Posted by rvwink:

The competition is down to a 3 man battle for the last spot on the Knicks.

6'11 Forward/Center Chris Hunter, who had been having some success in the D league, He was averaging 19.3 points, 9.5 rebounds and 1.2 blocks in 32.8 minutes for the Fort Wayne Mad Ants.

6'5" shooting guard, Joe Crawford, 28th pick in the second round by the Lakers. "He played with the Los Angeles D-Fenders' this season, averaging 20.8 points, 4.6 boards and 2.7 assists in 43 games (42 starts). He hasn't been the most consistent player in the D-League, and March has actually seen a drop on his stats, but shooting 40% from the 3-point line this month has surely made up for that. Crawford is a pure scorer. He's not going to pick up many assists and can't be counted on to consistently put the ball on the floor. He's a scorer - he can shoot, he can slash, he can score. The other asset to his game is that he's one of those players that will irritate the other team on defense, playing them hard up and down all 94 feet."

6'7", 230 pound Marcus Landry was undrafted this year. He actually paid his own way to NY to begin the competition to make the team. In his 4 years in college, he played mostly Center and Power Forward. For the Knicks, he remarkably has the skill set to dribble well, and shoot from the outside. He said he willingly played out of position in college for the good of team. His favorite player is actually small forward, Paul Pierce. I think Marcus Landry is the one the Knicks keep. He may have the ability to become Mike D's Raja Bell type player responsible for cooling off whoever is hot on the opposing team.

Anyone else have a guess?

marcus landry got high praise from breen tonite.

Posted by King1:

We finally agree on something. Then why dont you trade down or trade for a player? We drafted a prospect and then paid 3 million for an extra first rounder in a terrible draft. Walsh has had some horrible decisions over the years in the draft. My all time favorite is George McCloud

Posted by King1:

You said it was a horrible draft and walsh went and bought a pick in the worst draft in 20 years. Walsh had a lot of lottery picks not pan out at Indiana in his years of drafting. I think Gallnari will be a good player but with the 8th pick getting a guy who cant get off the bench on a bad team isnt good.

Posted by GKFv2:

Posted by King1:

Since you asked nicely I will do 1990-2000 and get the rest after breakfast.
1991 Dale Davis 13th pick great pick
1992 Malik Sealy 14th pick RIP bad paick
1993 Scott Haskin 14th pick bad pick never played
1994 Eric Piatkowski 15th pick bad pick
1995 Travis Best 23rd pick nice pick
1996 Erick Dampier 13th pic Kobe, Peja, J oneal, and Nash picked right after him.
1997 Austin Croshere 12th pick bad pick
1998 Al Harrington 25th pick good pick
1999 Vonteggo Cummings 26th pick who cares
2000 Primor Brezec 27th pick who cares.
9 drafts and he got three decent players, no all stars, and missed out on Kobe Bryant. 90's were great drafts for Walsh if you were a 6-8 no playing white guy.

You have a hard time with reading comprehension. I said late round round picks are a crapshoot. Match those up with any other GM's late round picks and it's all the same. You contended that he picked terrible LOTTERY picks. I told you to list them and you gave me mid-round and late round picks. Nice job.

Now I'm going to bring you up to speed because you clearly do 0 research. I would guess that's why you love Lee. You just look at the box score.

Malik Sealy in 1992 isn't a bad pick considering it ends up being a role players draft, with guys like Anthony Peeler and Robert Horry drafted ahead of him and Jon Barry and Doug Christie drafted after him. Shaq and Morning headline that draft class. Laettener and Gugliotta go in the top 6 and the only notable late selection is Sprewell at 26.

Haskins is his is worst pick of all. A clear failure there.

Piatkowski was drafted by the Indiana Pacers with the 15th pick of the 1994 NBA Draft. The Pacers immediately dealt his draft rights, along with Jerome Richardson and Malik Sealy, to the Los Angeles Clippers for Mark Jackson and the draft rights to Greg Minor.

Kobe Bryant didn't want to pay for anyone but LA so exclude him from the conversation. If you're going to mention Walsh passing on those guys, you might as well insult other great GM's of that time for passing on the same players. Hindsight is 20/20. Dampier at 10 isn't terrible but the players picked after him make it a bad selection. And to his credit, he later trades for Jermaine O'Neal.

Austin Croshere is drafted at 12. The most notable player(s) in the draft selected after him? Bobby Jackson and Derek Anderson.

Walsh drafted Vonteego Cummings, then immediately traded his draft rights and a future first-round draft pick for the draft rights to center Jeff Foster.

Walsh didn't select all stars because his teams already had a franchise guy and a solid to very good foundation around him. He didn't need to make lottery picks because he wasn't in the lottery. Walsh did well with the picks he was given. Some are mediocre, some bad and some very good. Any GM with those kind of picks in those drafts stacks up in similar fashion. Don't skew the facts.

Please, try again my man.

[Edited by - GKFv2 on 10-10-2009 10:57 AM]