CrushAlot wrote:

Vmart wrote:Knicks are not winning a championship anytime soon. This organization is not well run and they will make the mistake of not getting Phil Jackson.

If Jax is available I think he comes to NY.

Will Little Jimmy stay the hell out of his way if he does?

Maybe Stoudemire and Fields to GSW for Lee and Jefferson, who are desperate to mix things up and get star power?
Or send Stoudemire back to PHX for Frye and Dudley to let him and Nash have a last go at it, and we get 2 guys who can stretch the floor.

The talent and the core is there, now it's time to find real pieces that fit.

mrKnickShot wrote:

yellowboy90 wrote:I think a big key to next year will be Jerome Jordan and Jorts. If Jorts can lose 25 lbs and work on his shot he will be special. His defense is good despite not being the quickest and he just knows how to play the game. Hopefully the weight lost will help him with his explosion and the extra year will give him more confidence. Regarding JJ2 I think he could be a diamond in the ruff. He reminds me of a cross between Hibbert and Bynum but with more explosion. If he can progress and give Tyson some early rest it would be great. Also having a center with a post game and a 10 ft jumper would be a nice bonus.

Jorts? Special?

What-chyu-talkin-bout-willis?

BasketballJones wrote:We might have to split up Melo and Amare. Hopefully Lin will be healthy next year. If Lin can build on what he did this year, next year should be interesting. Will we win a championship next year? I don't know about that. These things take time.

This season turned out a lot better than we thought it would early on. Then we got lucky with Linsanity, and lucky that D'Antoni resigned. But we started out the year in a hole, then we started out the series in a hole.

On the plus side, we have made the playoffs two years in a row for the first time in a long time, we've got a promising young point guard, and we won our first playoff game in 11 years.

Great Post...you don't change 10+ years of futility in one year..Moving in the right direction. Now we just need to stay healthy once we get in playoffs.

Knixkik wrote:

markvmc wrote:Trade assets for picks. We're not beating the heat for the next 3-5 years. If we want to win a title, we need to plan beyond that.

We are better at the PG and C. If you don't think we can beat them, whatever, but just remember they can experience injuries in the playoffs just like we did. If it takes an injury to them for us to have a clearer path, i am willing to continue with what we have to go for it, and not just fold like you suggest.

So your plan is to hope for better teams to have injuries?

It could work.

But realistically, we're 2-4 in the East, with at least 2-3 teams in the West clearly better than us right now. That's a lot of injuries to hope for.

I'd rather put a long term plan in place built around picks.

markvmc wrote:

Knixkik wrote:

markvmc wrote:Trade assets for picks. We're not beating the heat for the next 3-5 years. If we want to win a title, we need to plan beyond that.

We are better at the PG and C. If you don't think we can beat them, whatever, but just remember they can experience injuries in the playoffs just like we did. If it takes an injury to them for us to have a clearer path, i am willing to continue with what we have to go for it, and not just fold like you suggest.

So your plan is to hope for better teams to have injuries?

It could work.

But realistically, we're 2-4 in the East, with at least 2-3 teams in the West clearly better than us right now. That's a lot of injuries to hope for.

I'd rather put a long term plan in place built around picks.

Building around picks takes too much luck. OKC is the only team currently in the league to do it, and they haven't even won anything yet. Dallas taught me something last year. You take your best player and you put players around him that compliment his strengths and hide his weaknesses. That's what we have to do with Anthony.

Just look at the top-tier teams: OKC (two max-type players and another borderline max player), Boston (planets had to align to land the big three and only that happened because McHale is a terrible GM and apparently owed someone a favor at TD Garden), San Antonio (the greatest power forward in NBA history, the greatest sixth man in NBA history), Chicago (a perennial MVP and someone who can potentially become the world's best player), the Lakers (the best player on the planet for the last decade or so) and, of course, Miami, a fraud sports town that boasts great weather and a beach full of semi-nude supermodels that benefited from a free agent conspiracy, which caught GMs across the league completely off their guard and forever changed the way free agency applies to superstars.

Teams like the Sixers, Pacers, Jazz, they play hard and have role players and drafted okay, but does anyone really think they're going anywhere? The NBA isn't hockey where grit and determination and physical intimidation can overcome talent, which is why I was always in favor of trying to get high-level talents here. That's what Melo and Amare are, or, at least, what we hope them to be. They may not be enough to ever overcome the Heat and Bulls of the world, but what's the alternative?