{"id":329875,"date":"2025-12-04T11:35:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/329875\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T11:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:35:14","slug":"knicks-backup-point-guard-watch-list-chris-paul-tj-mcconnell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/329875\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks backup point guard watch list: Chris Paul, TJ McConnell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Kolek is getting his opportunity as the backup point guard and, frankly, it\u2019s not going well.<\/p>\n<p>There have been <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/25\/sports\/tyler-kolek-making-most-of-first-true-knicks-rotation-opportunity\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">flashes of strong floor generalship<\/a>, and it\u2019s important to remember that Kolek, despite being 24 years old, is still only in his second season.\u00a0But the Knicks have title aspirations. And it\u2019s tough to ignore the big-picture numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Kolek owns the worst net rating, by far, of any Knick with at least 100 minutes. The Knicks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/stats\/players\/advanced?CF=MIN*GE*4&amp;SeasonType=Regular%20Season&amp;TeamID=1610612752&amp;dir=A&amp;sort=NET_RATING\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">have been outscored<\/a> by 8.8 points per 100 possessions when he is on the court.<\/p>\n<p>No other Knick with as many minutes as Kolek was even in the negative. He is also shooting just 29.6% on 3-pointers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyler Kolek is getting his opportunity as the backup point guard and, frankly, it\u2019s not going well. There&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[6420,15517,36783,45193,6043,25161,355,361,4892,99,358],"class_list":["post-329875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-chris-paul","tag-inside-the-knicks","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-jose-alvarado","tag-mike-brown","tag-mitchell-robinson","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}