Negotiating Chips and Timing: From the New York Knicks to Julius Randle – NBA – Basketball

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Although the attention should be on the divisional championship game now, the problem between Julius Randle and the New York Knicks just came to the surface again with the playoffs. I would like to use this as an example to provide some information on how the Knicks are dealing with this matter thoughts and considerations that may arise.

1. Negotiate this matter

The team’s positioning of players and even transactions are usually a matter of negotiation. Of course, in addition to communication skills and the needs of the other party, the negotiation is also very important to own the bargaining chips; so why mention the negotiation first?

Because, I often say that what to do is not the point, but how you accomplish it and what the actual content is. Take Randle directly as an example. I know that many Knicks fans want to trade him, but if you trade his As a result, the returned salaries and players are difficult to handle, do not meet the needs of use, and even have to be labeled. Is this better for Nick?

So, when you let everyone know that you have no plans other than trading Randle, and Randle just won the third team of the year, but sorry, he is really not as rare as Kevin Durant or Donovan Mitchell, Knicks fans don’t want to If you use it, how do you expect others to rush to use it?

So if you don’t show possibilities other than the transaction, then there will definitely be a gap between the difficulty of the transaction and the reward you get back, and it will also affect the contract negotiation with Obi Toppin.

2. If there is no transaction, there will still be drama

What are the possibilities other than trading? That is to humanize him as a tool, rather than the core of the tactical system. It is completely based on who can perform these tasks better as a consideration on the field. Some parts are a bit similar to Tom Thbiodeau’s approach to Carlos Boozer in the Chicago Bulls at the time.

When it comes to this, some Nick fans will say, “If you can do this, why haven’t you done it in the past few years? Will Randle cooperate with you like this? Will there be no atmosphere?”

There are factors that have not been done in the past, and these factors may indeed become feasible due to changes in the team lineup and other factors; so in fact, seemingly the same plan, in different time and space, as long as it does have a key impact If the sex factor changes, it may have produced different conclusions.

When Thibs takes over the Knicks for 2020-21, who else can the Knicks rely on besides Randle if they want to achieve results? And when you hire Thibs as a coach, it’s not for tanking, right?

The second season is 2021-22. Nick and Randle played well in the previous season. Will you give up Randle at this time, or try to further strengthen the existing system?

By 2022-23, the Knicks will strengthen Jalen Brunson, but for Brunson to be used as a new core to build around him, and even reinforce Josh Hart to consolidate this route, it all happened after the start of the season. There is not much time to make such a drastic revision of the tactical system.

Therefore, this offseason is the first time that Nick has the conditions (can replace the core of Randle) and the time and space to adjust the positioning of Randle, adjust him to the tool man I mentioned above, and ask him to perform these tasks; then , will Randle cooperate just like this?

3. Regarding the atmosphere

Whether the players should cooperate with the positioning of the team, as mentioned above, is also a negotiation; if Randle does not cooperate, let’s take a look at the possible impact of the turmoil in this offseason if Randle does not cooperate.

Disturbance is actually just a means for players to fight for what they want, so when his negative effect on himself is greater than the impact on the team, it only hurts his subsequent worth.

Then, the first focus of the impact on the team is whether there are players from other teams on the team who will respond and become factional confrontations.

In the past few years, the players knew that no matter how troubled Randle was, the team still had a high probability of using him, and therefore he would have to cooperate with Randle a lot on the field, so when Randle came to talk to you Complain about something, even if you don’t want to in your heart, you still have to support it.

Realistically, the Knicks now know that Brunson will be at the helm of the team in the future, that is, they will be in cahoots with Randle, which will not do them any good; Getting together all the time during the season can also reduce this effect.