knickscity wrote:Rebuilding teams don't have the majority of their starting lineup as vets, and there is nothing fun about losing.

totally agree, there is absolutley nothing fun about losing. How would it look for the HARLEM Globe trotters do all that fancy stuff only to lose.

I'm sure Kings fans are over JOY with a talent like cousins, but would trade him in a minute for winning season

knicks1248 wrote:

knickscity wrote:Rebuilding teams don't have the majority of their starting lineup as vets, and there is nothing fun about losing.

totally agree, there is absolutley nothing fun about losing. How would it look for the HARLEM Globe trotters do all that fancy stuff only to lose.

I'm sure Kings fans are over JOY with a talent like cousins, but would trade him in a minute for winning season

This team is getting younger and really isn't locked, long term, into any older player except Melo. KP and the other under 30 players on the roster outnumber the old guys and so in essence it's a mostly younger team. They don't all have to be 20 years old for it to be a rebuild. No doubt this team is more likely to get younger soon.

TEAM ROSTER
NO.	NAME	            POS	AGE	HT	WT	2015-2016 SALARY
3	Jose Calderon	    PG	34	6-3	200	$7,402,812
17	Lou Amundson	    PF	33	6-9	220	$1,635,476
7	Carmelo Anthony	    SF	31	6-8	240	$22,875,000
18	Sasha Vujacic	    SG	31	6-7	195	$947,276
4	Arron Afflalo	    SG	30	6-5	210	$8,000,000
8	Robin Lopez	    C	27	7-0	255	$12,650,000
42	Lance Thomas	    SF	27	6-8	235	$1,636,842
1	Kevin Seraphin	    C	26	6-10	278	$2,814,000
9	Kyle O'Quinn	    PF	25	6-10	250	$3,750,000
11	Cleanthony Early    SF	24	6-8	210	$845,059
2	Langston Galloway   SG	24	6-2	200	$845,059
23	Derrick Williams    PF	24	6-8	240	$4,000,000
13	Jerian Grant	    PG	23	6-4	195	$1,572,360
6	Kristaps Porzingis  PF	20	7-3	240	$4,131,720

Lopez, DWill, Galloway, Grant, Thomas even, their best years are ahead of them. KP obviously as well. That's 6 guys we have who should have their best years ahead of them. I don't think it's always about having rookies/sophmores. Additionally in our case, we can't even lose to draft high. We have no pick this year. Trying to win as many games as possible with a few veterans has helped us look better to free agents and helped KP's, Galloway's and our young player's confidence. You can see many of these guys will come back next year even stronger and more confident.

So we are getting better in a few ways.

1- Internally. KP, Galloway, Grant. All 1 year or less in the NBA. We've got a pretty talented kid in Spain coming over maybe next year.
2- Through free agency. This past year we signed Lopez. I don't know what we can do this year, but even if we get 1 replacement for Afflalo/Calderon, who is in his prime, that's a pretty good improvement. 2 starters would just be fantastic.
3- We've left the window open that if an all-star like Westbrook or someone like that in 2017 wants to jump on the wagon, we can make it happen.

The keys will be that we need our internal improvement guys like Porzingis, Gallo and Grant to keep getting better and better at their current roles. Be able to do even more. And the other key is to be able to sign free agents to replace veterans like Afflalo/Calderon, but who are better than those 2, younger as well. It won't be easy. However we have the situation here to get really good. Biggest concern I have right now is the head coach. I'm not sure Rambis is the guy longterm we want. Good to close out this year. Good for KP. Good for getting in the Triangle reps. Next year we need to go hard after Luke Walton and also be open to bringing in some of the sets Luke/Kerr run in Golden State. Be open to running both the Triangle, and early high tempo offense. To do that we do need a much better ballhandling guard than Calderon, which will likely be our focus in free agency anyway.