Second Guessing the Knicks

Kevin Clark and Jared Diamond – of the Wall Street Journal – wrote the following story for the Friday edition: Not to Second Guess, But…  One Measure Says the Knicks Would Be Better With Their Original Draft Picks The “one measure” in this story is Wins Produced.  And I thought I would provide a bit more information on this story. First the back-story: Jared called me earlier in the week with the following question:  If the Knicks kept everyone they drafted recently, how good would that team be? To answer this question, we looked at each player’s Wins Produced.  For the most part we looked at performance in 2010-11.  But for David Lee I took his numbers from 2009-10 (he was hurt by Wilson Chandler of the Knicks this year while playing for Golden State).  And I also took the 2009-10 numbers for Mardy Collins (last time he played) and the 2008-09 numbers from Renaldo Balkman (last time he played more than 100 minutes in a season). After collecting the production numbers for each...