martin wrote:Feel like Carter declaring for draft will have big impact on what type of player Knicks will get if they end up at the likely pick of #9

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Don't follow college too much but at #9 I like Mikal and Carter as 2 solid-ish building block types; perhaps not the high potential that we all want in a draft pick but perhaps key cogs that could be starters for a long time. Don't know too much about Carter's defense and what the downside is there

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Nalod wrote:Cavs let Cedi Ossman run wild for 39 minutes to ensure its loss.
Knicks never had a chance.

Oh we had a chance - we needed to let some g-league scrub/s run just as wild. But no our ****head coach was too smart for that.

other than Frank, the six guys that played over 21 minutes last night for the Knicks all spent significant time in the g league this year. Getting the win sucked but the guys that played for the Knicks just played hard. Who was left on the bench that wasn't injured would you have played?

G-league wasn't the point and I think you know it. He could have found ways to lose and he didn't. Burke should have before replaced by Mudiay. Play Lance Thomas, Baker whoever can't score. Don't keep people out there having career games. I am not up to date on injuries though.

Mudiay had a concussion. Baker has been out for the season since the end of January. Thomas did play some but subbing out Thomas for Hicks has to help the tank most nights.

we played our worst players who wanted to win while other teams knew this would help the organization to slose. Team of selfish individuals vs the team. Nothing new here with the Knicks. This season was a complete waste of time. We are easily the worst team in the NBA without Porzingis and we still will end up picking in the late lottery.If we are lucky we are at least 2 years away from being competitive. If everything goes right in the next 2 years we can be the Bucks

I guess I understand a certain level of disappointment and frustration with the Knicks but you are moving into the pathetic complaining with no apparent point area

Aren't you tired of losing every single year with no end in sight. I'm tired of watching our front office make pointless signings like Hardaway assuring late lottery finishes. I'm sure we will do it again this year making a pointless move for to many years and 5 million to much a season that will add 3-5 wins and doom us another season in the late lottery. Can we just tank a couple seasons already so maybe just maybe we get another franchise talent. I'd rather do that than hope Emmanuel Mudiay and Michael Beasley become All Stars

Until recently the Knicks did not embrace rebuilding through the draft

Instead just like you said they tried quick fixes by bringing in overpriced washed up free agents and ill advised trades that maintained the losing and screwed up the cap

Even now that they seemed to have embraced a through rebuild they are not doing in right

Look at Philadelphia they did the ebuild right and now they are the best young team in the game

Boston built its team mostly through the draft. It only started bringing in veterans (Kyrie) once it had built the foundation through the draft

Then there is Chicago. The Bulls didn't play with the rebuild. Even after Adam Silver threatened them, they still kept to the plan.

Think about this: with 4 games to play the knicks and Bulls were tied in the standings. Now Chicago has the 6th pick the Knicks have the 9th. Like I said Chicago did not play with the rebuild

One final point about building through the draft: the Knicks have two players that have the chance to be impact players: KP and Frank How were they acquired? The draft

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martin wrote:Feel like Carter declaring for draft will have big impact on what type of player Knicks will get if they end up at the likely pick of #9

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Yes I agree. There seem to be 9 top players, including Carter. We need him to declare for the draft.

Looking at most drafts, it looks like we'll be able to get one of: Sexton, Carter or Mikal Bridges. Nice enough

The difference between getting pick 6 and 9 is that it should be an easier decision for the knicks. At 6,they would have been torn between Trae, Mikal bridges, sexton and carter and maybe they would have made the right call, or maybe they would have choked it away. Now it is most likely they just will take whoever remains from that group -and all of those candidates can fit in with our rebuild one way or the other.

But is it the smart thing to do?

With Philly and boston well ahead in terms of both talent and future assets, we have to win these next 2 drafts, handily...which means that we have to crush them AND they have to do no better than average. I think we have showed some forward thinking with the KP and Frank picks, even as we will have to wait through injuries and growing pains to really know for sure. We can expect a high pick next year, again, but for 2018, we have to keep an open mind and not get lured into group think. Take your shot, even if the first thing you'll hear are boos. We have to be the ones to find the next Kawhi or Paul george or even d mitchell.

