cgmw wrote:Again, I'm not pretending to know the right or wrong way to do things. All I'm pointing out is a consistent pattern of acquire-now, pay-later.
Yeah, that sums up the Knicks strategy.
suicidedeuce wrote:cgmw wrote:Again, I'm not pretending to know the right or wrong way to do things. All I'm pointing out is a consistent pattern of acquire-now, pay-later.
And I'd argue that's relatively consistent with how the NBA does business.
The Bulls paid Boozer and may even may Deng again.
The Heat knew they were looking at mini MLE and vet min signings for as long as their big 3 are on their roster.
The Celtics made their big move getting the big 3.
Nets are getting a LOT of credit for doing it to the EXTREME.
In order to truly compete in the postseason, you usually have to go ALL in. I understand how fans LOVE the idea of perpetual flexibility and a roster made to constantly turn over, I just don't see the evidence that this can co-exist with being a genuine postseason contender.
Is the Knicks ALL-IN going to result in a title? I perfectly understand the skepticism, but we seem not to arguing the success of their all-in, we seem to be arguing against going all-in at all.
Knicks went all-in for Melo, Stat and Chandler and it HAS been designed to some degree to have an out/reset in 2015.
The success of that move is certainly up to debate (I only stipulate it will continue to be open to debate until 2015).
But criticizing thm for going all-in at all seems disconnected to NBA reality to me.
Its not so much going ALL in that is wrong. It is going ALL-IN when you don't have the hand to go all in. Look at Chandler, Amare, Melo...I mean individually none of those deals were terrible. But combined when it was all said and done its a lot to commit for a trio that doesn't work great while leaving ourselves little room to improve.
Ultimatley we rushed to put this all together and committed to something that isn't a great fit. If we were a little more patient, we may have had better results.
Even with Bargs....even if he works out I think he will be too much of a liability on defense along with Melo that it'll never work long term in the playoffs.