Jordan Hill

He only plays when the other’s teams worst players are on the court. That gives Jordan Hill the best chance to succeed, build up his confidence, and not have embarrassed when compared to Brandon Jennings.

and no i don’t find it funny. not one bit.

Big men are picked on potential and picked too high, simply because athletic, talented big men are tough to find. And a lot of guys dominate in college because of their size advantage and once that’s eliminated at the pro level they don’t thrive.

Going into this year’s draft, I guarantee you most every team had Jordan Hill rated higher this year than they had Brook Lopez rated last year. But I would say 50% or more of big man lottery picks end up being ordinary players or outright busts.

At this point, I’d say it’s unlikely Jordan Hill will develop into a dominating player. I think we would have seen a flash of that by now. It’s still very possible he becomes a useful big. His late start in organized basketball throws some doubt in there, but still, I don’t think we’re looking at a star here. I don’t think it’s useful to compare him to Jermaine O’Neal. O’Neal was younger, and stuck behind Wallace and Sabonis on a contending team. When he did play, he showed more.

But I still have hope that Hill could turn into a starting power forward, maybe that can play some 5, and he might be a pretty good one. And he’s not going to be a selfish head case that ruins team chemistry, so that’s good. Maybe a Kurt Thomas type of player? I’ll take that. I had a feeling at the time that maybe they should have taken the riskier pick and went for Jennings, because even though I felt that ‘Oh no, another Marbury’ feeling, I also recognized that the Knicks should be wary of that fear stopping them from taking the best player available.

Jennings looks good now, and the Bucks are winning. But whether he will be a great point guard is still up in the air. He has to show he can lead his team and make his teammates better. We don’t really know if he will do that. But I think he will. He will also have to play defense. I’m not so sure he will do that.

What’s done is done – I’ll root for Jordan Hill. What else can I do. Hopefully he will help the team at some point. Every team makes good and bad draft decisions. The Knicks have made some good late 1st round/2nd round pickups and Gallo looks like a solid pick, but Hill may be a bust.

No team bats 1.000 in the draft and I’m going to spare myself the torment of comparing him to Jennings, Blair, Casspi (how could a NY team not look at a dude from Israel?) Lawson, Budinger, Gibson, . . . etc. I will say the guy I wanted with the pick was Hansbrough (I thought Jennings might be too volatile, and he may yet prove to be so, though he looks like the next allen iverson so far — speaking of volatility . . . ).

What I’m wondering is whether something is seriously wrong with Hill. Something that shows itself in practice or the locker room, and wondering if anybody’s heard rumor.

Because this is obviously a developmental year — everybody knows it. Winning is not on the table. So if we’re not developing our lottery pick, something must be seriously amiss.

This from The Post. It sounds like friction between Coach Tony and Walshy

Walsh says:

we keep doing the right things, we can turn this around. But there’s nobody in the franchise that’s happy we’ve won one game; so, yeah, I don’t like that.

"But on the other hand, there’s a bigger job: Young guys have got to get better, we have to see what we have with the players we have out there right now so we know what we’re going to do in the future. And that, to me, is the goal