R-DAWG wrote:cgf wrote:wegotthabeet wrote:
Crazy that this thread was even created.
Some Knicks fans have decided that if we can't win it all this year, getting Bridges & Towns was a crippling mistake. As though our core is done after this season and our FO won't have more avenues to bolster the depth further this summer. It's very weird.
The 2nd apron is designed to be crippling. The way to work around it is through the draft. The core isn’t done after this season but the ability to make significant additions with no draft assets is very very limited.
It’s very weird that some fans don’t acknowledge how restricted the Knicks are over the next 7 years with their massive payroll and lack of draft assets.
Everybody understands how restricted the Knicks will be over the next few years. Where we--or at least I--disagree with you is on the valuation of our current players. You have written the following in this very thread:
Brunson is a top-10 player, Towns a top-20 player and I’m not sure Bridges is in the top-30. Typically, you need either a top-3 guy (Denver 23) or a top-10 and top-15 guy (Boston 24) to win with top heavy rosters.
That you don't agree that KAT is also top ten--arguably top five this season--that Bridges and OG are top-30, and that Hart is arguably top 40, is where we strongly disagree.
And because of your low valuations of our core players, you continue to argue that we need to gut our core and/or tank so that we can rebuild through the draft (for like the 30th time since Ewing left) in search of "a true star." Again, I disagree. I think we have our stars (Brunson and KAT), and we have our defenders/glue guys among the starters (Bridges, OG and Hart)--each of the latter also capable of carrying us on offense for a game or two. More to the point, this core has demonstrated multiple times this season that it can hold its own against just about anyone (not Boston yet...); indeed, when we lose, it's usually in the 4th quarter (when our exhausted core collapses because our bench is injured and/or sucks, forcing the starters to be out there for 40+ minutes every. single. game...).
Accordingly, posters like myself are arguing that we only need slightly better bench support--and a coach more willing to play that bench--to be able to compete at the highest level. You don't gut your core to achieve such a thing.
This is why we keep disagreeing.