Evan Fournier is going through a complicated start to the season. After a huge first game, the French rear is struggling, like his franchise, and some are starting to fall on him. For a journalist, we will even have to change roles!
Evan Fournier undoubtedly had a place ready for the Celtics to continue the adventure with Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown, two of the best young people in the league, but rather than stay in his comfort zone, the tricolor back decided to join a franchise he has admired for years: the Knicks. And for his premiere at Madison Squarden, he even released a landmark performance.
Evan Fournier on the bench, the only solution in New York?
Unfortunately for him and for the Knicks, that form didn’t last. Indeed, on Last 7 meetings, Evan Fournier shows rather alarming statistics and the fans start to turn on him. Moreover, for Mike Vaccaro of the very influential New York Post, Tom Thibodeau should consider putting him on the bench against a regular substitute currently on fire.
As the losses mount, the need to shake up the starting 5 is increasingly evident. But changing the rotation just to change the rotation wouldn’t really make sense. But the point is, the only thing that keeps the Knicks winning games and staying competitive is the level displayed by the bench.
Regardless, Evan Fournier was shy in the game in his first few weeks in New York, when Alec Burks got hot, turning 40% at 3 points (against 35% for Evan Fournier). This change doesn’t have to be permanent, but for now it wouldn’t be a bad idea to fit a more effective weapon into the starting 5. Burks just play better than Fournier on both sides of the pitch, so you have to trade him with him and put him in the 5.
For this New York journalist, it is therefore necessary to exchange the roles of Alec Burks and Evan Fournier to allow the team to find the direction of the march. It’s cruel for the Frenchman, but Tom Thibodeau will soon have no choice but if the starting 5 continues to be so poor. The only hope is to see Kemba Walker pay the hook before Evan.
The matches pass and the place of Evan Fournier seems more and more threatened … Hopefully he will quickly find his address and that he will change the minds of journalists and demanding fans who are starting to turn against him.
