HOLY KRISTAPS: All Things Porzingis | TRADED to WAS

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This is how I can tell you love boxscore numbers. I'm sure you were a big fan of Stephon Marbury and Latrell Sprewell back in the day too.

Please elucidate to me, if Randle was having such an amazing career before signing with the Knicks, why did no one else in the league have interest? He signed in 2019. A year where the majority of the league had cap space. 29 other teams passed up on him. Even the Pelicans who had him on a cheap contract said "No thank you. Have a good career". He averaged 21 points for them too, by the way. 

Again, Randle signed a team friendly contract out of necessity. The Knicks threw money at him to reach the salary floor after striking out on all the big name free agents. If Randle was this amazing player why in the world were the Knicks SO bad last year with him as the main star? Why did no other team bother to even make a contract offer to Randle?

Randle has always been a terrible defender, turnover prone player that couldn't shoot outside of 10 feet. He had 1 go-to move that earned him the nickname beyblade. Heck, after his rookie contract ended and he averaged 16/8, where the only team that wanted him was NOP. They gave him a 2 year deal with a player option worth 17 mil total. Think about that. A young 23 year old forward that averaged 16/8, shot 56% from the field and played in all 82 games only got a 2 year contract worth about 8 mil a year.

R E V I S O N I S T history. 




Also what...? How were the Mavs magically supposed to get Lavine? Force Chicago to trade him? Go after him when he had RFA in 2018? Ridiculous.

Lavine signed a $78M RFA contract with the Kings that the Bulls matched. Mavs could easily have build an offer and look whether cheap Reinsdorf would have matched it.

What qualifies Kristaps Porzingis as more of a winning player or having more upside than Randle at the time?
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Oh that he has a better PR agent, who branded him as a Unicorn, while his team was still losing over 50 games every season.

Porzingis has horrible peripheral court-vision, slow reaction times and therefore awful assist numbers, but Randle with an career-average of over 3.0 APG was the tunnel-vision one-trick bully pony. How did he get those three assists every game? Probably from all the potential turnovers, that his teammates gobbled up and converted into points swiftly. Meanwhile poor Unicorn suffers from his teammates shooting 12% off his passes otherwise he´s be above his 1.2 APG?

Tell me am I doing your advanced analytics right.

I bet you are one of those people that believe Russell Westbrook is a losing player.