Comments on: Dolan Sucks = Security Guards

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 22:25:58 +0000

Maybe the biggest cost of our spending spree was opportunity cost.

Maybe? That was the entire complaint the whole time!

By: Owen

Owen — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 21:49:36 +0000

In this time of stress, fear and pain we should all take a deep breath and reflect on the fact that Marcus Morris is hooting 28% from three for the Clippers.

By: KnickfaninNJ

KnickfaninNJ — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 21:47:23 +0000

Portis, Morris and Payton are the best of our free agent pickups. Payton is our starting point guard and deserves it. He’s not great as starting point guards go, but getting a good point guard through free agency is rare. Compare him to Raymond Felton, also a Knick point guard of no special distinction. We had to trade assets for Felton and here we didn’t trade anything, which is a good result. Morris was clearly a good signing given how it worked out. Portis is overpaid, but we have very friendly contract terms and he’s been durable and gotten a lot of usage. We need scoring off the bench and he gives us that.

The other free agents we hired over the summer were Bullock, Randle, Ellington and Gibson. I give the Bullock deal an incomplete. Who knows how it would have worked out if he didn’t fail his physical. Gibson doesn’t seem great, but maybe Mitch is learning from him. Randle brought needed scoring to the front line but is expensive and not a good fit with the rest of the team. Ellington so far is very forgettable and has probably been the least productive pick up.

Overall we didn’t do as badly as we could have in our hires and we didn’t sacrifice financial flexibility. There wasn’t anybody great on the market we had a chance at after Durant was injured, so we couldn’t have made a great team out of free agents. Maybe the biggest cost of our spending spree was opportunity cost. We didn’t take on long term contracts in return for accepting assets. It hard to say how big a loss that was. Overall this basically meh free agent record is so much better than the disasters many Knick management teams have wrought, that I’m ok with it. As I’ve said before, if we don’t screw up free agent hirings and trades, some of our draft picks will probably work out and we will get better eventually. Baby steps instead of backwards steps are alright with me.

By: Bruno Almeida

Bruno Almeida — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 21:42:51 +0000

I was fine with taking a chance on Payton, he is still young enough that we could hope for improvement, and if you give credence to the idea that the development of some of your guys was hindered by not having a decent PG, well, at least he can do basic PG things. He hasn’t really improved, so the experiment at least partially failed, but it was a reasonable signing.

Portis, Ellington, Bullock and Gibson weren’t. Morris was decent because there was always the chance of trading him, which was a success, and Randle was a decent gamble until he proved us that his improved shooting was indeed unsustainable, so that eventually failed too.

By: Raven

Raven — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 21:21:10 +0000

I think there was a point to Elf — we had no actual point guard — it just wasn’t a very good choice (although I don’t know that there was a better one). I’d replace him on your list with Mr. Portis.

By: E

Tue, 10 Mar 2020 21:09:16 +0000

There never was a point to Elfrid Payton and Wayne Ellington and Reggie Bullock and (*) Julius Randle and there’s even less of a point to them now.

(*) To a lesser degree.

By: The Honorable Cock Jowles

The Honorable Cock Jowles — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 20:42:34 +0000

We’re currently at #6 in the draft lottery odds, one win away from #2. The Razor is looking to stay sharp, my dudes.

By: E

Tue, 10 Mar 2020 20:42:28 +0000

If the Knicks didn’t take Frank at 8, Dallas was going to take him at 9. They tried to deflect the other way after they actually got DSJ, but they wanted Frank over DSJ. Rightly so.

By: The Honorable Cock Jowles

The Honorable Cock Jowles — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 19:39:20 +0000

Yeah, your playing is super tasteful, especially on that bassline. Killing it.

I’m not a big house guy, but this is the second time Nicolas Jaar has blown my mind with glitchy wild house stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hPfc02Q1qA

Last year if you had the #2 pick and traded down that would look like a big mistake but if you had the #3 pick and traded down you’d look very clever right about now

Absolutely. Morant is a great prospect still, but his success was far less clear than Zion’s, in my opinion. And as I said earlier, guys like Michael Beasley were “can’t miss” and missed hard. Of course, it didn’t matter to the Heat, since they had to trade him for pennies on the dollar to clear space for the Heatles, but it was still a failure relative to what they expected from him.

By: KnickfaninNJ

KnickfaninNJ — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:39:16 +0000

Very nice JK