New York Knicks trade for Mikal Bridges will NOT get them to NBA Finals | Draymond Green Show

New York Knicks trade for Mikal Bridges will NOT get them to NBA Finals | Draymond Green Show

welcome to the brand new Draymond Green Show YouTube channel hit subscribe so you don’t miss out on any of our content uh next trade Michel Bridges to the Knicks for five first round picks or five first rounders plus plus pick swaps um I was a little shocked I was shocked because it’s it’s crazy when so when Mikel got traded to the Nets from Phoenix everybody kind of knew the Nets would at some point go into this rebuild that they just went into and so everybody was kind of talking about what they would trade for Mikel Bridges and you hear like four first round picks five first round picks would be like the cost of the trade and then the Rudy go bear trade happened and when the Rudy go bear trade happened initially in the first year of it it didn’t look like it was working and everybody gives up on things extremely fast uh and it’s day and age that we live in and so it didn’t look like it was successful so then everybody pulled back on like the draft picks like whoa like they just took too many draft picks away that’s a high and then it kind of reset the market so then in turn you see how many picks Damen Lillard got drafted for I mean got traded for last year which was like two first round picks I want to say plus Drew holiday but we knew Portland didn’t necessarily want Drew holiday what they wanted was the picks they didn’t flip Drew holiday for some players and some picks but the the market had been reset and now with Michel Bridges with the Michel Bridges trade it’s went right back up to the amount of picks that Rudy Gober was traded for strictly due to the success that the Minnesota Timberwolves just had so they go to the Conference Finals have a tough Conference Finals but everybody thought for a second like yo this team might win in finals and so we always talk about the copycat league and look at that in an indirect way you see it again the copycat league and so the Knicks give up a bunch of picks and what the Knicks essentially just did was um they pretty much just said they going for it now and I think Mikel Bridges is is one of the better Wing players in our league um you know great two-way player he defends extremely well shoot the ball extremely well I thought in in Brooklyn the second year uh he got caught with the ball in his hands too much um and I don’t think that’s where he’s at his best I think he has the ball and if when he has the ball he can make plays but I thought the ball was kind of in his hand a bit too much that second year and I thought it hindered his play a little bit now he’ll be back at his kind of his normal position where you know he catching and shooting he catching attacking the close outs um and I think that best suits him allows him to play his best basketball we know he can do something with the ball and so it’s always good to have those skills when you need to get to it but I think he’s better suited and more of in his like his role in Phoenix but at a much higher volume like use him more use him more within your offense for sure but just coming down calling for a pick and roll every time I don’t think that’s where he’s best suited how nonetheless um anyway the New York Knicks went for it and they just mortgaged off their future saying we got it right now and that’s been a Hot Topic here on the podcast during the playoffs because I told y’all I you know what I thought about the New York Knicks and I’ve had a bunch of New York Knick fans come up to me over the last let’s see what has been since the New York’s Nick lost maybe a month uh is over the last month like you were wrong about the Knicks I was at I was at a friend’s wedding this weekend actually in New York and um the best friend of the groom since elementary school she’s a New York Nick fan big time New York Nick fan and we had a little thing back in for for a while where she tried to tell me like uh you were wrong about my Nicks I said who was wrong and she was like you were wrong because blah blah blah I said no but the Knicks lost in the second round so I was kind of right and she was like no such and such got hurt and when OG anobi plays we we 26 and six and blah blah blah and this person was and that person was Hur and I said well I didn’t necessarily say y’all were going to be healthy or hurt I said I didn’t think y’all would get much further so I was right and she went on this whole thing back and forth for a while and like ultimately she ended up telling me I was right which which was true but anyway uh which brings us you know to this discussion um I think add Mikel Bridges resigning OG anobi to a fiveyear $213 million contract I think those are great things that makes that team better and I think that team is going to be tough because they’re going to defend we know T’s teams are going to defend uh they got offensive weapons but I ultimately don’t think that team gets over the hump still uh and so if the team doesn’t get over the hump say in two years then everybody in the NBA get really impatient like ah it ain’t working we got to make moves and then it then and then now you’re looking to trade some of those guys to get some picks back in because you move on to where the Knicks were four or five years ago which was four or five years away from being four or five years away as a 12year NBA veteran recovering is very important to me as I continue to get a little older the body just doesn’t bounce back the way it used to so I’m a big fan of hyper ice especially their normat Tech boots what’s great about the new normat tech Elite is that they dish all the extra hoses and control units from the old model this one is fully self-contained with a small set of buttons to select your compression level super easy to travel with and to get set up after a hard workout or a big game on top of that the normant tech Elite packs 4 hours of battery life that’s enough juice to get full leg compression Cycles in before games after games and even on the plane and don’t get me started on the tech inside this thing hyper ice has been pioneering recovery science for