Breaking -- The human race has waived Josh Smith: 2014-15 regular season thread part 2

Phil has been pretty damn boring as a GM, which is what they need I guess

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, April 9, 2015 7:56 PM (26 minutes ago)

if by boring you mean very bad

"boring" is not the apt description for "trading tyson chandler due to beef with malcontent star over representation" or "trading shumpert's potential as a JR salary dump"

"colossal tire fire" makes more sense imo

it's hard to imagine what the knicks could've done to be less fun to watch.
if they lose six to eight more games, they're at least interesting as curiosities. as it is, they're "historically" bad for the knicks but not even really bad enough to be noteworthily bad in the history of the nba. they're just a garden variety shit team. there's nothing loveable loser about them.

poor spo, he's smart, he knows it's the height of stupidity to push for the playoffs and not just start preparing for what will be a much better year next year

but riles wants what riles wants and he does not comprehend things like "not in playoffs for reasons beyond control have three rings still must prove something don't know what"

lol taj ruined a rose floater that prob would've gone in with his attempt at a tip, bulls not looking good rn

I guess a quarter like this is prob why riles thinks his team belongs in the playoffs

p sure spoelstra would rather be in the playoffs

all things being equal, yeah - who doesn't - but something also tells me he won't consider it an utter failure when they miss the playoffs, given what was beyond their control, whereas riles will

https://vine.co/v/eBPZQJ9lqAL

all things being equal, yeah - who doesn't - but something also tells me he won't consider it an utter failure when they miss the playoffs, given what was beyond their control, whereas riles will

you should write slash fic

lol @ super cool

would be a decent zing if I understood how what I typed was specifically indicative of a spo-riles romance!

feel like spo could do way better tbh he's a handsome dude

i think j0rdan just means the psychologizing of these figures but maybe he meant sexy stuff too who knows

half time adjustments indeed that 19 point lead is donezo

feel like spo could do way better tbh he's a handsome dude

― slothroprhymes, Thursday, April 9, 2015 9:36 PM (18 minutes ago)

isn't he married to one of the heat's cheerleaders or something

he is indeed. that was in ref to my hypothetical construction resulting from j0rdan's joke

yes I have been drinking

wow whiteside is an idiot

if by boring you mean very bad

― k3vin k., Friday, April 10, 2015 12:24 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No. He made one bad trade and everything else has been fine. That's why it's so boring, just a bunch of decent sensible moves.

is "one bad trade" like ancient sanskrit for "three"

Dame Steph 😍

dray green guarding LMA tonight

is "one bad trade" like ancient sanskrit for "three"

― slothroprhymes, Friday, April 10, 2015 2:42 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no

http://www.basketball-reference.com/executives/jacksph99x.html

This is all fine and normal stuff. Stuff a rebuilding team does.

previous Knicks GMs would have doubled down on that JR-Melo-Chandler team like it was a title contender, which is why Phil is a refreshing change of pace imo

they could've traded JR straight up if they really wanted to dump him without including shump. trading chandler just for the excuse of dumping felton was equally idiotic.

both of those major trades were pretty bad for the knicks though. the rest of the stuff is whatever i guess

prigioni trade is perfectly defensible. that's about it.

and it's defensible bc dumping pablo's money for the joke cost of a joke human known as shved is perfectly fine

resigining melo is the worst move he's made

I like Shumpert but he's a pretty fungible NBA asset at this point.

that move was pretty unavoidable, i mean the knicks were just not going to not re-sign melo, but yeah if you include that, he's 0-3 in major moves

clay otm

I like Shumpert but he's a pretty fungible NBA asset at this point.

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, April 9, 2015 10:55 PM (26 seconds ago)

i mean you can't be in a 3 team trade, export the only 2 players in the trade that are above replacement level, and have one of the OTHER teams get a 1st round pick. that trade was mind-glowingly bad

oh of course he had to, rock and a hard place and all, but tying up like $140 million in a 30 year old volume shooter who can't play d and has bad knees is not good for the franchise long-term

phil doesn't seem to get that if you're gonna firesale all your assets you at least need to get something back

not when you're a losing moribund franchise he isn't! he's replaceable with free agents yes but they'll replace him with someone old who will fail, it's the knicks

the knicks will pay melo ~$28 million in *2019*, what will melo's game look like in 2019

(xps)

There's a good game on rn guys

i mean you can't be in a 3 team trade, export the only 2 players in the trade that are above replacement level, and have one of the OTHER teams get a 1st round pick. that trade was mind-glowingly bad

― k3vin k., Friday, April 10, 2015 2:57 AM (15 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't think Phil deserves blame for Presti's mistake.

i am gonna watch the second half of the game w/ u dayo don't worry

phil doesn't seem to get that if you're gonna firesale all your assets you at least need to get something back

― k3vin k., Friday, April 10, 2015 2:58 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I can't really imagine JR Smith and Iman Shumpert fetching a first rounder. Possible I guess but you'd have to find a real idiot.

I had kind of forgotten that Everyone's Favorite GM (circa 2010) did a panicked trade of a first rounder for Dion fucking Waiters

so what you're saying matt is that you're actually jam3s d0lan and that's why you're defending all this and betting on shved

Chris kaman looks like he's auditioning for the second season of true detective

curry just tied his 3s record

im willing to be the Melo signing was 100% out of phil's hands

just imagine chris kaman saying "psychosphere" xps

Lol clay

What if Meyers Leonard replaced zayn

http://www.everyjoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/chris-kaman-lakers.jpg

"Death created time to grow the things that it would kill."
-- Chris Kaman