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That was Utah's loss and our gain (big) until the ruptured Achilles injury
LOL, cooooool, so you did see the good ole days.......Skillz and I talk a lot of Knicks, since it is only he and I for the most part. But with draft and free agency ahead in off season, we'll be talking more NBA, lol. Chime in anytime ya like about Portland or anything else.....We are hoping to steal Mathews from ya for $10M a season or less......lol, lol, sorry Buddy.....
Draymon Green from GState is another player I'd like Knicks to make an offer to and see if GState matches it.....can play nice defense and has a lot of potential.......
I'm dreamin, who the hell wants to come to NY and pay NY taxes and deal with NY media? Would have to be a homegrown ball player who wants to try and win here.......That means that kid from Orlando is a slamdunk to want to come to Knicks, since he is from Long Island and wants to play for Knicks bad, practices in off season with ballhog Carmelo, lol....He plays defense as good as Carmelo, puke puke puke......
Sucks being a Knick/Met fan.......
LOL, I'm 63 now so what's that tell you
2015 NBA Draft: Jonathan Wasserman's Top 50 Prospect Big Board
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2409623-2015-nba-draft-jonathan-wassermans-top-50-prospect-big-board
Are you old enough to remember that, or just from watching highlights?
76-77 Blazers were awesome...and they started out the 77 season 51-10 before Bill was injured
Hi Mathew, how ya doing? Great to see ya stop by and talk some hoooops with us......I guess you live in the northwest and are a Blazer fan???? I'm old enough to remember the Bill Walton era, he was some player, before injuries did him in.....anyway, welcome.......
Who Love? Why the Blazers have Alderidge (as long as they resign) who is a fantastic player in my opinion, and they play the same position.
I really Like Kevin Love, but to be honest I'm not as sold on him as I used to be. You want to know why anyone who has trouble playing with lebron and irving, I question whether they care more about putting up numbers then actually winning and that does concern me. Bosh never has any problems playing with wade and lebron, and all they did was win.
Having said that if I could get him for a max deal I probably would do it. Although as I said I'm not as high on him as I used to be, if he has trouble playing with lebron who passes the ball, what in world is he gonna do with melo. Make no mistake, I think Love is a fantastic player and far better then monroe, however, I wonder if monroe is a better fit. Sometimes the better player doesn't mean the better fit. That is very important to note in my opinion.
Love is not much of a defender, which concerns me because anthony ain't much of a defender either. I believe one could get away with a weak defensive foward, and and average defensive guard (Like a russell). I'm not sure you can get away with two weak fowards or two weak guards especially in my opinion. Not every player has to be great defensively, but you need a guard to be able to guard the ball, and you need a center to block and rebound, and you need a foward, which in my opinion is what love is, one of them have to be good defensively so you can hide the other one on the weaker offensive player. The beauty of anthony is he can play 3 or the 4 so he can guard the weaker player in my opinion. Having said that, that doesn't work if the other foward ain't that great defensively in my opinion (Like Love). That means you not going to be a good defensive team in my opinion.
Sure would like to see him come home to Oregon and play for the Blazers
I think it is almost certain that Kevin Love leaves Cleveland after this yr, LeBron will make sure he opts out. You think Knicks should offer him a max deal? I think you love him, if I remember right.....Don't think anyone other than LeBron can win a championship with a Kevin Love on your team. Very nice player would improve Knicks a bunch, but not going to be a top 3 seed in the East with him, jmo.....But the thought does intrigue me.....he just isn't much on defense either.....
"Love and Knicks assistant coach Kurt Rambis didn’t exactly hit it off when Rambis was Love’s coach in Minnesota. Love was also not a huge fan of the triangle offense."
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/knicks/isola-rift-lebron-drive-love-join-knicks-article-1.2162496?utm_content=buffer2facd&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=NYDNSports+Twitter
Justice Winslow a better college player than Okafor, guy has more heart and hustle.....may end up being the better Pro also, jmo......only 6ft 6in, guess he'll be a shooting guard or small forward in NBA....He plays so much bigger than 6ft 6in at college level.....
