HofstraBBall wrote:Knickoftime wrote:newyorker4ever wrote:Knickoftime wrote:jskinny35 wrote:Just to stir the pot... would KP for 2 solid young players make sense? Instead of 1 unicorn we get 2 quality young players to add to our talentless pool? Not sure we should do it, but trying to make the point that everyone is available at a price. Should we put all our eggs in his basket or spread them out? The PHX one would make me strongly consider it...KP for J.Jackson and M.Chriss?
KP for Zach LaVine and Lauri M and future pick?
KP and player for Harrison Barnes and Nerlens Noel?
To answer someone's previous question, the reason this is a topic today because he's coming off of a bad game. There's 79 games to play and 22-yo KP's third season. I think it's only logical to defer this entire topic until June.
Or the rest of us can have fun talking about it and you can just include yourself in June?? As i said, i love KP and am his biggest fan and have been since we drafted him but the Knicks as a franchise comes first for me and i think with the right return for KP we could put together a better young team but it has to be the right return or i obviously wouldn't make the trade. I have no problem keeping KP and re-signing him but KP does come with some negatives about him and his game and i'm not sure he's the #1 piece on a championship team. He's easily a #2 piece just not a #1 piece IMO. The injury concerns are there for a kid as tall and lanky as he is, i don't see much of an inside game from him because he's still not strong enough to go up against these bigger guys, he's too slow top guard most PF's and too weak to guard the centers. There's no way that these things can't be concerns for any of you guys cause they're all realistic concerns.
If the question is, should the next trade KP if they're guaranteed to get a better return, the answer is of course yes. There really is a much a of discussion to be had about that, is there?
What the return might be and IF it will be better than KP seems to be the subject ripe for discussion.
And on that note, you just punched a LOT of holes in KP's game. So the better question is why are you expecting this huge return despite all the red flags you think are realistic concerns.
This reads to me like a classic message board argument that we all know his flaws, other teams don't, so we'll get a king's ransom and laugh all the way to the bank while KP never becomes that superstar the other team expects him to be.
How some fans do not understand that the biggest flaw of the concept of trading, your newly declared, franchise player is not that a better return may be had but rather that a change of direction, after just 4 games, is dysfunction at its highest form.
+1
The dysfunction will remain until mills is gone. This is our 3rd rebuild in 4 yrs. 17 wins, entire new roster, 32 wins, entire new roster, 31 wins, primarily the same roster, but now were rebuilding.
your suppose to be able to flush the roster down the toilet like walsh did and start fresh with cap space and a couple of draft picks.
Almost the entire roster is signed through next season and we have just one 1st rnd pick..How is that a rebuild when 75% of your roster are vets