mreinman wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:Lowry is 29, while he would have made us more competitive, still not enough to put us over the top the next 2-3 years IMO. Hopefully Grant is the answer along with shoring up the roster. I believe Grant can be a starter in this league, but we wont really know until he's had extended PT with the starters.

lowry would have made us a deep playoff team. Him and Melo would have been absolutely sick and those 2 and Tyson.

would have made melo olympic melo

The dude is playing well now, but he won't keep it up. He started fast last year too and started to decline as the year went on. That said, I wis we had a shot at him in free agency. I wouldn't give up a draft pick for him tho.

BigDaddyG wrote:

mreinman wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:Lowry is 29, while he would have made us more competitive, still not enough to put us over the top the next 2-3 years IMO. Hopefully Grant is the answer along with shoring up the roster. I believe Grant can be a starter in this league, but we wont really know until he's had extended PT with the starters.

lowry would have made us a deep playoff team. Him and Melo would have been absolutely sick and those 2 and Tyson.

would have made melo olympic melo

The dude is playing well now, but he won't keep it up. He started fast last year too and started to decline as the year went on. That said, I wis we had a shot at him in free agency. I wouldn't give up a draft pick for him tho.

I think that you say this about him every year yet he will again be a top mvp candidate.

mreinman wrote:Lowry is number 5 in the league in WS48 at a rediculous rediculous .252

Curry is at .387 ... I have never seen such a stretch of domination in any sport.

KP leading the knicks in WS48 with a very good .149 (excellent for a rookie)

The game is now less about the stupid showboating dunks and about smart play, team play and efficiency.

FYI: Afflalo playing this year at his career avg. .087 WS48 (pretty awful yet some believe that he is a big three which is obviously a big joke)

he needs to improve his playmaking. his usage:assist ratio is over 2:1 which is unacceptably high.

BigDaddyG wrote:

mreinman wrote:

BigDaddyG wrote:

mreinman wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:Lowry is 29, while he would have made us more competitive, still not enough to put us over the top the next 2-3 years IMO. Hopefully Grant is the answer along with shoring up the roster. I believe Grant can be a starter in this league, but we wont really know until he's had extended PT with the starters.

lowry would have made us a deep playoff team. Him and Melo would have been absolutely sick and those 2 and Tyson.

would have made melo olympic melo

The dude is playing well now, but he won't keep it up. He started fast last year too and started to decline as the year went on. That said, I wis we had a shot at him in free agency. I wouldn't give up a draft pick for him tho.

I think that you say this about him every year yet he will again be a top mvp candidate.

He declined last year and he had a similar start. I don't recall him being mentioned with Harden, Paul, Curry, Westbrook, Lebron or Davis as an MVP candidates last year.

i think i heard he is in better shape this season. he was always a bit chunky but he's playing leaner now.

CrushAlot wrote:

BigDaddyG wrote:

mreinman wrote:

BigDaddyG wrote:

mreinman wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:Lowry is 29, while he would have made us more competitive, still not enough to put us over the top the next 2-3 years IMO. Hopefully Grant is the answer along with shoring up the roster. I believe Grant can be a starter in this league, but we wont really know until he's had extended PT with the starters.

lowry would have made us a deep playoff team. Him and Melo would have been absolutely sick and those 2 and Tyson.

would have made melo olympic melo

The dude is playing well now, but he won't keep it up. He started fast last year too and started to decline as the year went on. That said, I wis we had a shot at him in free agency. I wouldn't give up a draft pick for him tho.

I think that you say this about him every year yet he will again be a top mvp candidate.

He declined last year and he had a similar start. I don't recall him being mentioned with Harden, Paul, Curry, Westbrook, Lebron or Davis as an MVP candidates last year.

The team started off red hot going 27-7 to start the season. They finished 15-18 and then got swept in the playoffs. I know DeRozan had a horrible groin injury. Not sure specifically about Lowry but I think he was very disappointing in the playoffs.

he was bad in the playoffs but we should of course look at the pieces around him :-)

One of the things that stopped it, I think, was that Dolan was debating hiring Phil Jackson at that time. I sort of think Phil may have put the kibosh on that trade, or at least Dolan did, which led to Phil. And Phil led to Porzingis.

So I look at that missed trade as losing the 2013-4 season of maybe getting to the second round of the playoffs, maybe ECF... but gaining 15 years of Kristaps being a potential franchise player.

We weren't able to trade the 2015 pick, but if we had Lowry, our record surely would have been far too good to get KP.

Life is weird. This one worked out okay for the Knicks.

Though I agree with the overall idea that we need to dramatically upgrade the PG position. I'd love to add Mike Conley, but we'll see what Phil can do.

H1AND1 wrote:

fitzfarm wrote:

mreinman wrote:

BigRedDog wrote:What IF the #1 pick you gave up to get Lowry turned out tp be KP, would you still be pissed we didn't get him? A risk anytime you trade a #1 pick.

I am happy we have KP but that was almost pure luck. Not getting Lowry was just plain stupid.

It would be stupid if we just had Lowry and gave up a franchise player in a unprotected 2015 first round pick

The trade for Lowry was the 2018 pick. We were barred from trading the 2015 and 2017 picks because the 2016 went out in the Brags trade (still hurts to type that out). Still as of today the next future pick we can deal away is 2018.

and that was a trade that we should have made.

crzymdups wrote:

mreinman wrote:

H1AND1 wrote:

fitzfarm wrote:

mreinman wrote:

BigRedDog wrote:What IF the #1 pick you gave up to get Lowry turned out tp be KP, would you still be pissed we didn't get him? A risk anytime you trade a #1 pick.

I am happy we have KP but that was almost pure luck. Not getting Lowry was just plain stupid.

It would be stupid if we just had Lowry and gave up a franchise player in a unprotected 2015 first round pick

The trade for Lowry was the 2018 pick. We were barred from trading the 2015 and 2017 picks because the 2016 went out in the Brags trade (still hurts to type that out). Still as of today the next future pick we can deal away is 2018.

and that was a trade that we should have made.

We never would've gotten KP if we did that. Time to move on.

yup. We lucked out and our terrible decision paid off.

mreinman wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

mreinman wrote:

H1AND1 wrote:

fitzfarm wrote:

mreinman wrote:

BigRedDog wrote:What IF the #1 pick you gave up to get Lowry turned out tp be KP, would you still be pissed we didn't get him? A risk anytime you trade a #1 pick.

I am happy we have KP but that was almost pure luck. Not getting Lowry was just plain stupid.

It would be stupid if we just had Lowry and gave up a franchise player in a unprotected 2015 first round pick

The trade for Lowry was the 2018 pick. We were barred from trading the 2015 and 2017 picks because the 2016 went out in the Brags trade (still hurts to type that out). Still as of today the next future pick we can deal away is 2018.

and that was a trade that we should have made.

We never would've gotten KP if we did that. Time to move on.

yup. We lucked out and our terrible decision paid off.