Yeah I know about tieing money up for a week, that is a concern.....Of the available big men in free agency, I would say Monroe, Kanter and then Whiteside......I might say Whiteside is my first and fav choice if we could get him for $10M or less a season, but doubt that......It's all about money, lmao, you like certain guys at one price, but not at a higher price.....Hard to imagine Knicks getting any bargains.....
A backcourt of Beverly and Russell sounds great, considering what we have had.......
To me I like Beverly, but he to me fits perfectly if you draft russell in my opinion. Because it is all about finding pieces that fill wholes and complement each other. if towns is drafter then I will less want beverly in my opinion.
As for Butler, I get you like him, but I don't want to offer him anything bulls will match. I don't want to tie up money for a week, while other players are signing, for a player I'm certain is gonna be matched in my opinion.
Sign me up for Beverly and Mathews at $8M a yr, lol, I don't think that'll happen at all, but I'm all for it, if it can be done. Monroe you say close to a max contract, maybe, draft Townes and save that money for someone else.....Knicks should offer Butler of Bulls max deal and make Bulls match to make damn sure they screw their salary cap up some more.....Especially with Mirotic going to command big bucks couple yrs from now......I'm not crazy about Beverly, even though he is supposedly good defensively. But at $8M a yr, I'd take him, that's for sure.....
LOL, shame we are having to look at sub standard or so so ball players, or ones coming off injuries, to field a competitive team in NY.....But it is what it is.....
Whatever Derek thinks.....sign me up......
Matthews does have that injury and I think he will get less then 12 million because of it. That is why I like him. I don't think your gonna be paying top dollar for him.
Don't want Whiteside. I will pass for me if they don't draft towns, first monroe, if not Monroe then I go for Kanter.
I think Matthews and Beverly are 7-10 Million a year players. Maybe I'll be wrong, but if you can give beverly and Matthews. Like 4/32 deal each. And then Give monroe close to a max contract, with cap probably close to 70 million this year. It might be a better way to build a team then go out and give somebody like Gasol/dragic a max contract at 23-24 million a year. To me that team is balanced. Maybe I'll be way wrong, but I don't think beverly will get much more then 4/32 million, and I don't think Matthew is more then 4/32 million or so player with the injury. if he was healthy I only think he is a 4/40 player in my opinion. He will get you 15 point, he can hit threes and play good defense, but he doesn't create at all for others, so I think he is a 10 million player that might be downgrade to 7-8 because of the injury in my opinion.
I'm more convinced the best way to build this team is to acquire pieces rather then 1 big piece through FA, try for another FA in 2016 when the cap goes way up in my opinion. Anyways that's what I would do in my opinion.
Ya know what? All comes down to what I said earlier today, whoever Derek wants to coach and build with, I'm all for it. He didn't get voted head of the players union without being very smart and being very well liked. So he would know who he has good relationships with and who he could wooooooo to come to NY.....
That is why I said over the next 2 yrs to sign a free agent point guard, cause there aren't any decent ones available this yr, but lock down Towns this yr if possible. But there are a tonof exc pg's in the NBA, I still prefer to draft Towns, but would settle for Russell and be happy with him. Forget Rondo, he sucks.....
I get your point about a max contract this yr for Monroe, might be a bit of a bargain couple yrs down the road.
Wesley Mathews has that achilles injury, ya think any chance we could get him for $12M a yr? $14M a yr? Maybe other teams will be afraid to take a chance on him for that big of a contract? I understand he is a very good defensive ball player and we know he can shoot 3's.......
What do you think about Whiteside, he is available? Think he is worth $13M or $14M a yr contract? Although he has had issues off the court.
There are tons of good PG, what are the facts is the knicks have none of them. And tell me who you want in the FA market. The big man is not as important as it used to be. 20 Years ago the center was far more important offensively, now we just need a guy who can block shots and rebound, as this is more a guards and fowards game now. What you need is a guy who can create for other, very few player who aren't PG can do that, such as Harden, maybe durant, and Lebron. That is it. Anthony we know can't create for others, and not is a good defender. I will never tell you otherwise, what he can do is score and rebound in my opinion.
