Many Knicks fans are now scratching their heads. I want to believe that the Oracle knows what he's doing but it's becoming more difficult. Look, maybe last year was inevitably a housecleaning year though not many of us saw it that way before the season started.
But now, Phil is on the clock. There's no more giving him a pass; no more deference just based on who he is. The 2015-16 better be a much better team than last years. They can be much better than last year and still lose 50 games but we have to see real progress. Or things begin to count against him.
http://nypost.com/2015/06/26/how-porzingis-call-puts-pressure-squarely-on-phil-jackson/
Last night's pick of Porzingis may end up being inspired. But like the hard to explain moves of Chip Kelly in the NFL, it had better be. The improvement better start this year. Otherwise he rightly begins to lose NY.
Stephen A. Smith has been very critical of this move. He argues that while Porzingis has real potential-the base case scenario is maybe in 5 years he becomes the next Dirk Nowitzki. However, Smith who is very close to Melo argues that Melo won't like this move-and maybe he has heard something.
Melo has 5 years on this contract so if in 5 years this starts to bare fruit it doesn't help him. What you really would like to ask Jackson in all seriousness is whether or not this is a rebuilding project or are the Knicks coming back soon? If it's rebuilding-and it's hard so see how it isn't, though the Bucks did come back very well this year from an even worse season than the Knicks this past year the year before-then why tie up all this money in Melo?
Even if this is the case, however, the Knicks and Melo may be stuck with each other even if you could argue that both would have been better off had they never tied the knot.
Still, you never know. The conventional wisdom can always be wrong and this time, of course, I hope it is. Porzingis is supposed to be a great shooter and he certainly if nothing else gives the Knicks size at 7 foot 2.
Then there is their trade of Hardaway for the 19th pick which could prove to be a sleeper move-I mean sleeper as not many are discussing it.
"More on this to come, probably, but OH MAN, would that be a coup. Jerian Grant is a big, talented, experienced guard who can do all kinds of things. I don't know him that well beyond watching him in the tournament, but I like him at 19, and I like him a LOT better than Tim Hardaway Jr. I would have been happy trading Hardaway for the 60th pick, for real. This feels like an excellent trade right now. More to come?"
http://www.postingandtoasting.com/2015/6/25/8849245/the-knicks-are-trading-tim-hardaway-jr-for-the-19th-pick-jerian-grant
This is actually Horace Grant's son. Here is more on him.
http://www.draftexpress.com/profile/Jerian-Grant-18095/
The 6 foot 5 Notre Dame point guard has been called by some the best in the country.
http://www.sbnation.com/college-basketball/2014/12/4/7333437/notre-dame-jerian-grant-stats-best-guard?_ga=1.233456407.80090434.1435327193
The Knicks have plenty of needs but a bona fide PG is high on the list-Galloway did show promise in his rookie year but would be happy coming off the bench.
So maybe it's not as bad as it looks. For Phil Jackson it better not be.
But now, Phil is on the clock. There's no more giving him a pass; no more deference just based on who he is. The 2015-16 better be a much better team than last years. They can be much better than last year and still lose 50 games but we have to see real progress. Or things begin to count against him.
http://nypost.com/2015/06/26/how-porzingis-call-puts-pressure-squarely-on-phil-jackson/
Last night's pick of Porzingis may end up being inspired. But like the hard to explain moves of Chip Kelly in the NFL, it had better be. The improvement better start this year. Otherwise he rightly begins to lose NY.
Stephen A. Smith has been very critical of this move. He argues that while Porzingis has real potential-the base case scenario is maybe in 5 years he becomes the next Dirk Nowitzki. However, Smith who is very close to Melo argues that Melo won't like this move-and maybe he has heard something.
Melo has 5 years on this contract so if in 5 years this starts to bare fruit it doesn't help him. What you really would like to ask Jackson in all seriousness is whether or not this is a rebuilding project or are the Knicks coming back soon? If it's rebuilding-and it's hard so see how it isn't, though the Bucks did come back very well this year from an even worse season than the Knicks this past year the year before-then why tie up all this money in Melo?
Even if this is the case, however, the Knicks and Melo may be stuck with each other even if you could argue that both would have been better off had they never tied the knot.
Still, you never know. The conventional wisdom can always be wrong and this time, of course, I hope it is. Porzingis is supposed to be a great shooter and he certainly if nothing else gives the Knicks size at 7 foot 2.
Then there is their trade of Hardaway for the 19th pick which could prove to be a sleeper move-I mean sleeper as not many are discussing it.
"More on this to come, probably, but OH MAN, would that be a coup. Jerian Grant is a big, talented, experienced guard who can do all kinds of things. I don't know him that well beyond watching him in the tournament, but I like him at 19, and I like him a LOT better than Tim Hardaway Jr. I would have been happy trading Hardaway for the 60th pick, for real. This feels like an excellent trade right now. More to come?"
http://www.postingandtoasting.com/2015/6/25/8849245/the-knicks-are-trading-tim-hardaway-jr-for-the-19th-pick-jerian-grant
This is actually Horace Grant's son. Here is more on him.
http://www.draftexpress.com/profile/Jerian-Grant-18095/
The 6 foot 5 Notre Dame point guard has been called by some the best in the country.
http://www.sbnation.com/college-basketball/2014/12/4/7333437/notre-dame-jerian-grant-stats-best-guard?_ga=1.233456407.80090434.1435327193
The Knicks have plenty of needs but a bona fide PG is high on the list-Galloway did show promise in his rookie year but would be happy coming off the bench.
So maybe it's not as bad as it looks. For Phil Jackson it better not be.
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