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Originally Posted by Da Grinch
basically in watching the playoffs I am seeing a major differnce in supporting casts , every playoff team has at least 2 players who effectively supliment their star players by
being able to play good defense and hit an outside jumper.
or being able to play on the court by giving his team a bunch more possesions by either being an excellent rebounder, getting steals and blocks , taking charges .
the knicks have too many players who are not good enough or versatile enough to effectively aid their scorers , they dont space the floor and they dont get enough extra possesions .
they were last in blocks.
only 4 teams had less steals than them.
its easy to blame a team's stars when things aren't going well , but if the other team has given their starsthe type of help they need to be most effective , the knicks haven't in alot of cases it wouldn't matter anyway how good your stars are.
a very good start to the rebuilding effort would be draft well and get some role players who are worthy of minutes at the end of games...
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I completely agree with you on how we need to make these sort of moves to build a winner. Last year, I noted how the second round contained an abundance of these sort of players and how we should place greater importance into retaining and making these selections. The Jazz for instance is a perfectly example of how these sort of players can help build a winner. Aside from Deron Williams, their team is composed of late first round and second round picks; Carlos Boozer, Memhet Okur, and Kyle Korver were second rounders while Kirilenko was the 24th pick in his draft. Take a look around the league and you'll notice an even deeper trend that most successful teams have key players that were selected very late in the draft. We have an infinite amount of researchers financially and it is time that we look to invest some of them into more picks in the future. I doubt we'd be sorry about this decision if we did.