Since as you and I agree almost every team has a playmaker, the fact that the Knicks don't will assure they can't win. Some people will tell you the Center is the most important position for me it is the floor general. Without him you have no direction, one of the reasons why I dislike the triangle it actually doesn't distinguish the pg like other systems. I believe the PG is important on both sides of the ball like no other position, because if he doesn't stop the ball the defense breaks down, and if he doesn't create unless you get one of those players like I think russell will be, you have no creation on offense, and no defense. Exhibit A Raymond Felton and Jose Calderon, neither could play defense, and neither could create, we thought felton was bad calderon was ever worse in my opinion.
My question to you is what PG or Guard that you can feel that can create do you want to give money on the FA market?
Do you like Rondo? I don't.
I believe Reggie Jackson would be matched.
Do you like Brandon Knight, he is fine, but I'm not jumping up and down.
I like Dragic, but do you want give him a max contract and he is almost 30.
The other player I like is beverly from houston, don't know how good of a playmaker he is, but love his defense. And if you have russell that would be my backcourt. Russell is there to score and create beverly is their to stop the ball, and play defense, and giving a 2nd creator on the floor only helps ball movement and penetration in my opinion is how you get open shots in my opinion.
Do you see any other guard available that I'm possibly missing, but going without a creating guard to me is far more unacceptable, because we both agree anthony can't create for others. so somebody has to do.
I think Kanter is coming to his own, so in my opinion he is still getting better, sometimes big men take a little while to put all their pieces together, I think Kanter is doing just that. He may not block alot of shots, but one thing Kanter is doing is grabbing rebounds 11 since being with OKC a game (so I don't think he is as bad as defensively as people are saying, because when you grab that kind of number of rebounds you are having some affect on the defensive end in my opinion). You give me 18-11 from a big man I'm gonna like that.
As for Lopez, I would be crazy about Lopez if it wasn't for the injuries. So I certainly get your concerns with him. But this stretch he has been on, he is the sole reason the nets have been playing better in my opinion. He has been dominant in the month of march in my opinion. Not everyday you find a big man who can go 20-9 that is what he is doing this month as I think he finally is feeling healthy. Now how long that last is a concern, so I get why you would be against it. Monroe is my first choice.
I think Monroe is not worth a max contract, but it is close (Because of his age). You know why I say that a max contract today, versus two year from now won't be the same thing with the cap going waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay up. Plus because of his youth a max contract is like 16-17 million a year (Not starting at 22-24 million) , Knicks are gonna have to overpay for anyone, what I like about monroe is he grabs a ton of rebounds. and he can score he is just solid. If you can bring in a wesley matthews and Beverly.
You got a guy who guard the ball in beverly, Matthew is a very good defender who can guard a wing, and he is a 3 point shooter that spreads the floor. Russell is a creator and scorer, anthony scores and rebounds, and Monroe scores and rebounds. Not only would I sign for that, that team works, because you got guys filling roles. You have 3 solid defender on the court, you got creators on the court, and you got scorers to me that is what balance looks like. Heck I could build a team with towns, just not as good as in my opinion, but it is all about somewhere along the line you got to get the big man and somewhere you got to get the playmaker, next year they don't have their draft pick so tanking to me has no value in my opinion. East ain't great won't take much to build a team that is competitive in my opinion. The team I just mentioned will compete in the east in my opinion.
Hopefully Phil can get some good players at $12M a yr? Doubt it, nobody seems to want to deal with NY media, NY taxes and Dolan as an owner....depressing be a Knicks fan.....Phil should defer to Derek Fisher and his opinion on who to go get, Derek would know best after competing against all of them, plus having had so many different teammates and knowing most guys personalities and who practices hard, etc.....
I guess I have to give up on my attempt to sign Durant in 2016, don't want him now after multiple foot issues and injuries.......he'd kill us if he went down with a season ending foot injury with a max contract and meanwhile having a Carmelo on a max contract and on the backside of his career....That signing doomed the Knicks, bad bad move, can't imagine what Phil was thinking, bet he regrets that BIGTIME!!!!
Salary cap goes up big for everyone in 2016 and then in 2017 or 2018 will be another huge jump north.....
