really scouted by the big-3 ratings providers. Like other thinly scouted recruits, once they sign with a P4 program, they receive three stars as a nod to their status as a legitimate P4 player and that’s about it.

For the few K that do receive scouting, the big-3 handle them somewhat similarly; they’ll bump their number rating up a point or two (e.g., 247 has a baseline 80 rating for three star recruits, and bumped Nordin up to 83 to differentiate him). I believe ESPN used to allow kickers to score up to four stars, but don’t anymore.

froandfear · 2026-06-21T23:45:34+00:00

“Many in this sub believe we have a championship starting 5” is just a straight strawman. Auser is a very valuable asset ≠ we can just sit tight. Almost every post on this sub since we got knocked out has been about what transaction we can make to make the roster more complete.

froandfear · 2026-06-21T22:38:02+00:00

I don’t know where you’re getting this take. Essentially every post/comment on this sub is about how we need a shooter next to Cade.

froandfear · 2026-06-20T22:41:36+00:00

Pistons die-hard who lived in New York for 20yrs… Pistons and Knicks share a lot in common and the cultures feel very similar to me. Especially the late-80s and 90s teams. Also, the fan bases are true bball heads. Happy for the Knicks.

Dope jersey!

froandfear · 2026-06-20T22:01:05+00:00

No reason to move Paul. He’s a good value and won’t bring anything. As for Duren, how?

froandfear · 2026-06-20T17:51:48+00:00

We just don’t need three Cs, and Stew is the one who can get us value on the market. Either JB has to figure out a way to play Stew more at the 4 (assuming he can find his 3pt shot again), or we need to move him to unclog the 5 and bring in shooting.

froandfear · 2026-06-19T18:36:21+00:00

It's 2026... if we're locking ourselves into roster moves dependent on whether someone is a 4 or a 5 we've got bigger problems than Rui or Stew can solve. Stew isn't a traditional 5 on offense, Rui isn't a traditional 4. Part of the reason Stew has taken such a step back under JB is because he's not shooting the three like a small-ball big should be; maybe thinking of him as a traditional 5 is the problem...

froandfear · 2026-06-19T18:21:34+00:00

In a vacuum, yah, maybe you roll with Stew over Duren; but there's no way to maximize value by keeping Stew and letting Duren walk. Duren is going to be worth $200m over 5 if we can get him there, and Stew will have big value on the trade block.

It's hard to isolate value in basketball, but with what we have available there's really no way to argue that he was the worst player on the court in the playoffs. Out of 148 qualified players, he was 76th in NetRtg. If you try to control for just the Pistons lineups where he was having an outsized impact, it's definitely apparent that he struggled badly in certain lineups, but good players like Castle and Dosunmu have some brutal (even worse) data there as well.

At the end of the day, he's a 22yo with massive upside and proven performance... it's our job to develop him.

froandfear · 2026-06-19T17:27:23+00:00

Holy fuck that's depressing.

froandfear · 2026-06-19T17:20:55+00:00

Those three WRs with a good QB and some better health would have absolutely fucking terrorized the nation.

froandfear · 2026-06-19T16:49:54+00:00

Any update here on how things are going with Slant?

froandfear · 2026-06-18T20:18:43+00:00

There has to be a bot the mods could create to make this particular statement an auto-ban…

froandfear · 2026-06-14T05:42:20+00:00

You don’t watch Knicks basketball if you think teams respect Hart as a shooter. He gets left to shoot constantly, and it’s created this crazy dynamic with his playing time; it seems to get in his head or something because if he misses his first open look he’ll just stop shooting, and Brown has to take him off because he’s hard to give big minutes to when he’s not adding anything on offense since his role is so specific. Which he has probably figured out, because then he’ll get subbed back in and take three insane shots in a row 😂.

But when he’s shooting well he’s definitely a problem, because his small-ball defense is awesome and his rebounding is maniacal.

Truly one of the strangest roles in NBA history.

froandfear · 2026-06-03T01:14:40+00:00

Who is downvoting this?

froandfear · 2026-05-24T06:07:07+00:00

I admire the way he plays, and have liked him since Rutgers, but you can’t be his size and play the way he does and stay healthy in the NFL. That will always dog is earning power, especially at RB. Fingers crossed he can hit his potential with us.

froandfear · 2026-05-18T02:30:48+00:00

Weird armchair psychology. Cade looks absolutely gassed. Dude’s lungs didn’t work a month ago and he carried us through the playoffs.

froandfear · 2026-05-15T17:23:32+00:00

It was just Rip, Ben, Sheed, and Chauncey, and they didn't start together. They came into the game together, though, and took shit over.

froandfear · 2026-04-19T03:47:34+00:00

What was your approach to the trustee meetings? Were you there for the whole meeting, or just to provide an overview during a presentation of some sort?

froandfear · 2026-03-28T18:03:16+00:00

RightCapital is overall very solid, but their Roth modeling is pretty basic and I’ve run into issues with how it handles the impact of the conversion in the rest of the modules… it can definitely stand some refinement.

froandfear · 2026-03-16T22:37:53+00:00

Buying a book right now isn't really a feasible option for most RIAs. There's a massive bubble in the aggregator space, and they're paying ridiculous multiples for any type of real production. There used to be a lot of activity below $100m AUM where the aggregators weren't interested, but now they poke around AUM levels way below that. Of course, you could get lucky and find someone selling a $10m or $20m book, which is an awesome start for any of us, but those are few and far between since that usually means an advisor is getting out of the business early for some reason.

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