TripleThreat wrote:
Vmart wrote:There you go again with your usually verbal BS assault. You know what is incredibly sad about you is that your dense. You can’t see that Mudiay shouldn’t even be on this team. This team has Burke and Ntlikina already these guys have him taking developmental time from Ntlikina and Dotson. What’s more important you develop your homegrown players or you give preference to a player that has been given up on because he has performed poorly. For some reason Mills and Perry think they can make it work for him here
Dotson is simply not ready. The type of contract he got ( 3 years, first two guaranteed) are typically structured as such for teams/players who know and understand that the first year of the players contract will essentially function as a "redshirt" year. He's a good shooter, but the rest of his game is pretty raw.
You can't GIVE Dotson minutes, he has to EARN THEM and TAKE THEM from other players. Don Nelson historically has hated rookies and younger players. Hated them. Hard on them in a way no one can really understand. Chris Webber could not handle it. He however loved Steph Curry. Curry played in such a way where you could not take him off the floor.
Mudiay is just a warm body with a half of a 1 percent chance of being something more than a journeyman.
Sometimes you just need a warm body. The Yankees cycled through Chris Carter, Ji Man Choi, Tyler Austin and others when Greg Bird went down. Knicks are essentially cap locked and roster locked. They'd give developmental minutes if they could open up the roster to do that. But they can't make functional trades and their asset base is thin.
Mudiay is a slump buster. Yes, everyone would prefer to nail a girl who looks like Ariana Grande. But sometimes you just need a warm body.
I don't think anyone is fooling themselves that Mudiay is anything more than a journeyman at this point. But they can't run FrankN into the ground at this point. Dotson just is not ready. They likely expected more out of Baker but that just did not work out.
I am not a Baker believer but it would have been nice to see him get extended minutes in this situation as well... but he's hurt. So it goes.
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