I am sitting in my college cafeteria waiting for my next class and decided to write this, so if you are looking for a well written article from some 50 year old journalist you clicked the wrong link. But otherwise here are my thoughts on the knicks.
For one i feel as though the basketball gods must hate me. I did not become a basketball fan until around 13 or 14 so i have yet to really see a good season, with the 2012-13 being the exception. I became a fan with al harrington, gallo, chris duhon and david lee. Ive become so used to the knicks losing i have to drug test myself anytime they win. Which is really really sad for a team that apparantely plays in the worlds greatest arena. Right now they are the worlds worst team. But that was all supposed to change when the zen master himself came in, Phil Jackson.
I am a huge fan of Phil as a basketball coach. So much so that i actually believe that Jordan and Kobe are somewhat overated. I mean you can count how many chips they have won without phil on one hand, because its 0. Now without phil kobe is either injured or taking 97 shots while the lakers lose by 30. Either way i thought he would turn it around and that he had a plan.
On paper the tyson chandler trade wasnt all that bad. In theory dalembert would be a slight downgrade to chandler, calderon would be a huge upgrade to felton, plus larkin ellington and 2 second round picks. Well it failed miserably. Chandler looks like an allstar, and dalembert ellington arent even on the roster anymore, and neither would calderon but noone wanted to take him. Than came the cleveland trade, again not horrible on paper. Get rid of 2 underperforming players for cap space. Again though it all blew up in his face. Jr and shump look good again, the cavs are on a roll and look like a title contender.
Now that shouldnt matter in theory until the trade deadline came. Both Goran dragic and Reggie Jackson were traded, with the general thought being that they are now going to stay with those respective teams. Both were players the knicks were thought to be looking at come free agency. Also to me roy hibbert will be staying in indiana and do we really want deandre jordan. Lob city works nicely with cp3, but with calderon, ehhh not so much. I mean we could overpay for rondo to pair him up with jordan and melo, but having two guys that couldnt hit a free throw to save their lives wouldnt work out well.
The only hope is that either jackson or dragic still decide to leave otherwise we are screwed. Hell some people have the hope that love will decide to leave cleveland and come to ny. One, not gonna happen. And two that would be terrible as well. Calderon, melo, hardaway jr, love and whoever we pick off of the street to play center all cant play d. We would get picked apart like butter that has been in a microwave for 3 weeks.
Now stinking isnt horrible, i mean we get a high draft pick, and hopefully a really good player. So if we stink again next year we will get another good player. Oh wait, toronto has our 1st next year from that robbery they did for he who shall not be named. So if we stink, they get a good pick. But with no good free agents this year that would come to ny, we are probably going to stink. And many people are saying who cares if toronto gets a good pick, because we are going to get durant. Really, is durant coming here. Lets see he could stay in okc with westbrook and co., he could go to washington with beal, wall and co. Or he could come to ny, with langston galloway, lance thomas and a one legged melo. Because looking at both dwade and granger, you can have all the optimism you want, but melo will most likely not be the same after this surgery.
Which is why i have an idea of how to start to fix the knicks. Phil has already started to blow everything up, but he needs to blow it up even more. Trade melo to some team who wants him. My thoughts, the lakers. Think about it, jim bus is under huge pressure to land somebody big this offseason, but likely will strikeout. When he does people will be gunning for his head. Melo and kobe have always wanted to play together, and melo reportedly was really interested in going to la in free agency but ultimately came back to ny for the money. Well now he has his money, so one would think he would be willing to waive his no trade clause to play with kobe, especially when he sees how bad the knicks are going to be again next year. So what could you get for him. I would want randle, whoever they draft this year with their pick and the rockets and the next first rd pick they could trade. That would give us a huge influx of young talent, 4 first round players, and would give bus the 2nd superstar he has been searching for. Both parties come out happy.
That is just my opinion on the knicks present and future, now time to go to class.
