A Blown Knee & Flat Tires-Another NY Pothole Year: 17-18 Knicks Season Thread

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MKG for Doug/Lance - one's expiring the other makes half MKG's cost for the same length.
MKG + Graham for Kanter - they'd have to move Dwight for it to make sense but if they did manage to package Dwight with Kemba to some desperate GM, it'd make some sense for them.

Opportunities for a big pick up come and go, we're not really in the position to take a big swing yet. We don't have enough valuable assets to replace what we'd have to give up. But man...if they're really just trying to dump MKG, Batum, Williams and Dwight; we should chase MKG hard. He's the one other player on that team worth watching for besides Kemba.

How do you feel about the Mark Jackson rumors? I’m not sure I’m crazy about them. I’d love Fizdale tho.
 

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How do you feel about the Mark Jackson rumors? I’m not sure I’m crazy about them. I’d love Fizdale tho.

There's a nice body of evidence to suggest that Mark Jackson is a terrible coach who I don't want anywhere near the Knicks. I'd keep Hornacek over Mark Jackson...Pennywise can stay with the kids over Mark Jackson in my book. Fizdale would be a good pick up and I've had some intelligent basketball heads sell me on Blatt as worth a shot as well, but my real wishlist is this guy ...

Ettore Messina - Wikipedia

I assume he's groomed to replace Pop but NYC has a draw and grabbing someone who has been in the Spurs stable, replaced Pop when he couldn't coach AND has international chops (aka connections) would be a straight up coup. This would be my dream hire but I'll repeat that it's really unlikely to go off.
 

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but my real wishlist is this guy ...

Ettore Messina - Wikipedia

I assume he's groomed to replace Pop but NYC has a draw and grabbing someone who has been in the Spurs stable, replaced Pop when he couldn't coach AND has international chops (aka connections) would be a straight up coup. This would be my dream hire but I'll repeat that it's really unlikely to go off.
Yea, I don’t see this guy leaving a situation as good as the spurs. But I’d love to have someone bring the Spurs culture to this team. Just imagine this team and org as well oiled a machine like the spurs:wow:
 

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Damn man I hope we don't have Mark Jackson. Please God no. Anyone but that fukking guy.
if you think hornacek is bad...you can kill any kind of young player development goodbye with mark....dude had draymond rotting on the bench in favor of david lee old ass









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Mark Jackson would have this team iso-ing and taking mid range jumpers like it's the 90's again:snoop:

The offense could be a lot better now for sure, but I have no faith Mark would make it any better, I'm positive he'd make it worse in fact.
 

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He needs to fix that jumper ASAP.
it aint his jumper...its the fact that he ONLY takes jumpers.
those true shooting stats would look wonky for a lot of players if all they took was jumpshots and never got layups.....and rarely got to the line to help shift that true shooting percentage.
 

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it aint his jumper...its the fact that he ONLY takes jumpers.
those true shooting stats would look wonky for a lot of players if all they took was jumpshots and never got layups.....and rarely got to the line to help shift that true shooting percentage.
Ok but that doesn't change the fact that his jumper needs a ton of work.
 
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