Posted by NotFrye:

There's a difference between rooting for your team to do well, and analyzing the teams' likely outcome. This team looks like it has a 60-70% chance of being lottery bound once again, since we have the same players with a new coach. We did not just draft a lottery-caliber impact player (ex. CP3), so 20 more wins does not seem to be in the cards. Oden may not come out this year, but there's probably a small small chance that the bulls draw him if he does (they have our lottery card, essentially). But if we ARE in last place again, or close to it, and Oden DOES come out and the bulls DO get him, that means another 20-30 win season and a lot of angry or ex-knick fans watching Isiah send off the next great center to the bulls. very very unlikely scenario though

The only way to keep them from getting anymore good picks is to play just as good as them this year. But then they went out and got Big Ben and we end up with fat ass Curry. I hope we are at least 20 games better this year, otherwise Chicago will once again get the upper hand on New York. They always do.

Posted by Vmart:

Based on NYK's past performances BRIGGS is almost 100% right. But remember the past performances got the Bulls the Number 2 pick not the number 1. Right now based on past performances there is a very good chance the KNicks end up lottery bound. Or they can find some heart and lay it all on the line and make guys like BRIGGS eat crow.

#1 or #2, what's the difference? If it were a superstar pick, then it would make a difference, but in this case, there really were no top star picks in the last draft.