RHODEY wrote:moocow007 wrote:Deeeez Knicks wrote:
Its more the type of shots and where he took his shots. His game is going downhill and going to the rim. Taking shots in the paint. Our 2 best young players are Mitch and RJ and they also like to do that. Just not enough room for all of them. At least someone like Marcus Morris was scoring a lot from the perimeter and getting most of his buckets from outside. We just need more balance and perimeter scoring.
But they weren't near as skilled at it is the problem. And neither Barrett or Robinson had the shot creation ability to make up for the lack of anyone that can actually really execute an offense and create easy shots. That's why Randle went head down mode so much. He's not Lebron James but that's what they needed him to be. They needed him to score AND to create shots. That's not his ideal game. He's better off feeding off of someone else that can handle the ball, draw defenses and create openings for him to do his thing. He had none of that last season. It's the same thing people were complaining about with Carmelo Anthony. They didn't want him to take all the shots and instead wanted him to create for himself when they needed him to but also get everyone else involved and compensate for the lack of any real other shot creating point guards on the team...or basically they needed him to be Lebron James like. And when he couldn't (cause he's not that talented) everything was his fault and he's holding everyone else somehow back.
What do you think about these trades for Randle?
The same way how the trades (when Jackson was around) involving the ill fitting but still productive and valuable (to other teams) veteran players and how they ended up happening. It was the same type of mentality. Oh no one wants these crap players that can't help this team to where it needs to go or doesn't fit the direction of this team so let's take the first piece of crap we can get, dump them and thank the lucky stars that we pawned them off someone else.
Value is relative and involves 2 sides.
LOW END -----------------{middle}--------------HIGH END
Top tier front offices get the value closer to where they are asking (in this case HIGH END return for the Knicks). Bad front offices get the value closer to where the other team is asking (in this case LOW END return for the Knicks).
I said this back then (and folks argued it) and I'll say it now. Just because Julius Randle didn't do what we needed him to do and doesn't seem to fit with the direction of this team doesn't mean he's crap and you have to take whatever you can get for him. Just as Jackson didn't have to trade guys that the other teams were desperately looking for pennies, no reason for the Knicks to trade a talented 24 year old offensive player like Randle who is on a reasonable contract for nothing but to get rid of his contract.
