nixluva wrote:MS wrote:At this point. Why even care.The Knicks are what they are. Middle of the road, average and will be exiting the first round again. Dolan, does things a certain way. The wrong way, without class or thought.
We didn't need to hire anyone in order to resign Melo. He wants to be the man, he wants to play in NY, he wants his money. He isn't giving up the extra year to sign with anyone. The Lakers have little to offer he's already a major star in this league going to the lakers isn't going to grow his shine.
We can look forward to the same team, with the same problems, exiting every year in the first round while ticket prices go up and decision are made without reason
In the end this is really just window dressing. Dolan is the one common denominator and as long as he's at the top nothing else really matters.
I don't think this team is in bad shape despite Dolan's influence. This team was still a #2 seed last year and if they were healthier in the 2nd rd. I think they could've won and got to the ECF's.
This is not a mediocre team and any fan that takes that attitude is just being negative without being realistic about the facts. 54 wins isn't mediocre. Can this team get further? We will find out this year. After the next 2 seasons we'll see how this management change works out as well.
if you make it to the 2nd round it generally means you are still among the top 8 teams. but considering that the league has way too many teams and half of the teams make the playoffs, where are the knicks in terms of a scale between mediocre and excellent?
54 regular-season wins is not mediocre but the regular-season is the regular-season: a grind but often the opponents are below average.
not so the playoffs.
so far as "mediocrity" it really depends on how well they performed in the first and second round. well the celtics exposed the knicks in the first round and the pacers destroyed the knicks in the second round.
the knicks were a better than mediocre regular-season team, just like the anthony-led nuggets were.
playoffs the knicks were a below average team just like the nuggets were.
if you are a below average team in the playoffs you have no hope of winning a title.
in order to win it all the knicks would need to acquire a better player than anthony and more importantly a player that anthony himself knows is a more valuable player than himself.
i consider anthony much closer to a zero-sum player at the end of the day. he is not capable of leading a team to the conference finals. if he were he would have demonstrated this after 10 years in the league.
knicks win 38-43 games in 16-17. rose MUST shoot no more than 14 shots per game, defer to kp6 + melo, and have a usage rate of less than 25%
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