TheGame wrote:The only question with McBride is can he run a team offense. As far as shooting and defense, there is no question he is a much better prospect than Cooper. Since we need a trae young stopper and some outside shooting, McBride was a better prospect for us.

If Randle is running the offense, McBride just needs to be able to fill in for Rose and Walker when they are out and provide 3&D support to the team. I figure they keep running the offense through Randle.

I found it interesting that McBride beat him soundly in a workout. I expect that he is someone who will learn opponent tendencies and be even better and his career moves along.

I remember someone on TV talking about McBrides dad being critical of McBride's D on someone, noting that he should have taken note of his opponents habits sooner.

Maybe that is the McBride football mind. As a QB you are looking at defensive tendencies and trying to predict and exploit them. I expect his father has nurtured this skill in his son, who would've already understood to an extent from his FB days.

As someone who had a father and sister go to Auburn, I do have a soft spot for Auburn athletes, but I believe we got the better player.

smackeddog wrote:I liked Cooper a lot, but I'm trying to get out of the habit of looking at who we passed on in the draft- what's done is done, I'll focus on rooting for the players who are actually on this team, rather than torture myself with who isn't

Exactly

He will get punished on D in multiple ways, and it’s yet to be seen whether his offense will translate come regular season where everyone seems to be long and fast

Super happy with our choices. Even our end of the bench SL guys looked good in limited minutes

Nalod wrote:We don’t play midget PG’s. Not the Knicks way.
We don’t play defensive liabilities.
McBride destroyed him in his knick workout. (Read it in the papers) Again last night.
ATL has a different process than us. Maybe they like drafting little dudes. Knicks have a “Type”.
We carried Harper on the team last year so maybe I’m wrong. He did not play much.

Remember how Knox destroyed Cam in his private workout too? I don't put too much into that but it is worth noting, sure.

I'm content with Rokas as the guy has size and plays better defense. I think that is the thing with Cooper; comes with being small with matching wingspan.
I am curious how Cooper does as he is a joy to watch distributing the ball. But will it translate? I think probably yes.

My bigger issue is not taking him or grimes, but rokas seems like a bit of a duplicate player to those in some ways. Defensive-minded with some shooting and decent size. Why not take cooper and let him and mcbride fight it out? Rose and kemba are no locks for the future, let alone this upcoming season and we could have just passed up our chance to build the backcourt for the next decade. Rokas may never even end up a knick and nobody thinks he is going to ever be more than a role player.

I think it's more fair to say that the knicks did not choose mcbride over cooper, but evidenced by passing on cooper 4 times in the draft, they did not think he was right for the team at all.

If that workout was reason Knicks took Deuce over Cooper maybe Cooper knows that is why/how he fell and maybe that’s why he got a tummy ache after Deuce destroyed him again last night.

I get with the Knox example how it’s tough to use 1 workout as a basis for your pick. At the same time if you will be picking between 2 guys and you bring them in for workout and 1 guy kills the other, is the obvious better defender & shooter it’s hard to pick the other guy.