Would not be surprised if ONE of these TOP 3 teams would consider trading down AFTER a team selects a player that the team would want at a lower salary (with the way FA and the rise of the cap affecting the salary cap)
In addition, they would be looking to acquire more assets and future draft picks on controlled salaries while being able to put together a roster with the ability to pull a Miami Heat by bringining in multiple ALL STAR FRIENDS and still have the ability to continue to improve through trades/draft picks to get even better
We are very much limitted and we are going against teams with multiple assets, young players, draft picks, salary cap, and multiple holes without leadership, a DOMINANT OFFENSIVE PLAYER, a DEFENSIVE STUD whether lock down defender or help defender in ANY POSITION, on top of a CREATOR/FACILATOR, and if any talents can do some of the above and multiple talents that can FIT IN AND DO THE ABOVE, it would have a multiple effect/affect on the franchise/development of future talents, the importance of HIGH IQ/PHYSICAL, MENTAL abilities along with work ethic/dirty work/role players....
Teams that do not mind taking the time needed to DEVELOP TALENT and that do not have a 30year old with over 20m in salary that has many weakness's, can easily put together a foundation to lure a bunch of talents together (which Philly/Boston and many other teams are trying to do)
Our media/tax and property (cost of living)/pressure when losing with limitted abilities in improvement vs our contenders, and lack of resources to improve all work against us
Though WINNING in NYK is great, it is a huge gamble for TOP TIER FA's, does CA have the ability to attract TOP TIER TALENTS?
New York is one of the hardest franchise if not the toughest franchise to play for because of the media but we still need TOP TIER TALENTS that Phil Jackson had when he won multiple rings
And he NEVER developped talent and went through actually building talent and the rebuilding process that takes years to execute that coaches like Sloan, Poppavich, Carlisle, Riley, Larry Brown all went though at some point
Jackson's record is very much manipulated as he always left a team when they had to go through that rebuilding process and comes back when they have established top tier talents on both OFF and DEFENSE
Like any regular STATS or ADVANCED STATS, his coaching STATS are misleading for those reasons
And we do not know where to rank HEAD COACH FISHER and his COACHING STAFF, which we cannot compare with Phil Jackson's experience and success with TOP TIER TALENTS
DEVELOPMENT STAFF and Trainers are very important and we must put in the the need to DEVELOP our talents to help young talent reach their ceilings and work on their weakness's and strengths, along with their physical bodies/work out regimes especially with a new SPORTS SCIENCE
Recent months, Phil Jackson has been saying a lot of things and I do not know which is more important and which are just smoke screens....
Does he really have a plan and his constant trolling with his opinions surely doesn't help our ability to attract future TOP TIER TALENTS
For those reasons, I believe we must DRAFT and take the risk developing our own ALL STAR CEILING TALENT vs FIT for system
As I have said in the past, if we are to contend with CA, we will need 1-2 talents that would be better players than him, with true franchise talents that have the ability to do the ABOVE IN BOLD
Points *EFFICIENCY*
REBOUNDS
DEFENSE
CONTROL GAME TEMPO
LEADERSHIP
As The JET always says, if you have talents that could do the above, they are frachise talents
If you have multiple talents that could do it together it has a multiplying affect/effect
After that, you still need depth, and talents that could both play both ON AN OFF THE BALL, being dominant and being able to do the bold and 5 qualities that The Jet use to measure franchise talent
along with HIGH WORK ETHIC, good role players/HIGH IQ players, and a coaching staff to establish roles for all talents and motive/exectue the talents on their roster, along with adjustments, and a bit of luck/lack of injuries play a role in order to contend
We are not even in stage 1 of what Phil Jackson would consider coaching and then building a roster to execute the system and build chemistry/cohesiveness together as 1, along with establshing roles together with the starting lineup, the bench, as basketball is a TEAM GAME
I do not believe in building a roster with 1-2 DEFENSIVE players, 1-2 good scorers, and then assuming it would work, that was how we put our team together after 2010
We need players that can do much of the above together, 2 way players with many other qualities/abilities
For example, Iman Shumpert and Tyson Chandler are 2 good defensive players but we were still a horrible defensive team, and our best recent DEFENSIVE team was actually during Jeremy Lin's run, with high IQ talent that played TOGETHER playing off each other strenghts and covering their weakness's despite the lack of actual talent *they would have never won a ring but that is how a team must play*
Isiah Thomas put together Marbury, Crawford, ZBO, Eddy Curry, David Lee, Wilson Chandler and Ariza *who would have never developed to the player he bacame as a Knick, etc, and they were still not a good OFFENSIVE team and a horrible defensive and rebounding team
You need talents that can do BOTH and those talents are called FRANCHISE TALENTS which we do not have and likely will need to develop and will take time to do so
We can sign such talents but why would such talents want to join a team with with as many holes as ours, as they could join talents/teams that have more talents and assets to continue to improve
Only way I think such talents would consider doing so is if Phil Jackson himself will coach as Fisher was nearly as prepared as Kerr was...
