misterearl wrote:People, lighten up. Things are about to be downright San Antonio Spurs-like in Knicks-land.

The worst that can happen, even if Melo walks (according to Chris Broussard) is that he frees up a chunk of additional cash for the 2015 free agent class. This season and next, wins and losses are irrelevant. As a matter of fact, the more losses - the batter. It just doesn't matter. Trades are meaningless and Game Picker is an exercise better replaced by having a dozen donuts and watching The Bourne Identity.

You wanna put together a serious roster to challenge for a championship? We gotta be sinkin.' Why?

Amare, Bargnani, JR Smith and everyone else making significant money, come off the books. Finished. The accountants get a brand new ledger and the salary cap resets back to zero. Imagine the freedom and sheer enjoyment of building an NBA roster with unlimited chedda and a few first round picks. Pandemonium.

We gotta chill. Kick back. Pu out collective feet on the coffe table and pop open our favorite adult beverage. We just gotta wait for a season and a half. Piece of cake.

Tank for 2015.

I could get in line for this.

Mills is stunt man. By the time 2015 rolls around, Allan Houston will be on the clock.

Q. alwaysaknick: Did we tank last summer?

A. Excellent question. No we did not.

We were learning the true meaning of "ball don't lie" and thinking we could sneak a playoff series from the more talented Pacers. Hey, as Kurtis Blow taught us, "those are the breaks."

No, we are talking full frontal tankology here. No more kvetching over wins or losses. We simply enjoy the fact that in 2015, compared with the current roster, the New York Knicks will be completely unrecognizable.

Change is good. The revolution will be televised.

callmened wrote:but why tank? i understand getting under the cap and letting the contracts expire in 2015. but i dont see the upside of tanking...especially with no draft picks

Losing is familiar now. Not familiar like friendly, familiar like routine. Like a commute to work. We sit down, we watch the Knicks march grimly into the abyss, then we get up and resume baking scones or whatever it is we do when we're not watching the Knicks embarrass themselves. I think our thresholds for feeling anything of any valence have been set pretty high at this point. And when the Knicks returned from a week-long hiatus by picking up that grim march as if they'd never stopped, it felt comfortable.

- Seth Rosenthal

CallingYouNed - there is no such thing as upside. The best features of tanking are that it clears the air of false nightly expectations. It allows we vested fans to breathe, relax and enjoy the spring without any post game depression, pre game sadness or feelings of abandonment from Tina Cervasio.

In the immortal words of legendary NY football Giants Assistant Coach, Vince Lombardi, "Tanking isn't everything, it is the only thing."

Nice pep talk, MisterAnnie
Or is it Lil orphan Earl?

misterearl wrote:

Cartman718 wrote:

misterearl wrote:Piece of cake.

really?

Really.

You have a better (reality based) solution?

"Give me tanking, or give me death."

Earl, they ain't tanking. That implies intent. They are just incompetent.