Capn'O wrote:Clyde_Style wrote:SoCalKnickFan wrote:Man if we had signed Kyrie and ended up getting the season from him that Nets are getting, we'd be getting double roasted. So far since it's the Nets, it's crickets. As many said, his bodies not holding up. As bad as this seasons been, we definitely dodged a bullet.... well, 2 bullets.
Yeah, just saw this news and have to say as much as I wanted nothing to do with Kyrie, I feel pretty strongly our current season is still preferable to having him and KD.
I know we suck and a hundred things still need to go right, but this is the right time to have very few future commitments, lots of picks and considerable cap flexibility. If KD & Kyrie had come here, it would have been an epic disaster with very little wiggle room left to work with.
At least Rose has a fairly clean slate to work with. He might bomb, but the Nets are screwed in ways the Knicks are not.
And Kyrie is a mess. The hate him and KD would have gotten as Knicks would have been worse than the Red Wedding, so count our blessings.
I wanted KD healthy. Not so healthy - not so good. I still wish we had gone for what was behind Door #3. Getting a pick return for Morris alleviates that somewhat.
Yeah, I gave Sark and Dakommish a hard time for being overly negative about our off-season signings, because they were were really ticked they didn't try to absorb some other teams' deals in order to load up on more picks.
Granted, that would probably have been the right move IF this franchise was ever in full rebuild mode, but it has never really gone fully into that mode.
So it feels kind of full circle for myself at this point which was I always felt whatever happened with the mercenary deals it was still basically buying time after having limited options to make a big splash in the last free agency.
So, really, the bigger matter is what they didn't do which is buy into a broken KD and a broken, wacky Kyrie.
What they did was not successful, but it really could have been much worse.
Even if this is currently a poorly constructed club, we should also remember Fizdale was disastrous and they probably would be in playoff contention now if Miller had been the coach in training camp.
So, dollars to donuts, getting something for Morris was good and the slate is pretty clean so as much as I've been crapping on the Knicks lately I do think anyone who is going to keep riding and dying on this horse can legitimately feel the possibilities are still pretty wide open compared to almost any other time since the 90s.
