D’Antoni Needs His Engine

by TKB Staff on June 11th, 2008 at 7:07 am

Alan Hahn’s Knicks Fix as has some interesting tidbits over at Newsday:

Jerryd Bayless was told by coach D’Antoni on Monday at dinner that roster “has all the tools” but an “engine” is needed to make them run.

There is still speculation that the Knicks will deal the number six pick, which is something I have heard from my sources.

It appears Eric Gordon was not healthy during the final month of the season. Some experts are comparing his game to Chauncey Billups.

According to Andrew Marchand of ESPN 1050, Kevin Love has a private workout scheduled with the Knicks on Friday.

Mike Dougherty of the Journal News reports on some of these topics, but gives an update on this thoughts about the possible ZaMike D'Antonich Randolph to Philly rumors.

Wow the blogs this morning are chock full of interesting information. Its been a dry few days as we hit that lull a few weeks before the draft. I have said many times over the last year that the Knicks, although flawed, are not as bad as people think. This team doesn’t know how to win. They also lack consistent focus and toughness. D’Antoni needs a point guard very badly, but he will need to instill the aforementioned if he expects this “engine to run smoothly.” My gut tells me that some of the hype around other talents like Bayless, Gorden, Love, etc. is being used to excite other teams into dealing for the pick. If you could move the Randolph contract, get back a live body, and still maintain a first round pick in the top 20, you would have to consider this proposition. The one word of caution, Donnie Walsh better be sure passing up on some of the names mentioned today will not come back to haunt him.

  • theghostofwillisreed

    i dunno, mike. i kinda want to keep the 6th pick.

  • TAYJONES

    I love the analogy D’Antoni made by asying the Knicks need an “engine” to make them run. I think bringing in Love is to scare Memphis into taking him so the Knicks could get another player to drop in their lap as one possiblity. I am not against trading the 6th pick and randolph as long as we land in the top 15 or 20. But i wouldnt trade the pick if we have a Bayless or Mayo sitting there to take.

  • vino

    As Alan Hahn once said, if the Knicks were to package Randolph with the 6th pick simply to rid ourselves of Zach contract, both of those moves might come back to haunt us. If Zach returns to his 20-10 form and the 6th pick (especially if it is a guard) turns out to be a real player or heaven-forbid an all-star, then we better be happy with our cap space because Walsh will have a tough set of questions to answer.

    I still think that Randolph has trade value on his own, and that including our pick might not be necessary.

  • theghostofwillisreed

    exactly