years and the brand new normant tech Elite takes it to another dimension with seven different compression levels to choose from but it’s not just for pro athletes everyone can get their hands on these to help with recovery increase the circulation and reducing swelling and theore body shop all your warmup and Recovery needs at hyperice.com use C Draymond for 15% off your order today exclusions apply and so now the Nicks are in the space where they’re going for it and I respect it I think you know you got to go for it at some point um but what just happened with the trade was that you know if this doesn’t work in two to three years um the Knicks will be rebuilding again because they traded all their pcks away and then they’ll be trying to like trade those guys get picks back in that’s kind of how it all plays out and uh I’m sorry to the Nicks fans but that’s how I actually think it’s going to play out and I don’t think it’s any indictment to Michel who I think is like like a top tier player in the NBA like you know you got tears but damn good player Jaylen Brunson who all n Julius who has been all NBA um Dante nothing but love for Dante OG who’s in Champion it’s actually no indictment on any of those guys like I just don’t think that group is good enough to be Boston like ultimately you’re building a team that you hope can be Boston and I don’t think that team is going to be Boston so you got like a year or two like the Houston Rockets I don’t know if y’all remember the Rockets of when we was on our run I always talk to y’all about them CU they’re very interesting um you got like two years and then it’s like up that didn’t work and Clint capella gone like and the first domino fall and once the first domino fall that’s it it’s it’s going from there and so that’s what I kind of think is going to happen um that’s how I see it playing out if it don’t work that’s exactly how it will play out so you heard it here first nonetheless uh I think those are great moves by the Knicks I just don’t think they quite get you over the hump which then you have to say ah looking down the road but you know I get it because if you’re the front office you got to swing because if not you’re going to get fired because we play in this league that only really four to five teams want to win uh everybody say they want to win and then a few more than the four or five will act like they want to win but the reality is every year only really four to five teams really want to win a championship and y’all like everybody want to win I don’t get that I’m not going to take the time on this podcast to explain to you what I mean by that just know only four to five teams want to win per year for real doing everything they can do to win but for some reason coaches give fired fast like nobody’s tomorrow in this league GMS get fired after they get rid of fire and get done firing the coach a time or two to save their own ass um and it’s all kind of like smoking mirrors because everybody really not trying to win so if a team go to the playoffs a couple years in a row and get to like the second round if they get to like the second round or first round that second round actually even mix in a Conference Finals here and there then a year or two later if they don’t do the same thing they get fired but they be getting fired by these these teams that don’t really want to win and so it’s a very interesting dynamic in the NBA I just been thinking about this a lot like why so many coaches get fired ah they get fired because the GM throw them under the bus to save his ass all right then the GM gonna get fired shortly after that and it’s just like this ongoing cycle but you see like all of these bad teams who really don’t win a championships be the teams that’s firing their coaches and so in a league where that happens that’s what goes on with these teams everybody overreacts and it it happens fast so they got two years they on the clock New York Knicks fans in the next three years do the New York Knicks make it to the NBA finals yes or no no I do not think so no health is important health is very important and uh I’ll tell you now I don’t want to see that team in the regular season because they are going to be playing harder than nobody’s tomorrow I I kid you not that team defensively is going by the way defensively that team is going to be tough like tough tough um and playing against a team like that during the regular season when you really don’t got time to like prepare and and then you go up against that defense man it’s GNA be hard it’s gonna be hard like that they would not Shock me if they get a number one seed number two seed wouldn’t shock at all um but ultimately I think when it comes down to winning the championship you have to have guys who can get a bucket by any means necessary on anybody I don’t care who you who your defensive adjustment is who you go to that guy gotta be able to get a bucket on him in order to carry a team to a championship and like they’re guys you can make it tough on and so I I don’t think so uh that’s just just my opinion I’m sorry Nick’s fans they’ll be like you’re a hater like no I just got an opinion and that’s it get ready for a great night of fights UFC 303 it can be even bigger if you sign up you know it doesn’t take long to the draftking Sportsbook app the official sports betting partner of the UFC you know make it simple go to DraftKings select a fighter place your first bet DraftKings new customers all you have to do is BET $5 to get $150 in bonus bets instantly okay so you just download the app now it takes 90 seconds do it on your phone takes 90 seconds put in the code Colin that would be me c o l i n and there you go five bucks you get 150 bucks that’s pretty sweet deal DraftKings only on DraftKings the crown is yours have a great summer n [Music]

Draymond Green explains why he respects the New York Knicks for being aggressive and going after Mikal Bridges in a trade with the Brooklyn Nets, but why it ultimately won’t be enough to get them past the Boston Celtics. Do the Nova Knicks with Jalen Brunson, Mikal Bridges, Josh Hart, and Donte DiVincenzo have what it takes to make the NBA Finals?

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