Also, I’m not attacking your boy J. Peterman Ronzone as much as I am two-pronging Joe’s general average draft work AND the general overrated status of the foreign players.

Before we talk international scouting with anyone from Detroit’s front office with any credibility whatsoever, one has to detail and dole out responsibility for 2003’s Darko Milicic, Carlos Delfino, AND Andreas Gliniadakis. They nullify Mehmet Okur.

Also, Knicks drafting of foreign players ( http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/NYK/draft.html ) looks extremely similar to that of the Pistons ( http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/DET/draft.html ), in the sense that nobody TRULY ‘not-from-around-here’ was selected and imported until the last 10 years.

This is much like every other team around the league, since the sport just didn’t offer itself to international markets nearly as much . . . not until the 1990s, that is.

In essence, the Knicks haven’t ‘badly neglected’ the overseas market. They’re overreacting . . . or maybe Detroit stinks at it, too, depending on point of view.

Side note of major importance . . .

Knicks fans, in reality, are not pissed off at the ‘poor quality’ of their foreign picks . . . they’re still mortified from “le dunk de la mort” . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5z5NuwYHF0

What European markets fail to understand about the great sport we love dearly . . .

When someone, such as Weis, the Knicks 1st round pick in 1999, gets dunked on like THAT . . . that person can never again be allowed to touch the ball. They are truly, for all sporting purposes, dead.

And so Knicks fans are still upset they didn’t snag Ron Artest, especially. Even if not Ron, they are upset over missing James Posey, Andrei Kirilenko, HECK, even Kenny Thomas . . . all would have done better in their eyes. Cal Bowdler, even. I mean, anyone . . . ANYONE . . . but Weis.

Detroit fans were able to get the taste of Darko out of their mouth while high-fiving and partying up and down the streets in the summer of 2004. New York fans have been watching that moment in time every day for the last decade.

Still, the world’s tiniest violin plays for James Dolan.

What a waste of space.

Getting back to hoops, John Calipari’s name has been floated around both the Knicks and Bulls openings. I can’t see Ronzone making what’s essentially a lateral move unless he got a serious increase in salary (which the Pistons would probably try to match). Mr D is probably worth more than Dolan.