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

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Nah bro Utah controls 5 of the Cavs picks without any protections… that is a lot of draft picks. Knicks only wanted to give up two unprotected and 3 protected.
The Knicks kept playing hardball thinking they had leverage and got blindsided by the Cavs.

Knicks front office and Knicks fans were not willing to give things up for a star. We are locked in and committed to mediocrity.
 

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Brehs, this continued hedge between competing and developing is rough; we can't build up our assets because we try to win now with bummy vets, our bummy vets can't get us over a 50% winning record, we never draft high enough to get a game changer, and we're not good enough to poach great free agents.

It's time get rid of Randle and focus on development. Get rid of Thibs too if he doesn't wanna stick around for it. We lose out on the D Mitch trade in part because we don't build up the value of our players. I don't care what the stats say, Sexton ain't that much better than Obi, Grimes or IQ; he's a one way chuck.
That trade wasn’t about players. Ainge wants draft picks to make moves and limit teams ability to improve. Look at the Cavs. They got a small back court, caris Levert who is injury prone is their best wing, and then they run three bigs in Levin Love, Mobley, and Jarrett Allen. If you don’t see the potential for that team being bad based on a injury idk what to say.

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i am very ok with the Knicks not doing this trade. They still have trade assets to improve the roster.

:yeshrug:

The Cavs don’t fully control any of their drafts for 5 years and Mitchell might dip to NY in 3 years….
The narrative for a eventual Mitchell trade was there for a while, I don't see any other star players who might ask out or get traded soon in the league right now....
 

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i am very ok with the Knicks not doing this trade. They still have trade assets to improve the roster.

:yeshrug:

The Cavs don’t fully control any of their drafts for 5 years and Mitchell might dip to NY in 3 years….
Mitchell isn’t coming here.

We could have drafted him or traded for him and both times did some smart dumb nikka shyt.
 

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The Knicks kept playing hardball thinking they had leverage and got blindsided by the Cavs.

Knicks front office and Knicks fans were not willing to give things up for a star. We are locked in and committed to mediocrity.
Na, we good. Just need to dump Randle off somewhere, shyt anywhere.
 

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That trade wasn’t about players. Ainge wants draft picks to make moves and limit teams ability to improve. Look at the Cavs. They got a small back court, caris Levert who is injury prone is their best wing, and then they run three bigs in Levin Love, Mobley, and Jarrett Allen. If you don’t see the potential for that team being bad based on a injury idk what to say.

:yeshrug:
He also has a player option in 25. There’s a possibility that only ONE of the picks the cavs just traded will be from a team that had Donovan Mitchell on it.
 

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It's cool it's cool we still got assets for when ANOTHER star is available it's cool brehs don't worry :laff:

I'm happy with being a lefty bully ball trash ass
team with no stars it's cool we go all our picks that don't do shyt with and young guys we don't wanna trade that no one in the league wants unless they can beat us in the head with the trade:laff:

SORRY ASS KNICKS LMAOOOOOOOOOO
 
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