Comments on: Knicks Morning News (2019.05.07)

By: The Honorable Cock Jowles

The Honorable Cock Jowles — Thu, 09 May 2019 02:00:54 +0000

And Z-man’s the dude saying we’retoo cool for school

Foh old man ; )

By: Z-man

Z-man — Thu, 09 May 2019 01:43:33 +0000

Lopez is killing the Bucks momentum.

By: Z-man

Z-man — Thu, 09 May 2019 01:33:31 +0000

Was just hanging out at a bar with Bill Clinton. The man is still as sharp as a tack! Hard to get a word in edgewise but you can listen to him expound on an array of subjects all day.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Wed, 08 May 2019 10:55:00 +0000

In reply to Hubert.

I think a lot of that concern depends on the Top Five pick in the NBA Draft not being any good, which I don’t think is a given. That player might very well be a really good player, right? Add in Mitch hopefully improving over time and Kyrie still being in his 20s (and whoever they can add with the MLE), there isn’t any real reason why the team shouldn’t be able to weather Durant’s decline phase. That’s not to mention also the moves that they might be able to make with Knox, Frank and DSJ as trade chips (perhaps even the Dallas picks, to boot).

That’s also not to mention that we don’t even really know what Kevin Durant’s decline phase will look like. He’s already a bit of an aberration, right? I mean, you think that Durant is going to score just as well as Harden’s historic scoring season in his first year with the Knicks but then he’s just going to, what, fall off of a cliff the following season? Kevin Durant’s decline phase might still be really, really good.

By: Hubert

Hubert — Wed, 08 May 2019 10:41:08 +0000

That makes sense, Brian, but the way I’m looking at it is like this:

We have to pay Durant supermax money for age 31-35 seasons.

It’s reasonable to assume he will be in decline for 2 of those seasons, if not 3.

If I have to pay that back end price, I want to be sure I can actually win in the season I’m most likely to get peak Durant. If I can’t the pieces around him right away, I don’t know it makes sense to sign him. Unless we’re cool with just watching the Durant show for a couple years without winning a title, which I’m sure sounds appealing to many.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Wed, 08 May 2019 10:14:59 +0000

In reply to Early Bird.

I’m not. I think you clearly take the two star players who want to come here and then figure stuff out from there. Even if the Knicks then top out as 50 wins this upcoming season, that’d be, what, their second 50 win season in twenty years (they won 50 games in 1999-2000, so that’d be 21 seasons away after next season). I would gladly take that. Then see what they can do when they have the MLE available the next season (and having further development for Mitch and the 2019 first rounder).

By: Early Bird

Early Bird — Wed, 08 May 2019 05:08:16 +0000

We’ve grabbed so many useful players off the garbage heap. Why are we worried about filling out the rest of the roster?

By: Bruno Almeida

Bruno Almeida — Wed, 08 May 2019 04:45:53 +0000

I would, however, trade every player who played on the New York Knicks in the last 5 seasons for Jokic.

By: Bruno Almeida

Bruno Almeida — Wed, 08 May 2019 04:44:34 +0000

Murray is undoubtedly very talented. I have no idea if he’ll ever harness this talent into great production and I’d be very concerned about signing him to a max, but at least there’s something to be excited about his future.

By: Grocer

Grocer — Wed, 08 May 2019 03:59:57 +0000

Good for him. He is only 22.

Remember when Kemba was 22 and wasn’t very good?