After a slow start to the season Mikal has slowly been rounding into form. In December he has been playing the best basketball of his Knicks career dominating on both sides of the basketball. Knicks have been elite defensively in December and Mikal has been a big part of that

Mikal is slowly starting to round into the player the Knicks they thought they traded for and if so it can get scary for the rest of the teams in the East.

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  1. His demise was greatly exaggerated

    I haven’t watched the Knicks much— has his shooting form improved from that janky stuff we saw at the start of the season?

  3. He just needed time to get comfortable. He looks a lot more confident and that’s helped his play a lot.

  4. His defense has also been awesome recently after being inexplicably terrible to start the year.

    It’s almost like a guy who has been a great NBA player for 6 years didn’t randomly forget how to play basketball.

  5. We got 2 All-NBA’s, 1 All-Star, 1 All-Defensive 1st, and, since Derrick White got paid, the best veteran role player on role player money 😱

  6. Mikal isn’t a bad player, it’s what the Knicks traded for him. The opportunity cost, could the Knicks have traded 5 firsts for a better player or players? I guess we will never know for sure, but thats the question

  8. He’s basically a carbon copy of a younger Khris Middleton. You wouldn’t want Khris to be the #1 option, and Mikal is really excelling as a 2nd/3rd option. He’s a perfect fit in this kind of role. That’s why the Knicks gave up so much for him. There may not be a better 2 way player as a 3rd option in the entire league.

  9. Mikal is and has been great. Its always interesting to me how much people immediately judge teams & players after huge trades/ line up changes without giving them time adjust.

    Sure there are amazing plug and play players (KAT for example, or KD obviously), but most people just need time to adjust

  10. This is why I like having 82 games. The fact that teams can trend up and down, and seeing them try to round into form by playoffs

  11. i’m a NYK fan but i approach this humbly.
    last 8 opponents haven’t been strong offenses.
    hurt magic, pelicans, hornets, pistons, raptors, depleted magic, hawks, timberwolves.

    they should be doing well in defense. it’s good they’ve racketed it up and i’m really glad for it, but they’re still taking whole quarters off and they’re losing games on the spot when that happens.

    what i am most happy for is their shooting efficiency and that their offense has turned into a lot of slashing, cutting and dynamic PnR. this is a huge difference compared to their other years after they started having winning records again.

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