Deeeez Knicks wrote:Chanel Bomber wrote:Deeeez Knicks wrote:
Even the Magic have more playoff appearances then the Knicks.
Jazz were a decent team, but fell short. The Melo Knicks were ok, but also pretty mediocre in general. True, better then most Knicks teams but ultimately I want to see us at least attempt to build a real contender and not aim for mediocrity. Maybe thats asking for too much.
The Knicks had a window for championship contention but they botched the execution in crunch time.
The 2012-13 Knicks laid the foundation - it just took the Knicks a couple of yours to build some depth after the trade. The Knicks trade for Lowry instead of Bargnani and we could be having a completely different conversation today.
True, they could have def built a better team around Melo and they had a few ways to get to contender status. There was a slim window and they botched it.
Right now, I think either way its going to be really tough for the Knicks to get to the next level without a lot of luck anyway. If we don't trade for Mitchell, there really is not much of a window yet.
If we do trade for Mitchell, we will probably be closer but probably have to wait at least a few years to add the necessary pieces. Just depends what we have left. The team as is really isn't a great fit for Mitchell so there would be a lot of work to do. Mitchell would not doubt bring more excitement. If we make the deal just hope they do a better job of building around him.
Yeah, I agree that some more work would need to be done.
The hope is that the Knicks have enough assets remaining, either for one of their young players to develop into a star or to trade for a second star, or that they become attractive enough to become a real player in free agency (re: cap bump).
Trading for Donovan Mitchell alone doesn't put the Knicks in the championship contention picture.
In my opinion he's not on the same level as Melo was, to be honest.
