Z-Man: Bottom line…we did nothing to cripple the franchise. After decades of those gut-punch moves, I’ll take that.

Thing is, this is exactly what people were saying through Jackson’s first two years… and truth is, there were no catastrophic moves except Noah, and even without the Noah contract, the sum of his moves were a major setback to the team. We’re getting a sense of the way this front office views team-building, and it looks almost identical to the way Phil viewed it… It’s a very passive approach, one that hasn’t worked since the 2011 CBA came along and made it near impossible to dramatically outspend teams, creating a virtual nearly hard cap and thus making free agency a pretty awful value.

OH. KP will be injured til next season. I missed that.

Yeah, his particular injury typically takes about 10-12 months to recover from, so it’ll be about this time next year when he will probably make his return.

But yeah, 2019-20 should hopefully be a fun season, at least!

We could use a new thread-this one is getting hard to load/scroll.

They’ll be a game thread soon!

when you watch mudiay you will see Derrick Rose on both ends (as a knick). I know he’s 38-108 from 3 but he’s still been really bad on long 2s so not much here to trust in that sample.

He is bad on long twos, and middle range twos, but he shoots most of his 3’s assisted. He essentially never takes catch and shoot two point shots (he’s 1-3 this season).

Mudiay is fine. He’s a lotto ticket. I think it’s probably a waste of our time, but it doesn’t matter much. Destroying whatever value Willy had and then trading him for no reason whatsoever is far dumber.