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Total Members Voted: 3

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

[Kam]

By the way Kam(s)ter, you need to go back to ‘rithmetic school 📈📉

Lakers (2%) New Orleans (6%)  Knicks (14%)  ... that's over 50% chance he was gonna be a Pelican!

[Kam]

Reverse Jinxes are my ting.

Alright, I guess we owe you.

I do it for the love. 

Of money,


Paypal me

[Kam]

By the way Kam(s)ter, you need to go back to ‘rithmetic school 📈📉

I was Home schooled.  Bad teachers.

[Kam]

You have to be happy as a Knicks fan. 

We were most likely to finish 5th.  (47.9% chance of that)

We managed to get a Top 3 pick in a draft where the first tier after Zion are two reasonably identically valued players.

For us the tank worked out decently. 

We only had a 12.7% chance of the #3 pick.  We managed t avoid the most likely scenario (5th)  and because we were the absolute worst team record-wise we didn't drop like Cleveland and Phoenix did.

So once again the anti-tankers are wrong.

14.0   13.4   12.7   11.9   47.9

[bodiddley]

Knix did well.  Tank worked.
Credit to Fizzybottom.

Even under the old system, there was only a 25% chance of getting the #1 pick.  While the new threat of being the worst team and dropping to 5th (previously 4th) didn't affect us.  Even under the old system, 3rd would be a pretty solid outcome.   There was a 60% chance that we'd draft 4th or 5th. 

So 3rd is damned good.  Evaluate properly and we should have a long term starter/possible all-star/a Jayson Tatum level player.
I'm struggling to see how the Tank didn't work out pretty well for NYK.

[facilitatorn]

A lot depends on what we do next.

In the meantime, we get to see the playoffs play out and the prospects jockey.

[lesterluv]

LOL. You guys are even stupider than I thought you were if you think the tank worked.



*** and I thought you were pretty stupid!

[lesterluv]

And the end of tanking is a great thing.

Players hate tanking.

Fans hate tanking.

Non-fraudulent coaches hate tanking.

It is, as Adam Silver says, corrosive.

Kudos to the NBA.

*** for once

[bodiddley]

If the Knicks won 7 more games, we would have been in the Bulls slot and they would up with the 7th pick.  Would that have been  preferable to anyone -- to win 7 more games and pick 4 slots lower at 7th? 

I think only an idiot would want that, but maybe that's where some are coming from ...

Tanking for the worst record got us the #3 pick.
#3 pick should be a gem.

New Poll
The TANK:
- Worked
- Failed

Look at Pelinka and the Lakes nearly peeing themselves with glee over the #4 pick:

"This is a powerful asset for us," an ecstatic Pelinka said on a conference call. ...this gives us the ability to either select an impact player at [No.] 4 or possibly use this as an extremely valuable asset in trade.

"I think it's an extraordinary shift for us," Pelinka said. "I mean, top-five picks in the draft, if you go back in the history and study them, those picks can alter and impact franchises. This is a big moment for us."

And all that gushing is for getting to select after us.

[thebizneverloses]

You have to be happy as a Knicks fan. 

We were most likely to finish 5th.  (47.9% chance of that)

We managed to get a Top 3 pick in a draft where the first tier after Zion are two reasonably identically valued players.

For us the tank worked out decently. 

We only had a 12.7% chance of the #3 pick.  We managed t avoid the most likely scenario (5th)  and because we were the absolute worst team record-wise we didn't drop like Cleveland and Phoenix did.

So once again the anti-tankers are wrong.

14.0   13.4   12.7   11.9   47.9

I don't like tanking, but I think in this instance the tank did happen to work out for the reasons Kam says.

[kiidcarter8]

If Knicks didn't tank they could have got the 1 or 2.

But even if not...

Winning every game possible would have been beneficial to our players psyche moving forward

I also don't agree that this is a 3 player draft.  I think at 5 thru 8 we get something of value we could use or deal.

[kiidcarter8]

Should be fun when Knicks take this guy at 3

https://www.nbadraft.net/players/rui-hachimura

Likeness to Antawn.  Not too bad.  Though I also think he has some Pippen in him.

[carlos123]

By the way Kam(s)ter, you need to go back to ‘rithmetic school 📈📉

Lakers (2%) New Orleans (6%)  Knicks (14%)  ... that's over 50% chance he was gonna be a Pelican!

😅😂🤣

I was Home schooled.  Bad teachers.

[lesterluv]

If Knicks didn't tank they could have got the 1 or 2.

But even if not...

Winning every game possible would have been beneficial to our players psyche moving forward

I also don't agree that this is a 3 player draft.  I think at 5 thru 8 we get something of value we could use or deal.

x10

[lesterluv]

Look at Pelinka and the Lakes nearly peeing themselves with glee over the #4 pick:

"This is a powerful asset for us," an ecstatic Pelinka said on a conference call. ...this gives us the ability to either select an impact player at [No.] 4 or possibly use this as an extremely valuable asset in trade.

"I think it's an extraordinary shift for us," Pelinka said. "I mean, top-five picks in the draft, if you go back in the history and study them, those picks can alter and impact franchises. This is a big moment for us."

And all that gushing is for getting to select after us.

Nothing bad about a #4 pick (earned by pure luck, not tanking), but all that gushing is what Pelinka has to say, and in any case, Pelinka is simply the latest Laker Ass-Clown in charge.