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[Briancuse]

Phil Jackson reportedly fell asleep while working out a potential lottery pick

Im surprised he actually did some work in the first place.

 

[br801]

That's pretty zen.

He was just astral traveling to the future to see how the kid's career was going to turn out.

 

[kirbivore]

 

[Toga]

Zen on drafting his 18 year old Euro.
“We’ll take whatever his advancement is as a player,” said Jackson, who declined Thursday to elaborate on the nature of trade talks regarding Porzingis. “If he has to grow into that role and come off the bench and become a player who has to learn how to play the game, that’s fine.”
With the 8th pick. Not even a player who has to learn how to play the game but one who aspires to become a player who one day might be a player who has to learn the game. Well done sir. Well done.

 

[cuseattle]

Phil takes a lot of crap, as he should.

Thing is, the only thing the GM could do in his situation is stand pat and not trade any picks.

He didn't Isiah the whole thing up.

 

[Briancuse]

Phil takes a lot of crap, as he should.

Thing is, the only thing the GM could do in his situation is stand pat and not trade any picks.

He didn't Isiah the whole thing up.

He should have taken Dennis Smith.

 

[br801]

He should have taken Dennis Smith.

He went for the best available triangle point guard.

 

[Briancuse]

He went for the best available triangle point guard.

Phil needs to take his triangle with him back to Montana.

 

[Trueblue25]

Dennis Smith Jr. made far too much sense for the Knicks, therefor they had to draft another foreign dude.

 

[Knicks411]

Phil takes a lot of crap, as he should.

Thing is, the only thing the GM could do in his situation is stand pat and not trade any picks.

He didn't Isiah the whole thing up.

He could also not go out of his way to alienate the franchise player

 

[Alsacs]

Phil was now after the fact clearly sending a message to Porzingis.

He used the media to do so but if I am Porzingis I don't care and if the team has to placate one of Himself or Phil it's obvious who they should support.

Jim Dolan is using Phil as a 65 million dollar shield.

 

[MikeSU02]

Phil needs to take his triangle with him back to Montana.

The thing is, Monk would have been the best triangle PG. Ron Harper, Derek Fisher, etc.

Monk isn't a natural PG, but Dennis Smith is a PnR / downhill PG which would have been tough for the triangle.