whysoserious488 wrote:
+1,000,000!!!!
WE ARE NOT A TANKING TEAM, PERIOD. Tanking teams do not have a top 10 player in the league IN HIS PRIME. The concept of tanking with Melo on the roster in his prime is just laughable. The Knicks situation is so much different than that of Philly, Utah, Minnesota, Milwaukee, etc. We are not developing a star young player this season. We barely even have any young guys on the roster. To the extent Phil can make in-season trades to improve the team (while not hurting us long-term), he should absolutely do it. Fisher needs to establish a winning culture among the players that will be here in 2015 and beyond. He needs to establish his system. He needs to make himself and the team look like attractive options for free agents in 2015. If we end up with a lottery pick because the team just wasn't good enough to qualify for the playoffs, so be it, it's a consolation. Nobody should be rooting for that though. A 19 year old kid does not help a 2015 win-now Knicks roster with Melo as the centerpiece. You'd be a fool to think it would. Look at how quickly Lebron shipped out Wiggins from his win-now team and ANY FAN IS LYING TO THEMSELVES if they think this season will result in the Knicks getting a draft prospect better than Wiggins. So fans need to just stop the tank nonsense, the tank talk, it's embarrassing quite frankly.
And look who they got for Wiggins. A ready made all-star in Kevin Love.
No one says we have to keep the pick. But high draft picks have trade value. You could always trade the pick for a all-star caliber player and then sign one FA and then bam you have 3 all-stars on your team.
Kinda like how the Celtics did it with Pierce.
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