GONYK wrote:Stannis wrote:I'm still not seeing the light on this trade.
- Dallas was already shopping Dennis Smith. Knicks could have gotten him for a mid to late first rounder.
- 2021 pick will be a late pick
- 2023 pick will be a late pick, it's protected anyway
- No second round picks. Second round picks are another chance to sign somebody like Mitchell Robinson. And you get to fill up roster caps with cheap contracts, which the Knicks will need if they give out two max contracts. You'll need these picks to replace
- THjr should just not have been signed. So you are trading your best asset to clean up a recent mistake.
- CLee was still moveable, imo. But once again, you are still trading your best asset to clean up the mistake of not trading him when his value was highest. Trading your best asset to move CLee was not necessary.
- Mills once again proving he can't think ahead. He stretched Noah so soon when he could have been packaged in this deal.
I'm not saying they should have kept KP and let him be a unrestricted FA, but you could have gotten more picks (I would have been looking for a 2019 pick, 2021 pick, and a 2023 pick swap) and better prospects. Phil Jackson had the right trade idea in mind. Mills was just late to the party.
This is where I'm at too. I understand the decision to trade KP, but this deal is less than the sum of its parts.
Mills being late is funny, since this whole thing is basically his fault.
Devils advocate:
Agree that the deal could have been better but it's not bad.
Forget that Mills got THJr and it's his fault. He was on the team.
It's possible Perry drove this trade more than Mills and was eager to get THJr off the team.
Even if it was Mills, lets not act like teams were lining up to take THJr and send the Knicks cap relief "just because". That was going to cost an asset. A decent one, like a 1st or a player drafted in the first round. This year or even next.
CLee is supposed to be so moveable....but I"m not entirely sure.
Knicks were motivated to move at least one of the two and CLee, it's reasonable to assume, wouldn't be that hard to move, but it's not a given. Then the chance comes up to move both of them at once.
I don't LOVE the trade. I don't hate the trade. But I think the trade is "ok" to decent, once I get over how I felt about KP and wanting him to stay.
Plus, like, it's cool to say this was going to happen for a couple of months, and it did.