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Swishfm3
Posts: 23309 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 3/28/2003 Member: #392 |
6/10/2022 11:42 PM
The only player I was ever excited for was Greg Anthony. I remember watching that UNLV/DUKE championship on TV with my cousins and thinking how bad ass that whole UNLV team was.
I was curious when the Knicks drafted the FSU QB a couple of years later but aside from those two, there hasn't been a Knick pick that excited me. |
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KnickDanger
Posts: 24375 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 10/30/2017 Member: #7578 |
6/10/2022 11:53 PM
Yeah I went nuts when they picked Ewing. It really felt like we received the golden goose. What we got was a great career giving us a great if imperfect era. Hopes were very high and not fully met but I wouldn’t say I was disappointed at all - so persnickety posters needn’t jump on “NY fans’ expectations….”
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jskinny35
Posts: 21580 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 6/27/2005 Member: #928 USA |
6/11/2022 1:25 PM
I was at the draft when the Knicks selected Mark Jackson and he proved to be a quality pick and turned the Knicks around his rookie season. I was also excited when we drafted G. Anthony, J. Wallace and K.Walker but they all didn't turn out that well.
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Panos
Posts: 30053 Alba Posts: 3 Joined: 1/6/2004 Member: #520 |
6/11/2022 1:39 PM LAST EDITED: 6/11/2022 1:45 PM
Maciej Lampe was a steal at 30.
Don't forget Slavko Vranes. Seriously, there were way more headscratchers than exciting picks. Nate and Lee were moderately exciting picks. But not game changers. I think after the aforementioned Ewing and Mark Jackson has to be Strickland. |
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BigDaddyG
Posts: 39752 Alba Posts: 9 Joined: 1/22/2010 Member: #3049 |
6/11/2022 2:38 PM LAST EDITED: 6/11/2022 2:41 PM
Swishfm3 wrote:The only player I was ever excited for was Greg Anthony. I remember watching that UNLV/DUKE championship on TV with my cousins and thinking how bad ass that whole UNLV team was. I attended that one live as kid at MSG. I remember Greg talking a little trash to Kenny Anderson after he got drafted and the crowd errupting. We should've drafted Terrell Brandon Always... always remember: Less is less. More is more. More is better and twice as much is good too. Not enough is bad, and too much is never enough except when it's just about right.
- The Tick
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SergioNYK
Posts: 22536 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 10/8/2002 Member: #333 USA |
6/12/2022 10:05 AM
I was too young to remember Ewing but I admit I got excited over John Wallace, Maciej Lampe, Sweetney and Frye.
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Nalod
Posts: 71078 Alba Posts: 155 Joined: 12/24/2003 Member: #508 USA |
6/12/2022 12:01 PM
I having dinner with my future inlaws and we drafted Ewing that night . Remember thinking “great< I took a job in North Carolina and now we get a stud!”. It was the first lottery and exciting. I remember going to a game his rookie year and blown away by his offensive game as was most of us. He was better than expected! Funny how he evolved to be better known later in his career as a scorere than the defensive demon he was drafted. The KP draft was the most fascinating because he came later given his euro roots and no March madness hype. A guy with SF skills at that size with the Triangle gods to guide the way……….All so promising at that time. That Philly took Oka4 was a bit of suprise. When I saw the boy crying it was telling of the moment. High risk and reward. Oka4’s big ass vs. KP’s undesized one. Both failed. |
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Panos
Posts: 30053 Alba Posts: 3 Joined: 1/6/2004 Member: #520 |
6/12/2022 5:21 PM
Was Lee Nailon our draft pick?
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Philc1
Posts: 28286 Alba Posts: 2 Joined: 9/2/2020 Member: #8897 |
6/12/2022 10:26 PM
Panos wrote:Maciej Lampe was a steal at 30. In 2009 we weee one pick away from getting Steph Curry. We went from Curry to Jordan Hill ugh |
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Philc1
Posts: 28286 Alba Posts: 2 Joined: 9/2/2020 Member: #8897 |
6/12/2022 10:28 PM
SergioNYK wrote:I was too young to remember Ewing but I admit I got excited over John Wallace, Maciej Lampe, Sweetney and Frye. Wallace being such a big bust was surprising. Everyone loved him coming out of Syracuse and he did show potential his rookie year. And then Van Gundy asked him to be start in game 7 because of the suspensions and he self destructed
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