What’s his nickname going to be…above average-sized papi? Better than Pap smear. And that’s an epic beard on Wikipedia. Jorts now has some competition in that department.

Z: But Weis was basically a lottery pick with all-star players still on the board… This was the 48th pick with a bunch of leftovers lingering around. There’s really no comparison.

Hopefully, this guy won’t turn out to be an STD for the Knicks moving forward.

Defense highlights from Euroleague Final 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0FTS9fvm7g

Offense highlights from Euroleague Final 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6qurAC4BVw

Gotta say – since these are just from a game or two (and not like a collection of highlights over a whole year – anyone can fill up a highlight video given 2 years to collect them!) — I’m pretty impressed. He showed a pretty good handle, spin moves, and toughness around the rim. He looks to have a pretty quick release on his J also. And the defense video shows what everyone says about him – that he plays hard and never gives up on a play. He feels like a bigger (but probably slower) Manu — if he can even be 60% of what Manu is, this is a great pick.

Unrelated to us, but what a sh*t sandwich for Daryl Morey IMHO. Unless there’s another big move to be made, you traded your #1 pick, Chase Budinger and Samuel Dalembert (both on GREAT contracts btw) for Jeremy Lamb, Royce White, and Terrence Jones? And you still have Scola, Marcus Morris, Parsons (listed as a PF), Jon Leuer, and Patrick Patterson? Can you start a whole team of PFs? That team is starting to feel like the Othella Harrington Clarence Weatherspoon Knicks.

Unless there’s another move to be made.

Frank:
One thing this pick seems to indicate is that the Knicks are very much expecting to win the Bird Rights case appeal and that they really expect to resign Novak and JR (Lin was coming back regardless).Without Novak and JR, not getting more shooting would have been a total abdication of GM duty.

It also tells us that they expect to sign at least one backcourt guy with the mini-MLE (duh). Assuming it’s someone like Jason Kidd or Kirk Hinrich, we would basically be two deep at every position:

C- TC, JJx2
PF- Stat, Harrellson
SF- Melo, Novak
SG- Shumpert, Fields, JR
PG- Lin, Kidd/Hinrich, TD

We were already arguing about minute distribution last year- I seriously doubt any daft pick would have played at all, and we would have wasted 1 year of a nonguaranteed cheap restricted rookie contract.

I dunno- I think Grunwald has done enough for us to give him a little slack. If they love this Greek kid and don’t think there was a player who would play more than TD does this year,then I agree with taking the best draft and stash guy on the board.

That was exactly what I was thinking with the Papa Doc pick, a Greek man’s melo; they must know that JR is coming back. And I really like Hinrich since he can play both guard spots and play D – not sure what his MV is.

http://thepaintedarea.blogspot.com/

Really sounds a lot like Landry Fields when Fields could shoot.

It also tells us that they expect to sign at least one backcourt guy with the mini-MLE (duh). Assuming it’s someone like Jason Kidd or Kirk Hinrich, we would basically be two deep at every position:

C- TC, JJx2
PF- Stat, Harrellson
SF- Melo, Novak
SG- Shumpert, Fields, JR
PG- Lin, Kidd/Hinrich, TD

We were already arguing about minute distribution last year- I seriously doubt any daft pick would have played at all, and we would have wasted 1 year of a nonguaranteed cheap restricted rookie contract.

I dunno- I think Grunwald has done enough for us to give him a little slack. If they love this Greek kid and don’t think there was a player who would play more than TD does this year,then I agree with taking the best draft and stash guy on the board.

Robtachi:
If the favorable Bird Rights decision gets overturned on appeal, do the Knicks have any sort of grievance they can file on the NBA considering their draft strategy was likely predicated on the idea that they’d be able to re-sign most of their existing depth?Gotta think that if it turns out they have to use the MLE on Lin and lose Novak/JR/others, they would definitely have gone into tonight looking to replace those guys with some rotational players who can contribute this year.A successful appeal would be a pretty huge screwjob at this point.

Howard Beck reported last night that an agreement to settle this will likely be worked out today or tomorrow, which will presumably let these 4-5 players keep their Bird rights, but not players in the same situation going forward, so NY will likely be OK on this.

nicos: How quickly they forget- it’s Douglas, unfortunately.I do think the Knick’s will be able to find a free agent point who’d help them as much as anyone they possibly could have drafted (and hopefully keep TD inactive if he doesn’t regain his shot).

yeah, I think it was made clear in the second half of last season that Douglas can’t be counted on for absolutely any minutes, so he doesn’t count until he proves otherwise.