90sKnicks wrote:As we are mere hours away from the start of free agency, i wanted to express to you viewpoints of the vast majority of your fans.1) We are okay with a rebuild. We want to see improvement, but don't have unrealistic expectations and are not impatient if this takes several years to build a team that can compete to reach the NBA finals. We realize that we are only two years into the rebuilding process (which started once Melo was traded), and understand that most (successful) rebuilds take 4-5 years. We're willing to wait as long as we keep trending in the correct direction and not moving backward.
2) Do not trade draft picks. Ever. Draft picks are the building blocks to any successful long-term rebuild. Hire good scouts, trust your scouts, and rely on them to identify and draft players that fit the identity of the team that you are trying to establish.
3) With the exception of Kawhi (and possibly possibly Durant) no player in this free agent class is worth more than a 2-year deal. 3-year, 4-year, and 5-year deals are what cripple rebuilds.
4) Don't spend just to spend. This a deep free agent class but lacks true franchise players other than Kawhi (and Durant if healthy). This will result in many teams overspending on good but not great players and market price for these players will keep inflating. Don't be one of these teams.
5) Our team is young so be mindful of who we want to expose them to. Bad influences in terms of attitude and work ethic would be very detrimental if serving as role models to our young players...even if the players are talented
1. Which rebuild are you referring to? The one that star6ed in 2002? Uncle Phil's five years ago? Or the current 2 year one that Mills is asking us to buy in to so he can keep his job for another 5 years without anyone expecting anything from him?
Losing is an infection. Think the old timers on here are fatal cases. They prefer to root for the long shot draft pick because they play decent D. They are accustomed to looking forwatd to a high draft pick as their only higlight of the basketball year. And once we get a franchise player, lets trade him for scraps because the great FO could not maintain a solid relationship with them. Heck, most fans infected even thought it was okay to run a dinasour offensive system from the 90's thinking thats the future of basketball. Its a sickness.
Lost cases. I'm tired of the losing. Inability to attract good players. This franchise is dog **** if we cant stop settling for rooting for Frank amd Baker to kill it. We have some of the best players on the planet available and we get who? Oh wait yeah, KD Kyrie and everyone else is just not good enough for this successful group of elite players we have.
Losing is a sickness. When is everyone going to realize they all have it.
Hope that Kawhi bails us out. But why would he want to get such a nasty disease.
Fyi. Feel good about this year....
'Knicks focus should be on players that have grown up playing soccer or cricket' - Triplethreat 8/28/2020