But I'm interested in IWG's assessment

skeng wrote:I'm averagely excited. I don't know, there's just something off somehow. I just want all the players to be friends and have fun.

LOL

Our star player is a selfish black hole. He's not Lebron and he's not Durant. Case closed.
Our owner is a capitalist pig boy with no sense of basketball etiquette.
Our arena is an overpriced, overaged, sagging ho with recently installed fake teats compared to the shiny hot hip hop retro space ship that has landed in the new mecca that is the Brookston CeltNyets.
Indiana has Roy Russell Hibbert.
The Bulls have everyone we really need.
Tim Duncan is great.
Most NBDL equipment managers > Woodson
Toronto has cooler colors, and they have Novak.
The East still sucks the West's second hand leavings. Except for Miami, who are really and truly a futuristically great franchise built to win the right way.

<--------Sarcasm smilies for the reading impaired.

Ha ha, I'm still incredibly overly tremendously excited!

Sangfroid wrote:I'm looking for the "cautiously optimistic" choice. Rebounding and defense has always been a weak point with this team. I'm very concerned with the last players chosen for the bench, as well as health concerns of our big men. I really want a player who consumes rebounds as a way of life.

I think rebounding is our biggest weakness, I'd love a player like Reggie Evans that just lives and breathes rebounding for 15 minutes a game. Does anyone know what percentage of games we were out rebounded last year? I'd guess like 80%.

callmened wrote:Im being realistic. This team is flawed. We have health problems and were relying on players that former teams didnt want. To me we cant make serious ccontender moves until amares contract comes off the books. We need better role players to build around melo and another star. To me the amare-melo experiment failed so lets just watch the time run out then rebuild. I think well hv a solid team and have some entertaining moments but I dont expect much in the playoffs. I hope im wrong but I dont expect it

47wins...2nd rd exit...waiting for summer 2015

Why are you predicting so many fewer wins? I actually think poor health and age kept the Knicks from winning more games last year. I think this team can be even better than last years team and I see no reason they can't actually win 54 or more this year. I'm just not seeing this weakness some fans are perceiving from this roster. This team had so many old players last year and some players that gave us nearly nothing. Just go look at the players we had and what we have this year and it's a much stronger team even with the risk of health problems to STAT or KMart. There won't be any White or Camby types on this roster. Down to the 15th man this team is strong.

nixluva wrote:I'm still trying to figure out why this team should be destined to fall back in the pack just because the Bulls, Nets and Pacers are strong. We already lost to the Bulls so that won't change anything if they don't split those 4 games.
We split with the Pacers, split with the Nets and went 3-1 verses the Heat. It's not hard to imagine that the Knicks will most likely do about the same this year against those top teams give or take a win/loss. Most likely a split with those teams. That said the team should still be just as dangerous against the lesser teams in the league. This is likely to be a tougher Knicks team to deal with than people are giving them credit for.

Nets are no sure thing and the Pacers have been ridiculously overhyped since the playoffs (though I suppose going 7 games vs the Heat earns you that). Writers seemed to think Granger would be magically healed and fit in seamlessly. Instead, as has been the case so far, he'll likely be injured on and off, limited and a chemistry disruption- he already whined that he should be starting over Lance Stephenson. Cope hasn't had a good preseason- still time for him to turn it up (he was recovering all offseason from surgery, so maybe he just needs to get rid of the rust). And Hibbert was poor at the start of last season, then average, then good in the playoffs (thanks refs!)- who knows how he'll look this season.

I'll be honest, as much as I dislike playing against them, I am quite jealous of that Bulls team! A real defensive beast of a team!