Good thread. I think first of all that boston is going to entertain offers for #1 but they will eventually take josh jackson not any of the PG's. that means someone is going to slide and it will probably be Ball to LA, Fultz to Phoenix and then either philly, orlando , sactown or us on the clock. This is where the tank comes in as we want to be here so we can choose between Fox , smith, the french cat and monk , not having to settle for what the other 4 teams want. I see monk right now as a ridiculous scorer who can't really fail in the nba unless his head is off like JR smith, whose game he reminds me of... so he might work as our pick and I am sure if he proves he can run a team in workouts, he will move up the draft board. He is the best shooter coming out in a long time...as a freshman he hung 47 on a strong north carolina team and he still has 2 weeks to show what he can do in the tournament Smith from Nc state is nice but something just seems missing, a lot of game but not the intangibles to lead. How can't he get his team into the ncaa for example? The french guy is going to be there for us no matter how much we tank and I have to think the knicks are going to scout him so heavily that they will be speaking french fluently pretty soon. Could he be another porzingis type player who looked a little funky on tape but just kills it in workouts? Questions about his toughness and aggressiveness have to be answered.
And that leaves D'aaron fox. I really don't want to support Kentucky INC , the nba factory, the let's not even pretend we are student athletes university...but my pick would be this man. There is just something about how he moves on the court that is rare. He runs like a soccer player, never tired and can accelerate past when he wants to. He is always moving forward and can get to any spot, great body control with a developing floater, and will be a menace on D. Heart looks there too as he seems to take over at the end of games. The knock is that he can't spray 3's yet but his shot doesn't look broke, like rondo, for example. He is lean but that kind of strong lean that will get scary when you put him in the weight room for two summers. You put him with KP, who draws people away from the hoop, that lane will be wide open and this guy doesn't need much room anyway.
Now you may say that is what we have in rose right now. But rose doesn't seem to look for people like fox does and he can't guard anybody so for every point he scores, he gives up a pair on the other end. The bigger question is who on the knicks can really run with fox? Not melo, who probably won't be here on July 1st. Lee, KP, Willy, sure, sort of, but we still need to find younger SF/SG 's who can keep up with a guy like fox. I don't know if we get them in the 2nd round of this draft , FA , or in a trade for melo but the only reason to draft a velociraptor like fox is to put him up with a herd of them who can run together.
3/20/2017 10:35 PM