31 points scored
13 rebounds
2 blocked shots
11 for 12 at the free throw line

Yi goes down and now you see Brooks potential! This is the ****'n chicken talking!

The Swamprats are a .500 team. Who'd'a thunk it?

[Edited by - K22 on 2009-01-12 10:29 PM]

Posted by Pharzeone:

Brook Lopez continues to make everyone look bad and Thorn like a genius.

Devin Harris was already doing that.

I'm not going to lie, I didnt see this coming.

Posted by islesfan:

Posted by sebstar:

I'm not going to lie, I didnt see this coming.

Nobody cares if you didn't but it's a damn shame that our GM didn't.

Too bad he's not a perfect fit for "The System" and couldn't be taken.

yeah, I hear ya. Thats what he gets paid for. Like he said, he just couldnt get this wrong.

Posted by earthmansurfer:

Pretty impressive. But look who it was against... (edit - ok, ok, they spanked us...)

[Edited by - earthmansurfer on 01-13-2009 12:44 AM]

Yeah, that loser of a team that best us a few nights ago.

I have to admit, I'm shocked Lopez is panning out as well as he has. He'd look pretty good in any system, I think. Oh well. That's another player I'd rather have over Gallinari. The list keeps growing.

[Edited by - crzymdups on 13-01-2009 01:22 AM]

I have no clue why we did not move back for either him or Augustin. We had a need at the pg (since we all knew Marbury was unlikely to be welcomed back) and center (since we all knew Curry was not the long term solution) position and Walsh drafts a PF, when we already had Lee and Randolph on the team.

Posted by BRIGGS:

Posted by franco12:

he would probably be putting up 15 & 10 in our system with our lack of depth, and would be looking like a ROY candidate.

Good read by Walsh.

And did he say they couldn't get the draft pick wrong, or did he say they were going to **** it up anyway, because nothing matters but 2010?

I think this is a tough call. While on hindsight I think it's a no-brainer pick--you have to adjust your believe in terms of who was coaching the team. This guy DOES NONT want a C--he doesn't. On top of it Gallinari was a lock--they obviously promised him the pick--which I hate in most cases. I can see why the two teams below us didnt take him and you might have cases of what teams thought were BPA above us--but you have a hard time as a Knick fan believing that he wasnt BPA in a need position at 6. I still believe that even if we traded down and picking 16th and Brook Lopez was still on the board we would not take him. Mike Dantoni does not want a C--he wants an athletic 4 playing the C spot and a mobile 3-4 playing PF. So don't second guess it--it was never going to happen even thought there is a lot of reasons we should have the player.

It may only be an opinion, but I hardly doubt that a GM who has a rebuilding process in his hands will not pick a good player just because the coach, and this is the myth around here not necessarily true, doesn't like the player or its not "his style". I think that if Lopez had been the unanimous best player available at the position, he would've taken him. But fact is that even here it was discussed how after pick three or four, the rest of the draft was even in terms of talent. Many wanted to buy another first rounder because of that.

Its easy to look now at a player's production and wish we would've drafted him, but that will always happen. Many here didn't believe Lopez was worth the 6th pick, but now that he is playing great, everyone wanted him. How easy.

Keep torturing yourselves with other rookies' production, but that won't change the fact that we made our pick and can't change that. The best news out there is that Gallo may be a week or so from playing. We'll see what he can do in the future.

Well, to be fair, it's harder for a 40-year-old like Oden to adjust to the league than a 21-year-old like Lopez.

Posted by PresIke:

http://www.basketball-reference.com/fc/pgl.cgi?player=fryech01&year=2006

[Edited by - PresIke on 01-13-2009 11:17 AM]

He put up those numbers in a knick uniform so obviously it was a fluke. I dont remember the majority of this board calling for Lopez during the pre-draft camps. It seems most on here wanted either McGee or Randolph if we were going to take a big. Mayo, Westbrook or Bayless at guard.

I personally wasn't a big fan of Lopez in college. He put up below avarage shooting %'s for a big and looked slow of foot most nights. He's not the one I regret not getting.