Posted by nyk4ever:

No King, there is no team in the NBA in worse shap than the Knicks for the next 5 years.

Portland made the playoffs every year from 82-83 to 02-03 and then rebuilt. It took them only 3 years to acquire SOLID players and people like Roy, Oden, Aldridge, Webster, Outlaw, Jarret Jack, etc etc. What a fine job Kevin Pritchard has done.

Posted by BigSm00th:

how about bynum?

bynum is putting up double-doubles and multiple-block games on a nightly basis and he's 20! he's a MONSTER

Posted by bitty41:

King lets see how many threads you have created in the last month about Zach Randolph:

http://ultimateknicks.com/forum/topic.asp?t=24586

http://ultimateknicks.com/forum/topic.asp?t=24562&page=1

So when are you going to start working on your fourth? Because you know the end of December is right around the corner and it would be extremely disappointing if Christmas passed without you creating a "Zach is the devil spawn's thread"

Your agenda will point to one guy, b/c that's who your agenda has been against.
But the real reason is that Portland has been able to acquire several lottery picks and has KEPT them. THey've endured their years of losing and have thoroughly rebuilt through their draft. Shedding Zach has opened up more spots for their youngsters but has been far from the reason why they got better. They got a massive youth/talent infusion and slowly rid themselves of other players.

If we did the same here- kept all our picks and let our other guys slowly fall off the roster, we'd be in good shape too.

You know whats the best part about this Vdesai is that he thinks he's being subtle LOL

Posted by bitty41:

The threads all have different points of discussion. This one is actually about Portland not just Zach. E-Mail the mods if you have a problem with 3 somewhat related threads in a month.

How about this Bonn explain to me why I or anyone on a Knicks borad should care about the Portland Trailblazers?

Posted by bitty41:

because they at one point in time had the highest payroll in the NBA, and utilizing a very different philosophy, are poised to put together a young team that might become very good, very soon.

As opposed to the crap we've had to suffer through.

3 years is not long to rebuild, and NY fans would gladly accept three years of rebuilding if we potentially had a team like portland to look forward to.

Still not seeing the relevance? We could talk about every team's philosphy and management but in the end they have absolutely no impact on what happens in NY other then if there involved with a deal.

Posted by bitty41:

because they at one point in time had the highest payroll in the NBA, and utilizing a very different philosophy, are poised to put together a young team that might become very good, very soon.

As opposed to the crap we've had to suffer through.

3 years is not long to rebuild, and NY fans would gladly accept three years of rebuilding if we potentially had a team like portland to look forward to.

Still not seeing the relevance? We could talk about every team's philosphy and management but in the end they have absolutely no impact on what happens in NY other then if there involved with a deal.