moocow007 wrote:
To be fair though, A TON of guys on this board wanted nothing to do with Butler either when he was brought up as a free agent option. Something along the lines of Butler is overrated, wrong side of 30, too much miles, malcontent (cause of Minny LOL), not a real superstar and not worth the contract, treadmill team, etc.. Including a lot of guys that are now jumping on the Butler bandwagon and talking about how the Knicks should have signed him. Come on, those of you that wanted nothing to do with Butler, be a man and raise your hand. So kinda hypocritical for some folks now to be blasting and mocking the Knicks front office for basically following through on what most their fans wanted, no? The Knicks front office deserves blame but this one?
Jimmy wouldn’t have worked out here anyways. Butler by himself isn’t enough and you saw what Mills and Perry brought in here. He shot 24% from three this year. The Heat works cuz everyone can shoot except him. I think Portis was the only “shooters” signed that shot league average. Can you imagine the spacing with Payton, RJ, Butler, Randle, and Mitch? SOmehow RJ shot the best % from three in that line up. Even if Kemba was his wingman, I don’t we’d have enough to make this same run as the Heat have. Kemba was pretty bad these playoffs and probably the 4th best players on C’s in the bubble.