HofstraBBall wrote:

arkrud wrote:

Knixkik wrote:Front office said they were going to build this team around the youth and signed guys to block their development. They should have only signed a couple of these guys to help provide vet leadership. All 7 they signed expected to be rotation players. Not sure what was expected there , other than blocking playing time for most of the young guys. Just such a strange plan. If they signed maybe 3 out of the 7 is makes more sense. You’re still focused on developing but add a few solid vets to stabilize things. But why sign this many guys where it’s almost a certainty many will end up unhappy and think low of the knicks. It contradicts the whole “culture “ aspect they were selling. Could have added Randle or Morris (not both), Taj and Payton and kept everything else status quo.

There are money to be spend... This all group is on the short trial.
You try more players you have more opportunities to find something useful.
Everyone has to much expectations about how fast young players can be developed and team constructed from nothing or even less that nothing.
It is extremely difficult to strike the balance and impossible to do a perfect job.
We literally had nothing to hold on to after top FA understandably refused to waste their prime time with destroyed franchise.

Many have said that the cap money should have been saved to take on contracts and receive draft picks.

I argued for that and became a Pyriah at the time

Was told that we could get assets later on trading these vets. Maybe Morris can get an asset. No one will give a pick for the others. Nothing worth a damn

Our FO is a clown show.

Chandler wrote:

HofstraBBall wrote:

arkrud wrote:

Knixkik wrote:Front office said they were going to build this team around the youth and signed guys to block their development. They should have only signed a couple of these guys to help provide vet leadership. All 7 they signed expected to be rotation players. Not sure what was expected there , other than blocking playing time for most of the young guys. Just such a strange plan. If they signed maybe 3 out of the 7 is makes more sense. You’re still focused on developing but add a few solid vets to stabilize things. But why sign this many guys where it’s almost a certainty many will end up unhappy and think low of the knicks. It contradicts the whole “culture “ aspect they were selling. Could have added Randle or Morris (not both), Taj and Payton and kept everything else status quo.

There are money to be spend... This all group is on the short trial.
You try more players you have more opportunities to find something useful.
Everyone has to much expectations about how fast young players can be developed and team constructed from nothing or even less that nothing.
It is extremely difficult to strike the balance and impossible to do a perfect job.
We literally had nothing to hold on to after top FA understandably refused to waste their prime time with destroyed franchise.

Many have said that the cap money should have been saved to take on contracts and receive draft picks.

I argued for that and became a Pyriah at the time

Was told that we could get assets later on trading these vets. Maybe Morris can get an asset. No one will give a pick for the others. Nothing worth a damn

Our FO is a clown show.

The signings haven't worked out as well as they could but the worst case scenario has always been that they expire no matter what with just one or two exceptions. That Porzingis cap space is still there if that becomes the inevitability.

More likely, these under-performing contracts will be bundled into a trade that returns a contract one of the other teams will save money in dumping.

IMO, it doesn't matter if the incoming player is an upgrade or not as long as it clears up some of the roster for more promising players.