BRIGGS wrote:What they had was a core of guys 25 and under who essentially stayed together
It may have morphed a few times as some players changed abd as the core got older -/ but the recipe for longer term success is grabbing 4-5 players 25 and younger — keeping them together and then finding the vet pieces to integrate
Looking at players like love gallo c paul is short sighted
Abd will quickly bring us back to the scrap yard
The salary floor is a problem with you have widespread use of guaranteed contracts and you want to climb out of the cellar.
Teams do need to draft better, when possible but a larger issue is the zero tolerance structure of the current game. There is close to no margin of error in personnel moves when trying to build an NBA roster. Should NBA teams get off penalty free for poor choices? No, but fans can't be expected to last 3-4 years to let a bad contract fall off the books.
When you have a shortage of quality NBA talent against the salary structure, you need more player movement.
Shumpert isn't thinking about some album track or reality show if hes thinking about being cut at any point off an NBA roster and not getting a lionshare of his salary.
The rules changed way back when George Mikan was too dominant. The rules need to change again to widen the acceptable level of talent that contribute to an NBA team. The "Space And Pace" revolution is a way to circumvent the limits of the current system.
People out in the world have more entertainment options than ever. The NBA has to compete and it's not helping itself with things like a tone deaf Rondo bitching about hotel food. Honestly the best thing the NBA could do is to find black sportscasters who have no problem telling someone like Rondo to go **** himself in public. Because whites in the media can't do it and won't do it. No one should be immune to being told to go **** themselves when they do dumbass ****. Sports is only valuable when it's seen as a form of meritocracy. That blows up when you have idiots like Rondo and Kenyon Martin talking.
First things first, just try to play fundamental team basketball. Baby steps first. The Knicks haven't really done that since Linsanity. The problem is there are lots of carrots, but no stick. A guy like Trier sees being a ball hog and not listening to his coach and not rolling with the game plan is the best way to get a new contract or a shoe deal or a rap album made or a reality show made.
Chris Paul as a Knick is not short sighted. It's the best out of a bunch of ****ty choices in league with clear systematic dysfunction in terms of balance of play. Chris Paul and his ****ty contract is worth more to the Knicks than a couple of offseasons of Randles/Gibsons/Morris/Bullock type deals. Paul is a useful player who is vastly overpaid, but he's the best of the bad contract options out there.
Tilman Fertitta has just started a legal war with major insurance over the loss of revenue for the Rockets and their arena. This is a big ****ing deal that is being underplayed in the sports media. Owners are going to take huge financial hits and teams are going to not want to hand out huge deals. For a Klay Thompson or a Greek Freak sure, but not anyone else. You'll see more teams under the cap floor looking to make inseason/deadline trades to reap a cash hit savings against their bottom line. The fallout will be a demand for ugly overpaid contracts that will reap some kind of useful value. Players will be incentivized to sign big one year deals outside of market value then quietly kick back some of that money to the owner to circumvent the cap. For a team like the Atlanta Hawks, cap circumvention might be a necessity for survival.
The argument a year from now might be signing two guys about the talent of Taj Gibson for 1 year/20 million each or just getting a Chris Paul for 40 million. There are more teams sort of ****ed talent wise like the Knicks than there are teams like the Warriors who don't have enough cap space for their needs. This means bad contracts take on a different value and there might be a shifted demand for them.
Chris Paul contract made no sense a year ago. It makes a baffling ton more sense today. It might be actually considered the best tradeoff situation a year from now.
There is a "new normal" coming. The Knicks have to be ahead of it and take advantage of being a cash rich team to survive it all.