"Death to the Pessimistic State of Mind" - Nas Voice: NYK '23 Pre-Season Thread

[ISO]

Try to make two 6'1 players sound less tall by comparing them to two players that are taller than them brehs

Try to sound reasonable by making comparisons to a duo containing one of the greatest shooters/guards of all time brehs

nikka did you think about this before you hit send?

I’m not the one who brought them up. They didn’t even make my list.

Yeah they’re short there will be issues on defense that’s obvious it’s going to have to be schemed for. It’s possible they’d be really good on offense though for sure. The Knicks would still be a better team for it.

Don’t really know what y’all want nikkas talking on some championship or bust shyt

The whole small backcourts can’t win shyt isn’t based in anything saying oh C.J. and Lillard never won so it doesn’t work is pure nonsense.

 

[ISO]

Help me understand how throwing out +/- is an argument for what I'm saying. Steph was on the court more with Klay/Wigs than he was with either of them & Poole, correct?

It shows their most effective line ups were the Steph-Poole ones.

Dubs top 3 two man combos was Steph-Payton, Steph-Green, and Steph-Poole in that order.

Steph and Poole was the backcourt most of the regular season and got good postseason tick too. They can arguably be considered for the list of small backcourts that won.

 

[Derek Lee]

Randle contract ain’t that bad, it’s his attitude that’s the prob

Both are problems

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

It’s happening

 

[Derek Lee]

 

[Derek Lee]

This offseason's still a failure if Randle's not off the roster

 

[Ironman]

This offseason's still a failure if Randle's not off the roster

 

[Derek Lee]

It shows their most effective line ups were the Steph-Poole ones.

Dubs top 3 two man combos was Steph-Payton, Steph-Green, and Steph-Poole in that order.

Steph and Poole was the backcourt most of the regular season and got good postseason tick too. They can arguably be considered for the list of small backcourts that won.

Steph can win with plenty of other small backcourt mates. Poole ain't special.

 

[RubioTheCruel]

Sounds like this is gonna happen and some form of Grimes/Toppin/IQ + picks and swaps plus salary to make it match

What’s the starting 5 and rotation look like then? Brunson/Mitchell/Barrett/Randle/Robinson DRose/McBride/Hartenstein/Sims?

I mean…. OK I guess? They won’t be horrible…

 

[Ironman]

Sounds like this is gonna happen and some form of Grimes/Toppin/IQ + picks and swaps plus salary to make it match

What’s the starting 5 and rotation look like then? Brunson/Mitchell/Barrett/Randle/Robinson DRose/McBride/Hartenstein/Sims?

I mean…. OK I guess? They won’t be horrible…

Less spacing, shooting, and athleticism plus getting rid of the players the fans actually root for besides RJ. TRASH

 

[Ironman]

Such a Knicks thing to do iight Dolan time to clean house again

 

[Peter Popoff]

Hmm, Duece, Grimes, Cam, Randle, 40cal and picks.

We still have Hunt, Keel and Montero from the summer leagues. Utah has youth and besides losing Grimes, wouldn't take that much of a hit.

 

[seemorecizzy]

Melo trade was fine it just didn’t work out for a multitude of reasons.

Felton was never as good as he was in his first Knicks stint and found his way back to us. Gallo and Wilson were solid players you would have like to keep as depth pieces but they became very injury prone. Mozgov was nothing special. Out the picks we gave up they came up with Jamal Murray which is nice.

We had Stoudemire, Billups, Fields, Shumpert all have major injuries. It’s just a lot man to that era. We were unlucky. If luck was on our side we would have been a perennial playoff team.

thank u
melo deal wasn't bad at all
especially since we got felton back in a year.

dont tell me you aren't trading prime carmelo anthony for fukking wilson chandler, gallo, and mosgov lmao

especially since we ended up replacing mosgov with tyson chandler

i could care less about the picks, we werent drafting jamal.murray anyway

 

[seemorecizzy]

I know Zach is a low key dude, but I don’t think he likes playing with Derozan. It was sold as Derozan coming to Chicago to play with Zach and now it’s clearly Derozans team. Plus, why would you force your way out now when you can get the 5 year 8% max and then force your way out 5 months later.

the point is, there is literally 0 evidence to back this up. you're making it up from scratch lmao
it sounds desperate. he coulda left

 

[seemorecizzy]

randle will lose his shyt if he gets shipped to utah lmao