Renaldo Balkman.
Listed: 6-7, 206lbs.
Small Forward
Avg 9.6ppg / 6.3rpg
Ranked #52, taken #20th overall
Welcome to my life as a Knick fan. The pick was #20, the choices were endless. The PG's were there (Rondo, Williams, Lowry), a big man was there (Boone) and so too were some shooters (Brown, Ager and again Lowry). But that didn't matter to Zeke. See Zeke wanted a defensive minded person. He loved the way Balkman was a cross between Dennis Rodman and Ron Artest. He was sold on the fact that Willimas won't be any good in this league. He hated that Rondo can't make a jumper to save his mother's life. He didn't need another shooting guard with the 12 that the Knicks have right now and he did not like Boone at #20. So he went outside the box. Way outside the box. Like if the box was in NYC he went to Australia for this one. Reaching, big time. It left Stephen A. Smith speechless. Read that sentence again. I know. Amazing. I thought the fans were going to riot.
The #29 pick was not a bad one. Mardy Collins, a defend first PG from Temple, is a pretty good pick. I assume Isiah is thinking he can also defend smaller two's and that he already has a roster filled with scorers. So I can't kill him for drafting defensive minded players. It's just that the value of the #20 pick did not belong to a guy no one else would touch until round two. If anything you could have taken him with the #29 pick or trade out of the 20th to the second round. Grab Balkman and with #29 take Collins or whoever else. Apparently the Suns were to take Balkman right at #21 so the Knicks had to take him there because they rated him higher than most teams. Just puzzling to me.
I guess only time will tell if Zeke knows what he's doing, so far so bad.
Other draft notables:
- Hawks flub another top 5 pick with Shelden "The Landlord) Williams.
- Boston now have 3 point guards which tells me they will trade somebody for Iverson or Marion. Telfair, Rondo, West -- no team can go into the season with 3 young PG's. I like Telfair alot. I know he hasn't proven much but his passing skills and floor vision is second to none. You'll see.
- Portland baffled me. Trades all over, I think they ended up with Aldridge, Roy and some English dude. Which is a nice bounty of young talent. Roy might be the best player in the draft. Man Atlanta is so stupid. Plus they got a big body late with another trade with Indiana.
- Nets got two Uconn stars. Boone and Williams. Not bad. for #22 and #23.
- Phoenix traded both their picks to other teams and I have no idea what they are doing.
- Gay traded to Memphis for Battier. My head hurts from all the trades. This is like Wife Swap but with no wives involved.
- Sixers got a bunch of players from trades too. Bobby Jones, Edin Bavcic, and Rodney Carney.
I don't know what to make of this.
I feel some more action going on sometime soon.
- Really liked the Bucks scooping up Noel late in round 2. Steal if you ask me.
- More Round 2 action I applaud was Magic's pick of James Augustine. A solid body in the middle that can spell Howard and/or combo together. Dee Brown united with Deron Williams in the Utah backcourt. Speedy Brown is a nice change of pace from the PG play of D-Will.
- Guillermo Diaz for the Clips will be a nice addition. He can shoot it for real and is still improving.
- Notable no picks include Mike Gansey, Kevin Pittsnogle, Darius Washington, and Curtis Stinson.
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I still have no idea who's on what team. Ooops, Randy Foye just got traded again! Chucky Brown, look out, Foye is already 25% of the way to your record. Nets also with Hassan Adams probably picked up three guys who will make their team. Oh and Jerry West still rules. I'm sure there's a reason why he isn't the Knick GM but whatever it is, its not good enough.
And I'll believe this guy is the next Rodman when he's averaging 20 boards a game.
2nd Rd: Leon Powe could be a good pick. James White, I remember him from UF, he's like a poor man's Jason Richardson (who's unstoppable btw in NBA Live, seriously he dunks from the free throw line on every possession). I also like Noel, although I'm biased, I hope he makes it.
i have Trade Bleeding on the brain. it hurts.
I'm actually glad I didn't watch most of it. I chose to catch up later on in the night.
And I was really confused. It took me several minutes to figure out that Randy Foye was not a Boston Celtic.
I don't know what to make of the Sixers picks. Perhaps it is stocking up for the eventual Iverson trade.
I said on Cott's blog that the only guy I actually got to see play live this year was Mardy Collins. I saw him play at the Palestra against St Joe's. He's not bad, but his scouting report has a lot of negatives. He was the best player on Temple, which isn't saying much anymore.
I've also made a decision. I want to come up to New York one time this year to see a Kncks game live just so I can hear the fans insulting their own team this coming season. I think that would be worth some laughs.
York.
Jerry West is awesome. Powe will be good. And White I've seen and agree he can be a talent in NBA
IAM- me too
Steve: Thanks for making me feel better. I now will eat a box of thumbtacks.
Don't forget the no-pick Steve Smith from LaSalle.
The Sixers HAVE to be making a move to get rid of Iverson, and that might be why the Hawks did not take a point guard ... hmmmmm.
I think Steve Smith could be a pro in the NBA. He did work out in Philly recently. I wouldn't be surprised if he hooks on as a free agent and tries to play his way on the team.
Maybe Smith didn't have enough press on him to be drafted, but when I saw him play against St Joe's in the Palestra, I came away impressed.
I was much more impressed this year by Steve Smith than by Mardy Collins. But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
that's hott...all that sports talk and stuff...
i know, isiah could sell an air conditioner to a eskimo
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