misterearl wrote:Emotion"There are multiple stories this morning about how the Boston vets were literally crying about losing Perkins. He meant a lot to their team."
Team. That is a word worth pausing to consider. Meanwhile, the longest tenured Knicks are Toney Douglas and Bill Walker. When "hottest Rookie in the Gaaayyymmmme", Landry Fields is perceived as a veteran, something feels out of balance.
No more trades. Please.
Earl, I agree with you in sentiment, but I think Boston is more of a team than the Knicks were two weeks ago. That same core had won a ring together and got to Game 7 of another championship series. They played together for three years (four if you count this one) - Perkins had been a Celtic for even longer... it's slightly different than the Knicks who traded two free agents signed from last summer and people are acting like they bleed orange and blue.
This was a rebuilding team, a team in flux. Losing Wilson and Gallo just as they were coming into their own hurts, I can't deny that. They felt like real Knicks. I liked Ray a lot and Mozgov had his moments... but those guys had been on the team for 50 games. It's a rebuilding process. I hate to say it, but if Ray, Wil and Gallo had been more consistent and the team was 32-22 instead of 28-26 (aka four games better - a win vs putrid Sacramento woulda helped)... the trade might not have gone down.
You pointed to the Nuggets record as being better than the Knicks in another thread - which seemingly ignores the fact that Billups and Melo were mammoth contributors to the Nuggets record of 33-25 and Gallo, Wil and Ray were mammoth contributors and reasons why the Knicks were 28-26.
