martin wrote:knicks1248 wrote:StarksEwing1 wrote:knicks1248 wrote:nyknickzingis wrote:We're at a stage where with having Ntilikina, and Baker showing promise as a floor general, that we wouldn't want a 30 minute a night player at point guard. It would eat up at the minutes for Baker and Frank.What we need is a guy that can be a mentor and also play when one of them struggles or hits a wall or is injured. I don't know who that is, exactly.
No, what we need is to have these young guys in a winning culture. That's the problem with some of you, your so busy thinking this is the development league.
POPovich once said, when you develop young players in a losing atmosphere, it becomes a habit, they become immune to losing, doesn't hurt, doesn't bother them after while. You have to have quality vets when developing young guys.
Its not that simple. Its not like you just snap your fingers and it happens. The best course of action is to continue to develop our young players through the draft and also trying to land free agents along the way. I know you hate the idea of building through the draft but its the most realistic and best course of action for us now
building through the draft requires multiple top picks every season for 3 seasons minimum. We don't have that, nor do we have the assets to acquire any.
I would have resign rose over Baker without even blinking. I'm not even a rose fan at all, but he's 10x better than baker on his worse day.
Why do you always box yourself in to a position that is both easily disputed and doesn't even make sense?
Wolves have drafted at the top forever and haven't gone anywhere.
GS drafted #7, #11 and #35 and hit gold.
Knicks just drafted #4, #35, #8 and KP, Willy, Frank need time to show what they got.
Gonna take time.
we have a dread full history of developing talent, part of the reason for that is because of the CITY and distractions/media capital/and constant losing, the other part is the coaching staff that we have had, and the loser veterans we acquire
Aside from DAVID LEE and nate robinson, every draft pick we have had in the last 10+ yrs has taking a serious step back during their sophomore season. from danilo, tony douglas, THJ, chandler, fields, ect.
You know why Ward, Starks, Mason and those guys would get better every season, they had big time, hard working, high character VETS leading the way.
Let Cleveland deal with franks development, 3 yrs later we can bring him back like THJ and he will be ready to contribute.
I think it's more important to having a winning culture when dealing with developing youths.