Scuttle the ship

by pdaeira on Feb 2, 2012 10:04 AM EST

Let's all be honest here, the Knicks will not go very far this year. If/when BDavis comes back (close to the mid-way point of the season) he will not give you 25+ minutes a game, and we still wouldn't have a competent backup PG to play the rest of the time. Unless they can trade for Sessions or similar, which will only deplete our awful bench even more.

Trading Amare is an option, even though I luv the guy, I personally do not see him giving us 3 more years of all-star caliber play. If we could get something in a trade that makes sense, so be it.

BUT what they really should consider is throwing the towel for this season (they are already in the bottom third in the league), and try to get that top-5 protected draft pick. This year’s draft is phenomenal. Would you rather have a top-5 pick or no pick at all??

That first rounder, plus use the 5million MLE next year for a PG, plus resigning Landry back using his early bird rights = now we're cooking...

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They won't do that on purpose

All shot callers would lose their jobs.

by Dutchmarau on Feb 2, 2012 10:10 AM EST reply actions

If Baron Davis doesn't work out

that might happen anyway

by flossy on Feb 2, 2012 10:48 AM EST up reply actions

Without a lucky lottery bounce, I just don't see it happening

Even in what has been pretty much a worst case scenario beginning to the year, there are 9 teams with records worse than the Knicks’. There are also the Suns, who we’re tied with, and the Cavs who have lost and played two fewer games.

by Dutchmarau on Feb 2, 2012 10:52 PM EST up reply actions

Oh, no, I meant the everyone losing their jobs part

No way we get a top 5 pick

by flossy on Feb 3, 2012 10:16 AM EST up reply actions

How about

We tank for another season after that? I mean, what’s better than a top 5 draft pick? 2 top 5 draft picks!

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by moose35 on Feb 2, 2012 10:47 AM EST reply actions

Any intentional tanking is virtually guaranteed to land us the #6 pick, just becasue

Also, this draft is crazy stacked… with frontcourt talent. There’s like 1-2 guards even projected to go in the lottery and not a single PG among them. So even if we did pick top-5 we’d have to either flip our pick for a more established backcourt player or trade one of our big 3 and hope a rookie can plug the hole in our frontcourt.

by flossy on Feb 2, 2012 10:48 AM EST reply actions