Bonn1997 wrote:nixluva wrote:CrushAlot wrote:nixluva wrote:Welpee wrote:Knixkik wrote:He would do wonders for KP and Willy. He's a great defender and even though he can't score, he's a good free throw shooter and playmaker obviously. Willy seeing more minutes can compensate for some of Rose's scoring. Plus KP will improve his scoring and efficiency with a real pg. Rubio is only 26 and has two years left on his deal so he's worth the gamble either at the trade deadline or in the offseason.
Steals doesn't equal "great defender." Iverson also had a lot of steals. The biggest myth in the NBA is that Rubio is a good defender. If Rubio becomes a Knick watch how quickly the fan base turns on him. Rubio is WAY overrated and has never lived up to his hype. I would take Jrue Holiday over Rubio any day.
I don't think anyone feels Rubio is better than Jrue. I think this is more about being able to secure a player who can help fill glaring needs. Jrue will have his pick of destinations and the Knicks would be competing with a lot of teams. Rubio would be a trade and much easier to get.
I think he gets maxed in NOLA. Also, they were very supportive of him during his wife's illness. I don't think he leaves but if he does there will be a lot of suitors as you say.
I'm done with the pipe dream sexy player of the month stuff! We haven't had success getting those players and I don't see the Knicks getting Jrue either. Now Rubio is a different story. He's not a hot name but his PG Skills are legit and very much what we need. We have scoring talent but no one to run the team! I say stop playing around and make a deal for a PG that has elite passing skills that we need!!!
His defense and shooting bad though. I know I supported getting him earlier (before looking into it more) but he's got too many weaknesses to pay him $14 mil a year. Maybe if we were trying to immediately win a few more games it would make sense but that's not us. Phil has gotten us productive Cs and an SF for just a few mil a year. I'd rather he kept trying to do that. The guys that he brings in for $12 or 20 mil are barely contributing more than the $2 mil players.
I actually don't think Rubio's lack of shooting will impact the team negatively. We already have poor shooting PG's but the difference is Rubio's passing ability would enhance our shooters and bigs.
Likewise his D may not be much different than what we have.
Now Rubio's contract isn't cheap but it's not prohibitive either and it's short. There aren't many $2mil players that can pass like Rubio and that's what we'd be getting him for. Think about our main players and young players benefiting from Rubio's passing. Being smarter closing out games!!!