Posted by bitty41:
Posted by Cosmic:
Making the playoffs isn't a priority for next season. Continuing to try to reduce Isiah's remaining 2011 contract mistakes and figuring out what to do with Lee and Nate are the top priorities.
We also are not going to screw up our 2010 flexibility just to try to see if we can make the Utah pick worse. Let it go. It was traded six years ago. Even if Utah wins the lotto with it it does not affect OUR situation ONE BIT.
We need to worry about US and let the tabloids worry about the petty stuff like the Utah pick and whether or not Crawful blows up in Atlanta or if Jennings will be anything more than a scrub.
I'm quite certain Donnie and Mike feel the same way and thank god for I know there are some Knick fans who would trade all our expirings to try to make sure we sneak into the playoffs and deny Utah a lotto pick.
That's misguided thinking right there and I'm sure glad our management doesn't even consider that on their list of things to do let alone a priority.
We need to get rid of the 2011s, handle the Lee/Nate situation, and concentrate on properly developing our young players that we feel will be here past 2010.
Everything else is unnecessary.
I was just lamenting that your comment about the playoffs not being priority anymore is just another reason why I gave up on watching basketball. When the Management, coach, players, and fans don't care about winning why even bother watching the game anymore.
I think you are missing the point.
This is a process we have undertaken and the process is quite simple: Gain assets and flexibility for 2010. In that, being it's 2009, we have zero interest in adding players to simply make a 2009-2010 playoff run. We certainly won't do it to just run the Utah pick lower in value. We will only add players that make sense for 2010 and beyond and given the desire to not spend money today that extends beyond 2010 the idea that we would seek to add players to this core is probably faulty.
Whether anyone wants to believe it the W/L outcome of the 2009/2010 Knicks is inconsequential to the larger picture: Building a new team from scratch beginning in 2010.
There's a much bigger prize at stake and we're not going to jeopardize it over a fleeting whim to try to sneak in as an 8th seed this year only to get torched anyway - or to try to "stick it to Utah" over a pick traded 6 years prior.
Just not going to happen.
