KVIP112

If we get a mid round pick I want us drafting Hibbert or Thabeet, a defensive big to come off the bench with Lee is all we need.

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alphaorange

I've been saying this since last year. Defense and outside shooting have plagued this team for a while now.

alphaorange

Hibbert will be top five unless he regresses and Thabeet is not the answer. he is beyond raw and hasn't even done anything at the NCAA level.

alphaorange

Grinch, I never said you claimed us to be a defensive team. I said that IT was emphasizing defense....right. It would also be interesting to see how those offensive teams were on defense as well. My guess is that many, if not most, were also in the top ten in defense. This team is NOT going to be the offensive juggernaut that many think we are. We are just a group of individually offensive talents that will never quite mesh.

Da Grinch

because i dont feel like going back a bunch of years i'll give you info on the last 2 years via knickerblogger.net.

out of 20 possible teams 7 of the teams that were top 10 in offense were also 10 in defense .

18 of those 20 made the playoffs (raptors and sonics from 2005-06 did not)and all 10 from last season ,

FYI the raptors and sonics were actually last and 2nd to last in the league in defense that season (in fact they were last and 2nd to last for the last 11 years they were that bad defensively), so you really are making mountains out of molehills , the knicks would have to regress defensively to the point where they are significantly worse than they were last season on defense to be as bad as those teams were 114.3 points per 100 possesions for the raptors and 115.9 for the sonics ...the knicks last season were at 110.7, i dont see that happening they have added more defensive players and the defensive players they already have except for james should all be better if only marginally than they were last year for reasons of health and experience .

i am not calling them a jugganaught but after a horrible novemeber they made it to the top 10 by mid march i dont see why they would be worse than that with randolph instead of frye ...if they had the injuries they had last season i dont think it would have been as bad simply because randolph is on the roster because he could pick up some of the slack ...whereas last season no one else did.

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Numero Uno

This team isn't good, it hasn't been good, and it won't be good for a while.

ChosenFEW

hmmmm.........

i wonder what people think now lol.....

its amazing what a few wins or losses will do

by the way alpha. I WILL bump this thread when the knicks make the playoffs

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I have feelings too, no one ever wants to talk about them though. I end up just bottling them up inside. I dont think its very healthy.

Truknicksfan

Im bumping this thread to give Alpha some props. Saw this coming before game one of the regualr season.

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knickstorm

i think by oct 19 we all knew this team was trash.........i mean they just got whooped by the celtics by 40 then the nets in back to back games...........too bad we didnt get that demetris nichols, probably would've saved the day for us.