CrushAlot wrote:Hornets are not resigning Ramon Sessions. That would be a good get/stop gap in my opinion.

Sessions is not good anymore, if he ever was, but I would not mind him on a one year deal to allow Frank to comeback alone slowly.

Welpee wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:

nyknickzingis wrote:Honestly, we should be aiming for a top 5 pick next year, not a top 5 spot in the East.
We're not getting on Boston or Cleveland level with keeping Melo and adding Teague.

We need to rebuild and focus on young players getting better on both sides of the ball.

I'd start Ntilikina or Baker next year, if I can't get a young start at point guard.

If we want to keep KP, I believe the team has to make a good faith effort to make the playoffs. This team needs some winning badly to attract FAs as well. Teague for a couple of seasons would be around for the rest of KP's rookie deal.

Tanking makes sense on paper, but I believe this team needs a large dose of optimism to turn help turn things around, and make players more willing to play here, to stay here.

That's a very good point. All of these tank advocates seem to think our good young talent (i.e. KP) will just hang around during all of this losing and won't look elsewhere. I would rather have the team try to make some smart trades, try to acquire picks AND sign some quality free agent WHILE trying to be competitive. Tanking is very overrated in my opinion. We have our centerpiece in KP, now lets build around him.

How many seasons did any of the top teams this year tank? And the teams that's the poster child for tanking (Philly) has yet to see the results of their losing seasons. It still remains to be seen if their strategy will work so why emulate them?

Philly has three guys that either had been (Ben Simmons and Markelle Fultz) or would have been (Joel Embiid) no.1 overall picks. I think their tanking was well worth it when you consider how talented those guys are when healthy.

As far as tanking is concerned, it has it's merits if properly executed especially when you are not a free agent destination like we are. Poorly run teams continually make the foolish decision to pivot away from investing in the lottery whenever they are able to identify a star-caliber team, which inevitably leads to that same star leaving. That list includes the likes of LeBron James, Chris Bosh, Kevin Love, Dwight Howard (Magic) and soon enough Anthony Davis as well as Paul George.

If the Magic tanked the 2004-2005 season and gotten Deron Williams or Chris Paul instead of Steve Francis and Cuttino Mobley, does Dwight Howard want to leave Orlando? If the Pelicans managed to pair Anthony Davis with Giannias Antetokounmpo (instead of Jrue Holiday), wohld there be any murmurs of Davis leaving New Orleans?

We need to avoid being those teams are tank at least once more, to ensure we have a worthwhile core to satisfy all parties. It is a necessary evil that serves a long-term good.

JrZyHuStLa wrote:

Welpee wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:

nyknickzingis wrote:Honestly, we should be aiming for a top 5 pick next year, not a top 5 spot in the East.
We're not getting on Boston or Cleveland level with keeping Melo and adding Teague.

We need to rebuild and focus on young players getting better on both sides of the ball.

I'd start Ntilikina or Baker next year, if I can't get a young start at point guard.

If we want to keep KP, I believe the team has to make a good faith effort to make the playoffs. This team needs some winning badly to attract FAs as well. Teague for a couple of seasons would be around for the rest of KP's rookie deal.

Tanking makes sense on paper, but I believe this team needs a large dose of optimism to turn help turn things around, and make players more willing to play here, to stay here.

That's a very good point. All of these tank advocates seem to think our good young talent (i.e. KP) will just hang around during all of this losing and won't look elsewhere. I would rather have the team try to make some smart trades, try to acquire picks AND sign some quality free agent WHILE trying to be competitive. Tanking is very overrated in my opinion. We have our centerpiece in KP, now lets build around him.

How many seasons did any of the top teams this year tank? And the teams that's the poster child for tanking (Philly) has yet to see the results of their losing seasons. It still remains to be seen if their strategy will work so why emulate them?

Now that one toxin has been removed, its time to remove the other (as well as Rose) and turn the page from making fake selfish stars the focal point of the roster to a team oriented culture that competes for a playoff spot with KP earning his first all star bid. Based on how things have been going with KP so far since the season ended, I don't think another losing season and the lottery will bode too well as much as I would love to keep adding young talent.

Young promising players like KP don't think like us fans. He'll take a 1st round sweep over another top 10 lottery pick. It's just how it goes.

Kristaps Porzingis leaving via free agency has been one of the more overhyped talking points of the media. If he did so, he'd forego tens of millions of dollars at a time when he has yet to receive the financial windfall NBA stars have had that normally do walk in free agency. Given the changes to the new CBA and Phil Jackson gone, I think it is safe to say that KP will be a Knick for a minimum of a decade. And if you want him here longer than that, you better make sure we draft another star to be his running mate with! So lets get our tank on for at least one more season.