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Total Members Voted: 3

Voting closed: June 13, 2022, 11:38:11 PM

[chipstern]

On the advice of his lawyer 76er's Fultz won't practice or play until his shoulder is seen by a specialist next week.

Isn't that the job of an Agent?  Maybe the lawyer is the agent??  Or perhaps the agent doesn't want to piss of the 76'ers under his own name.

You would think given all the attention/drama re Fultz the 76ers would have had a team of specialists look at the guy for every conceivable malady.

[Nagel]

how about this chip.  a Nagel fantasy. that might become a reality.

first we must agree that KD is leaving GS  ( i also think Klay is going to LA) to go to NY to play with the Unicorn. KD of course gave him that nickname.

so they who do we have.

Durant
KP
Hardaway.
Robinson

I agree with you about Trey.  i would start him with this group

3 guys who can block shots.  4 guys who can score and very, very big.  KD would own the Garden with KP.

the bench?

knox
Frank
Vonleh
Dotson
Trier
our #1 pick in 2019  likely top 5

we need to try to buy out or trade Lee / thomas.  However if lee could fit in the cap he could help off the bench.

would that make you happy?  i would be very happy.

[Kam]

Durant and a top pick?  Damn Daniel!

[chipstern]

how about this chip.  a Nagel fantasy. that might become a reality.

first we must agree that KD is leaving GS  ( i also think Klay is going to LA) to go to NY to play with the Unicorn. KD of course gave him that nickname.

so they who do we have.

Durant
KP
Hardaway.
Robinson

I agree with you about Trey.  i would start him with this group

3 guys who can block shots.  4 guys who can score and very, very big.  KD would own the Garden with KP.

the bench?

knox
Frank
Vonleh
Dotson
Trier
our #1 pick in 2019  likely top 5

we need to try to buy out or trade Lee / thomas.  However if lee could fit in the cap he could help off the bench.

would that make you happy?  i would be very happy.

Not sure I agree about Klay to LA. 

And Durant to New York? 

Over the summer, I would've said no way. 

No, make that no fucking way.

Now I'd say we have a puncher's shot. 

I am confident that Kerr & Curry will right the ship. 

But I think the blow-up with Green very much means KD is in play. 

As per the rest of your phantasy, Zigster, let me do some errands and get back to you. 

[Kam]

People who say Klay to LA are banking on the connection with his father and the Lakers and how he would be the perfect complement to LeBron.

But those are his Dad's dreams.  Or LeBrons.  Klay wants for nothing.  He has no desires.  He is like the NBA Buddha.  Content where he is.

[kiiidcarter8]

If we got KD I would expect a vet PG to come in.  But short of that even Frank is ok at starter

And we should then keep the effective vet defender Thomas.

[chipstern]

We part company on the general predilection of this Forum and yourself to simply write off Mudiay and Kanter, let alone Hezonja.  Mudiay and Kanter have been coming on, and I suspect a light bulb is going to go off for Hezonja in due time, given how Fizz keeps everyone believing and ready, even if they are nailed to the pine...Burke being exhibit A. 

Nor am I ready to anoint Mitchell Robinson as a fixture at the 5/4 in 2019-2020, my own enthusiasm for his upside notwithstanding.  Trier.  Love him, but the league is paying attention.  Would benefit from KP drawing attention, as would Knox, who should be coming off the bench. 

It is not even XMAS and I am not ready to consign ANYONE to the scrap heap. 

As for our team and all the losing? 

We are not a joke. 

Look at Orlando last year and look at them THIS YEAR.  New coach, new system, many pups a year older and a year wiser. 

We have talent.  We lack cohesion.  We lack consistency.  We lack confidence. 

This is what tossing Pups into the deep end looks like. 

The All-Rookie starting lineup gave us a terrific start against NO and a desultory one against Orlando (both teams which have been playing really tough against all manner of competition. 

We have not closed out well, but in the greater majority of our games, we have been competitive and the hunt most of the way. 

