I replied both in one.
If you don't play a player, he is forever untradeable. If you play him, maybe he suddenly goes hot and some suckers will take him. This is WHY.
If you say we need to banish a 17mil player in a lost season in order to build a "culture". Thank you. I can understand. We agree to disagree. I would rather let him to play until his legs break off in order to attract some teams to take him. I like some more tangible things like cap rooms, other non-center players and even just a player slot.
Indeed, do we have to talk about how suck Phil Jackson was, again? This era will not stop to have things to talk about in near future. Wiily last 5 games got 11.4pts 10reb in 20mins, and he was shooting like 60FG% Yeah yeah he was too noisy we had to send his ass away and build a culture. Sure, Mills and Perry can't go wrong with this culture building movement.
Does anyone, Knicks front office included, remember that we have to decide if and how much we are going to re-sign another "better" centers? is it that we would have better position if we kept Willy when we were dealing with Kanter and Quinn's agents? Is this little bit more tangible than "building a better culture"?
CrushAlot wrote:mlby1215 wrote:Of course a lot of people they would, just like they are very silent about how Mills and Perry killing off any chance to trade away Noah by banishing him. Talking about his players' short coming is grave sin, but banishing away another very expensive player is totally okay. It could have been that Noah got traded away if he got the chance to prove he was still semi-okay nba player. At the end, damaging Melo's trading value is not important, it is just an excuse to disapprove how Phil talked bad about their favorite player Mr. Melo.
Can you share with me the market that was killed off for Noah? In regards to Phil, he was trying to get out of a horrible situation he created. Melo had a ntc that was given to him by Phil. He also was given an almost max contract by Phil at an advanced age. Melo wasn't going to waive his ntc for Phil. Glad both guys are gone but Phil had to go first and the contract Phil gave Melo was one of the biggest mistakes of his mistake filled tenure as the Knick Prez.
GustavBahler wrote:mlby1215 wrote:Of course a lot of people they would, just like they are very silent about how Mills and Perry killing off any chance to trade away Noah by banishing him. Talking about his players' short coming is grave sin, but banishing away another very expensive player is totally okay. It could have been that Noah got traded away if he got the chance to prove he was still semi-okay nba player. At the end, damaging Melo's trading value is not important, it is just an excuse to disapprove how Phil talked bad about their favorite player Mr. Melo.
Noah was not brought back to the Bulls because of his performance, and the stink he was making about minutes. Noah showed up out of shape in NY, juiced after signing a big ass contract. The next season he gets sent away because he's making a stink about minutes.
Perry/Mills are trying to change the culture by cutting down on the drama. Noah has been drama since he lost his starting job, when he was with the Bulls. Thats why Willy was moved. Too much drama from a second rounder in his second year.
Its still early in the Perry/Mllls regime. The first season was about moving on from Melo, and Perry seeing what they had. So far Perry got us to this new phase post-Melo without a Ewing trade. Next thing they have to get right is Head Coach. So far so good, but there is a lot more work for them to do to build a contender.