cgf wrote:moocow007 wrote:gavran wrote:
What shot creator was traded at the deadline?
Rozier? Siakam? But the point is what shot creators were available? Kuzma, Derozan, etc. And honestly more importantly, how many people on this board actually felt the Knicks needed a shot creator. Maybe that's my point of even bringing this up. According to the peanut gallery, the Knicks didn't need a shot creator in 2011-2012 (and we saw what happened when you only got one come playoff time), they didn't need one last year (cause an injured Randle was enough to go with Brunson) and they didn't need one this year either (even though the team state seemed quite like the past 2 seasons).
The Bulls weren't trading DeRozan away in the middle of their play-in push. But Kuzma was my first suggestion when Julius got hurt. I think our defense & rebounding is good enough for Jalen to beat anyone other than Boston...but our offense will be slog if Julius isn't back to at least decoy for Jalen, like he did last spring.
The FO made the choice to not trade long term assets, like 1sts, to fix a short term problem (OG and Julius injuries). Derozan is expiring and neither he nor Kuzma are going to be paid $20M/yr to play Obi Toppin mins next season and beyond. On top of that, those players don't really fit what we do.
This season might be lost to injuries, but the proof of concept was established in January and can be built on next season. There's no need to overleverage now.