I don’t get how they make all of these moves, and don’t pick up a big man. It’s baffling to me. Tobias Harris is literally their main center right now. It’s absurd.

Grimes gets traded and now he’s become super overrated, why am I not surprised

I think Grimes is a solid role player. I defended him through the down period as a starter right until the end. He’s low usage, but his perimeter defense is clearly solid, he’s good from 3 and he shows flashes of being more than just pure 3&D. IMO he’s likely to get better given he’s only 23.

The Knicks had to address the lack of bench scoring and playmaking that resulted from the OG trade, but IMO this particular trade was too short term oriented and brought in two highly suspect defenders. Naturally I hope I’m wrong, but don’t think we have enough yet to be considered serious contenders. IMO this trade did not move the chain nearly as much as pundits are suggesting. We need one more solid move in the off season or at the next trade deadline. Let’s hope the next one is some guy in his mid 20s like OG that ideally will be around for a long time and play both sides.

I didn’t think Deuce would stick in the NBA because his offensive game looked so weak, but he has come a long way on that side of the ball.

Also, there’s a better than 50% chance that Bojan’s offensive output will not offset his lousy defense. We may actually miss Grimes.

Obviously we would be better off with both, but you need either very good perimeter defense or very good interior defense. We have neither right now in part because OG is out and in part because Grimes was traded.

IMO if our measurements of defense were as accurate as measurements of offense, defense would get more weight. It’s hard for any model (or person) to weight defense properly when no one seems to be able to measure it properly. But in this case imo it was fairly obvious we were solving the bench scoring issues, but at least in the short term, raising some issues about defense because we were going from a solid perimeter defender to a matador and Swiss cheese lover.

We need at least one of I-Hart or OG out there, but imo the loss of Grimes and the potential for OG, Grimes, and I-Hart/Mitch is being underrated post trade. That defense would have been killer.