So it's been 11 games, let's check in with some on/off numbers and advanced stats
As of right now, only 3 Knicks have a positive Net Rating, Iggy (+25), Dot (+4.4), and Payton (+3.9)
We are currently the worst offensive team in the league, scoring 99.3 points per 100 possessions, and the 9th worst defensive team, giving up 110.2 points per 100 possessions, making us the worst net team in the league, with a Net Rating of -10.9
So, it looks like our best PG is Payton just going by him having a positive Net Rating, but I think that's a little off, and here's why. Our offense as a whole scored a lot more with him on (108.5 Offensive Rating), but all our playmaking stats are dreadful when he was on. We only had 1.05 assists to turnovers, our assist ratio (assists per 100 possessions) was only 13.9, and our assist percentage (how many scores the team assisted on) was only 45.7, and we turned the ball over 18.3% of the time. So that to me says that with Payton, we had a lot of one on one play, which happened to work out, there wasn't much facilitating involved. Meaning I don't think that keeps up as the season goes on, so we should take his on/off with a grain of salt
Now on the flip side, while Frank can't score on offense to save his life, with him out there, the ball movement has been pretty decent. He's only at a 99.0 Offensive Rating, but when you take out the outliers, he's 3rd on the team behind RJ and Morris (who are both under 100). So, we don't score much, but we pass a lot better as a team. 1.41 assists to turnovers, 16.1 assist ratio, and 61.1 assist percentage, 15.6 turnover percentage. And if you only look at games where Frank's started, those numbers increase slightly, to where Frank actually leads the team in Offensive Rating, and the on/off metrics say we're significantly better when he's on, but still a bad team overall. We go from a -9 with him on to a -22 with him off, with our offensive rating being an abysmal 88.3 without Frank, and the defense being pretty much unchanging with or without him, mostly because Mitch is out, when Frank and Mitch are both in, our defense is great, but without Mitch, our defense turns to sh*t
So my conclusion from this is, as usual, for as much as Frank can't do sh*t on offense, he isn't actually hurting the team out there. We need another PG to get healthy and step up, because while Frank isn't really hurting us, he isn't really making us any better, either, he just looks good on paper due to having literally no backup PG. And, also as usual, Mitch needs to play for us to be good