this is considered a weak draft after the top 3.
NY will have an excellent chance to fall out of that group.
even with Zion and KP this team is not a .500 team unless they snare KD or Irving. (why they would leave great teams to go to a poor one is beyond me.
as constituted they are a lottery team again.
Actually, I heard some say after 1 it's questionable, but after 2 or I guess maybe 3 (Morant - who's risen quite a bit - or Barrett - dropping?) there's another big drop off.
We know that the NBA now is so much about the concept of "assets" as well as other such themes taken from lawyer and economist paradigms. These perspectives are ever more used to understand decision making by teams, and is often attributed to what goes on inside of the "wiser" organizations.
The Knicks have historically not been so good at this, particularly with Phil, yet now we're trying to be more like this. As if chelu2 finally had a say.
The hiring of Fiz, as far as I understand, was in line with this. He was vetted by Perry and Mills as a FLEXIBLE and MODERN NBA coach, open to new ideas, analytics, all the new NBA stuff, as well as for his personality. I suspect this was not just about handling the media, or appealing to the newer generation of NBA players with as they call it in soccer, "man management," but also to coaching as more of a manager - so one who uses those who they surround themselves with - to help guide their work. So being not the best Xs and O's coach isn't as much of a problem.
I could be wrong, but it strikes me that this could be what's going on, and in other words, part of this relates to our losing. It's part of the process and not just about getting the worst record, which everyone knows is not as valuable as it was before the new draft rules this year.
So, this pick, despite Knick fans desperate for young players to "develop" may not be for that. It may be used in other ways to improve the team. Sadly this is hard to swallow for a decent portion of our fans.
We've been so traumatized by so many bad situations with young players traded that we can barely think straight about it. The idea of trading KP or Frank, or Knox or the draft pick, even for someone of AD's qualty is too difficult to fathom as even a concept. That type of response sounds like those I work with that say they won't trust anyone because they've been burned, when we know that's not a healthy concept for human beings to follow.
Let's see what happens. Right now I'm not exactly overjoyed, but we could get pretty good next year, or really good if things go our way.
If we don't get the #1 pick all is not necessarily lost, nor do I suspect it to be the plan. Why? Fiz and the Knicks would be even more completely ridiculous than we ever have been to assume we'd get because probability says is far more likely to not happen.
No #1 pick means the world will not end, and the season will not necessarily be a waste. If we don't get a top 1-2 pick, although it may still hurt, because part of building a "winning culture" is going through growing pains and transition of players you want in and don't want out. Fiz, Perry and Mills, as far as I can tell, are on the same page about this, so like Kam says, we have to see what happens over the summer to get some better sense of where we will be.
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