Meet Jordan Hill (middle). Jordan Hill is your newest New York Knick. He also looks like what would happen if former Knick first round picks Renaldo Balkman and Channing Frye re-enacted a scene from Brokeback Mountain. Hopefully, Hill's career will turn out a little better than these two legendary Knicks. Morelikely he'll go the Balkman rout and decide he'd like to spend more time with Sour Diesel and Mr. Grey Goose than in the paint with Dwight Howard. Or he could Frye it up and think more about what his next blog post should be rather than trying to get a rebound. The Knicks have drafted a man with the same barber as Renaldo Balkman, and a man with the same pedigree as the great Channing Frye (also the Knicks' last number 8 pick). The best big man to ever come from Arizona: Sean Rooks. Nice. So while the Knicks may have, for now, failed to land the floppy haired wunderkind from Spain, Hill certainly ups the amount of ink in their locker room (watch out Wilson Chandler), adds a guy that has the same haircut as Rick James, and probably had a tough time beating Robert Dozier's SAT scores. While cautiously optimistic that he can play in the NBA, Hill may end up to be the next Amare Stoudemire--or (more likely) the next Renaldo Frye.
He must not succumb to his weaknesses:
"A player in the mold of Channing Frye -- one not highly recruited out of high school, but has shown tremendous ability" -(Arizona Athletics Player Bio)
"While he has made strides with his maturity, there are still periods of lackadaisical play that he goes through. A part of the problem could be his hands, often times he doesn’t catch the ball clean" -NBADRaft.net
"Weaknesses: Decision Making, Average Basketball IQ, Questionable Hands, Older than class peers." -DraftExpress
At least we have Danillo "The Camel" Gallinari.
Relax, my fellow Knick fans, I'm sure Hill has a little more flow than Stephen Curry:
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