Oh, and while you were snoozing, Timmy Hardaway has made major strides as a bell cow and a leader and a more well-rounded player. 

In any event, our aspirations are roughly comparable, save for the odd vapor locks where I recoil at your muscle memory of past abominations, understandable though they most definitely are, and the manner in which you are wont to recoil from bumps in the road as if NOTHING HAS CHANGED. 

It has.  Most DEF. 

PS: The Dream, the impossible dream of a possible KD/ZION jackpot notwithstanding, reflect if you might on the manner in which Anthony Davis is leading and supercharging the Pelicans, and how KP could very well do likewise...and how any number of Knicks, going up, going down, could very well reach a new level of consistency facing single coverage, and with a Bell Cow who simply demands double and triple teams, yet still can get to the rack and get off one-leg/Dirk perimeter missiles. Anyway, Go KNICKS.   

[chipstern]

If we got KD I would expect a vet PG to come in.  But short of that even Frank is ok at starter

And we should then keep the effective vet defender Thomas.

If we got KD, the Puppy Points we are presently nurturing, would have more room to grow and to play with command. 

The veteran points who might come available? 

A) How desirable?

B) How affordable?

Whether or not we re-up Kanter, let alone Hezonja and Mudiay, we are not likely to have funding to get a Rubio or a Teague or a Bledsoe in addition to a Durant. 

If we have a Top Five Pick, a truly dominant PG prospect has yet to emerge. 

I am dreaming of Zion, but, whereas we are in Soft Tank Mode, Cleveland is in TOTAL TANK MODE.  So, that is a remote Wet Dream.

However, Durant is suddenly on the radar, though I wouldn't get my hopes up too damn high.

Still, the availability of a veteran PG notwithstanding, the prospect of having both Durant and KP at the 3 & 4, let alone at the 4 & 5, would most certainly afford those projects and pups currently auditioning and going through their growing pains, the opportunity to excel in a team game with two bonafide inside-outside threats demanding coverage and transforming our overall team game. 

PS: Just for the sake of argument, as I do not have a dog in this hunt, the Knicks were sitting on the #5 pick in the draft, as I believe we presently are, and the Wizards dangled John Wall, would you bite?  Even given his baggage and the immensity of his contract?  Just asking?   And this from someone who does not believe in bartering our #1 picks.  Still, if we could add a top tier PG to Durant and KP and Hardaway, well? 

PPS: As perhaps the only two Mudiay enthusiasts on this board, I've been gratified to bear witness to the level of confidence he has displayed under Coach Fizdale, who refused to give up on him.  Scoring more than assisting?  Ditto Burke?  Motherfuckers might have more assists if their targets could nail their jumpers. 

PPPS:  But then the quality of ball movement we showed flashes of coming out of the gate has taken a step backwards, as has the defense.  Plainly, we're going to have to take our lumps. 

[chipstern]

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Former Knicks guard and Turner Sports analyst Greg Anthony played with Larry Johnson, one of the premier athletes the college game has ever seen, for two seasons at UNLV. Johnson had the ability to play inside and out, to jump over and through opponents, and shoot from the perimeter. Williamson’s game, Anthony said, is more advanced as a freshman than Johnson’s was as a junior.

“His game is a little more evolved,” said Anthony, who has seen Williamson up close on the AAU circuit while following his son, Cole, a top-rated senior guard at Oak Hill Academy.

“Larry was a power forward who could play on the perimeter; Zion is a perimeter player who can play in the paint.”

[Kam]

on his own team

[Kam]

should stop making waves

[bodiddley]

Kanter starting, along with Zonja, Mud & Tim.
Vonleh the only defender out there to open the game.
Interesting.

My guess is we get creamed early.

[bodiddley]

Nice 1Q from Vonleh and Tim.

[kiiidcarter8]

"Vet" lineup clicking.

In other news.... Jimmer gets 43-6-5 today in Sharks win.

[carlos123]

PERFECT GAME!!!