TLover wrote:

Tough to find star players at current picks 19 & 21 but then again the current NBA MVP was pick #41.

Can't think like that.

Success happens with the right calibration of confidence. If the Knicks have four picks this draft and use them all, the mindset should be "If there are only four real hard ass mother****ering non stop dogs who can help us win a championship in this draft, we will find them."

Years ago, I took a consulting gig to help a team evaluate prospects in the 6th-7th round range and into UDFA. Part of the problem in this area of the draft is volume of data you need to push through and usually limited information on the prospects in question. The team in question had multiple 7th round picks. I was given some entry level front office guys to do grunt work and then I hired a few contractors to do some extra film work. One of the front office guys kept talking about how the pan out rate for 7th rounders was horrible. Kept saying it. Wouldn't stop. Kept saying the team should venture into free agency to find some help on special teams. I talked to him in private at one point. But he wouldn't stop. Then I finally kicked him out of the ****ing room. The assistant GM wanted to know what happened, and I told him the truth. On my ship, I need crew, not passengers.

You learn from the past, you can't live in it.

If you want the hard truth, some professional athletes can't let the last play go. Mark Sanchez had this problem ( well he had lots of problems, but this was one of them) If you give up a touchdown and you missed that tackle or blew that coverage, you know what makes everything worse? If you are lost in your head about something that happened five plays ago and now you've lost focus and given up yet another touchdown.

"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."
-D. H. Lawrence

You have to have the confidence that no matter what happens in front of you, that you'll find a way to make it work. Hard work isn't enough as a professional athlete. Talent alone just isn't enough. You need to be open to humility, really listen and be fearless. You need to understand yourself more than you need to understand anything else. A franchise can't succeed if it keeps looking over it's shoulder.

The sky is not falling. It only look that way because I'm lifting the entire ground on my shoulders and making it rise up.

TripleThreat wrote:

TLover wrote:

Tough to find star players at current picks 19 & 21 but then again the current NBA MVP was pick #41.

Can't think like that.

Success happens with the right calibration of confidence. If the Knicks have four picks this draft and use them all, the mindset should be "If there are only four real hard ass mother****ering non stop dogs who can help us win a championship in this draft, we will find them."

Years ago, I took a consulting gig to help a team evaluate prospects in the 6th-7th round range and into UDFA. Part of the problem in this area of the draft is volume of data you need to push through and usually limited information on the prospects in question. The team in question had multiple 7th round picks. I was given some entry level front office guys to do grunt work and then I hired a few contractors to do some extra film work. One of the front office guys kept talking about how the pan out rate for 7th rounders was horrible. Kept saying it. Wouldn't stop. Kept saying the team should venture into free agency to find some help on special teams. I talked to him in private at one point. But he wouldn't stop. Then I finally kicked him out of the ****ing room. The assistant GM wanted to know what happened, and I told him the truth. On my ship, I need crew, not passengers.

You learn from the past, you can't live in it.

If you want the hard truth, some professional athletes can't let the last play go. Mark Sanchez had this problem ( well he had lots of problems, but this was one of them) If you give up a touchdown and you missed that tackle or blew that coverage, you know what makes everything worse? If you are lost in your head about something that happened five plays ago and now you've lost focus and given up yet another touchdown.

"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."
-D. H. Lawrence

You have to have the confidence that no matter what happens in front of you, that you'll find a way to make it work. Hard work isn't enough as a professional athlete. Talent alone just isn't enough. You need to be open to humility, really listen and be fearless. You need to understand yourself more than you need to understand anything else. A franchise can't succeed if it keeps looking over it's shoulder.

The sky is not falling. It only look that way because I'm lifting the entire ground on my shoulders and making it rise up.

This is some very inspirational stuff thank you for posting it

SupremeCommander wrote:

KnickDanger wrote:Yep I remember everyone clamoring for Mitchell and Porter in those drafts…NOT!

um, hello?

Donovan Mitchell

Michael Porter Jr

I am always spot on about everything

Wow! You were right!