TripleThreat wrote:CrushAlot wrote:TLover wrote:If Dolan didn’t push for Melo and allowed D’antoni to play his style.. we’d have the perfect coach for todays nba. Obviously missing out on Curry hurt but we were on the right track.
Unfortunately ******* face ruined it.
GAllo played 135 games over the next 4 seasons. Amare was done by the playoffs that first year. Felton, Wilson, Fields and Moz were leading D'Antoni to the promised land?
That's not the point and is never the point in NBA team building/rebuilding.
Take the Jerian Grant example. Grant did NOT pan out as everyone hoped. He just didn't. However some use that as justification for trading him and Robin Lopez for Derrick Rose. The Knicks traded 6 years of cost control ( Lopez with three more years on a value contract, and three more years of Grant's rookie deal) for an expiring veteran player with an injury history. Who couldn't shoot the three ball nor play defense. With legal troubles. Who chewed up a massive amount of cap space.
Just because Grant did not pan out doesn't mean it was a good decision.
You make the best MARKET BASED DECISION given the current time and place. Sometimes it pans out, sometimes it does not, but the working principle is more often than not, the decision will turn in your favor. You are not banking on absolutes, you are banking on slim opportunity versus NO OPPORTUNITY AT ALL.
Just because Gallo, Felton, Moz and WC did not pan out as hoped, doesn't mean the trade for Melo was a good decision. Donnie Walsh originally offered Wilson Chandler and a single 1st round pick. He understood the Nuggets had no leverage.
It would not have been popular in some ways, but the path was very clear for the Knicks. Keep Pringles and Lin and trade Melo right after Linsanity. Win or lose, the team would have played team basketball and played it the right way. Win or lose, field a team you can be proud of in how they conduct themselves on the court. That treat wearing a Knicks jersey with pride and honor. Melo just wanted to sell more stupid hats or gym memberships and have his wife end up on some crappy CBS show.
Melo, via a lack of real effort on the court, spit in the face of every Knicks fan out there. And bizarrely some defend him to no end and lap up any crumbs he leaves behind. Play with max effort. How hard is that?
tLin wanted to get paid. He sat out of the playoffs and playing for the select team because he was going to be a free agent. He also fired his agent and his new agent made it clear that money was a priority over signing with the Knicks. A lot of water under the bridge but Lin got a deal he never could live up to. The Knicks were also locked into a hobbled Amare. Assuming Fields wouldn't lose his shot, Moz wouldn't end up a 3rd stringer, Felton wouldn't get fat, and the mayor wouldn't have hip and injury problems is quite a stretch when all of those things happened. The other thing that happened was the Knicks went 18-6 after Dantoni resigned and won 54 games the next year. If you want to pile on Mills for how badly he ran things the first time he was in charge I am all in. But please don't ask me to think if things were different guys that couldn't get on the court because of injuries, were cap anchors, or played so poorly their careers ended or picks needed to be moved with them because their contracts were so bad would have turned the Knicks around.
2/28/2018 3:15 PM