How many posts before I graduate from 'Lurker' status? I don't like the conotation. Like I'm dishonest around children or something...
Me too. I think we stand a better chance against the in the Finals if our value stays up on those draft picks. That would help us more than having to face Bosh, Lebron, and Wade every year for the Championship. Id rather worry about them when we are capable of getting there.
Hill wasn't the dealbreaker. he was needed to make the deal work. I suspect if it wasn't a matching salaries issue Morey may have conceded hill. Certainly Adelman didn't request Hill. When he started praacticing with Houston Adelman said I didn't know that kid could do some of the things he did. He said he didn't watch any film on him accept for last summer in the draft. Oh and New York fought to protect the pick and lost. That was the dealbreaker for Morey and NY gave in crying. Now they are trying everything not to be a lottery team so their fans don't think they are complete idiots. Anyway let me just say one Amare injury and they are lottery bound. Of course if they sign lebron they are geniuses and it looks that way.
Lebron could start to cry and tell us that he hasn't made up his mind then promote the "Decision" Part II... :grin:
2 years and only 4 posts...this being one of them? Since you are a lurker, why should you care? No one will see that if you don't post in threads.
I'll say LeBron to either Spoiler Spoiler 1. Miami Spoiler 2. New York Spoiler 3. Cleveland Just throw it against the wall and see what sticks like the experts
It would eat a lot of cap space, but that is their biggest need if they miss Lebron. Much more so than a true SG or a true Center. The uptempo style needs a true PG to truly be effective. They have 3 SF's, but Danillo could possibly play SG, esp since defense is their last issue. After that, I see no reason why Hunter would not be signed. He played decent with minutes at GSW and at his likely very cheap contract, that gives them another big man. Their draft picks made no sense. Rautins while being a good 3 pt shooter has no other nba worthy attributes, and Fields a scorer without much of a shot but another SF where the Knicks already have 3 players (Danilo, Chandler, and Bill Walker.) Honestly, they could probably get Felton and still be horrible, but I would seriously worry if they got him. Diener and Ridnour have done well when they get minutes, but they are not much an upgrade over Duhon. What we need to do is go talk to Rafer Alston, and get him to sign with the Knicks as a non official cover agent to make the team really bad, and then hope they do not win the lottery for the #1 pick. Skip to My Lou would become a god on this board if he did that.
The end of the season has arrived and it appears that I was wrong about Kevin Martin. At first I was quite shocked because my predictions never fail to come true. Once I came to grips with this though, I engaged in self reflection and realized that even the best statisticians are wrong sometimes due to outliers, or that perhaps I made a rounding or clerical error along the way. So in an attempt to better myself, I went back to review my calculations so that this never, ever happens again. I was quite shocked to discover that, in fact, I had not performed any calculations at all on this topic. This was highly irregular so I struggled to recall what had happened, and then I remembered that shortly before I made my prediction, the Rockets had traded my two favorite players and I was extremely upset about it. My prediction that Kevin Martin would shoot less than 40% turned out to be more of an emotional guess than the results of detailed analysis. Yet as a statistical genius I know that emotion should never be involved. Statistics should be all detail, no emotion. This was a critical error that I will never make again. However, I am a man of my word and I stand utterly defeated by HtownBBall. For a time it seemed as if Kevin Martin would not be able to finish the season, granting me victory. But then he came riding in on a stallion like Aragorn and the warrior kings of old, battling through injuries to shoot 42.9%. How cruel fate can be. So it would seem that I must retire. However, if HtownBBall and everyone else would accept my humble apologies, I would pledge to dedicate myself to my craft in the offseason, studying extensively so that something like this never, ever happens again. There is still so much ground to cover, delightful wonders such as pie charts and bar graphs, that it would be a shame to waste my talents. But ultimately if the wounds are too deep and I can't be forgiven, I would at least ask that I be allowed to retire gracefully of my own free will rather than being banned, so that at least I could still read the forum from time to time. __________________
Make some more posts, hopefully some with content. It wouldn't hurt to send Clutch a contribution, either. That lets you edit your posts, a feature I use constantly, being a terrible speller. The best advice I can give you, besides what I just said? E-mail Clutch through the board and don't bring this up in Feedback or in the other forums. You might be surprised what a few simple things could do to make you more of a participant here.
If that's the case, I'd question the wisdom of the deal. New York were never going to be any worse than late lottery in any realistic scenario that doesn't include injury. Late lottery at best in what looks to be arguably the weakest draft in recent memory for the mist valuable contract in basketball. Especially if Hill was a throw in to make it work. In morey we trust and all of that, and in a sense we got something for nothing but if what your saying is true, could we have done more?
For DD: Check the stats: Amare is no upgrade Analytics show the Knicks should have saved their money and stuck with David Lee Let's put aside the fact Stoudemire is one awkward landing on his microfractured knee away from fading into NBA oblivion such as former All-Stars Allan Houston and Chris Webber. Let's also forget for the moment that Lee is younger than Stoudemire and has logged fewer miles on the odometer. Strictly in terms of production, Lee was the superior player last season and by some accounts, it wasn't even close. According to ESPN Insider John Hollinger's player metric Estimated Wins Added, which converts a player's box score statistics into an all-in-one win estimate, Lee's stellar play was worth a total of 17.5 wins to the Knicks last season, good for the fifth-best campaign in the NBA. And Stoudemire? His contributions translated to 15.8 wins last season, lower than Lee but still among the league's best. MORE HERE: http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/nba/news/story?id=5359842
