TripleThreat wrote:BRIGGS wrote:We have almost nothing. We can't compete at an athletic level.
And yet, curiously, almost about twice a week, you talk about trading these same players to other teams for assets.
You can't have it both ways Briggs. You can't lament a player like Calderon and demand he be jettisoned via the stretch provision one week then try to make a compelling argument ( let's emphasis the word "try" here) that he's a perfect fit to send over for Jrue Holiday and other pieces.
You can't laud a player for giving a team statistic X and counting number Y and say who else can give those numbers then decide that player is only going to make 4 million over two years for the Knicks on some wildly out of whack to market conditions contract. You can't have it both ways.
The current NBA landscape, no team near the top got there overnight. It tooks YEARS and YEARS to get there for those teams. Many had to build their asset base slow and painfully. And yet despite all this, you keep demanding the Knicks sacrifice future assets to swing for the fences, because you believe Prospect X and Prospect Y can't miss, that it's impossible for them to do anything but produce at a historic rate, contrary to just about all known rate of return for panning out for NBA draft picks, esp later ones.
It's exactly following the short term thinking/quick fix/reactionary/lack of impulse control problems you have that have brought the NY Knicks to their current hell right now.
"Why aren't they doing it MY WAY?" you lament.
Dude, they have been doing it your way, which is why they are currently the least talented team right now in the NBA with a nearly bare asset base.
We'd have been better off if Briggs or just about anyone here had been running the Knicks the last 15 years.
But I agree that there is no quick fix for this disaster - and the notion of trading any future pick is stupid.