And after that first pick, the real work begins. Target your guys and then find a way to get them in the boat. Trade, buy, maneuver--rarely will the man you want just fall to you at 37 or wherever we ended up.

Do reasonably well here, add another solid pick next year, get healthy, continue to develop your young core with the right coach, and add the right free agent in 2019...yes that's ALOT of things to get right for a team that usually struggles to get 1 correct , but it is a plan. What else are we going to do? We're knicks fans, we suffer, we endure. We seem to like it. We're called suckers and it's hard not to dispute it.

I happened to be at the garden for the Orlando waxing last month. The concessions were packed with people buying knicks gear before AND after the pathetic loss, where you could literally see the players quit. I paid 30 $ for a burger , fries and a drink. As I walked to the subway for the long cold trip back, knowing i had helped buy dolan another yacht, I still can't deny I enjoyed the experience and I still love the knicks.

Getting back to this draft...I liked Mikal bridges for months and picking him won't be a mistake. But I think a guy like Sexton might be the wild card we need this year. I like his game more in the pros but i really like his fire. He's a hotdog but he's a guy who wants to win and he doesn't back down. We need that **** right now. Too many guys figuring out their personality or how to be more aggressive and that's never going to be his problem.

A few weeks from now, it might be someeone else but that's my guy today.

My order is unchanged, likely through the draft, assuming the top 6 are fixed:

1. Trae Young
2. Lonnie Walker
3. Mikal Bridges
4. Wendell Carter

Marv wrote:interesting that some of you would take a pg. you don't think that frank and trey can hold that down going forward? i'm thinking the best front court player available. Give everyone a chance to develop together this year awaiting kp's return and then see what we need from there.

I like frank and trey ( less optimistic about mudiay) but guards dominate the league now. Stockpile the top talent when you can. Also some of us got a little buyer's remorse when frank was struggling and guys like mitchell and smith were looking better. A guy like sexton , i think, is in a similar mode to those two and adding him will give us a nice 3 guard, fire and ice rotation between them.

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Kenrich Williams is a name to keep an eye on.

Marv wrote:interesting that some of you would take a pg. you don't think that frank and trey can hold that down going forward? i'm thinking the best front court player available. Give everyone a chance to develop together this year awaiting kp's return and then see what we need from there.

We need talent at every position- I'd say our only legit starter is KP, and I'm not sure if he's a PF or C, or if he even wants to stick around. Therefore, you go for best talent available. I like Frank and Trey, heck I'm even willing to give Mudiay another chance if he works hard in the offseason, but I can't honestly say any of those will definitely be starter calibre further down the line. If the best player available is a pg, then thats who I'm picking

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Marv wrote:interesting that some of you would take a pg. you don't think that frank and trey can hold that down going forward? i'm thinking the best front court player available. Give everyone a chance to develop together this year awaiting kp's return and then see what we need from there.

We need talent at every position- I'd say our only legit starter is KP, and I'm not sure if he's a PF or C, or if he even wants to stick around. Therefore, you go for best talent available. I like Frank and Trey, heck I'm even willing to give Mudiay another chance if he works hard in the offseason, but I can't honestly say any of those will definitely be starter calibre further down the line. If the best player available is a pg, then thats who I'm picking

+1,0000...We are at the stage of our rebuild where we need talent and assets...KP is arguably the only legit starter we have on the roster. A starter that we can envision on a contending team down the road....So why would focus on SF's only, when we need starters for all positions?

Where does thj fit in this? He seemed like an extremely viable starter when playing the 2nd offensive option to kp duting a strong early showing? And why bother picking up a reclamation project like burke and supporting his rebirth in the gl and resurgence in the league if you're going to then dismiss it and seek yet another pg in addition to him and frank? Do we believe we're going to rebuild for another 5 years? Is that what we want? Right now burke, dotson, thj and frank look like a young core u'd continue to devote pt to in the backcourt. That leaves a very unsettled frontcourt. Beasley to me is a throwaway bench scorer who will always be appropriately on the cheap. Kanter is a luxury but not at that price. Kornet and hicks are feel-good g-league story lines.

Are sexton and young worth neglecting our dire frount court needs? I say no, not with the emergence of burke to balance the abilities of frank. And with the decimated state of our frontcourt.