I agree with all you wrote, including Okafor at 7 or 8 would be awesome....What I disagree with is I don't want anything to do with always injured Lopez and his contract.....Lastly we disagree on which is easier to find, an assist man or a center. Tons of excellent point guards in NBA right now to sign as a free agent over next couple yrs. No special big men to speak of that can play defense like Towns. Kanter is a nice player, but doesn't play very good defense, otherwise he'd be a great fit. Monroe will get a max contract and as much as I like him, don't want to give him a max contract.....
I get the trade down I do. To me though this is a disaster if the knicks pick in the top 2 and don't come away with towns or russell (So I would want to make sure they get one of them), I think both could be franchise player. Admittingly Mudiay might be one for all I know, but his downside is larger, since we never seen him, but 6-5 pure pg to me is something that in theory excites me. To me Okafor will be a solid starter for the next 10 year but they need better then that. I want to be clear I'm not saying Okafor is gonna be a bust, I don't know if that's what your thinking, I think he is gonna be a solid starter, but not a #1 pick, if you were taking him with the 8th pick, he would be a great pickup in my opinion.
If Phil drafts Okafor, I will be disappointed. he might be more ready now to score, but they will be a bad defensive for years. You can have one sub par defender in Anthony and one Average defender in russell, as long as you know how to play defense, by have a center who intimidates, and someone who can guard the ball.
Heck I know your not a lover of Brook Lopez, but heck he plays waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better defense then Okafor ever will in my opinion. In fact if they got russell, I wouldn't be against signing him and Beverly, Beverly is a very good defender of the ball, and although Lopez won't be confused with Bill Russell, he gives them a guy who can block shots.
Under that scenario it is very simple Russell Creates, Beverly Guards the ball, Lopez will score and block shots inside (He actually block two a game), and Anthony Job is to hit open shots Russell will create for him, and in my opinion he will have a lot. His job is not create for other it is flat out to put the ball in the basket.
Another Idea is going a little cheaper route Signing Monroe, Signing Beverly, and Signing Matthew from Portland I don't think any of these are anywhere near max players. Combine that with Anthony and Russell and you got a pretty good starting 5.
Another route is going out and Getting Enes Kanter, I really have been impressed on how well he has played on OKC. He still very young and is becoming a good player, I wouldn't mind going and getting this guy in my opinion as well. Plenty of options.
If you draft Towns, then they need to focus all their effort on a creating guard. Part of the reason why I want russell so much is this path is much more difficult. I believe Jackson will be matched in detroit. Dragic will take top dollar and practically eat all your cap money. Beverly is a good defender and I want him in my russell scenario, but not so sure he is enough of a creator by himself. Rondo is a great playmaker, but he is gonna get more then he deserves and he is not much of a shooter, and a guy who shoots like that form the FT line bothers me. I guess Brandon Knight you can go with he is and improving PG, but lets not make him out to be great.
That is why I so badly want russell over towns, I see so many ways they can go find a big man, I don't see the same things for a creator, not that excite me like russell. That is a significant part of the reasoning why I want russell, this is about using FA and draft to build a much better team, hence I feel it will be easier to find the C on the FA market, and the creator in the draft in my opinion. I would probably feel the opposite and want to take towns, if their were a ton of playmaking guards available. Just wanted to explain my reasoning further why I so much want Russell, but I would be really happy if they come away with towns or russell in my opinion. I'm just hoping they don't come away with the 2nd pick in my opinion. Because I'm worried they take okafor in my opinion.
Agree on Okafor.....adios, shutting down.....now we wait for the lottery......
Listen, if Russell is the Knicks target and they have #1 draft pick, they should trade down to number 3 or 4 to draft Russell, I bet whoever is #3 or #4 in draft would like to have 1st pick....So why not pick up something extra by moving to 3 or 4 and getting Russell or Muiday.....Seems like they wouldn't be maximizing the #1 pick by drafting Russell there, may as well get something extra for him and take him at 3 instead.....
All a waste of time anyway to discuss.....Lottery odds say Knicks will be picking #3 (if you go by last 15 yrs) and can then draft Russell.......Townes and Okafor will be gone already.......
