awe1028 wrote:I am not sure about all of you but I have seen all I need to know that this season no matter how it ends up is already a success. The Knicks are rebuilding and as such this season is mainly one of evaluation - to determine if there are players who can form the nucleus of a perennial playoff team. It's been only 20 games but so far I think this question has been answered in the affirmative. KP Kanter and THJR have all played at a fairly high level and while Frank has been inconsistent he has shown enough flashes at least to me that he can also be part of the core. What the Knicks lack is a wing player specifically a SF that can move the needle. In a different thread I proposed Paul George. Many quite accurately pointed out that this is not particularly realistic (though I still think its possible).
Which brings me to the point of the thread. I happened to look at the lottery standings and noticed that lo and behold after this three game losing streak the Knicks are currently in the lottery. With their inability to win on the road, Kanter's injury and the brutal road stretch coming up it is conceivable the Knicks could find themselves at the top half of the lottery soon.
This is the best of both worlds for the Knicks - losing a lot of games enough so that they have access to the best players in the draft while simultaneously developing star players that can form the cornerstone of a winning contending franchise
So rather than bemoan the fact that this is "the same old Knicks" rejoice in the fact that the Knicks could add another young lottery talent to their existing core.
well if were losing that means, Kanter is back to playing zero defense, KP looks suspect on most nights, frank is a project, thj is back to being super inconsistent, KOQ is on his lazy ****, Lance is Mr "Once in a while" and the coaching staff is also back to being suspect.
Then you go into next yr, start all over again with the evaluating process, a 20% chance of landing a star or another project. The funny thing is, you draft a player like KP, and your ok with potentially losing him because the growth is nowhere to be found out of yet, another 30 win season.
It makes much more sense for the team to finish somewhere around .500 and a possible p/o berth, then we would be witnessing the opposite, and that's growth.
The knicks have got to trade one of those bigs before the deadline