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EchelonNYK wrote:Traveyknicks23 wrote:This team will be getting lit the **** up every night we getting punished
Like Melo made such a big difference.
Pharmcat wrote:will34 wrote:Knicks front office writes blogs preaching defense and hard work and then 2 days later trade for Kanter. The incompetence is astounding. Perry and Mills are jokes.
pretty much somes it up, but the melo hate is clouding judgement for folks to see this
robillionaire wrote:Who do you guys think is going to win the tournament of power? Everybody is hyping up Jiren but I think maybe this is Vegeta's year
IllmaticHandler wrote:When You could not get T Ferg....but got two turds.
GONYK wrote:I don't know why people are really evaluating Kanter as a player. He was just a contract to make this thing work.Side beard wrote:SpikJagger wrote:
I thought Phil was fired so we didn't trade KP for Kyrie Irving and a dusty Verajao headband.
But maybe that was the plan. Trade KP for Kyrie. Wait for KP to become FA. Sign him then and by that time he'd be mature enough to play with 32 years old Kyrie and 40 years old and very experienced Melo. △
Side beard wrote:GONYK wrote:I don't know why people are really evaluating Kanter as a player. He was just a contract to make this thing work.Side beard wrote:But maybe that was the plan. Trade KP for Kyrie. Wait for KP to become FA. Sign him then and by that time he'd be mature enough to play with 32 years old Kyrie and 40 years old and very experienced Melo. △
Kanter is kinda **** on defense and small, but black hole on offense. While he is good scorer and rebounder, there is a reason he was not played in POs. Hopefully Knicks can turn him in to picks or young assets.
FutureKnicksGM wrote:moocow007 wrote:The Knicks don't have the ball movement or shot creators to maximize Kanter's skills. He's going to end up grinding and holding the ball while everyone else watches. His fg% will drop and folks will be bitching about him well before the All Star break. McDermott also is not a guy that can create his own shots AND would be better off as a spot up guy that can hit shots from someone that can drive the lane, draw defenses and dish out (ie. Not what the Knicks have). Both are also poor defenders. So regardless of their individual skill sets, neither player should be expected ty of do better than they have nor are good fits on paper. It's better than Ryan Anderson in that at least were not getting an extra years of salary. Unless they can deal both guys, it may actually have been better, from a move forward and get your core guys more involved pov to just buy Anthony out.
Yep complain about Iso Melo. Trade for a guy who is going to have to get his posting up, from the center position, in 2017, while he does nothing **** else on the floor.
Jimmit79 wrote:Yea RJ played well he was definitely the x factor
Traveyknicks23 wrote:EchelonNYK wrote:Traveyknicks23 wrote:This team will be getting lit the **** up every night we getting punished
Like Melo made such a big difference.
Kept it respectable Main dude looking to feed kp more so than anyone else lol
The safety net is gone now
Knickstape1214 wrote:will34 wrote:SpikJagger wrote:
That's a hell of an exaggeration. Dude is an offensive dynamo and he rebounds at a decent rate.
Sure his defense is historically bad but he obviously carved a significant role in okc as an instant scoring big man off the bench.
Ryan Anderson is borderline unplayable. Meyers Leonard is literally unplayable. Kanter will be just fine in a 6th man role.
Kanter will be fine until you realize as soon as he goes in NYK +/- skews heavily towards -.
Which is fine while we have him this year, as we are trying to tank for Doncic.
I also think he's traded at some point, but that's based on nothing more than a feeling so chances are I'm wrong.
GONYK wrote:I don't know why people are really evaluating Kanter as a player. He was just a contract to make this thing work.
ibraheim718 wrote:Knickstape1214 wrote:will34 wrote:
Kanter will be fine until you realize as soon as he goes in NYK +/- skews heavily towards -.
Which is fine while we have him this year, as we are trying to tank for Doncic.
I also think he's traded at some point, but that's based on nothing more than a feeling so chances are I'm wrong.
If the true intention is to tank than the trade makes sense. But then why not keep the guy who was great at accidentally tanking or get a guy who was specifically good at tanking?
My point is that he's just a filler. Don't play him if you don't want to.Side beard wrote:GONYK wrote:I don't know why people are really evaluating Kanter as a player. He was just a contract to make this thing work.Side beard wrote:But maybe that was the plan. Trade KP for Kyrie. Wait for KP to become FA. Sign him then and by that time he'd be mature enough to play with 32 years old Kyrie and 40 years old and very experienced Melo. △
Kanter is kinda **** on defense and small, but black hole on offense. While he is good scorer and rebounder, there is a reason he was not played in POs. Hopefully Knicks can turn him in to picks or young assets.
We watched Bargnani. I think we'll be fine.ibraheim718 wrote:GONYK wrote:I don't know why people are really evaluating Kanter as a player. He was just a contract to make this thing work.
Well because we have to watch him player next year.
EchelonNYK wrote:Traveyknicks23 wrote:EchelonNYK wrote:
Like Melo made such a big difference.
Kept it respectable Main dude looking to feed kp more so than anyone else lol
The safety net is gone now
I never cared for hero ball
This knicks squad will win as a team, not by one individual.
GONYK wrote:I don't know why people are really evaluating Kanter as a player. He was just a contract to make this thing work.
Captain_Caveman wrote:Amsterdam wrote:Captain_Caveman wrote:Porzingis for Tatum and the Lakers/Kings pick Boston owns.
Then tank like Rommel the next two years.
Hey Boston fan, GTFO
I came correct. Tatum/Lakers-Kings pick for KP and then tanking hard is a reasonable take and exactly what the Knicks should do, but hard to explain that to a fanbase who thought that they would get a Nets pick for Carmelo this summer.
KP is a nice prospect who isn't a franchise player prospect. If they try to prop him up as one, it won't work and then people will blame him for not reaching their unrealistic expectations. But he will get enough stats to confuse the people that don't understand that, just as they did with Melo, Amare, Marbury, David Lee and a bunch of other good but not great players going back to Bernard King.
No skin off my ass, but if I were you guys, I would want more than one 25ppg scorer leading my team to 30 wins year after year. Seriously don't you guys deserve better by now?
No question in my mind that Ainge would take that sort of trade for KP if he were your GM. Because collecting as many top 5 picks as possible at the start of a rebuild is the smart thing to do. It gives you options. It is cost-effective and frees up cap. And it puts you in every trade market that comes up, year after year.
Propping up KP as a fake superstar with no talent around him and no means to get talent around him is not the smart play here, IMO. It's just not.