IMO, we need collect as many YOUNG TALENTs as we can this year, even taking on salaries/bad contracts in order to do so, THEN save the financial flexibility to pull a Miami Heat in 2010
For those reasons, along with CA's age, if we can send him to contender that has the ability to contend, give us back assets, then at earliest by next summer with the rise of the cap *and possibly having ANOTHER AMNESTY with the new CBA negatations, then we could be in PHASE 1 of what Phil Jackson would consider coaching when he was younger
For instance, taking on Pekovic's contract *possibly amnesting him*, while unloading Calderon, and acquiring multiple young talents with Twolves and the rest of our salary cap
Swapping our pick with Twolves *along with their 2nd rounders, and some of their young talents* or one of the top 3 teams
Would one of these teams give us OK4 for a future 1st rounder non protected and would it be worth it? Maybe only if we can sign other ALL STARS in order to do so, along with role players/2nd/3rd tier talents
This is an extremely deep draft with many TOP 8 talents that could be TOP 3-5
And it would be another tough year for Derek Fisher *in which a coach like Mark Jackson probably would have been better along with Tom Thib's to help develop a roster with HIGH WORK ETHIC, PROFESSIONALISM, and DEFENSE, then get the right coach to take them to the next level in which Kerr did greatlty along with his entire staff/roster, using a system that would be the best for the talents we collect together
NOT using a system then finding players that fit a system and not taking the better/high ceiling talents when we do not have franchise talents...
If our goal is to put together a roster that could conted with CA *which would be the middle, the worst place to be while lacking draft picks/young talnet*, it will likely take another 5-6years before we can truly contend, till CA's contract is gone
We could be play off contenders in the EAST and even possibly miss the playoffs as well, with our luck...
Though I think by next year if we go this route, we should make the playoffs and be out in the 1st or 2nd round
I hope we can get it right and I believe at 4, we should take either Mudiay or KP, as they are the higher ceiling talents that could be franchise talents in a couple of years if we put them in the situation to succeed and develop with *DEVELOPMENT STAFF/TRAINERS* along with allowing them to go through growing pains *which would go against CA's contract, age, and original plan that Phil Jackson and CA had a vision with...
Prior to our final win of the season and lottery order determinded....
This draft is so deep, I was hoping we would get a TOP 2 pick, and hoped Sixers would get 2-3 1st rounders with this draft, with Lakers falling out, and then would NOT MIND ONE BIT in trading down for 2 TOP 5 talents that could be drafted in TOP 8
AND getting other draft picks in the 2nd round future draft picks, as teams like Boston/Sixers would have the ability to OVERPAY for such talents as they have a billion picks in the next couple of years
I am sure Phil Jackson was hoping the same exact thing, hoping a team full of assetts and other teams would overpay and go on a bidding war, fully utilizing this deep/strong class to make up for our lack of future asstes and utilize the strenght/depth of this draft
We will get a sense of what Phil Jackson's "plan" and vision is, but too be optimistic like Nixluva is truely just giving blind confidence to a team that lacks assets to improve vs our contenders, simply is just horrible evaluation that are unrealistic
6/25/2015 11:58 AM LAST EDITED: 6/25/2015 12:04 PM