so Bonn predicts nothing, but if the Knicks do well he wont be surpised. zzzZZZzzzZZZzzz

Posted by Bonn1997:

Good thread! I think the team will be better after Isiah makes a trade using the expiring contracts and other trade assets. I wouldn't be surprised if they were a little below .500 early in the year but finished strongly and got 43 wins. That's assuming players are reasonably healthy, especially Marbury.

Thats 43 wins with or without a expiring contract trade?

This team, this roster.

I think Larry Brown will push a core starting group of Marbury, Crawford, Q, TT, Sweetney, JJ, Penny, Houston and Malik early on and win some games. Probably like last year we will be around 15-12.

Then as the gimps start to break down you will see more Ariza, Frye and Nate as Penny and Houston break down and JJ has his first bout of back spasms or thigh cramps that put him out for a week here and a week there. This is where it gets interesting. Which personality will prevail, Larry the teacher or Larry the psycho Knick lover desperate to make the playoffs in his last coaching gig.

All and all I say 42 wins and 9th place in the east. Close but not close enough.

I'm going with 38 wins because of late season injuries.I personally could give to craps about the record. I'm more concerned with the development of the young guys. I want no Darko's on this team. I also am concerned with how we position ourselves with Penny and TT to make a trade. Never in my life will I root harder for a player than I will for Tim Thomas. We need a career year out of him so we can dump his arse.

I also hope that IT brings Howard Eisley back. I missed the old days where I hated everyone on the roster.

Posted by djsunyc:

anything less than .500 and the season is a dissapointment.
with that said, my cautious optimism doesn't think we'll be much higher than that so i'm going with 43-44 wins.

best case scenario, 48-50 wins
worst case, 35 wins

i think we are gonna play lotto this year. i want to play lotto next year too.

if you ever actually said anything I would pay attention, but my 2 year old usually makes more sense than you do. I asked you once, I will ask you again. As of right now nothing is locked in but I would say Det/Indy/Heat/Nets are the top 4 teams in the East. Which of these is the Knicks going to knock out to get to round 2?

Still waiting...

C'mon guys, no high or low.

A few of you are like "well if things go well......"

A number, not a range. WE all gonna be wrong anyway. Trades may happen, injuries, etc, but before camp, before the kool aid, and before it runs out, whats the number?

I say 39 wins. I think our frontcourt problems keep us from excelling too much. Frye and Lee won't even combine for as many minutes as Ariza got last year. But, that being said, I think it will be a more exciting season. This year is meaningless, IMHO, as it's going to take the new coach a year to get the troops playing to his style and we have a lot of rookies who probably won't play. Don't be shocked if Mo T, Penny and Tim Thomas are part of the rotation. I don't see us playing the rookies much, because history with the Knicks is like a broken record. Nate will get 8-12 minutes a night and possibly lead our rookies in minutes. It's going to be interesting to see, by the end of the season, whether or not Ariza gets more minutes than TT. I hope so, but my gut tells me that TT will get 25 minutes a night and Ariza will sit often, since he's directly backing up Q.

Best case scenario is a complete flop, a non-career threating Marbury injury and us getting lucky and winning the lottery. Regardless, though, we have some youth in the house, so maybe I'm wrong and they'll get some minutes and we show some dedication in a direction, for a change.

50.

that's right.

50 wins.

this team could go either way. but i'm predicting the high way.

every year some team wins at least 10 games more than anyone predicted.

guess whose turn it is this year?