I’m not advocating that we max him or anything. Just would like for him to get a really good look before cutting bait. He did cost us a coveted #1 pick.

All bets are off when dealing with a stubborn lunatic like Thibs.

Answer: Cam Reddish

Wow, that’s a hot take for sure. Is there a superstar that couldn’t break into the rotation on his 3rd year? :O

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I can see the logic behind this. Reddish is really the only guy on the roster with the size and athleticism that superstars tend to have, and he has a ton of skill. They should clearly try to play and develop him.

Reddish tops out at a 1; RJ as a 1A. It’s way more likely RJ becomes a 1A, though.

#2 – I think the major problem on this team right now is – and I’m serious – this “family” atmosphere that they’re building. What do I mean by that? You always have to forgive your family and basically give them 1000 failures before you cut bait. Thibs/Rose/Wes etc go way back — way too far back for Rose to summarily dismiss him. This is a problem when you are in a business like professional sports, where the margin for error is so small.

Thibs has done his job – he has brought professionalism to the on-court product, and he 100% deserved his COY 2 seasons ago. The problem with Thibs — and I mean this in the nicest way possible — is his age. I feel it in myself, I see it in my coworkers and family and everyone. The older you get, the more set you are in your ways, and the more likely you are to believe your own priors. The only coach I can think of that probably got better as he got older is Popovich, who morphed his strategy from year to year. Look at the top 4 teams from last season – Kerr was 50 when he started coaching the Dubs, and by all accounts is a truly exceptional person and mind even outside of basketball. Kidd is 49 and seems to have made some adjustments from when he coached the Nets/Bucks. Udoka is 45. Spoelstra was 38 when he started with Miami. Brad Stevens was like 12 when he started with the Celts, and now Ainge has hired Will Hardy who I think just got out of diapers.

Thibs was in his early 60s when he started with the Knicks. there is no chance that he is going to change his ways, and even if he does, I would bet a lot of $ that when the going gets tough, he will reflexively go back to what worked in 1997.

We all see this, and I highly doubt Rose and co. don’t see it also. But they go way too far back for Rose to dump him 14 months after winning COY.

I like the Jalen Brunson signing, but when you sign your godson, are you going to be willing to trade him if that’s the best move for your team? Seems unlikely to me. Or at least it will be much harder than it should be.

Nah I’m just asking you to give Leon the same amount of time you’d give someone who was doing a “proper” rebuild

I assure you that if someone was doing a proper rebuild we would grade them two years into it, as well.

If you knew nothing about the salaries of our players or how they ended up on this team. If all you knew were the ages of the players and also how many draft picks we had over the next four drafts, would you think we were in a good position?

Yes, I think we’d be in excellent position if none of these players had salaries that counted towards the cap.

If IQ and Grimes were picked higher in the draft but the same players would you feel better thinking we got these two young players but they must get better bc they were high draft picks?

No, but I’d feel better if we had the players who were actually selected higher in the draft, like LaMelo Ball and Scottie Barnes.

They won 37 games because that’s not very hard to do!

This is correct. We were 25-38 and still decided to keep trying to win, ping pong balls be damned, resulting in a 12-7 end of the season. With 2 wins against Washington, that was what got us ahead of them. We didn’t lose a single game against a tanking team. And what’s even worse is that we didn’t shift to youth until the last 5 games of the season. Although Randle was out for 3 games they didn’t see the light and brought him back for 3 more games until they finally surrendered and sat him for 5 games. Seems like a joke, but it’s true. And the cherry on top, Burks kept being the starter until the last game of the season when finally Thibs decided to give the starting job to Quick.