I made a post about this before as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/NYKnicks/comments/13g6z77/josh_hart_frankly_doesnt_belong_on_the_knicks/
The knicks use Josh Hart exclusively as a spot up shooter who needs to be comfortable going 5-6 minutes without a shot or being involved, in the half court.
This makes 0 sense for Josh Hart’s strengths.
What are Josh Hart’s strengths?:
Getting to the rim, connective passing, and pace pushing. None of that is needed at all in his current stationary spot up role. The only time he gets to do that is when he grabs the rebound himself and pushes all the way. Which hey, happens maybe once or twice a game. That’s it. That’s the value you’re getting from 81 million.
He’s self admittedly an extremely rhythm oriented shooter – the more shots he gets more routinely, the more comfortable he is. Check out his 2022 Portland Stint where he was the primary ball handler with Dame out, alongside Anfernee Simons. Averaged a very efficient 20 ppg, shooting 6.5 threes a game on 37.5 percent. And a ton of these were self created threes. His first several games after he arrived as a knick, having a high shot volume, is evidence of this too.
What do you get when he’s asked to catch and shoot and may go a quarter without getting a shot?: A very uncomfortable and hesitating player.
The Knicks just do not play a brand of bsketball that leverages Hart’s strengths or that caters to his need of needing to have a consistent shot diet and degree of involvement. Slow pace, isolation, and low turnover basketball is the antithesis of Josh Hart basketball.
Movement oriented offenses like Denver or Sacramento might be that…not the Knicks. His hot shooting I think blinded a lot of people about how poor the fit is.
He’s playing pf which he shouldn’t
This is the same thing we were doing w OBI
foolish thread just delete this
The Knicks lineup by itself is clunky. This team doesn’t fit. They will continue to destroy bad opponents to make you wonder but when it comes down to it they can’t spread the floor against good teams.
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The tone of this post sounds like shock 😂 He lost a 3pt shootout with JJ Reddick’s 8yr old soon in April. Once I saw that I knew he wasn’t a shooter. People like his hustle and don’t realize that teams will start forcing the ball to him by having his man double JB or Randle or RJ. They won’t react when pump fakes and they will just go to the guy he is trying to pass to. He should’ve been fixing his shot all this off-season when he saw where he was getting his shots from but he already knew he was getting paid.