TripleThreat wrote:At some point, even if it's just a matter of principle, you have to STOP jettisoning your young players, esp the ones you are drafting and esp the ones you are trying to develop. While THJr might not be what fans hope or the franchise hopes he could be or should be, hes young cheap cost controlled labor. A team that wins needs a balance. Old legs but wise heads to control the locker room, but you also need some young blood for that energy and fire that only young guys can give you.
You win by flipping an asset for a GREATER asset. And keep doing it, even if it's incremental. It's how the Warriors got better and did so without hitting in the draft lottery for a top 2 pick. It's how Houston got better.
What you don't do is create sinkholes and keep paying to fix a problem you never solve or had solved but screwed it up.
Lin cost NOTHING. He was an undrafted free agent cut loose by other teams. He would cost some cap space to hold onto, but he didn't cost the Knicks to trade a player to get him or a draft pick to take him. Most of his developmental "cost" was carried by other teams ( they ate his first tough year trying to learn the league)
You win by picking up assets like Lin, or if you have to move on from them, then find a way to flip them for something else.
Instead the Knicks let him go for nothing, then TRADED ASSETS to get an inferior player, who to dump, cost MORE ASSETS to move, which ended up with Calderon, who now people are suggesting MORE ASSETS to get rid of.
Think about that, considering using three waves of ASSETS to replace a guy you got for FREE. Who is still better than anyone you tried to replace him with in the duration. This is how losing teams stay losing teams.
Then Houston picks up a guy off the street, Patrick Beverley, who is starting at PG for them.
Other teams are filling holes that cost the Knicks THREE WAVES of assets to still have as a sinkhole and problem.
At some point, you just have to stop. You just have to break the negative cycle and just eat it. Not trading THJr is also a principle issue about how you want to build your team.
The Knicks franchise is like a drug addict. At some point, to get better, you have to take the hit and go through withdrawal. For the Knicks, that means being willing to bear the cost of letting young players learn and make mistakes and develop in time like other franchises let them do.
At some point, you have to accept you are low on ammo, the guys around you are dead, you can't find cover, you are hurt, you are about to be overrun, but you have to make your stand here and now. It's not ideal but it's never going to be totally ideal. Instead, on principle, you decide to dig in and fight your fight here and now. Trading THJr only enables a negative losing culture that wants to delay the inevitable withdrawal needed to get better.
9 mm in caps space vs Tim Hardaway JR and Jose Calderon--thats NOT a non asset--thats a very good player who has proven a lot in the NBA. What do I have in Calderon and Timmy? I have an aging PG who is clearly cycling down and an inconsistent SG who has not tried to play D and wont pass the ball. I don't see how this vote isnt 16-0 this team scks and so does the players. I can accept giving up Tim H rather quickly for that 9mm. In fact its a no brainer.
1/7/2015 8:25 PM