Maybe Phil's master plan was cap space and a lottery pick for 2015? About the best we look capable of at this point, even if it is still early in this season. We just don't seem to have gamers on this roster. No one on the current team, including our coach, knows how to win a game.
I won't watch this team because it's not even really basketball. Why waste my time. So, that means I just peak in at the box score a few times during the game to see what's happening. I see tonight we pretty much led in every category... Sans heart, will, effort, and desire to win. Impossible to fathom how Melo could score 3 points from beginning of 2nd quarter to under a minute left in the 4th. Take it to hoop and get to the line man.
Impossible to quantify how we lost this game. The obvious is at the free throw line. Not sure if that was case of refs screwing us or just lazy Knicks ball (settle for jumpers and constantly swatting and playing defense with hands).
Wash, Det, Bkn, Atl all teams battling for the 3-8 seed... Knicks lost to them all. Catch 22... We should have won 3 of last 4 but Melo has been terrible. But Melo is terrible bc he has no help, no pg, and teams will do everything they can to make life difficult for him. He literally has no help.
On a winning basketball team, THJ would be a role player, backup guard who could knock down a 3. J.Smith would be a 12 minute backup big. Nobody else on the roster would even play on the Spurs. Shump, JR, Amare, Daly, Acy, Larkin, Aldrich, Wear... Plz.
Our only hope is to suck. Get a top ten pick and steal a rotation player in the draft. Sign Marc Gasol and Rondo. Then, sign Kobe after 2015 with another starter.
Rondo
Kobe
Melo
Gasol
Sprinkle in role players and we have a shot come 2016