Knixkik wrote:

Philc1 wrote:

SergioNYK wrote:No more stop gaps or backup's pretending to be starters. We gotta solve this PG issue this summer once and for all!

We’re picking 8th so forget about a pg in the draft.

Brunson, SGA, Fox, D Murray from the Spurs. Hopefully someone of this level (Brunson being the minimum) and age range. Rose as backup. McBride and Jokubaitis are the 2 developmental backups. I don’t really see the need to draft a PG this year. We have everything but a high level starter, which isn’t a given this draft.

Brunson and Jones dont move the needle and you have to spend to get them so what is the point. Those are guys you get when you have nobody. We have somebodys. We have Rose/IQ/McBride and thats good enough to pass on guys like Brunson or Tyus Jones. If the Knicks were to win the lottery and move up to the top 3 packaging that pick. Maybe something like Cam/Obi/Pick#2 for DMurray. Then you resign Mitch and you have a great defensive core and still a bunch of young guys to develop in McBride/IQ/Grimes/Sims.

Of course that is not happening with pick #12 so its a pipe dream.

Best bet is to build chemistry and develop guys and hope someone pops.

Disagree about Brunson not moving the needle. Dude can run a PnR, PnPop, score in the paint, score from three and run a team. The only other guy who can do that on a consistent basis is Rose and he's an injury risk. Check out his stats compared to Fred VanVleet and you can see two guys with similar trajectories: https://stathead.com/tiny/dK9Q9 You can argue how much he should be paid, but you can't argue against his potential impact to this team.
Tyus Jones is just about having competence at the point guard slot. He's young solid and can eat minutes. They probably if they had a real PG running the offense instead of Burks.