People, lighten up. Things are about to be downright San Antonio Spurs-like in Knicks-land.
The worst that can happen, even if Melo walks (according to Chris Broussard) is that he frees up a chunk of additional cash for the 2015 free agent class. This season and next, wins and losses are irrelevant. As a matter of fact, the more losses - the batter. It just doesn't matter. Trades are meaningless and Game Picker is an exercise better replaced by having a dozen donuts and watching The Bourne Identity.
You wanna put together a serious roster to challenge for a championship? We gotta be sinkin.' Why?
Amare, Bargnani, JR Smith and everyone else making significant money, come off the books. Finished. The accountants get a brand new ledger and the salary cap resets back to zero. Imagine the freedom and sheer enjoyment of building an NBA roster with unlimited chedda and a few first round picks. Pandemonium.
We gotta chill. Kick back. Pu out collective feet on the coffe table and pop open our favorite adult beverage. We just gotta wait for a season and a half. Piece of cake.
Tank for 2015.
I agree Earl unfortunetly our owner is one of the dumber owners out there and he will screw it up...again
misterearl wrote:People, lighten up. Things are about to be downright San Antonio Spurs-like in Knicks-land.The worst that can happen, even if Melo walks (according to Chris Broussard) is that he frees up a chunk of additional cash for the 2015 free agent class. This season and next, wins and losses are irrelevant. As a matter of fact, the more losses - the batter. It just doesn't matter. Trades are meaningless and Game Picker is an exercise better replaced by having a dozen donuts and watching The Bourne Identity.
You wanna put together a serious roster to challenge for a championship? We gotta be sinkin.' Why?
Amare, Bargnani, JR Smith and everyone else making significant money, come off the books. Finished. The accountants get a brand new ledger and the salary cap resets back to zero. Imagine the freedom and sheer enjoyment of building an NBA roster with unlimited chedda and a few first round picks. Pandemonium.
We gotta chill. Kick back. Pu out collective feet on the coffe table and pop open our favorite adult beverage. We just gotta wait for a season and a half. Piece of cake.
Tank for 2015.
I could get in line for this.
If we get the first pick next yr, it will be a foregone conclusion that the Draft will be awful and we will end up with some waste of life like Bargs or the Candy Man. Cleveland set the bar high this year for horrendous picks but if anybody can find a way to beat that, it's the Knicks.
SwishAndDish13 - you funny. However, you must have an alternative solution that tops The Answer Man's 2015 Tank Strategy.
Mills is stunt man. By the time 2015 rolls around, Allan Houston will be on the clock.
It makes me mad that denver is gonna end up with a potential top 10 pick this year.
The Answer Man Never Buys Bootleg Tapes
Q. alwaysaknick: Did we tank last summer?
A. Excellent question. No we did not.
We were learning the true meaning of "ball don't lie" and thinking we could sneak a playoff series from the more talented Pacers. Hey, as Kurtis Blow taught us, "those are the breaks."
No, we are talking full frontal tankology here. No more kvetching over wins or losses. We simply enjoy the fact that in 2015, compared with the current roster, the New York Knicks will be completely unrecognizable.
Change is good. The revolution will be televised.
It is just out of our control, unless the ticket buyers stop doing what they're doing. As we know, this lovely Knicks is still the most valuable NBA team.
but why tank? i understand getting under the cap and letting the contracts expire in 2015. but i dont see the upside of tanking...especially with no draft picks
Let things just play out, Dolan hears the cries of the fans in his front row seat. Woodson hears the plea's of fans screaming for the yoots on his bench.
The players hear nonsense in the huddles and used car salesmen talk in the locker rooom.
Mentally the players and drained, and lack confidence when it counts.
"What me worry?"
callmened wrote:but why tank? i understand getting under the cap and letting the contracts expire in 2015. but i dont see the upside of tanking...especially with no draft picks
Losing is familiar now. Not familiar like friendly, familiar like routine. Like a commute to work. We sit down, we watch the Knicks march grimly into the abyss, then we get up and resume baking scones or whatever it is we do when we're not watching the Knicks embarrass themselves. I think our thresholds for feeling anything of any valence have been set pretty high at this point. And when the Knicks returned from a week-long hiatus by picking up that grim march as if they'd never stopped, it felt comfortable.
- Seth Rosenthal
CallingYouNed - there is no such thing as upside. The best features of tanking are that it clears the air of false nightly expectations. It allows we vested fans to breathe, relax and enjoy the spring without any post game depression, pre game sadness or feelings of abandonment from Tina Cervasio.
In the immortal words of legendary NY football Giants Assistant Coach, Vince Lombardi, "Tanking isn't everything, it is the only thing."
"The sun'll come out tomorrow, tomorrow!"
Nice pep talk, MisterAnnie
Or is it Lil orphan Earl?
Cartman718 wrote:misterearl wrote:Piece of cake.
really?
Really.
You have a better (reality based) solution?
"Give me tanking, or give me death."
misterearl wrote:Cartman718 wrote:misterearl wrote:Piece of cake.
really?
Really.
You have a better (reality based) solution?
"Give me tanking, or give me death."
Earl, they ain't tanking. That implies intent. They are just incompetent.
Panos - of course the Knicks are not tanking. They are playing as well as they can with what they have.
Tanking is a season and a half state of mind that sets a clear goal, clears the decks and deodorizes the locker room.
Tanking is a beautiful thing.
2015 here we come.
If they are tanking that's great but accelerate that shit and start to dump guys now. Wtf!!! Don't sit and wait that's bullshit.
EnySpree - calm down
You cannot simply "dump" guys now. You let it play out with the calm reassurance that by 2015 things will be dramatically different. You put aside all the anger over ownership, coaching, roster moves that will never be made and dance team members that have yet to attend tryouts. You do like Clyde do. You put on your favorite cow skin jacket and kick back.
You let go of worrying about things you cannot control and you count the days until next seasons trade deadline when the fun starts.
"You got's to chill" - EPMD
misterearl wrote:SwishAndDish13 - you funny. However, you must have an alternative solution that tops The Answer Man's 2015 Tank Strategy.Mills is stunt man. By the time 2015 rolls around, Allan Houston will be on the clock.
Well that's reassuring considering his fine body of work:
http://www.nba.com/dleague/standings/tea...
If Mills is a stunt man in this blockbuster flop of an organization, then I would assume H20 is handling the cold food only at the craft service table.
