If you want more rose-colored glasses thinking, I guess if its a tabula rasa, they stuck with their professed “no long-term FA deals” mantra. Considering the number of long-term cap-killing deals that were signed yesterday, 2021-22 could actually be an interesting time for us. But the performance of the Mills-Perry duo does not instill any confidence that they could ever competently manage an opportunity.

They did, but remember when it was first reported (which is weird that it was reported so accurately, since Perry is a ninja who the fake news media could never possibly pin down), I think we all hoped that that part of their back-up plan wouldn’t actually happen, right? Short term deals for the sake of short term deals is not a very good plan. Better than terrible long term deals, sure, but also worse than getting better players on long term deals.

While I totally agree (and that was my concern at the time of the KP deal, that the Knicks would fuck up the cap space that they prioritized in the KP deal over actual assets), I also think it is fair to note that they almost assuredly had an under the table deal with Durant that just went sideways when he blew out the Achilles tendon.

In other words, I only thought that the KP deal was a great move when I thought it was definitely combined with Durant coming here and I think that actually was the case…he just then blew out his Achilles and blew up the deal. So that was more bad luck than anything I can blame Mills and Perry for.

Everything after that, then yeah, that’s just on them being shitty at their jobs.

It’s just so boringly stupid. At least with Cousins there was a miniscule probability that he would become a late-blooming legit star. Portis? (who admittedly I liked at draft time) Bullock? (who others wanted us to draft over Shump) Gibson? (is he one of those guys who always played well against us? don’t we always sign those guys?)

Hezonja signed with Portland for the vet minimum. Boy, he sure played free agency wrong last year, huh? Portland and the Knicks both offered him basically the MLE. He chose the Knicks and now he’s back with Portland at the minimum the next year.

Isn’t it funny how the Randle signing made it seem, briefly, like they might actually have some semblance of a logical plan (even if you weren’t a Randle fan, the move sort of made sense)? And then they torpedoed it pretty quickly after that.

Too dumb. This is seriously fucking stupid.

I think Miami likely believes other teams would take Dragic without requiring a pick. But yes, that would be a great idea (and one that this front office would never think to do).