Yeah I know, don’t think that would have been the answer either.
I don’t really have much of a take on who is better, I just feel comfortable saying that neither has shown themselves to be a championship caliber coach, and that’s clearly what the Knicks aspiration is… If the goal was just to churn out some more 50-win seasons and get the crowd happy, they could have just kept the gang together
And would’ve been very strange given what I’d imagine Kidd’s status is in Dallas post-Luka. I’m more into Brown that you tho it sounds like. I just have no particular fondness for any of those Sacramento rosters and think Brown caused them to overachieve. Don’t think he’s shown he can’t win a title. Has probably shown he’s a pretty difficult personality.
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Knicks tried to interview several current coaches and got turned away. Literally probably 25% of current coaches across the league
Yeah seemed real dumb. I would’ve imagined they did a much better job back channeling and setting up a candidate that would for sure take the job.
holy crapola
Gotta be the largest stretch ever by orders of magnitude
Sort of a no-brainer? Combo of age and injury means there’s a good chance his deal was close to 100% dead money, so getting a useful player in there helps.
Sort of interesting that Dame’s Achilles is why the Bucks made the move, and arguably Halliburton’s Achilles is why Turner was available (I think they should have re-signed him anyway)
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My immediate thought is the Bucks still should’ve just dealt Giannis. Their roster minus Giannis and Turner is flotsam and they have $23M in dead money for 5 years on their books. They’re lining up to get bounced in the first round until Giannis decides his clock is ticking.
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Well yeah but when he says not to trade him, which is evidently the case, not much to do really
You can just trade him anyway!
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Interesting. I have no idea what to think about the Bucks. They’re trying to contend bc they need to appease Giannis, but their roster is ehhhh.
I mean, you can, but I think that’s impossible in the world of public opinion, player stature, legacy, etc. If the best player in franchise history (Kareem obviously better career-wise, not a better Buck) basically says he wants to stay, you sort of have to suck it up
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Ok, touche
Haha but to your point, this all was true with that deal. Dallas just “lucked” out in getting the #1 pick to allow fan/public backlash to have a shorter shelf life
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Fan backlash would still continue even if Cooper is successful. They still booed and called for Nico’s head at the draft party.
I also frankly think Giannis is at a different stature than Luka, but yeah, I don’t think most FO’s would sign up for what’s going with Dallas. Also, just - top 5 guys in the league, top like 20 (?) all time just don’t really get traded against their will very often. I imagine Dallas is going to pay some major repercussions from an agent/player attraction standpoint for what happend. They’re going to run the Dame/Portland playbook (Dame never as good as Giannis, didn’t accomplish as much, etc., but still) and nobody will fare well.
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Yes, but the backlash won’t last as long as it would have if they spent the next decade without Luka or Flagg. They’ll forget about it if Flagg becomes a star and Dallas is good. Really couldn’t have had a more fortunate situation come together after that debacle
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I’m not arguing with the premise! in NBA2K, I’d trade him!