I'm not down on Russell, I'd love to have him, so don't think I don't like him, just want Towns over the other three guys......after that, I don't really care.......I guess I'd prefer Russell or Muiday over Okafor, man that guy sucks at defense and foul shooting for a supposed lock at #1, pitiful......
You missed my point, you can hide a guard or a foward defensively in a system, and if they are average that is fine as well. I believe Russell will be average, not everyone needs to be great defensively to be a good defensive team. You can't hide your Center in my opinion, and that why Okafor in my opinion is falling in my opinion on my draft board anyways.
You can't hide Russell on defense when you already have a major liability in Carmelo Anthony on defense....But he has to be better than Carmelo on defense.....
Unfortunetely I agree with that, although Russell is a superior prospect in my opinion to Okafor. I think Russell is that good.
You can hide a guard like russell on defense (Plus I don't think he is that badly defensively, I think he can turn out to be average on the D), have him play defense on the lesser offensive guard, you can't hide your center on defense he has to rebound and block shots otherwise you are gonna find it difficult to be a good defensive team in my opinion.
Russell going 3rd or 4th in draft.....clearly Okafor Towns sweepstakes.....Not that I agree with Okafor......but we know those two will be the top 2 drafted, jmo......
Amen on Okafor, we agree........
ND ain't much of a defensive team although they were my pick to get to the final four FWIW. Look I prefer the guard, to me the best guard is russell, the best big man is towns. I feel you can't go wrong with either. The one thing I like about towns is he shoots great from the FT line. I think the knicks should be happy to get either 1 and wouldn't trade the pick for either in my opinion.
Towns is a beast vs Notre Dame, like a one man team tonight so far.....Not much of a project at all, he is ready for NBA and hopefully Knicks.....
Okafor FT shooting and defense scares me. I would think he would improve his ft shooting a bit, I just don't think he will ever be a good defensive player. He can score. He would be my 4th choice to be honest. I agree the more I watch him the more I look at his deficiencies.
Towns has the most upside of all the picks he has potential to develop into a star, but he is also a project.
Cauley Stein to me is tyson chandler, if your picking in the middle of the 1rst round their is nothing wrong with that, if your picking in the top 3 I don't want him.
Mudiay is and unknown, best case scenario he is John Wall which if you guaranteed me that I would take him #1, but I never seen him play. Love the idea of 6-5 pure pg, but haven't seen him play high risk ghigh reward pick in my opinion.
Russell who is my favorite pick, I believe there is little miss with this guy. Worst case scenario I think he is borderline all star combo guard, best case I think he is James harden. Honestly though I think Brandon Roy before he got hurt is a very good comp. in my opinion. Harden is not the best defensive player in the world. I can overlook defensive concerns if a player can score and create for other like he can in my opinion. I mean he rebounds, he creates, and he scores, so his defense ain't great, heck even if he can be coached up to averaage if he does all those other things, I want him. Not every player has to be a defensive stopper, especially players that do more then just score in my opinion.
I also want to mention Wisconsin two player Kaminsky and dekker are doing real well. both would make interesting middle of the round picks in my opinion.
If I was picking 1, I would Pick Russell, 2nd pick I would go with towns. 3rd pick Mudiay. 4th pick Okafor. I would consider trading the pick after the top 2 in my opinion.
I wouldn't mind trading down to 5, 6, 7 and picking Willie Cauley Stein, he might be better than Townes eventually, not that big of difference, jmo.....love to see what we could pick up extra for moving down.......
Not so sure, that #5 through #7 in draft aren't almost as good as these guys in top 4....Winslow looks like a really nice player....several others I like will be drafted in top 10.....
If I were GM, I'd pick Townes if I could, or trade down to 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th or 7th and pick up that teams #1 pick ( a top 5 draft pick) in 2016 draft......A team like Lakers with Kobe will still suck bad, Orlando and Minnesota will both still be bad with an Okafor and all 3 of them should be drafting in top 6 in next yrs draft, jmo......love to get a top 5 #1 pick in 2016 draft, remember Knicks won't have their own in 2016, going to Toronto for Bargnani......
