BRIGGS wrote:I know as a Knick fan--patience is our best friend. I'll tell you what--you guys pick out a game later in the season as LONG as the tank continues--and tickets to a game are on me. Ill support the team if they make smart longer term movbes.

that'd be awesome briggs. its been a while since we've had a get together. i missed you the one time that i remember you also went.

yellowboy90 wrote:I thought Chandler was worth a future 1st and they should have ask for Wright.

djsunyc wrote:a bit confused. what is there to judge on the trade 4 or 5 years down the road? tyson's presence in ny would be holding back which player's development? jose's presence is helping which player's development? shane's option was not picked up so in 4-5 years, he may be in europe.

I think also that just cuz Phil mentioned 4-5 years doesn't mean that he means nothing will happen until 4 years from now. It just means that over the course of time you can see what those players do or turn into. Phil is taking the long view. Usually things have a natural progression when it comes to young players. People take these things too literally and don't read into the points made. He can still have a vision of having Jose as a backup PG going forward so why is it not valid to talk of him since he is in fact under contract. Phil will be making major changes to this roster in all likelyhood since we have such a number of ending contracts coming this summer.

Despite the results so far this year, Phil is probably looking to continue to develop some of the young players he's collected in D League and guys like Acy and Wear. Every team needs to develop cheap role players who can grow up in the system. San Antonio has done this and some of those players looked useless early on but now have been developed and they contribute as role players for them.

The media has had a field day with the teams struggles and not even a year into Phil's tenure and they're slamming his moves already. None of these guys has a clue what Phil has in mind for the roster going forward but it's easy to take pot shots when you have a poor season like this.

smackeddog wrote:I like how phil has opened up the org- remember the dark days of secrecy?

It's odd that he talks about judging the trade in 5 years, but only mentions Jose (will be retired), Dalambert (is already trash) and Larkin (didn't pick up his option). If he'd mentioned Early and the Greek kid and we'd picked up Larkin's option I'd understand.

These tweets are proof he's embraced the tank now though- like he says, everyone just sit back and relax!

smackeddog wrote:

mreinman wrote:

yellowboy90 wrote:I thought Chandler was worth a future 1st and they should have ask for Wright.

+100

that is exactly who I would have wanted.

Dallas is not that dumb.

We ended up with Larkin (picked in the middle of the first round the year before) and two second rounders and got rid of Felton. Why are people acting like a late first rounder is one million times better? Do they think we would have drafted MJ the second?

It is what it is but not getting a young big back for Tyson was a mistake even if you thought Dalembert could duplicate his career production. Wright has pretty good numbers as shooter. He was an expiring to so they would have had a choice to use his bird rights or cut/trade him if it didn't work out.

You win some and you lose some. Hopefully Phil learns and gets better. He is right though if some how Cleanthony and/or Thannasis become solid players then the trade will look better.