gradyandrew wrote:Item Number 2 after Melo has to be which players on the team do we want to keep around. It's possible that Phil again goes all in for a full rebuild. It's just hard for me to believe that he would or could. I honestly think that outside of moving Melo the Knicks roster will pretty much look the same as it did this season. Meaning that Phil's big priorities will be Holiday and Rose. I think both will get offers of about 10 million per year, and that is probably the main reason that Phil is working towards a Melo trade ASAP. It will be completely deflating to us as fans but I really believe that Phil sees Melo as the root of all our problems and that there's a good team to be developed if Melo can be removed from the picture.
Outside of KP and Willy, there arent any players that need to stay. I like KOQ, he should be able to yield some picks in trades. Everyone else is not good enough and/or too old to be useful to this team in the long term. Holiday and Baker can stay to fill roster spots, as I dont think we'll get anything for them but they wont win us games and ruin the tankfest. I think you're right, grady. I think Phil too thinks removing melo will fix everything. He's going to be sadly mistaken, I've seen GM/Coach after GM/Coach excise what they perceived to be knicks cancers only to find that their team still sucked. Steph, ZBo, JR, I guess it's Melo's turn.
In RJ we trust.
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