Knicksfan wrote:So it’s incompetent to act on a realistic plan that you have instead of waiting for a meeting on a dream that EVERYONE including the media bullying NY considered impossible because Kawhi would either go to LA or stay in Toronto?

What plan?? We traded Kristaps Porzingis for cap space to sign a star. That was the plan so you see it through. We switched course to overpay scrubs. Meanwhile the franchise was set back years by the Kristaps trade. This is worse than anything Phil did. If you don't see that, then I suggest putting a towel under your knees to prevent rugburn.

Solace wrote:

Knicksfan wrote:So it’s incompetent to act on a realistic plan that you have instead of waiting for a meeting on a dream that EVERYONE including the media bullying NY considered impossible because Kawhi would either go to LA or stay in Toronto?

What plan?? We traded Kristaps Porzingis for cap space to sign a star. That was the plan so you see it through. We switched course to overpay scrubs. Meanwhile the franchise was set back years by the Kristaps trade. This is worse than anything Phil did. If you don't see that, then I suggest putting a towel under your knees to prevent rugburn.

Just because you have chosen your negative narrative to believe doesn’t actually make it a fact. This simplistic view that negates all the flexibility the team actually got, the assets acquired and the real reasoning to sign the players they signed considering the youth, it really sucks.

I get being frustrated for not getting the stars we wanted and being bullied even more on the media, but not to be able to pivot from that into the not spectacular but really solid plan the front office has is sad.

Solace wrote:

Knixkik wrote:Knicks didn’t think they had a shot and needed to get better this summer. I don’t see the big deal here. Getting in a room with kawhi is not the goal , getting better is. If lakers miss out on kawhi they will have missed role players that can help them win a title. We are not in the same situation but can’t afford to end up empty handed this summer with so much money. If you have a shot at him sure, you go for it. Otherwise what’s the point.

If that was the goal why bother with the cap space? You do not create cap space in the NBA to overpay scrubs, sorry. The benefit of a bunch of young players on rookie contracts is they are making peanuts along with potential. Overpaying young players who have low ceilings just caps your overall ceiling.

Knicksfan wrote:

Solace wrote:

Knicksfan wrote:So it’s incompetent to act on a realistic plan that you have instead of waiting for a meeting on a dream that EVERYONE including the media bullying NY considered impossible because Kawhi would either go to LA or stay in Toronto?

What plan?? We traded Kristaps Porzingis for cap space to sign a star. That was the plan so you see it through. We switched course to overpay scrubs. Meanwhile the franchise was set back years by the Kristaps trade. This is worse than anything Phil did. If you don't see that, then I suggest putting a towel under your knees to prevent rugburn.

Just because you have chosen your negative narrative to believe doesn’t actually make it a fact. This simplistic view that negates all the flexibility the team actually got, the assets acquired and the real reasoning to sign the players they signed considering the youth, it really sucks.

I get being frustrated for not getting the stars we wanted and being bullied even more on the media, but not to be able to pivot from that into the not spectacular but really solid plan the front office has is sad.

Its the only realistic narrative. You homers do this every time and every time it blows up and you are positive about the next. I've been going through these Knicks cycles for 20 years. Every time I have a bad feeling about a move the Knicks make, I've been proven right. Trading Porzingis was a four year setback. Its a long road and we don't have a higher ceiling than before we traded Porzingis and we got no free agents.

Here are the facts: Perry and Mills wanted Porzingis out so bad that we got nothing for him. We justified this because DOLAN basically told us we were getting Durant and Kyrie. This was mot the media. Dolan said it himself. If we got them it justified trading Porzingis. If we gor Kawhi it justified it. Neither of those things happened so these a-holes have to be held responsible for trading the next Dirk and getting Dennis Smith Jr who is at best a 7th man off the bench. You don't get up from this bad a mistake. This will go down as one of the worst recent trades in NBA history. You'll see... I would love to be wrong on this. But I'm not. You guys are suckered in by love of the team and not logic. Sorry.

And if this is an attempt to repeat the Nets plan, we can't. They have a good GM and don't have the most distrusted owner in the NBA.