Knicks have a mixed to not so good history of overpaying free agents or taking on bad contracts in the past.
The process of that is assumed to be extrapolated into the present and future despite numerous regime changes.
Thus, "everything we do is bad".
Yet every new day is a different opportunity? History has not basis on the future unless the conditions and thought process remains the same?
What did we do? We drafted a kid who had been a disappointment and figured out that if he is to remain in the league and succeed, he needs to listen and take care of his body and be "a professional".
His father is a former all star player. The kid might have been stubborn or arrogant.
He was a big player for ATL last season and showed he belongs. In a contract year. All players are suspect when they play up.
So we paid a bit on potential. In the past, we paid for past porformance.
In this case I can't complain because we have not put a uniform on the new and improved THjr and seen him as a knick. We just go on moopying around as if Timmy was the same dude 2 years ago.
Baker is seen by the knicks (that failed franchise we never can do right??)as good player with still some upside. What we don't know is what kind of money was thrown at him by other teams that tried to nab him from us.
So basically if we let him go, we mope. If we pay him, same thing. We developed a kid who got better and better and we complain when its time to pay him? A free agent?
So lets instead root for these guys and see how they do before we complain. shouldn't we be happy we did not sign Rudy Gay? trade for Dwade? Other retread blunders of players with their best days behind them?
IM happy Baker got paid. The kid was solid!
8/1/2017 3:22 PM
