The only message I get is you don't have to be that good to get out of the East.

And if anything celts have success because smart (who is not 240) is strong enough to guard bigs

blkexec wrote:

franco12 wrote:I can't even watch these games, they are so ugly and poorly played. I also, and I could be wrong, don't see either Miami or the Celtics doing anything against G State. Like sweep bad.

The only message I get is you don't have to be that good to get out of the East.

Factz

East has a ton of good teams and no great teams. Milwaukee maybe but Middleton being injured cost them. Boston was looking like a team that might blow it up earlier in the season. Moral of the story is Knicks need to continue to build and hope for continuity and chemistry to get them in the mix. Then a couple of breaks and you never know what might happen. They still need a superstar but need to just keep building. Focus on adding switchable defenders and efficient offensive players.

But perhaps there’s some legs to this requirements. If you get a good player this size, it’s the holy grain, too quick for bigs to handle, too strong for wings to handle.

Players in that 6’8-9” range used to result in tweeners that are versatile but are too slow or too skinny or too unskilled to be good weapons (Think players like Marvin Williams or even Taj Gibson - serviceable but not awesome) - stars this size used to be pretty rare. It seems like in the last 3-4 years players this size have been evolving and now it seems like half the teams have 1 or 2 players like this capable of putting up 20+ppg.

Tatum is looking more and more like a power forward than a wing.

Nalod wrote:We need Randle to play back closer to last year.
We need RJ to keep moving on up.
Keep drafting good value in sub 20’s and 2nd round. Thats how the final 4 teams got there.
Stars matter, so does the support!!!!!

I was thinking Dallas could have used a player like Randle instead of 3 PGs.

Trade makes a lot of sense, makes both teams better, I think.

KnickDanger wrote:

franco12 wrote:

Nalod wrote:We need Randle to play back closer to last year.
We need RJ to keep moving on up.
Keep drafting good value in sub 20’s and 2nd round. Thats how the final 4 teams got there.
Stars matter, so does the support!!!!!

I was thinking Dallas could have used a player like Randle instead of 3 PGs.

Trade makes a lot of sense, makes both teams better, I think.

It’s not insane. The problem for us is we’re selling low and Mavs selling high. You know, the classic Knicks way.

are we really selling low? Meaning, I could see it getting worse- he is 1 year removed from a good year. After next year, it could be 2!

And back to the original thread here- about big players- if Randle ever clears the cobwebs from his head, he is the exact kind of player you want in the play offs- so I am not in a hurry to trade him, but if we can swap him for a Brunson and balance out the team, we've improved.

franco12 wrote:

KnickDanger wrote:

franco12 wrote:

Nalod wrote:We need Randle to play back closer to last year.
We need RJ to keep moving on up.
Keep drafting good value in sub 20’s and 2nd round. Thats how the final 4 teams got there.
Stars matter, so does the support!!!!!

I was thinking Dallas could have used a player like Randle instead of 3 PGs.

Trade makes a lot of sense, makes both teams better, I think.

It’s not insane. The problem for us is we’re selling low and Mavs selling high. You know, the classic Knicks way.

are we really selling low? Meaning, I could see it getting worse- he is 1 year removed from a good year. After next year, it could be 2!

And back to the original thread here- about big players- if Randle ever clears the cobwebs from his head, he is the exact kind of player you want in the play offs- so I am not in a hurry to trade him, but if we can swap him for a Brunson and balance out the team, we've improved.

Kemba Walker.
Evan Fournier.

It's as simple as that (black and white).

NYKMentality wrote:Boston Celtics got rid of two Atrocious scrubs.

Kemba Walker.
Evan Fournier.

It's as simple as that (black and white).

Trading Kemba for Al Horford was key and so was the trade for White and getting rid of Schröder while taking back Daniel Theis.