I suspect that there will be more trades given the glut we have at Center. Some of the Vets could be moved for picks I hope.

OjilEye wrote:

StarksEwing1 wrote:Its the first time im excited as a knick fan in quite a while. We have youth with talent/upside and all our picks.....that hasnt happened much in the past 20 years

Amen.

nixluva wrote:

StarksEwing1 wrote:

OjilEye wrote:

StarksEwing1 wrote:Its the first time im excited as a knick fan in quite a while. We have youth with talent/upside and all our picks.....that hasnt happened much in the past 20 years

Amen.

should be fun. We dont have to tank but we dont have to be forced to make the playoffs by trading picks or adding bloating contracts anymore. If we make the playoffs thats terrific for our youngsters but if we end up with a top pick that means we add yet another talented young piece....its a win win

EXACTLY!!! This is a situation where you really just sit back and take things as they come. There's no need to fret any particular outcome. Just let things happen naturally and take it from there.

Whether Kanter and McDermott plays well is irrelevant. I THINK we will trade Kanter at some point and hopefully McDermott as well. Unless we start setting Kanter/KP/Billy on the floor he would really into Billy's minutes.

Clean wrote:My main problem with the trade is that now we might have the worst defensive team in the NBA. Willy and KP struggle vs fast bigs. Kanter and Doug are some of the worse defenders in the NBA. Timmy might revert to being bad defensively when surrounded by all the other bad defenders.

OR the presence of Nitty, Baker, THJ, LT helps just enough to play at least average defense. We have some weak defenders but they're also young and could still improve. That's what Jeff and his staff have to achieve.

TripleThreat wrote:

stanleybostitch wrote:You take the star player out of the mix, and there is now room for everyone to blossom. This is the most excited I've been as a Knicks fan since the Sprewell playoff run.

I've said this before, the Melo and Knick pairing was like a marriage. And like most marriages, it ended in an ugly divorce.

Why is divorce so expensive? Because it's worth it.

Lots of dudes in this forum. Probably 99.99999 percent male. Older guys too. With careers, families, etc.

Many of you guys probably got divorced at some point. Not saying all guys are Georgia Peaches here, but when you have a chick who is busted out, got fat ( no defense), didn't cook or clean ( no leadership/coach killer), didn't blow you ( no max effort ) and just nagged you ( nothing but a high maintenance expensive detriment to your life and well being and sanity) then even if you had to lose the house, pay alimony, start over, at least you were "free"

Let's not mince it. The Knick are not blameless. But at least they tried to win. They didn't go out intending to not win or not try. Melo just didn't care. He dogged it on the court because he didn't care. He only had eyes for someone else ( another franchise instead of putting in some effort for this one)

The Knicks married a whore. And got what all people get when they marry a whore.

Then the Knicks divorced a whore. Cost them badly. Like what happens to people when you cut a whore out of you life, it costs you.

If Melo puts in any effort for OKC, just remember that, he's SPITTING IN YOUR FACE AS A KNICKS FAN. The Knicks weren't good enough to even put out a basic level of effort. But some other team will be? Just like any used up Tinder thot with a face covered in gang bang jizz, don't let the door hit Melo on his out of shape @ss on the way out.

This was not addition by subtraction.

It was surgery to remove cancer.

You can't ring up a whore and expect a housewife. That being said, there is no excuse for Melo to not give max effort for our beloved Knicks. I LOVE THIS FRANCHISE. YOU LOVE THIS FRANCHISE. Melo could give f**k less about this franchise. So f**k him. He didn't deserve to be called a true NYer. I said trade this whore years ago, and many people here mocked me, and I say now what I said then, whores are going do what is in line with their character, and the end result will be inevitable, which is was.

I sat at dinner tonight with the Mrs asking me, a 50 year NyK fan, why I am so pissed at Melo all the time. I explained about Lin, how Melo could have come in as a free agent but leveraged the Nets to have us cough up 4 players and a pick, I explained how he disrespected GEORGE Karl and forced D’Antoni out and outlasted Phil and finally how we couldnt cut a better deal because the selfish pk only wanted Houston and how he whined to get a deal done and it may have cost us a better deal in all likelihood.

I care. And I see the fans at OKC thrilled to be with brand Melo. Well enjoy his defense and 4th quarter clunkers. Thank you for posting yours.

Paris907 wrote:While the consensus seems to be that Kantor will travel I’m not so sure.
Nitty as the 8th pick needs to be a starter by year end in my opinion. He may not be Dennis SMITH but he needs to be a lock down defender, a 16-18 ppg scorer and someone that can penetrate and dish. This is NY. In a year we will know if he’s real and we don’t have picks to waste. Am I excited? H yes!!! But i want it all. I want our team to
Have complementary players but in the NBA it’s stars that matter. The guys that wanna take the game over in the 4th.
KP? Sure. Yet once we’ve a defensive alignment, we will need another young bona fide stud like a Doncic or Porter or like Tatum. And once we’ve that then add another stud with the $30 million we’ve left over once Lee, and Noah are gone.

Well i can already see you'll be one of the ones complaining much earlier then you need to cause you're already expecting these guys to give much more then they will way too early. You have unrealistic expectations with Nitty cause he'll most likely need more then a year to be a 16-18 point scorer. He could surprise and grow quicker then expected but i don't think he'll get enough playing time for that cause i think we'll be depending on J.Jack and R.Sessions to play most minutes at PG.