The above trade down scenario assumes Knicks would have the #1 draft pick this yr and someone would have a hard on to move up and draft Okafor, I'd have to expore that, so long as I was still drafting 3rd through like 7th this yr, get their 2nd round pick this yr and get that teams top 6 pick in next yrs draft.....repeating, sorry.....
Phil Jackson doesn't have the balls to do this, but would be best for future of the NY Knicks.....
Phil should do some pillow talk with his fiance and find a way for her to move to #1 and draft Okafor or Muiday, they have a Randle already....Knicks move down to about 4th in this yrs draft (pick your Ohio State guy) and we'd pick up their next #1 draft pick in 2016 as compensation, if they have one, they probably don't......Not sure I'd want 2017 pick, they'd be much better then, with Kobe gone and even more cash to spend on free agents.....
I've been watching this Okafor closely and his defense is awful. He watches guys go past their defender and to the hoop, rarely helps, zero hustle, zero prescence on defense, very whimpy on defense, no heart.....PLUS his hall of fame coach sat him last 4 minutes of the most important game of the season yesterday and no analyst would comment on that. Such BS patty cake by commentators, Okafor is a liability at end of games with such poor free throw shooting and such poor defense.....The guy can score, but after that he sucks.....
Knicks better be looking at Townes, cause drafting Okafor isn't going to win anyone a championship, unless they team him with some seriously good veteran players that won't stand for lack of effort on defense.
Townes looks tough inside and hustling on D, thinking help defense constantly, a stud inside it appears to me. Shoots good from foul line and decent on offense, will get even better as time goes on.....
I have not seen Muiday and he played against poor competition, jmo, he might be great, no clue, I'm not excited about him, but I'd take him, would be a shame to use a top 2 pick on him though.....Your guy from Ohio State looks like a real nice player, but not the #1 draft pick for 2015, his defense is not so good, offensively looks pretty darn good though. I assume Knicks will have one of the top 2 draft picks, could be picking third, if you go back past 15 yrs or whatever it was, team with worst record has picked 3rd more than 1st or 2nd in draft.....
To be clear their are a few other players I think will be solid such as Kaminsky from Wisconsin who should go middle of the 1rst round, and despite his terrible shooting performance yesterday, I do think Stanley Johnson, might turn into like a leonard from the spurs in my opinion.
Okafor makes me think of and Al jefferson type to be honest, I think he will be a solid starter for the next 10 years, but I don't think he is gonna be a franchise player. Obviously his offensive skills I do think will get better, but he wouldn't be my first choice as he doesn't rebound well enough, and as you said don't love his defense. Mudiay I haven't seen so although a PG I'm attracted to, after watching towns my opinion has changed. I prefer russell, I believe without a creating guard it makes life on the offense very difficult. I understand towns as a choice, I'm just a believor without a creator your going nowhere. I couldn't trade down 5 picks, to me their are 4 guys in this draft that I want, after that to me it is a bit of a crap shoot, in my opinion if you don't come away with 1 of the 4 picks I rather have and established player in the league before the pick to be honest.
My order of preference to be honest
1) Russell (I think he will win ROY next year)
2) Towns (May be better in the long run.)
3) Mudiay (Unknown could be best of all of them, like the idea of a 6-5 Pure PG though, but also has the most risk here)
4) Okafor He has fallen to 4th to me I know what he is. A solid starter, I don't think anyone who picks him will have a bust on their hands in fact I think he will be a solid player, but I don't think he is a franchise player either.
All is just my opinion, and I could always be wrong though.
My top 4 picks are:
1.)Townes
2.)Townes
3.)Townes
4.)Townes
After that, you can put Muiday, Russell, Okafor names in a hat and I'll take whoever comes out, don't care. Not crazy about Okafor, lil to no defense and can't shoot foul shots, not a good fit when your star player with biggest contract plays limited defense to begin with. At least Townes is a stud who will stop up the middle.......he is my first and last choice, especially since there are few quality centers in NBA and an abundance of quality point guards to sign in the next couple yrs......If Knicks end up with #1 pick, I'd like to explore what is available in a trade to switch places with 2nd, 3rd or 4th place teams in draft, maybe even 5th or 6th place teams in draft. If we could pick up an extra late first rd pick, let them have it, any of the top 4 would be fine, ideally Townes though for me.....If Knicks traded down to #5 or #6, maybe we could get a 2nd 1st rd pick inside top 15 or so......There are teams with multiple first rounders, if there is a fit, wouldn't mind a top 6 player and a top 15 player and a 2nd round pick, in return for giving up the #1 pick.....The Knicks won't do this of course, but I would build for future, not for now, cause of dirtbag Carmelo and his awful contract and health status of having to win now, F that, build something and try and unload that major POS at $24M a yr.....puke puke.....If we are just talking what player I would want and keep our position in draft, it is Townes.....
