OooSplendiforous wrote:
If you sign even one big name you guys are making the playoffs next year meaning that the Knicks and the Nets will have similarly slotted 1st rounders next year. Also if all else fails the picks in 2011 and 2012 have protection on them.. So you really have no draft advantage in 2011 over us.A guy like LeBron James is too big for the city of Newark. Do you see howoften that city is on the news, one of the highest crime rates and MOST MURDERS in the United States. How is that not a deterrant? Also I'd personally take Danilo Gallinari over Brook Lopez and I am not that big of a Gallo fan. T-Will is a nice player but he's not better than Chandler. Favors we'll see. It's not as if your core is THAT much better than ours. If Toney Douglas pans out into the player some think he can be, then the margin is even smaller.
Next year...you will have the lower of two picks between you and Houston. So if Yao comes back and they can parlay some of those nice assets you sent them into a trade or two...they could easily be sending you a late first. Now...if we have Lebron and you have no one...you dont think watching the Rockets use your lottery pick making it 3 years in a row your lottery pick is elsewhere a sad state of affairs? And the following year...your protection is a first overall pick. That's it. So odds are high that should you get shutout...that will be 4 years in a row...your lottery pick is helpng someone else.
As for Gallo over Brook. I wont waste time debating that one. Hopefully you can have someone else set you straight on how much more valuable Brook is. Brook was as good last year as Lee was..except with shot blocking. But the bigger difference is when talking core...Brook is back with us where Lee is being kicked to the curb from your 29 win team as you go recruiting.
Our cores is massively better. Its really not close. You have two small forwards, a back up PG, and of course Curry who hasnt played in few years...and your goal is to get the best SF in the world to play for you.
We have the the best big man in this draft, the best center on a rookie contract in the NBA...and most wil tell you...he is the best young big in the game now named Dwight Howard right now.
Devin Harris was an all star PG 2 years ago...and we didnt get to Twill, courtney Lee or Damion Jones taken in this draft who was a pretty decent pick up.
Come on now. Talk ticket sales all you want...but prospects??? Come on now. That is just bad.