Knowing the Knicks we will draft someone completely unexpected, but i like machado as well
:crossfingers: cross your fingers he will still be available.
Even if we win the arbitration case, Billups would be the last guy I would give the MLE to. I get what you're saying about veteran leadership but he's coming off an season ending achilles injury and he's past his prime.Machado would be the perfect pick if we were going to sign Chauncey Billups to the MLE on July 1st..
We need a strong structure (Billups veteranship) to build a disapline guard rotation ( in Lin, Fields, and Machado) to rid ourselves of the Iso-Melo offense next season.
We Knicks fans need to remember Melo had complete controll over our offense for two postseason series and a 66 game regular season.... where Dantoni, Woodson, Stat, and Tyson Chandler had no say-so over how Iso-Melo ran our offense. So our young guards Lin, Fields, and a rookie PG has no chance vs Melo.
The truth of it all maybe hard to swallow....we are dependent on the arbitration decision on resigning Lin, Fields, Novak, to use our MLE on the next team FA. Our draft picks are important but not that important for our veteran star team.
It's not that the Knicks try to draft unexpected guys so much that other teams ( with less money to scout) tend to try to steal the knicks picks based on the fact that they know the Knicks have a good scouting staff. The only reason they got shump was because they did they're best to keep their interest a secret.
All this talk about Machado makes me think he'll go in the late first / early second just because the Knicks are perceived to be interested in him so somebody will try to steal him.
Even if we win the arbitration case, Billups would be the last guy I would give the MLE to. I get what you're saying about veteran leadership but he's coming off an season ending achilles injury and he's past his prime.
Tyson, Melo and Amare can provide the leadership. We need young guys that can play like Machado.
good thing you started this thread, the "Scott Machado from Iona" thread from last week was def not enough:
http://www.knicksonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12658
quien es mas machado?
The Knicks scouts were not bright in the 2011 draft....Kenneth Faried were suppose to be selected in the top 10 pick (for leading the NCAA in rebounds & blockshots 2 years in a row), not the 18th pick.
Isaiah Thomas was suppose to be a first round pick, not the last pick of the 2nd round....our ex-GM Isiah Thomas had two big articles in Sports Illustraded & ESPN paper on the speed and diversity style of PG Isaiah Thomas in 2010.
The two draft picks (Faried & Isaiah) final season in college outweighed Shump & Jorts college & NBA career 3 to 10.
I was pissed-off last year the day after the 2011 draft....Shump was a 2nd round pick we selected with our 17th pick.
I don't know man, only 3 of our picks, over the last ten years are still on the team, and where rumored to be shopping fields.We've had 5 top 10 picks since 02, and there all gone, that's horrible IMO.The only decent pick i see is shump, and of course being a knick, he blows out his knee, SMH.Apart from the Jordan Hill cluster****, our picks have been fairly decent as of late...