If Winslow gives us a chance to win now or in the next couple of years…wasn’t that the plan?
The plan wasn’t to re-sign Melo and draft a person that is projected (not confirmed) to be better in a few years from now. I’m sure Melo didn’t expect that. The fans and season ticket holders don’t want to hear that either.
The truth of the matter is that Phil threw out promises and expectations he couldn’t keep…and now excuses are flying in from everywhere citing that this will be another rebuild, smfh!
We were expecting free agents and draft picks to give us a run, to make us a true contender…instead we drafted a walking stick that gets hurt in a work out. So now…We are paying tons of money for tickets to not watch a team make a run to the playoffs… but to watch a NO-name project try to develop while all other teams actually try to be competitive.
This has to be one of the worse managed franchises in all of sports. For a city that bleeds and breath BBall, a city where you can find someone dribbling a ball on just about any block/park...we are expected to except an inept franchise to represent the mecca.
Hardly anyone sees just how much pressure is being put on this frail kid. So much so... the pressure alone might just crush his puny frame. He has a awful lot to prove (considering what other drafted players are doing)…knick fans are hungry and have grown tired of this mediocrity. When the highlights of the average Knicks fan discussion is bball poli-tricks (for years)…and not actual bball….there is something terribly wrong with this franchise.
Rebuild, trade, rebuild, trade, rebuild, trade, rebuild, trade, rebuild, trade…..wtf, mayne!!
This post makes no sense at all.
Winslow fell to 10th.
10th. After we passed on him,
five other teams passed on him because he's not that good and stunk it up in workouts. Winslow is the type of player who, due to his athleticism and quickness,
should gain the most from a private workout, but apparently he stunk at those so badly that five teams thought there were better players in the draft. The last thing this team needs is a shooting guard who can't shoot and that seems to be what Winslow is.
Second of all, win now? Are you freaking serious? These guys won
17 games last year. Even with Melo on the floor these guys were freaking terrible - they were
1-13 with him in December. Do you honestly think that having Justise Winslow would amount to anything more than a minor improvement to this team? Having Winslow is a negligible factor. They're not winning a championship this year. They're not winning a championship next year. They did the best they could with Carmelo, Amar'e, and Tyson, and it didn't work out.
So now they're going to rebuild. And how do you rebuild? You pick the
best player available with the highest potential. That's what they did. And it was a smart choice. Now, you could argue that Mudiay or Hezonja had higher potential, but there's no doubt in anybody's mind that Porzingis, Mudiay, and Hezonja all have higher ceilings than Winslow does.
You seem to think that these guys are 2-3 players away from being a championship team. They're not. Do you really think they could beat the Cavaliers with Irving, Love, and LeBron? Or the Hawks with their roster of nobodies that's still better than every team in the Eastern Conference because they have a great coach?
Carmelo and Winslow would've made this team a 33-win team. With Lopez and Afflalo and those guys it would be a 40 win team at most. They'd lose in the second round. With Porzingis...in 5 years, maybe this is a 55-win team that goes to the Finals. Maybe. But you know how you break out of mediocrity? You
draft the best players available and build around them. That's what Phil is trying to do. Even with Greg Monroe here, this team would be a second-round exit, and even if by some miracle they beat Milwaukee, they'd get killed in the conference finals by the Cavs or the Hawks. They suck. That's all there is to it.