fwk00 wrote:Knixkik wrote:I think this team is an elite bench piece away from being pretty good. The starting lineup is good. The bench is ok. The missing piece to becoming great will continue to be a star, but this team can still grow and be really good with just minor upgrades and development.
The real question is to tank or not. And then what to do with the current roster based on that choice. The glut of look-like useful players is overload and the bottom of this year's bench is worthless.
IMO, the answer to the first question is not to tank. This is not to say that we're winning anything soon but that winning is a direction we haven't tried in a long time. And its only with winning that the premium players will consider landing here.
Taking this direction eliminates the need for a different coach. The approach needs to be to identify keepers and use the rest of the roster as trade bait with the intent to harden the number and quality of complementary players. And, like Miami often does, nurture the end of the bench with hungry, flawed mutts that are signed to be pit bulls.
This won't win a championship but it adds value to players by being associated with winning and competing.
Let it roll.
From a team building perspective, I’d love to see the Knicks use both first round picks this year and draft one player they are comfortable with as more of a role playing contributor, and the other pick on a high risk - reward player who offers more upside but less certainty. This is an opportunity to gamble, and there’s always a guy in the middle of the first round to gamble on with major upside but red flags.
Example. Gradey Dick as a plug and play shooter with one pick. Dariq Whitehead with the other pick as a long term risk/ reward pick.
