Posted by Bonn1997:
Exactly. Briggs, nixluva, misterearl and others act like this was a team that won 110 games over the past two seasons when they've actually lost that number. And most of the players have made it to the playoffs on average about once every ten years that they've been in the league. Other than a few of the young players, this is a group of losers.
How are we acting like the team won 110 games? Just because we value more of the players we have, who have actually all come from good programs by the way, over some unknown quantity in the draft? The players we have that are young have shown that they CAN play in this league. We don't know anything about the guys in the draft other than a guess that they might be pretty good. Unless we're talking about players that are completely useless, it's hard to make a case for a #15 pick over any of our young players. Now some of the vets we have are bad players or are too old. But they don't really factor into what this team is going to be doing over the next few years so it's not that big of a deal.
By the way MOST of the players on this team are NEW to the team, having been added over the last 2 seasons. Only Steph, Craw and Malik have been here longer than that. We had 3 sophs and 2 rooks getting playing time this year. I would hope that as fans we could be a bit more patient with such young players. If it came down to it, a trade for a pick might be preferable, but I would get too carried away with this line of thinking. It's all hypothetical and not based on any kind of reality.
The idea of trading Curry for anyone in this draft other than Oden or Durant is just assinine. I mean come on now! For all of his faults, the guy is a few short steps away from being All Star caliber. Can we be just a little bit realistic. 2 more bounds, a block and an assist more per game and you're looking at a Knicks All Star representative.
