OpiumDose wrote:Awful trade that just further proves FO incompetence. So in the off-season there were all these talks about how KP and Willy would be our starters this season and how they would grow together, right? WHG had a really solid rookie season - was rookie of the month in April, made All-Rookie 1st team. Then in the summer played pretty solid on his national team (7.6 pts, 5.9 rebs in 13.9 mins). Then comes the NBA season and he is suddenly not good enough to get any playtime? On a team that was supposed to be all about youth (according to our GM)? I can completely understand him playing behind Kanter, but not getting any playtime at all (except some scraps in garbage time) doesn't make any sense to me. And you could argue that KOQ was better, but who cares? He will be 28 in couple of months, he is not the future of this team. And I know that some people excused playing KOQ so much with an argument that we are showcasing him to trade him. Well, hasn't happened until know. Instead we traded 23 year old WHG and KOQ is still here. And even if we all agreed that WHG was probably not amount to much in todays NBA due to his play style and weak defense it still doesn't make any sense to trade him NOW. Why traded him at his lowest value. It's ridiculous. If FO knew at the start of the season that they are not going to play him then why not trade him then? We would have gotten way more for him at that point. It just reeks of incompetence. Look at it as you want - we either should have let WHG play at least the same amount of meaningful minutes as KOQ - only then we could make any assessments of whether he actually is any good (or has potential to improve) - now we basically based our opinions on his performance in some garbage time minutes and on some rumors that he was totally outplayed by KOQ and Kanter in the practice. Or we should have traded him when his value was at the high. But what happened here was a complete disaster and FO failure. Knicks being Knicks.
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