How's it going? Knicks still in dead last, which is a good thing in my opinion. Did u see Russell from OSU, play the other day, he made a move that absurdly good, he has such a great handle, reminds me so much of Brandon Roy before he got hurt. I have to say the improvement I have seen in Towns from the beginning of the year to now is a plus as well, starting to warm up on him. Plus you still got rock solid Okafor, although I think he will be a very solid player, I'm not sure he will be best player in the draft. Then you got Mudiay who none of us have really seen, so If knicks finish with the worst record even if the lottery goes against them they should still get 1 of the top 4 players off the board. My preference is Russell as I just think he is a great creating guard, which is what they need in my opinion. I also Like the F/C from Wisconsin in Kaminsky, but he is a middle of the round selection in my opinion.
In other news Cleveland is starting to get going the east is so terrible I still think they will win the conference. There are really 5 good teams in the conference, the bottom of that conference is not very good. Although Atlanta has had a fantastic season and come out of nowhere, they play great team basketball, although they are far from the most talented bunch in my opinion. Will be interesting to see if NO makes the playoffs this year would be nice to see davis get his due he is a top notch player in my opinion, and okc without durant and ibaka ain't the same, and they still got a winning record. I love GS this year, I wonder if this will be the year they win it, as Curry has been fantastic and is one of 4 guys to be considered for the MVP the other 3 westbrook, Davis, and harden in my opinion.
Knicks win 3rd straight. Melo gets third win in a row. The good news with this is there is a bit of gap between the knicks, sixers, and t-wolves and the 4th worst record, so they still have a very good chance of being top 3 despite this. But signing galloway and the melo return has made a difference, which to be honest as much as I root for melo to turn this around I didn't want him to do it this year, hopefully they soon turn back into a pumpkin, before this costs us draft position. In fairness no guard has played as good as galloway has all year, he has been a huge help in my opinion. It is also important to note the knicks are not exactly beating quality so I still think this won't continue at least I hope not because this could cost some draft position. The good news is I highly doubt they come up too much, but I'm just hoping they don't continue to win. All is just my opinion, and I could always be wrong though.
Melo leads us to two victories in a row. Too bad he didn't take the season off. he may end up costing us draft position if he keeps this up. Yikes. I guess you got another reason to the I want Melo gone campaign. LOL. On a side note although galloway is not a pg I seen more life out of him then I've seen out of any the 1's or 2's this year in my opinion.
Melo is the only player on this team that is worth anything.
The system isn't very good, and needs to be gone. Nobody runs that system around the league right now, correct me if I'm wrong, as fisher said young guys don't believe in the system if true how in the world are u gonna get people to come here, and more importantly how you gonna win if nobody believes in the system. I personally always felt the triangle was not the best system in the world. But if players around the league hate it, I have a very simple answer to that find another system.
As for the rest of this team. Hardaway keeps showing me more and more I was wrong about him. He should be going off for 30 with no melo no amare, no jr, he should be going nuts scoring, and quite frankly he hasn't. His defense is terrible I would trade him to get rid of the worst starting pg in the league in calderon. That is the problem when you have PG play that is the worst in the league in a position that is super strong around the league.
I mean look at the PG melo has had to play with felton and calderon. And nobody can't tell me that terrible system they implemented made everything worse as they were all fighting with the system. A coach/gm is not supposed to put in a system that all their players can't stand how is that gonna work.
furthermore I even heard ridiculous but true comments like lets not sign monroe wrong player for the system, how about get a different system. There is something wrong with the system if good players don't fit in it, that means it is a bad system. I personally think this system has been a huge factor for how bad they were.
