"Sometimes you have to do it through trades, free agency. But I think you have to be very aggressive in seeking out those opportunities. They just don’t happen by accident. You have to make them happen."
and
"You work every day with your player development, try to improve through the draft, you have free agency and you have trades. I think you have to be very aggressive in each area. Sitting back and waiting sometimes is not a good thing."
This, of course, generated a flurry of controversy involving Thibs' patience, win-now desire, dedication to developing the team roster, and so on.
More importantly I think the questions were misguided. The real question is not 'How do teams and players exchange uniforms' but 'What approach will the Knicks take in remediating their dismal roster and quality of play?'
The latter question speaks to the variety of ways that problems are solved. Put simply, do the Knicks (FO and coaching) spend their honeymoon period attempting to fix the team failures or do they spend their time building on the team's strengths?
Right now, it sound s as if Thibs and the FO are hell bent on shining turds. DSJ, Randall, Knox, and a few Kentucky grifters are being prioritized as reclamation projects presumably to up their trade values. Their trade values being minimal.
Players with much more interesting upsides (Ntilikina, Quickley, Obie, and others) in the meantime
are given the unenviable role of being spare change while these players "figure it out".
My own preference would be that players who have shown growth and promise be played together to create a positive core that the "projects" would have to fit in with to demonstrate that they are redeemable.
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