Balias even said Plummley is better than OK4 on defense....Duke just cant afford to lose his offense. But in the nba he will ride the bench if he doesnt improve his defense and free throws. If hes not scoring hes not impacting the game. We already have a player like that.

blkexec wrote:

Knicks1969 wrote:I think Phil will be looking to trade the pick to Sacramento

I think if he doesnt find a decent trade...hes picking Towns over OK4. Not sure what Sac can offer. What pick do they have? Any vets we could use?

Knicks will trade the pick for Cousins

BRIGGS wrote:Port is had 26-11-2-2-2. Okafor already has 30-10-3 and looks unstoppable

Melo is unstoppable and he puts up the same stats....against grown men. What does that mean if they give up the same points. We talked about this with Melo....now we pick OK4 just so we can say....Man we need more two way players. Everybody is scoring on melo and OK4. At least they cant do Hack a Melo....he actually hits his free throws. There are players in the league with OK4 talent as a post scorer...size has no advantage on offense in the post....just look at zbo and especially tony parker.

But you know where size helps....protecting the rim. OK4 doesnt have thepresences or intincts as a rim protector. Time to let the ego down....i know you are right 99%....this is that 1% where u are wrong. OK4 needs a John Stockton as his PG in Utah system with pop or sloan asthecoach to really see his peak value at the next level. Plus he will not be in games during crunch time.....not shooting 50% Even Shaq was a presence on defense...and hes slow. But hes also 7'1....OK4 is 6'9 and change without shoes....the dude guarding him 1 on 1 was 6'5....let that soak in. With Shaq....that dude wouldve been barbecue chicken.

Give me Towns please.....lets hope everybody is drinking OK4 juice....so towns can fall to us at pick 2.

NardDogNation wrote:

TPercy wrote:There is no way that Sacremento would trade Cousins for that pick. Cousins is a top 3 center in the NBA what more could you possibly want?

George Karl favors an uptempo pace, which is the kind of team Ranadieve wanted in the first place when he bought the team. Cousins doesn't fit that mold so expect for him to be made available for the right price. Considering that John Wall 2.0 is available in this draft (Emmanuel Mudiay), I'd have to think that it fits the criteria of being "the right price". I wouldn't be surprised at all to see this happen on draft night.

Possibly he will be the better player than Towns first 2 seasons as a NBA pro, look at Andrew Wiggons, who has shown some great games on a pro level with a system that fits his skills with Rubio and BIGS like
Dieng/Pekovic, along with shooters to spread the floor for him, though they will need more so he can get more 1v1 oppourtunities to take full advantage off
Wiggons will eventually take a HUGE luge moving forward, possibly next year or the year after, as he has GREAT all round skills including his phyisical abilities, though he will have to add some weight/stregnth to his frame, without losing much mobility/athleticism/speed/quickness, just like Durant did who was WEAK in terms of strength but never played "WEAK" on the court, with that said, strength can be over rated and missued in anaylyzing talent for NBA players with lifting weights as ameasure of strength in the NBA game
More importantly, his length/athleticism/speed/quickness is more important than strength, allowing him to be a future lock down player potential and versatile team defender
He has a pretty good shot and the mechanics as well, if he is able to get a better shot like Durant did, it will open his game up, making him unguardable 1v1 with his range/ability to blow pass his man if the defender moves up....

I would happy with a TOP 3 pick, whether it is OK4, Towns, Russell, and if we can make moves to get more picks like moving CA for another 1st and young talent, 2nd round picks *especially high 2nd rounders, making Houston an Ideal trade for both teams and CA's contract, as Houston also owns our 2nd rounder this summer and next year* Add in DMO, Terrence Jones, and/or other talents like Brewer/KJ McDaniels, Koustas Pap *has 5m unguaranteed contracct*, and other players just to match salaries with the 150% rule, possibly with Beverely in a sign and trade or even Jason Terry just to match salaries with only first year guaranteed and other years non guaranteed, as a trade must be a 3year contract for a sign and trade just like Q Rich was traded to Raptors
Now if we are able to get another 1st rounder like David Lee for their pick *they can trade the player drafted by not the pick, on draft day, and that doesn't even guarantee that they will be able to keep Draymond Green
Add in possible 2 poison pills, with players worthy of such deals, the way Asik/Lin's were structured, with Middleton/Draymond Green, with the salary about

5m (next season)
5m (in 2017 with the rise of the cap of about 20m and likely another amensty clause to use(
15m so it doesn't affect our ability to sign/trade talents in the first 2years making it an ideal and realistic attempt to acquire young talent

With the rest of the cap space, we can hope to be able to sign Alex Aijinca
Sign Thanasis to a 3year deal, which would need us to use cap space or exemptions like MLE in order to get 3year deals to even 4years to avoid poison pills with only 2year available if we payed his salary acording to his pick
Other D League with Weschester Knicks running the Triangle already and other talents *most of which are BIGS*

Orlando Sanchez is NBA ready

other D LEAGUE KNICKS could be

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