I realize the situation is different, I just get annoyed with your 1 player is a cancer theory, because I don't buy for a second that Melo is the problem, no more then I believe Josh Smith cancer. When Houston is winning after he signed, and they won all those years in atlanta, the number speak that the pistons years are an anomaly.
It is also comes to the conclusion, that the hawks use smith as a 4. Houston is using him as a 4. The Pistons had Drummond and Monroe, playing him at a 3 with them was the problem. Sometimes teams need to be formatted successfully to be success.
Before the Knicks gave up. Amare was at the 5, and Melo was at the 4 they were just better, the minute the moved melo to the 3 and had guys like dalmabert and acy in the 4 and 5 you had a problem. Some roster need to be setup a certain way to be successful doesn't mean the player isn't useful.
The best way to fix this team is get melo a PG. it is no secret when his teams were good Andre Miller and Jason Kidd. It is no secret when his teams went bad felton and calderon. Time will tell, but if it was up to me get rid of the system. get rid of the coach, and get rid of calderon. And then we got a chance. Will that happen probably not. The system is here to stay, and so is the coach, and I will believe someone is stupid enough to take calderon when he is actually dealt, yes he is that bad. All is just my opinion, and I could always be wrong though.
Don't be an idiot, this is a whole diff circumstance and you know it. Everyone gave up long ago, obvious by all the fake injuries by the heartless pos Bums.....Including your love affair with the biggest pos in the NBA....
But you wanted to see how they would do with Melo gone? As I said all along the would be uncompetitive without him, not losing by 3-5 points, but not even in the game. They have yet to win any game he didn't play and I'm convinced they might not win one all year if he doesn't return.
Fisher not letting anyone get into any flow, 3 or 4 mins and back out of the game, quick substitutions in first half so far against Charlotte....
He is not a good coach, and I'm being nice. Nothing he does surprise me at this point, as one knows I'm not a fan.
Hardaway has the size to play the 2 (so he doesn't need to be a creator), and yes he can't play defense. But I can hide a bad defender as long as he ain't the PG or center.
As for galloway he is not any good in my opinion. As for calderon another terrible game, don't you just love how now walker goes off for 28 points against him, and he has 2 assists and 3 to, I always wanted a pg who turns it over more then his assists, and you complain about melo creating (and he is a 3 or 4 depnding on who you talk to), a PG with 2 assists for crying out loud, you can't say melo is hogging the ball, I don't believe this team has won1 game without melo playing so much for ball movement, this team is not any good, and thoise are the fact it had nothing to do with melo in my opinion.
Geez why do you hate Josh Smith, I have no clue. The rockets are integrating a key player and are 5-4 in the tough western conference. As for detroit, he was a bad fit, but anytime you ask smith to play the 3 your begging for trouble in my opinion. As for atlanta, they were a playoff team all the years he was a key cog in that machine, so how bad was he really for them.
As for this year. The hawks are having a great year. Primarily because Teague has developed into a really good PG, every team not named the knicks have one of those. Horford being back is important. And don't forget Millesap he is a really solid player, he scores, he rebounds, even averages 3 assists for a big man. Another FA by the way in my opinion..
Brutal, just brutal, awful job by every player, Fisher and Phil Jackson, embarassingly baaaaaad, I feel beat up and dejected.........no hope..........Trade Calderon and Carmelo, puuleaseeee, so I can have some hope again......
39 seconds into the 2nd half and Hardaway taken out already, man oh man.....not good coaching......3rd time for a substition after a break in this game, within 40 seconds....
To bad Galloway isn't a decent point guard, to short for SG.....Doesn't create for others as a PG, he is like a tweener, hard to find a spot for him to play against other teams first string I'm guessing. He is worthy to be on the Knick roster though and not in D league.....jmo.......He is defintely a shoot frst pass second player like Hardaway. Shame.....they each have talent, but Hardaway can't play a lick of defense, not sure on Galloway yet, defensively.
Fisher not letting anyone get into any flow, 3 or 4 mins and back out of the game, quick substitutions in first half so far against Charlotte....
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