For a moment, take a careful, disloyal glance at the rest of the league. The Western Conference is too scary to contemplate. Let's just limit our perspective to the East. Teams like Toronto, Washington and Boston appear to have a head start on a coherent business model. The Sixers may be good and terrible, but they are good and terrible and about to gain an infusion of yoots. Overtaking both the Bulls and Cavaliers is much more the notion of a NYK first round draft selection and one free agent signing.

That is five solid franchises with a head start in the Eastern Conference. They are all focused on getting better. Same as we are.

Brooklyn does not matter because their owner feels that money heals everything. We know that gold is for fools.

As fantasy transactions and draft picks are our few means of healing our wounds, let us always bear in mind that talent alone is never an answer. Fuggedabout Amare and Melo... Spencer Haywood and Bob McAdoo should be our cautionary tale to remember.

This in an open invitation for all resident experts. Yes, we will be different... perhaps sooner than later... but the question is not change for the sake of change, but change for the sake of building a core that can be trusted to play quality basketball... and do more than compete... dominate the competition.

Will Uncle Phil stay on the east coast long enough to build this thing from the ground up?

Can he acquire three dominant players who can play this game the way he wants it played?

Can we wait five years for it to cohere?

newyorknewyork wrote:

Can Any Transaction or Trade Transform The Knicks In Less Than Five Years?

Just for fun.

Amare to the Pacers for Hibbert and West.
Dalembert, Jason Smith, to the Kings for Kevin Martin,
Andrea Bargnani, Jr Smith, Cole Aldrich to the Hornets for Lance Stevenson, Gerald Henderson, Bismack Biyombo
Shane Larkin, Pablo Prigioni, to the Brooklyn Nets for Jarret Jack. (Trade Exception)

Hibbert/Biyombo
West/Melo/Acy
Melo/Henderson
Martin/Stevenson
Jack/Calderon/Stevenson

that was really fun

arkrud wrote:Realistically:
Do nothing. Let all contract expire and let all of them go.
Tank to the highest pick possible.
In the summer get a couple 2-way winning players.
Continue to build next year.
Bonus:
In addition to above:
Lose to the point Carmelo will want out. Trade him for cap space/picks.
Trade other chit for any assets with no cap eating contracts.

I agree with you on this. Sometimes you just have to do nothing.

With one The Trade, we left the 23 win, IT playoff desert debacle years firmly behind and entered the varsity seasons.

With two hirings, we are now a franchise that loses without forced interventions from the commish's office and are without truly deranged back page drama.

Phil started the blow it all up now with the Tyson/Felton download and the predictable Woodson & company banishments. We have Melo and a cast of disposable crewmen, young and old, ala the old original Star Trek series.

Anything can transform the Knicks in fairly short order, Mister Answerman. Or not.

Continue to play the games and monitor the Zen, and we shall see.

Nope, Melo in 2 years will barely even be a starter for a contender he will be so burnt out and useless.

Only hope is the draft.

Next draft is the luck factor. That's the only shot this team has of being anything.

Draft a sensational player that makes Melo completely secondary and maybe it can be better.

Best thing is to dump Melo now and get more picks and get ready for the draft.

Melo sucks. Get rid of that idiot.