Lets complete one phraze of rebuilding this offseason.
Believe me when I say, "the Knicks been suffering at the SG position the last 6 seasons". It was not hard for the Nets and Suns to recognize all of PG-Marbury weaknesses through their SG-Kittles, SG-Stephon Jackson, and SG-Joe Johnson.
For as long as I been playing and watching Basketball it has been the teams SG or SF performance which decides on the type of PG that best fit the team
(example is PG-Billups with Rip & Prince, or J.R Smith & Melo).
The experience of competing in the NBA makes a star PG not the draft....the Magic Johnsons, Isiahs, Stoctons, Kidd, CP3, and D.Rose, are few and a percentage of 1 out of a 1000.
To this day I frown on the Orlando Magic for trading Chris Webber for Penny Hardaway, when Shaq & Webber would've gave the Orlando Magic a couple of Championship Trophies.
This past season we watched Duhon & Nate hold down both the PG and SG position, having just a small rotation of players we had to use SF without any handle or decent passing-skillz to play the SG position, which gave more pressure to Duhon and Nate at bringing up the ball at the speed inwhich Dantoni's "seven-second system" would allow.
We have Duhon and Nate as our PG for the next 1 to 4 years untill we can find better (which we wont find any PG better or tougher with our 8th pick). Resigning Nate's toughness is a must.
So selecting our future SG with the 8th pick would be the best solution for us in this draft. Buying a pick or two would also be a great move along with signing a shooter or rebounder from the D-League to develope in our practice sessions next season.
It would be nice to start next season with a 3 to 4 guard rotation that can hang with the Eastern Conference best guards.
Duhon and Nate did an exceptional well job this past season by themselves, and will only show improvement next season.
Larry Hughes is not in our future but could be a great learning tool for our rookie star SG this season.
We are building for chemistry this offseason and having a guard line-up of Duhon, Nate, and Harding would be a compliment to this team future growth.....for whatever take place in this 2010 plan.