Hopeless mediocrity with no end in sight.

I’m with Al on this. RJ showing that he’s potentially a very good player is a big deal for us. We have two years where our three best players will not be making much money, and during that time we’ll have a good amount of cap flexibility and some pretty high draft picks. There is also the outside chance we get value from another of our young players — Knox as a stretch 4 who can rebound and not be terrible on D, for instance, would provide surplus value.

Given the moves we’ve made, we’ll probably blow it – not as badly as OMG (Old Moustache Guy), but in some miss-the-point meh kind of way. Still, if someone like Masai came in tomorrow and brought a good coach with him (or elevated Miller), I think we’d all feel pretty positive about where we’re at.

Maybe Fiz is the perfect coach for a tanking team. But he doesn’t look like a legit coach to me.

because Perry and Mills want to keep rolling over the cap space until some sucker superstar takes it. Good luck, fellas.

This is exactly why they do everything they do while putting the cart before the horse (in essence, signing the Mo Williamses of the world before Lebron has signed on). It’s a strategy that keeps them from maximizing other opportunities.

But they could still get lucky by having RJ become very good while still finishing in the bottom-4. We could end up with 3-5 great young players and lots of cap space in 2021 despite not giving the team significant chances to get better right now.

Hopeless mediocrity with no end in sight.

I wouldn’t go quite that far, if only because RJ looks great, and Fiz is giving him all the minutes he can handle. Plus, if we remain this lousy, we will hopefully (give or take the new flattened odds) get another high pick — preferably a point guard who combines most of the individual things our three-headed monster can do (passing, defense, penetrating) while also maybe knowing how to shoot? An RJ/Mitch/stud young guard core is good enough that the mediocrity of the front office won’t hamstring us too much.

5 shooting guards, 5 power forwards, and 1 center; and that the task of making that work falls on the worst PG troika I’ve ever seen and a coach who is a nincompoop.

But the third year — and, really, the guaranteed second — would have precluded us from signing him because Perry and Mills want to keep rolling over the cap space until some sucker superstar takes it. Good luck, fellas.

I know you’re just presenting Mills/Perry’s thoughts, not advocating them yourself. But guaranteeing a 3rd year for Rubio wouldn’t have even hurt. Even with his $17mm we’d have ~$40mm in salary committed to that season.

This is a 20-something win team and you could have accomplished that and picked up some draft picks in the process by being smart and stashing a couple of bad contracts, like all the sane people here wanted to do. Instead we did this.

This FO doesn’t make the big catastrophic blunder like Old Mustache Guy, but they bleed you to death with endless minor mistakes. Either way the result is kind of the same. Hopeless mediocrity with no end in sight.

Not giving Mitch sufficient reps is just not an acceptable outcome, his development is one of the 2 or 3 highest priority non-negotiable goals for this Knicks season. 19 minutes in a game where he wasn’t in foul trouble and was really productive when he’s out there is just coaching malpratice.

It is beyond understanding why mitch played 19 minutes last night.

The rotations are pretty simple…. Mitch/Randle and RJ get 32 minutes per night because they are your best core players. Everything else works around that. Randle has played about 35% of his career minutes as a small ball 5. RJ swings between 2-3. Knox and Portis swing off the bench between 3/4 and 4/5.

So now you need to find 24 minutes from the 2 and 48 minutes from a point. Basketball really isn’t hard…..

I don’t see how we would have had to pay a “shitty team premium.” He signed with a team that was right with us in tank wars.

Sorry, I had a brain fart earlier and thought he had signed with the Jazz, forgetting he had previously played in Utah. So, yes, that contract would have been roughly what we could have gotten him for. But the third year — and, really, the guaranteed second — would have precluded us from signing him because Perry and Mills want to keep rolling over the cap space until some sucker superstar takes it. Good luck, fellas.

That was one of the most out of nowhere douchey things I’ve seen from an athlete. Typically, douchey athletes sort of set up their douchiness. This was just out of nowhere.

I don’t get it, really. Is this the way Boras informs the other franchises know that Cole has no loyalty to the Astros even if they make a big offer? Couldn’t he do that via phone call? Or maybe this was more an authentic “fuck you” that is now in the public sphere so its churlish earnestness can’t be questioned?