Splat wrote:fishmike wrote:Splat wrote:Tank Job brewing. Phil assembled a smorgasbord of "interchangeable role players" who can work in Le Triangle (sounds better with French pronunciation).The Bargs story plus Stat going gimpy during the season takes care of what to do with their expiring albatrosses. Then Jose and/or Pablo will need games or weeks off to nurse lingering somethings leaving the team with Crack Baby at the helm for extended stretches.
That leaves us with a roster management game of chairs. At that point, Melo does start to nurse some convenient injuries to steal a dozen games of rest here and there.
And voila! TANK JOB! Phil knows what he's doing it seems. It will give them a chance to figure out how good Early, Timmy and Wear are.
Atlantic Division my butt. What a joke.
Is that why Phil said we have enough to make the playoffs which will be about 45 wins? He hired his buddy Fisher only to take the fall for a tank job season while he tells everyone the Knicks should be a playoff team and his real agenda is to see how good a player he got in the 2nd round is?Makes zero sense.
Would it make sense then if Phil said "We're tanking this season and Melo was on board with this plan before he resigned"?
No, because you're not allowed to say that. So if the plan is to tank, the only thing you can do is appease the hopes and dreams of the unwashed masses (and well-scrubbed season ticket holders) while you go about the business of tanking.
Hey, it's all fantasy and I'm just mucking around with no assertion of proof positive of anything. But to say my fantasy interpretation is intrinsically wrong and that every public utterance by Phil Jackson is true blue in all its apple goodness is also pure speculation.
If he's the Zen master, then he also speaks in koans and the average cat cannot decipher those. If anything, he's a cagey bastard and he'll lie anyway he feels is necessary to get what he wants.
Taking his statements on face value is for rookies. Not saying you do, but the implication is no misdirection has been used thus far and I'm always going to expect that to be part of the scenario unlike many irony-challenged optimists who seem confident of great success this year.
You mean saying stuff like this before
He even saw his face, how healthy he was,
"He's overlooked. We think he's going to really do well in the system we have," Jackson said of Bargnani on MSG Network during the second quarter of the Knicks' 95-72 Summer League victory over Charlotte. "We have a couple of guards he likes to play with, Jose (Calderon) and Pablo (Prigioni), and I think he's going to be a surprise and a pleasant one for our fans."
And while injured
"If Andrea Bargnani's initial season in New York was a disappointment, I believe he'll thrive in the triangle. The 3-point shot is a bit out of his range, but from 20 feet and in, Andrea is a deadly shooter. And those are the kinds of shots that the offense will generate for him.
I see at least 2 lies
First of all who is he overlooked by
Everyone knows what he is, a player who isn't that good
Second he's not a "deadly shooter" from 20ft and in
I pulled up his Shot Chart from season-to-season and with
Exception to last year in an ISO offense he shot
About as mediocre as a player can shoot in this range
Of course Phil has a lot of///// "Here buy this Pinto
From me it rides like a Mercedes or BMW take your pick"//// car salesman in him
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