There are lot of mean things I can say about Kevin Knox. The following list of mean things does not even encompass all of the mean things that I would be able to come up with if you gave me, like an hour just to think:
-He certainly appears to be a fan of New York-style pizza (this my clever way of saying he’s pudgy [also NY pizza is way overrated and sucks])
-He has negative win-shares
-He’s shooting below 40% from the field
-He’s barely averaging more points per game than field goal attempts per game
-He apparently likes to gnaw on his mouthguard while taking free throws – I don’t care about this but a lot of people hate Curry for exactly this reason
All that said, you can’t argue with the fact that this nineteen-year-old rookie just had a thirty point game. A thirty point game against a decent team that’s not tanking. That fact alone negates most of the stuff that I wrote in the above list. Knox might not be an efficient scorer at this point in his career, but if I’m given a choice between watching Knox chuck shots inefficiently and Tim Hardaway Jr. chuck shots inefficiently, I’m taking Knox ten out of ten times.
(note that if Kristaps Porzingis were still alive, he is the one who I would most want to watch chuck shots inefficiently.)