The guy who might be the all time worst draft picker in this history of the NBA--he's terrible--I said it when we hired him. I'd rather see the dorks at realgm make the pick --it couldnt be much worse.

The gallanarri pick was decided before walsh got here, all our scouts did a tun of reasearch on him and had a tun of info on him. D'Antoni and Walsh just gave it a final "OK" but the wole organization was huge on him long before we hired Gabriel

Posted by Finestrg:

Not that concerned - all of our subsequent drafts will be joint decisions with Walsh and D'Antoni having major imput. Remember D'Antoni passed on Lee in Phoenix - he'll have a big say in who's drafted..

Is that good? If we had just offered Thabeet the pick with a guarantee we would be in a lot different position today. He wasn't going to come out without a top guarantee--we needed a guy to clog the lane so desperately--how are you really going wrong by picking an athletic 7-3 National defensive player of the year player on a team that hasn't played defense in 8 years?

Go look for an obscure 6-11 SF from Norway because that is the type of guy that they want.

Posted by BRIGGS:

The guy who might be the all time worst draft picker in this history of the NBA--he's terrible--I said it when we hired him. I'd rather see the dorks at realgm make the pick --it couldnt be much worse.

You mean you?

PS: Gabriel was hired after the draft.

Posted by nyk4ever:

Briggs you seriously have to cut down your knee-jerk reactions. Do you ever make say anything that is not based off some serious knee-jerk reaction?

What is the knee jerk reaction? reality? We took a high risk pick and were getting burned. We hired Gabriel after the draft for future draft and he scks--what isnt correct?

Posted by Bippity10:

Briggs is the most depressing person I've ever been associated with

I'm quite affable:) But I can't stand by after 8 years and say golly jeez with this continued incompetence. Forget bad luck--we've been materially incompetent and as a die hard fan for almost 35 years---with all of this money spent in the best city in the world--Im sick of the disgrace that is going on. We shouldve never hired a 67 YO GM and we were not ready for a Dantoni coach when we really have to rip it up. Even I was mystified by 4-2 but reality is it's jumpshooting and when you live with the jumpshot as your main weapon--you have no chance.

Posted by BRIGGS:


Knicks fans would be a lot happier if I made the picks.

Like Marcus Williams?

oohah

Posted by sebstar:

Posted by BRIGGS:

The guy who might be the all time worst draft picker in this history of the NBA--he's terrible--I said it when we hired him. I'd rather see the dorks at realgm make the pick --it couldnt be much worse.

You know I love the Knicks, but this OJ Mayo thing is really getting to me something serious. I mean really. He was right there, one slot ahead!

The Knicks failed to land us our draft superstar. I was screaming about it on draft night and now depression is settling in.

A Mayo pick could have righted a lot of wrongs and recorrected our ship


[Edited by - sebstar on 11-12-2008 3:08 PM]

It sucks but can't go back now. We tried to make the trade but just couldn't pull it off. It was a tough year to win 23 games. Normally that's good for a top 3 but somehow we end up at 6.

Posted by BRIGGS:

Posted by nyk4ever:

Briggs you seriously have to cut down your knee-jerk reactions. Do you ever make say anything that is not based off some serious knee-jerk reaction?

What is the knee jerk reaction? reality? We took a high risk pick and were getting burned. We hired Gabriel after the draft for future draft and he scks--what isnt correct?

its an obvious knee-jerk reaction to Danillo having a MRI and not traveling with the team. How are we getting burned? Because hes injured? hes 20.. big deal. He will heal. Relax

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Posted by GKFv2:

[quote]Posted by BRIGGS:

The guy who might be the all time worst draft picker in this history of the NBA--he's terrible--I said it when we hired him. I'd rather see the dorks at realgm make the pick --it couldnt be much worse.

You mean you?

Knicks fans would be a lot happier if I made the picks.

we'd have a young championship core of Andrew Bynum, Marcus Williams, Michael Sweetney & Jerryd Bayless... so far only 1 of them has done anything in the NBA worth talking about... but then we'd also have those awesome vets like Shareef Abdur Rahim, Darius Miles & Steve Francis to provide the glue to the finished product, so there's the silver lining.

Posted by TMS:

Posted by BRIGGS:

Posted by GKFv2:

[quote]Posted by BRIGGS:

The guy who might be the all time worst draft picker in this history of the NBA--he's terrible--I said it when we hired him. I'd rather see the dorks at realgm make the pick --it couldnt be much worse.

You mean you?

Knicks fans would be a lot happier if I made the picks.

we'd have a young championship core of Andrew Bynum, Marcus Williams, Michael Sweetney & Jerryd Bayless... so far only 1 of them has done anything in the NBA worth talking about... but then we'd also have those awesome vets like Shareef Abdur Rahim, Darius Miles & Steve Francis to provide the glue to the finished product, so there's the silver lining.

I know you were not here but here were my following picks

2002-Amare Stoudemire our pick 7
2003 I picked out Wade Kaman and Bosh during the college season --go look it up I picked Sweetney at 9 because the other guys wouldve/were gonzo
2004 I picked out Josh Smith as the third best prospect in the draft who went 17[no pick]
2005 Andrew Bynum our pick 7
2006 Marcus Williams when he fell [pick 21]
2007 Morris Almond pick 22

If we took Amare Stoudemire--we would not even be in the lottery all of these years. Not bad. Two potential franchise players picked 2 identified 2 allstar calibers and the last two are unkowns. Sweetney has mental issues