South_Aussie_Magic

Someone has a personal vendetta against us? Let's not tar the whole country with the brush of Ben Simmons. That'd be liked saying avoid Croatian guys because Mario Hezonja couldn't handle it and still won't admit that's on him. Avoid US born players because of countless crazies (Marbury, Brian Williams/Bison Dele, can't be bothered thinking of anymore right now). Also, please .... we do not claim Kyrie and he does not want us either. Which is good. Josh Giddey is a lovely kid, and along with Dante (who there is nothing wrong with personality wise - he's just not as good as we hoped), Patty and a bunch of others we are usually alright with who represents us. Having said that, the G League path is still really making it hard to say who will thrive and who will not. No point saying Daniels will be ok because of last years guys. I'd be ok with it mid first round or later but yeah, don't want to leap either.

Man, I will give you every other guy all days of the week but.. .not Randle lol

This is one of the biggest causes of excitement for me at the moment. If he can distribute as he has been to, as you said, misfits - better scorers should make for pretty good assist fodder. I want him to succeed almost as much as I want the team to get back on the right track in general. Wish I could have watched, instead of being stuck in this office..

Wow 6 blocks for Mo ... again.. he's more consistent than he used to be and he's done it tonight against not bad competition but I hope it's not too little too late there.

especially while we have Ignas Jordanius on the floor

Well there's still no point in pushing his minutes restriction is there really?

Cue Iggy winning us games like he did at the end of last year when all meaning has been lost. Seriously, we'd have another rotation player if he wasn't just an "end of the season" guy :|

well hindsight, will as usual, tell the story. We clung on to nothing before umming and ahhing our way into a team around Vuc and I will be happy to not watch that nonsense unfold again

Specific orders FTL! It sucks but this race to the bottom is way too close. At the all star break it looked like it was going to be an easy going ride but everyone is going in for the tank right now. We aren't doing anything that Houston and OKC aren't doing. I think OKC is even more egregious and Houston are easily just as young as we are. Pacers are falling fast, Pistons are like us in that they barely have enough future talent to scrape through the odd win. Really can't wait for the next couple of weeks to be done really. As much as I want us to get our guy I want OKC to just fail so hard. Everything about the franchise rubs me up the wrong way. Except Giddey. I still love that kid. He's coming back here in a few weeks to do some camps for locals, which is just a bit crazy for this little town of mine.

We are all playing the waiting game. And as Homer says, the waiting game sucks.

We aren't anywhere near there yet. And that was said about the old team as well before it was mishandled. We do have a couple of years before it becomes an issue but I am sure the guys on the roster understand what we need to break the mediocrity cycle. We won't want all of them by the end either, I just hope the FO we have now makes better choices about who to keep and continues to target a game changer. The problem with Aaron as well was he sometimes thought he could be "the guy" but never had it in him to make the leap. Unfortunately, he wasn't the only one who thought a leap would come

well it will if we never get "the guy" ... but if we do get our guy there's no reason we shouldn't see some improvement. we haven't acquired a franchise player since dwight

race to the bottom is tightening up

Sorry, I lost the energy to post.... I am quietly pleased with the flashes i've seen from our youngsters and am quite ok with this year. But yeah, finding the energy to express anything has been... hard

do we think he's going to be the older guy who transcends the stereotype like Lillard or Mitchell? This freaking draft can't come soon enough.

Haven't had one of these for a while

Or MAYBE they just don't want to see us miss out on another top 3 pick because of needless wins at the end of a season... hahhhhh.

I am VERY torn. Kelle is definitely my favourite in the league at present. Our favourite franchise getting a future all-NBA scoring stud is also my favourite scenario for the future. Argh.

I honestly feel like people on the outside of the Knicks bubble don't realise or believe how bad things are until they get in there and feel the fire for themselves. I imagine working for Dolan would be like constantly having your *ahem* manhood in a vice at his mercy. Working for them being a massive double edged sword. If you succeed in spite of the organisational toxicity, you'd be a hero. But if you fail... well, your value for anything in the future is tanked.. Leon Rose probably felt at the top of the world last year but may be going insane at this point. Not going to say you're wrong either Babir, the Knicks would be rotten from the ground up especially.

Fournier is cursed, man

The time his free throw was blocked by his dreads really felt like a nadir for this franchise. I don't care if we are bottom of the standings this year, nothing was as depressing as that time.

only problem here is... who is ben stinar lol

welp. fingers crosses. cheers

in the midst of a mental day at work... what happened to Jalen?

For all the talk of Elton Brand being this stand up guy, he has been the front office main man for a while now and I will never forget him promising to team up with prime Baron Davis, waiting for him to sign up with LAC and then burning them for the 76ers money... which he didn't exactly live up to either. I wonder how much of him and 76ers ownership are of that mentality to screw people. And Morey can be a dick too, with his counterparts in other organisations anyway, but this was a problem before then.