C: Robinson
PF-C: Randle, Wooten
SF-PF: Knox, Brazdeikis
SG-SF: Barrett, Bullock
PG-SG: Ntilikina, Smith, Harper
That Makes 10
Team Options: Gibson, Portis, Payton, Ellington
Free Agents: Dotson, Harkless
Decisions to be made in the way of our free agents.
I like Portis, but I think that is pretty remote, particulary when $15 million could possibly, KNICK ON WOOD, get us Jerami Grant who can play/guard four positions.
Out of the six options and free agents?
My vote is for Gibson and Dotson.
Thibs is such a Pat Riley man, I can't help thinking the Knicks will come to some sort of arrangment/better price with Gibson as a mentor, harbinger of the the culture to come, much as Udonis Hasslem on the Heat.
And Dotson is a wing in the 3 & D mode, who cand man up on defense and hit the three. Also, one of the few actual factual developmental achievements of the past three seasons, through thick and thin, health and hardship.
In the unlikely event we have a shot at Grant?
Whom do we draft?
Best available at the 8-spot.
All of the projections go out the window if the Wolves and Warriors look to trade down, trade out. Edwards might not be such a lock and is more likely to drop than Ball, who is very much a wild card. Minny or GS could easily say, fuck it, we cannot pass on THIS Talent. Long term, I think the idea of a Ball-Russell back court is more enticing than Edwards-Russell, because Ball would free up Russell to play off the ball, where he is capable and dangerous.
I pray no one in The Rose Room is contemplating any of the goofy trades being floated for Paul or Westbrook. Ball? Mmmmmm. Tempting. If the price is not exhorbanant.
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