holfresh wrote:

fwk00 wrote:

ramtour420 wrote:Yeah, I thought Jennings was a good singing, too bad we couldn't keep him, whatever the reason I don't know. Noah and Rose were gambles that did not pan out. Rose will come off the books and free up a lot of cap space and Lopez is not needed with all the big men we have. We could have gotten more for him than cap relief tho. Maybe even a first rounder? The only real mess up is Noah. I like Phil but he really screwed this up badly.

Noah was part of a package deal to manage Rose. And Noah was a legitimate rotation version the kinds of rotation players Phil values. Enthusiasm is contagious especially coming from respected vets. You have to stop counting money. It ain't about that.

Nonsense..You don't give a 32 year old player coming off two years worth of injuries 17 mil per over 4 years to manage a guy on a one year contract..

With logic like that, I can pretty much guarantee fwk00 works in the front office.

Here's an article from last summer

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/knicks/knicks-players-carmelo-anthony-job-win-article-1.2704968

So Phil Jackson reached the correct conclusion after a recent meeting with an increasingly impatient Carmelo Anthony: As long as Anthony is here and All-Star capable, the 31-year-old’s career timeline should be placated. If not, what’s the point of paying him $124 million with a no-trade clause?

“One of my questions to Carmelo was, you know, we haven’t made the playoffs and now this is three years, two years, since I’ve been here — are we moving quickly enough for you and your anticipation of trying to be into a competitive playoff situation?” Jackson said. “I think that was our conversation and established the fact of his desire, the idea that he is getting into an age where things have to happen for him. So we decided to activate ourselves.

This is Anthony’s responsibility now. His burden to win games. No more excuses or demands through the media. That was the implication Friday from Jackson, who reversed the roles after a year of Anthony publicly pleading that the team president be better at his job.

Jackson revealed Anthony asked for a point guard in their meeting, and how he, Jackson, quickly turned that request into Derrick Rose. Once the deal was completed, the Knicks were “activated,” to steal Jackson’s buzzword, into their win-now plan that aligns more with Anthony’s desires. Aside from the presence of Kristaps Porzingis — which should never be underestimated — it’s like the first two years under Jackson don’t exist. A waste of time and triangle seminars.”

EnySpree wrote:He messed up trying to satisfy Melo with a win now approach....... but he didn't mortgage the future by doing so. Noah is the only bad contact, but to his defense he wanted him regardless for his leadership. Rose and Jennings are of the books after this year. Lee and Lance are on cap friendly deals. We have plenty of promising young players. We have all our future picks. We have cap space....

Man up and see what's really going on

Noah will be an expensive but valuable piece next year off the bench.