Posted by BasketballJones:

Posted by Bippity10:

Posted by BigC:

I am not surprised that the Knicks are not making any big changes. As a matter of fact this is what I wrote about the Knicks in the first week of July.

If you are expecting blockbuster trades to happen this offseason you might be a little dissappointed. The bottom line is the Knicks can not and will not start trading players left and right. After all isn't that what got Isiah in the big mess that he was in? Isiah made too many trades instead of playing things out. Now you have fans that want Walsh to have an itchy trading finger like Isiah? Why ask for a new general manager if you want the new gm to have a personality of the previous one?

That's a great paragraph. We have been so trained to want a blockbuster deal with every trade. We have no patience for the typical nonsense maneuvering that rebuilding teams do.

There's a great sentence or two there.

nothing wrong w/questioning the logic behind individual moves... no one's losing any sleep over the fact we lost Balkman, trust me... we just wanna see a logical reason behind it.

Posted by TMS:

Posted by BasketballJones:

Posted by Bippity10:

Posted by BigC:

I am not surprised that the Knicks are not making any big changes. As a matter of fact this is what I wrote about the Knicks in the first week of July.

If you are expecting blockbuster trades to happen this offseason you might be a little dissappointed. The bottom line is the Knicks can not and will not start trading players left and right. After all isn't that what got Isiah in the big mess that he was in? Isiah made too many trades instead of playing things out. Now you have fans that want Walsh to have an itchy trading finger like Isiah? Why ask for a new general manager if you want the new gm to have a personality of the previous one?

That's a great paragraph. We have been so trained to want a blockbuster deal with every trade. We have no patience for the typical nonsense maneuvering that rebuilding teams do.

There's a great sentence or two there.

nothing wrong w/questioning the logic behind individual moves... no one's losing any sleep over the fact we lost Balkman, trust me... we just wanna see a logical reason behind it.

I think you are being rationale and some others are as well. But there are clearly some on the site who are pulling their hair out over every Anthony Roberson signing. I stand by my words. You can critique any trade, but I think if you are critiquing these trades in a vaccuum than you are off the mark. That's my opinion.

BBall Jones: Shutup

Posted by LBeast:

If you want to move a large contract like Randolph and get cap relief you're going to have to take the hit in terms of the talent coming back to your team.

If Walsh does manange to trade Randolph, people are going to be upset with what we get back. It'll be lesser players, maybe a 2nd round pick. And most of you will refuse to see the big picture.

Posted by nixluva:

I think Walsh wants to avoid the Pau Gasol type deal where people feel that he was given up for far too little and it comes back to bite you. There's truly no rush to make a move. This thing is gonna take a lot more work to get to where we want to be and we've got 2 years before we need the cap space for the big "FA Migration". It's a good move to be patient under the circumstances, even tho fans will be itching to see a move made rather than see pretty much the same group go out on the floor again.