Breaking: KAT to the Knicks

[thebuzzardman]

The general rule is that if you feel uneasy or just plain bad about a trade then it likely isn’t a good trade.

This trade has had mixed reactions across the board here, in the general public, in basketball media, etc.

We locked into an absolutely horrible contract for a minimum of the next 3 years - the 4th year will be expiring and possibly more tradeable. The guy is always hurt, plays soft and is paid almost as much as our captain and Bridges combined. He spaces the floor - that’s great - but his mentality on and off the court doesn’t fit with the culture we built. This is square peg in a round hole. This has massive failure potential on it - and if it fails, we destroyed any window of winning a title with Brunson.

Not many people seem to dislike the trade and except yourself and the usual suspects.

Didn't you hate the Brunson trade too?

Melo, you have receipts on this?

So, we should have stayed the course with Randle and Donte? That was a true contender with Brunson? Not sure of that either. And then Randle was due an extension or new contract.

Karl Anthony Towns is not the player you think of when trying to elevate into a title contender.

I wasn’t a Randle fan, but this is a more expensive Randle in some ways, just with a different mentality.

The usual suspects lol. The respected basketball media - not Kendrick Perkins - is lukewarm on the trade. Mixed reactions on this forum and in the media as I said. Didn’t say everyone disliked it. I said mixed reactions. You’re better off sticking to making troll posts if you’re write bull.

And yeah, please Melo bring up the receipts of me wanting Brunson way before anyone even considered wanting him. Let’s see those receipts. They’re there. Now let’s see yours. Probably a lot more bull than mine. A lot more. But yours is under the guise of being ‘positive’, right? Gtfo.

Towns > Randle

[3toheadmelo]

damn melo really crashing out like dj akademiks when not like us dropped

If this is crashing out then you crashing out like Benzino on drink champs mf

[bronxknicksfan1]

yep

you're right


anything that the team has accomplished the last 2 years

beating Philly in 23, beating cle in 22


was actually done without randle.


so this idea that we're somehow worse by making brunson better is just projection of ur insecurity onto us.

We're making Brunson better? A stretch big that can't defend doesn't cost 60 million man. Be fr. There's a reason they took Naz over him, what he brings can be gotten at a way cheaper price point.

The reason people are mad isn't because we traded Randle. It's because we traded FOR KAT. 6th highest paid player in the league.

i would've rather traded for myles turner and paid less for an even better fit but obviously we're actively in competition with the pacers rn

Myles Turner anchored the defense to the team that allowed the most points in the paint and is on an expiring contract. We’d have another set of issues with him.

[DaGawd]

damn melo really crashing out like dj akademiks when not like us dropped

If this is crashing out then you crashing out like Benzino on drink champs mf

[aggo]

ask urself if randle signed an extension if he would still be on the team
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then ask urself,


why didnt randle sign an extension




sorry I dont make the rules.

[8516knicks]

So will their now be a clean transition so that the anti-Randles now become the anti-KATs and the Randle lovers the KAT lovers or will mix and match board chaos ensue?

[DaGawd]

So will their now be a clean transition so that the anti-Randles now become the anti-KATs and the Randle lovers the KAT lovers or will mix and match board chaos ensue?

i think rj lovers will become og haters and randle stans are now kat haters.. pure hate all around

[G_K_F]

I don’t know what else Randle could have gotten or not gotten. I didn’t want Randle here either. But it feels like we took an unnecessary risk. 60% of your salary cap going to OG and KAT doesn’t seem very efficient or smart in any form.

[E-Balla]

Then what? Cause we'd still be capped out with no way to improve the team for the remaining 3-4 years of Brunson's prime.

Maybe we should've thought about that before we made a big trade for a role player that's making max money to play 40 games a year and get hurt in the playoffs?

Ok got it, so since we did do that, this KAT trade is the better move than being capped out and letting Randle walk with no way to further improve team. Thanks for clearing that up.

No it isn't. This KAT trade doesn't improve us, now our bench sucks, our starting 5 hasn't really improved, and we have 2 of the 3 worst contracts in basketball.

Randle could've been moved later. He could've been let go and we'd be able to resign guys while staying under the second apron, maybe literally any other trade opens up. Maybe Kawhi wants out. We literally don't know what other options would've become available, all we do know is trading for KAT means no other options are available and we're giving MVP money to a guy you guys are holding to Julius Randle standards.

[DaGawd]

I don’t know what else Randle could have gotten or not gotten. I didn’t want Randle here either. But it feels like we took an unnecessary risk. 60% of your salary cap going to OG and KAT doesn’t seem very efficient or smart in any form.

it’s worth the risk while we have a prime jalen brunson

[Im Coming Home]

I don’t know what else Randle could have gotten or not gotten. I didn’t want Randle here either. But it feels like we took an unnecessary risk. 60% of your salary cap going to OG and KAT doesn’t seem very efficient or smart in any form.

We're capped out either way, might as well take the chance I guess you know?

Cause if it does work out, and the stars align, we are easily top 3 team in the league.

[3toheadmelo]

Read on Twitter

[thebuzzardman]

not even about randle to me. i didn't like him all that much. but maybe something else popped up at the deadline. now we're stuck with kat for years.

All 3 of them? Horrors

[Knick4Real]

Seeing a lot of soft posters in here.

A single game hasn't even been played yet and there's a lot of whining and crying.

And they have the nerve to call KAT "soft".

[Kampuchea]

Last time they played each other, Randle was DOMINANT.

Watch on YouTube

[robillionaire]

I don’t know what else Randle could have gotten or not gotten. I didn’t want Randle here either. But it feels like we took an unnecessary risk. 60% of your salary cap going to OG and KAT doesn’t seem very efficient or smart in any form.

It does if we win the championship and Brunson took a discount so we can win now, there are no more years to waste

[thebuzzardman]

thread getting good lol

E-Balla vs NoDope is championship level stuff.

The rest of us just pretenders not contenders

[E-Balla]

There's very few 5 out teams, you gotta pay the cost to have one at this point.

KAT doesn't make you a true 5 out team because he can't defend. Might as well play small ball with Randle. And you'll still have 5 out spacing with no interior defense and good rebounding.

Yes, Thibs was so in love with Randle's ability to play the 5 that he featured him there for all of 9 minutes over 5 seasons.

You're an idiot and you're arguing with yourself. We aren't a 5 out team. I just said we aren't a 5 out team. I said y'all are actually slow bus IRL for thinking we should be a 5 out team. Thibs isn't a 5 out coach, of course we aren't a 5 out team and KAT doesn't make us a 5 out team because Josh Hart is out there. You're dumb stop talking to me unless you can rub two braincells together and make a spark.

[E-Balla]

yep

you're right


anything that the team has accomplished the last 2 years

beating Philly in 23, beating cle in 22


was actually done without randle.


so this idea that we're somehow worse by making brunson better is just projection of ur insecurity onto us.

We're making Brunson better? A stretch big that can't defend doesn't cost 60 million man. Be fr. There's a reason they took Naz over him, what he brings can be gotten at a way cheaper price point.

The reason people are mad isn't because we traded Randle. It's because we traded FOR KAT. 6th highest paid player in the league.

kat doesnt make 60m, yet.


but I will entertain your premise.


kat at 60m is a better deal than randle at 50m.

Another actual idiot I'm not responding to. Wanna make it 3 half brained snot nosed drooling halfwits talking to me?

[DaGawd]

Seeing a lot of soft posters in here.

A single game hasn't even been played yet and there's a lot of whining and crying.

And they have the nerve to call KAT "soft".

gonna be a ton of ass kissing and dick sucking to be done once kat proves em wrong