Posted by BasketballJones:

Posted by Rich:

Posted by BlueSeats:

Sage, when teams want to get under the cap - a proposition Isiah himself floated for the Knicks - they trade longer contracts for shorter ones. If a GM constructs a team with no players he is willing or able to do that with then his plan falls far short of his stated objective.

Exactly. It seems so obvious.

Posted by nixluva:



We all knew that he would be very interested in adding a stud. He said many times that he felt the team was one star away and even if you don't like this move it made sense. Also there could be another move made. It's still very likely that Isiah isn't done.

Posted by nyk4ever:

Posted by nixluva:



We all knew that he would be very interested in adding a stud. He said many times that he felt the team was one star away and even if you don't like this move it made sense. Also there could be another move made. It's still very likely that Isiah isn't done.

It's always "Isiah may not be done yet" with you. When is Isiah going to be done? I'm still waiting for a real friggen team to take the court.

Posted by TheSage:

The longer contracts for shorter ones are designed for a teams to reduce the obligation so that they can get under the cap. But 1-any trade has to balance salaries within x% at the time of the trade without looking down the road and 2- if the object is to get under the cap you have to get under by enoiugh to offer a max contract in the initial year.

Posted by TheSage:

Even if the knx were not to have made the trade for Randolph they would not have been significantly under the cap by 2010. Just resigning the young group of Frye, Lee, Balkman, Morris, Nate would have left them at the 50MM mark with Curry, Craw etc. This would not have left sufficiently under the cap to sign a major star in the 12-15 MM range to start.

I don't like Thomas, he's a con man who does know talent but is a poor team architect however give him some credit for this trade. He's added scoring and rebounding without giving up very much.

I've never seen this kid Nichols but from all indications can shoot the lights out. Anyone know if he's quick enough to play outside and guard the 2?

Posted by TMS:

Posted by TheSage:

Even if the knx were not to have made the trade for Randolph they would not have been significantly under the cap by 2010. Just resigning the young group of Frye, Lee, Balkman, Morris, Nate would have left them at the 50MM mark with Curry, Craw etc. This would not have left sufficiently under the cap to sign a major star in the 12-15 MM range to start.

I don't like Thomas, he's a con man who does know talent but is a poor team architect however give him some credit for this trade. He's added scoring and rebounding without giving up very much.

I've never seen this kid Nichols but from all indications can shoot the lights out. Anyone know if he's quick enough to play outside and guard the 2?

who's to say the Knicks would be obligated to re-sign guys like Frye, Morris, Nate to begin with? do you think for a second the Knicks would compromise their chances at a guy like Lebron or Kobe so that they could re-sign those guys? well, considering they just forfeited that chance by trading for Zach Randolph, maybe you have a point there.