Nalod wrote:Coach Phil Jax wanted KP gone!!! THis before he got hurt. Since fans love to lament on what could have been we have to consider there was something Toxic about the realtionship and it was thought Phil was the cause. Jax was run out of town for wanting to trade him. I said before that Phil was thinking like a coach not an exec and what was best for the organization. Phil the exec was not handling it right. Or was he?I don’t pretend to know what was the truth. Given the Knicks history its hard to gather what it is. The team has never been shy about spending or being loyal to his stars. We were generous to keep Melo? Bring in Amare? Gave Marbles the key to the city after he burned up in PHX and Brooklyn? Our dysfunction is the pursuit of the star.
KP carries himself elite and projects himself a superstar. Perry and MIlls if they were not paying him to both have more cap space and doing their diligence to see the effects of his injury is not a terrible thing to do on a property worth 150millin and then again a few years later? What do you value a star at? 300million piece of property? He is anemic and has not shown durability To stay on the floor and lets assume he is put off by not having the money. Last season he was wearing out before he got hurt. This was a difficult situation before he got hurt.
KP has done a good job promoting himself and set out to make a documentary of his rehab. We saw this Latvian blond god tease us with his work ethic and how proclamations he’d rise up even further. Always a need to build this image and at the same time not embrace NYC as his place to do his rehab. After he did not face Phil he was out bike riding and loved the ability to tease us how he loved being in NY. My sense was the Knicks MIGHT have never been able to do enough for this kid. We outed Melo and gave him the keys. It was not enough. We got the most sought after young coach to grow with him. It was not enough. In the Videos he never dissed the knicks but at the same time was able to keep an uncomfortable distance. We moved to have cap space and build around him in NYC. IT was not enough. Maybe Dallas can do it for him. He has his “Friend” there and a mentor for in Dirk who I suspect will have a presence with the team. Cube will pay him and. Give him the keys.
We did this and there was always an uneasy thing about him in NY. I thought knicks were not a toxic dysfunction mess anymore. Hardaway contract was hardly a franchise killer. New FO and coach’s did not carry the years of problems. KP could not be Rainman blind to think the history of the team is a genetic disorder that continues organically when we cleaned house. Mills cleaned house. He promoted youth and development. KP saw himself above it? Not want to share the spotlight with another star? If so then we did not have a shot at Durant.
I Wanted to believe in Unicorns....Maybe so did Phil. I can’t say he was vindicated but he might have had a point.
This post is on the money...
Thing about is that KP let the lights get to his head....he is a talent ...remembering that last Oct/Nov that run we had with him was unbelievable...I think a lot got to his head....I cannot remember any guy on a rookie deal pull a Lebron and start demanding things....Going back to that mini run last Nov I agree he looked tired and could not sustain it....Has he ever played more than 60 games since coming into the league?
I think Mills/Perry were concerned about handing this young man 150 mill without protections on that contract...because another issue with his lower extremities and that contract would become untradeable...
I believe he will do well in Dallas...Cuban is a smoozer....Luka is the perfect set up guy...and when they start winning this deal will be looked at from the knicks perspective like we were idiots..particularly if we strike out this summer..but I do not think so....deals are not done and looked back over a couple of months...some are evaluated over years....like the BOS BRK deal....that deal essentially gave BOS new life....without it....no Tatum, Kylie, Briwn, Rozier, no meeting with Durant...no Horford....
No saying we have the same deal....but one thing I have seen is that Perry is patient. Initially I thought this deal was knee jerk but good FO read the tea leaves and have contingency plans...I think they plan crashing this year and KP and brother would balk even though they probably told them that was the plan...it is not easy to watch the losing but guess what...Embiid did it...Simmons did it...Kyrie...etc...all did it....KP ultimately could not differentiate the losing on the floor this year than in years past..which imo was better....we have been at least in 70-80% of games...we just have young horses...
I believe the FO knows something...we will see...I do not believe this the same old knicks....they took an untenable situation and took the best deal on the board quickly as opposed to an auction a week or so before the deadline...which when the whole story dribbled out his the more the league knows we have to make a move and the offers would get worse...
I do not know what the plan is but plans are not set in stone...good FO realize this and move on the fly....let’s just see where this takes us
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