Capn'O wrote:Zenzibar wrote:Hes_On_Fire wrote:I think it’s been lost on people that Leon Rose is here because he’s Dolan’s friend. He has no resume for the job he was given. Much like the people before him, Rose falls into the category as ‘big celebrity name hire with no front office resume’ like Isiah or Phil or ‘James Dolan sycophant’ like Mills, Perry, and Grunwald before him.
I'm not a Dolan apologist but as a standalone fact, Leon Rose and his carefully selected executives are good if not great: Perrin, Aller, Frank Zanin etc. I trust that collectively they will turn this around, Dolan needs to stay away and let Rose, WWW and team prove their worth.
Last year they were God-sent, this year they're are worse than sht, typical Knicks RealGM fanbase cutthroats.
They are
competent and coherent. That's more than we usually get. We've had a spot of bad luck so far this year.
I thought as well. Defended most of their moves this offseason, if not as great, understandable in a certain context that seemed good - that it was ok to run back MOSTLY last years team, build off success, and address more scoring variety at the wing and get a "good backup" level PG in Kemba, who would start, with Rose being the starting PG off the bench.
But know I have to wonder about that competence if they couldn't suss out Randle might regress hard, or that their pro player guys weren't warning that Kemba's defense at the point of attack would really hurt the team badly. Especially when added to Fournier.
I mean, they got that part wrong, but it's not as if the other part isn't the same. Tread water as an "ok" team and be able to make the bigger move.
Still, the team had 57 million in cap space. Again, I'm aware of the fact that backup PG, backup C, backup wing, starting wing, starting PG needed to be addressed, so it's not like it could have gone to two players and that's it. And maybe we should make it 44 million, because Rose was coming back, so that's timing.
But feel like maybe better moves could have been made instead of Kemba (still cheap, at least), Fournier and Noel. Even if it cost the always impressive Burks!