nixluva wrote:mreinman wrote:knickscity wrote:The sad part is the Knicks are actually worse one of the group because in their minds and gullible fans, they think this team is a Calderon upgrade to winning. The Sixers were in the playoffs when they decided to break it all the way down and stay away from mediocrity. I applaud them for having the balls to actually do that. The Wizards should be better and I'm actually surprised they aren't because they've always had injuries and seemed to come on top of those. The Bucks and Magic are clearly rebuilding. The Bucks I don't think have a player over 30 other than Novak that they just claimed. 10 of their players are 25 and younger. Orlando is their near identical, 1 player over 30 and 10 players 25 and under.
The Knicks have 7 under 25, but 5 over 30, and three of those five are leading the team in minutes played.
knicks fans love killing philly but the joke is on the knicks who are stuck in NBA purgatory.
Why are the Knicks stuck in purgatory? Ok everything didn't work out this year however, seems to me that our frontcourt players are fine and KP and RoLo should get better. What we need most and it's no secret, is improved performance from our backcourt players. We can expect additions and hope for some internal growth for next year, so there's a chance this team can upgrade enough to become the winning team they should be.
PLAYER GP GS MIN PPG OFFR DEFR RPG APG SPG BPG TPG FPG A/TO PER
Carmelo Anthony, SF 60 60 35.4 21.8 1.4 6.6 8.0 4.2 0.88 0.53 2.5 2.4 1.7 20.5
Kristaps Porzingis, PF 65 65 27.8 14.0 1.8 5.4 7.2 1.2 0.77 1.88 1.6 2.9 0.8 18.2
Arron Afflalo, SG 56 56 34.3 13.9 0.3 3.5 3.8 2.0 0.38 0.16 1.1 2.1 1.8 12.2
Robin Lopez, C 67 67 26.4 10.1 3.1 3.9 7.0 1.3 0.19 1.43 1.6 2.4 0.8 17.8
Jose Calderon, PG 63 63 28.3 7.6 0.3 2.9 3.1 4.1 0.87 0.11 1.2 1.8 3.3 12.3Derrick Williams, PF 65 1 16.6 8.9 0.6 2.9 3.5 0.8 0.37 0.11 0.6 0.8 1.3 18.0
Lance Thomas, SF 59 5 22.3 8.2 0.6 1.6 2.2 0.9 0.37 0.12 1.0 1.8 0.9 10.6
Langston Galloway, SG 67 7 24.9 7.6 0.6 3.1 3.7 2.3 0.84 0.24 0.7 2.3 3.2 11.5
Jerian Grant, PG 61 0 15.5 4.8 0.3 1.5 1.8 2.4 0.57 0.11 1.1 1.3 2.2 10.3
Kyle O'Quinn, PF 54 1 11.4 4.7 1.1 2.5 3.6 1.1 0.35 0.72 1.0 1.6 1.1 18.0
there is always a chance that anyone can just flip the switch and become better but chances are that this will not happen.
(I guess) that its commendable that you could coming back with hopeful predictions even though they are usually way off.
You kill the media and you kill vegas and nobody knows anything but you should pick one outlet and test your predictions against theirs and see how you do over a 2-3 year period.
Phil has to hit a grand slam in FA and of course that will be a giant task will most likely come up short. Are you ready for that or will you just laude his moves and overpredict until we fail?
By the time KP is a good enough player to consistently contribute, melo will be done. He is already on an obvious decline.
I love Rolo but he may not be the right fit for us the way we are constructed. Our front line is far from dominant and is ill constructed do to time/age constraints.
Everyone else flat out sucks or is below average.
I would take philly's package in a millisecond over ours. Big problem for philly is that they are in philly.
so here is what phil is thinking ....
