Moonangie wrote:Phil won't ruin this franchise and add a permanent blemish to his remarkable record. He is not a fool or a lackey.

We gonna pick KAT. Hopefully we find a way to get some more talent via second rounders purchase. But it's time to add a young building block for the future. No more Starphuck trades to "win now". Worst case, we just trade Melo for additional 1st round picks and hasten our rebuild dramatically (that's my hope anyways).

Heres the problem....Whenever you add high profile GM, with a heavy legacy as a Coach, with 11 rings to show....You've already started the so called "Starphuck". Plus, Phil is going on 80, and can barely walk. So his timeline is extremely short. Melo's timeline is extremely short.

If Phil can trade the pick, to help improve the knicks next season and in the future, he doing it. If our GM was some kin of the owner....And you knew the GM was here for the long haul, then he will not be under the pressure to win now or within 5 years. He will try and build a foundation. Draft players like Towns with more potential, because he will have time to wait, if Towns hasn't reached his potential yet.

Phil will try his best to build a team that can make it to the NBA finals next season, and save room for one max player like Durrant next season. But Phil is not trying to tank again. He will be swinging for the fences until his contract is up. Just hope he actually makes contact with those swings. So far, he's hit a few base hits.

blkexec wrote:

Moonangie wrote:Phil won't ruin this franchise and add a permanent blemish to his remarkable record. He is not a fool or a lackey.

We gonna pick KAT. Hopefully we find a way to get some more talent via second rounders purchase. But it's time to add a young building block for the future. No more Starphuck trades to "win now". Worst case, we just trade Melo for additional 1st round picks and hasten our rebuild dramatically (that's my hope anyways).

Heres the problem....Whenever you add high profile GM, with a heavy legacy as a Coach, with 11 rings to show....You've already started the so called "Starphuck". Plus, Phil is going on 80, and can barely walk. So his timeline is extremely short. Melo's timeline is extremely short.

If Phil can trade the pick, to help improve the knicks next season and in the future, he doing it. If our GM was some kin of the owner....And you knew the GM was here for the long haul, then he will not be under the pressure to win now or within 5 years. He will try and build a foundation. Draft players like Towns with more potential, because he will have time to wait, if Towns hasn't reached his potential yet.

Phil will try his best to build a team that can make it to the NBA finals next season, and save room for one max player like Durrant next season. But Phil is not trying to tank again. He will be swinging for the fences until his contract is up. Just hope he actually makes contact with those swings. So far, he's hit a few base hits.

Perfect analogy. Phil inherited a pretty bad situation, he will certainly do his best to fix it. He will gamble as he has already proven. If he had more picks this season, he perhaps would consider holding on to that draft pick. As you've stated, dude is old and decrepit, he doesn't have much time to fool around with a rebuilding progam with no draft picks to play around with. If the player he really wants is not on the board or if another team is willing to offer excellent picks for THE one and only pick that we have; specifically, if they are early picks that can net us two solid bigs like Stein and Kaminsky, I see feel trading that pick.

Knicks1969 wrote:Philly and Boston have multiple picks in this draft. Boston would love to add a big like Okafor to play next to Olynyck. I know for a fact Philly is aiming for Russell. Those two teams might be excellent trade partners

And if Phil is smart....he should already have a trading package for all potential picks that involves Boston, Philly and anybody else with multiple picks. If he's scraping the barrel for D league non drafted talent.....then he should and probably doing the same with draft pick scenarios. Thats the right thing to do.....Explore all options. I don't think we had any GM's that did a good job of that in the past. Phil seems like the type that will explore everything....

With the 1 pick, the only regret is that you choose the wrong guy, but destiny was in your own hands.

Fwiw, OKC got very lucky.

Thus, I would be very careful drafting Okafor

Knicks1969 wrote:Dukies are great college players, but never truly make it in the pros. Grant Hill is the only player who reached super-stardom, but due to health issue, his career took a downward turn.

Thus, I would be very careful drafting Okafor

And that's just the opposite for Kentucky players. Especially at the critical positions of PG and Center. They usually shine in the NBA.

Knicks1969 wrote:All the players out of Kentucky have at least been good at a high level at both ends of the court....I would take my chance with Calipari's players before a coach K. I think very highly of the Duke program, but I prefer the calipari coached kids

Cousins is a pretty bad defender. So not all.