Well, they should run plays for him then. Novak still seems to me to be the guy he was last year. The personnel around him has changed but he is still doing his thing, which is be about an average NBA player. I think he is still a perfectly serviceable rotation piece who should be featured more in the second unit. But it looks like Woodson is going in the other direction.

Kennedy notes that other players would need to be involved.

That certainly changes things a bit.

Redick could demand a lot I would imagine. It’s not like puts up his number as a spot-up shooter. So much more value with a guy like that because he strains the defense.

I was just going to post a correction haha. I know I’ve written about him on this board before but have spelled both ways. Seems like the one d is such an irregular spelling.

Especially since Josh Reddick on the Red Sox/Oakland A’s and Lance Reddick of the Wire and Fringe fame both spell it with two D’s.

As for JR, yeah, he’s likely not going to make more than what the Knicks would offer, but Redick himself would also be looking for a contract like that, right? So would the Knicks really re-sign both of them?

Brian Cronin:
It’s funny, ruru, you spell it with two D’s, too. I have spelled it like that the entire time he’s been in the NBA. It was only just this second when he didn’t show up on a basketball reference search that I realized that it is just one D. Weird.

I was just going to post a correction haha. I know I’ve written about him on this board before but have spelled both ways. Seems like the one d is such an irregular spelling.

Brian Cronin:
Come on, massive, Paul George? No way Shump becomes Paul George. Shump could theoretically become Latrell Sprewell, but he’s never becoming Paul George.

That said, Latrell Sprewell was a very good player, so yeah, I can definitely see not wanting to part with Shump for a one-dimensional guy like Reddick, even if holy shit, would Reddick fit the Knicks like a glove. So me? I’d do the trade.

However, as great of a fit as Reddick would be with the Knicks, can you imagine how irate JR Smith would be? “Oh hey, JR, we just traded for a better version of you who is also a free agent the same time you are.”

I doubt JR gets better than the Bird Rights $6 million.

But, I don’t think shooting in general can ever be redundant.

Also, Redick is a really underrated defender. He’d clearly be the best perimeter defender on the roster, far and away the best motor and he’s not going to switch.