newyorker4ever wrote:Holy crap i can't believe so many of you are mad about bringing back Elf on a 1 year $5 mil deal. He wasn't even that bad, i mean he wasn't good either but for the crap he had to play with he really wasn't that bad. He had some bad games but mostly he wasn't horrible and it's one damn year.
This is gonna take time if you guys want this team built right and will take at least 1 or 2 more offseason just like this one to do this right. I don't know if the new front office guys will be able to keep themselves from going off the path of building this team the right way cause they'll have to be able to make it through all the talk on the outside from fans and the media of this being NYC and being the Knicks and how long they've been bad and everything else that comes with doing this the right way, but if they hit on their draft picks starting with Obi and the 2021 and 2022 draft then we'll have a team with some serious young talent and that's when things can start changing.
We'll have a team full of young talent that will be coming together and start winning games and that's when the bigger name players will start looking at the Knicks again. That's when we can use a young player or two and all the draft picks we have in that 2023 draft with our own 1st and the Dallas 1st and the 4 2nd round picks we have to package in deals for the star type players or just add star free agents to the young players we already have.
I don't think many are annoyed by Elfrid in general. I think people just don't understand what this signing helps with. Most definitely doesn't contribute to a rebuild. Let's think the situation through from a front office perspective:
Do you want to tank?
Yes ---> Then, don't get in the way of your drafted and/or most promising younger players (sound fair?)
No ---> proceed below...
Do impact players want to sign with your team?
No ---> Don't get in the way of your drafted and/or most promising younger players (assuming it did before, does this still sound fair?)
Yes ---> proceed below...
Do you have a plan to build that team with impact players?
No ---> Don't get in the way of your drafted and/or most promising younger players (assuming it did before, does this still sound fair?)
Yes ---> Execute on plan that illustrates the players aligned with that plan and the means to acquire them... Undoubtedly there are contingencies in said plan, but does Elfrid signing fit into any of that?
Assuming that makes some sense, I don't know how Payton signing makes sense.
