The Knicks Just Traded For OG Anunoby…

The Knicks Just Traded For OG Anunoby…

What’s the word y’all the Toronto raps are finalizing trade to send ojan and Obi to New York Knicks for a package including RJ Barrett Emanuel quickley draft compensation pressu Malachi Fender also in this deal and that draft compensation ended up being a 2024 second round pick via the Pistons which

Is basically the 31st overall pick in this year’s draft and just like that the first trade of the NBA season is done I thought that we would never see the day where Oobi gets traded this man has been in trade rumors for as for as long as I

Can remember and on this channel I don’t even know it had to be 6 months ago or 8 months ago in the offseason I said hey I won’t even talk about oan and Obi as a trade piece I won’t talk about Pascal seak as a trade piece until they’re

Actively dealt because I’m just tired of thinking about the rumors or the prospect of this player plan for this team when I didn’t know what MSI xiri was thinking about doing and now we know what his grand scheme was to get RJ Barrett back to Canada that’s basically

What it was now this trade happened 2 hours ago and and usually if you’ve been around in China you know I’m a guy that’s on top of it I I get my videos out relatively fast but this trade happening out of nowhere it’s it’s disappointing you know this is the one

Day I decided to take some time to myself I woke up this morning to go to the movie theater I went to go see the boy and Heron and uh N9 out of 10 movie top three of the Studios Production if you ask me and my phone start buzzing

About an hour into the movie like buzzing buzzing I’m like oh somebody must be calling I look and it’s w and Shams going back and forth back and forth on compensation and so on and so forth and boom we got the deal and I’m sitting there watching this legendary

Movie and I’m like man all I can think about is Oobi and the Knicks jersey oh man and now this trade happened to hours ago right so I’ve been refreshing Twitter a little bit since I got home and the general consensus on the internet at least as of right now

Without watching these these teams play with their new adjustments is that the Knicks gave up too much the Toronto Raptors fleece and personally I don’t know if I feel that way now this this might go into a broader discussion around some of the moves the Knicks have

Done over the last year and a half two seasons but if I’m looking at this trade at face value I see why the Knicks would agree to this deal and I see why the Toronto Raptors would agree I want to tackle it from the Nicks perspective first because it seems like that’s the

One everybody on Twitter is like I can’t believe they did this whatever whatever the first thing is obviously you hate to lose a menu quickly especially if you’re a New York Knicks fan you watch this man become the player that he is today where he is one of the more impactful off the

Bench players in all of basketball counter stats Advanced stats you name it they all love you man you quickly the itest loves Emanuel quickly that brother’s been in trade talks for a little bit too it was very obvious that the Knicks were not thinking about giving Emanuel quickly whatever bag he’s

Worth this off season so it’s like hey why not leverage him now before we’re pigeon hold to giving him a big old contract I.E what we just did with RJ bear 16 months ago and trade him away for a player that we want to get into

The door now it is inherently a risk because Oobi is an expiring contract but we get him into the door we convince him to love the the city of New York and love the New York Knicks we give him an extension so we trade him manue quickly

Before he’s worth half many millions of dollars he’s gonna get this off season and I mentioned RJ Bear right 16 months ago however a long ago um RJ bear signed a fouryear $107 million contract that goes until the 26 27 season that is a lot of money for RJ Bear’s production he

Is an up and down NBA player and when he’s good he’s really good but when he’s bad he’s really bad and we’ve seen times throughout the season because the New York Knicks have so much Wing depth where RJ Barrett who’s guaranteed $23 million this season is on the bench

While Dante D venzo is closing out of game or Josh Hart is closing out of game so by trading away RJ Barrett again if we go broader scale maybe the idea of giving RJ Barrett this contract in the first place is this trade right here is

Trying to cover up the fact that they did that but trading him getting rid of that money now and getting back a player that fits perfectly to what you’re trying to do offensively and defensively I can see why the Knicks did it now I am not off RJ Barrett Island I still

Believe that he can blossom into a really good player again we’re talking about a player that’s right now only 23 years old I feel like he’s been in the league forever in 2019 draft so it’s not over for RJ the version of RJ that you

Got right now is not the end of him but when you look at the Knicks and you look at their current timeline which is uh Jaylen Brunson playing at his value and and julus Randle who started off the season really slow through the first seven eight games getting back to all

NBA form we can’t really have it be like oh us hitting the next level is relying on our J Barrett hit in the next level because you I feel like you’ve told yourself that for the last couple Seasons or so so now you’re bringing a

Guy in O noi who a lot of people will agree is one of the more impactful trade pieces that were actively on the market like I I feel like people are going to watch the Knicks play now with OG and recognize that that man is one of the

What three best perimeter defenders in all of basketball and you add that to a team that already has some guys offensively that can get their own bucket that they were kind of missing another one of those big rangy wings against and he’s one of the best in all

Of the game at that so yeah you cover up the fact you gave RJ Barrett all that money and you don’t have to pigeon hole yourself and I’m I’m only speaking from the perspective of the Knicks I believe that emanu quickley is probably going to be worth whatever money he gets in in

Free agency this season but they had believed to themselves that Emanuel quickle is not going to be worth the money that he’s going to be warranted because as good as Emanuel quickley has been so far in his NBA career there’s one spot that he has been not very good

At all and that is the postseason here are his playoff numbers for the first three series of his NBA career um it’s it’s a significant drop off we can specifically look at these two because 2021 what is that his rookie season or something so let’s go last year’s

Playoffs he ended up playing in eight of those games and you can see the percentages you can see the numbers like this isn’t the final version of Emanuel quickley but if you’re thinking from the Knicks perspective the version of Emanuel quickley that can be like let’s say an Allstar or something of that

Caliber was probably not going to happen in New York you you the idea of having Jaylen Brunson and emanu quickly be your backourt of the now and the future it’s just tougher to win again the Larry O bran that way where you have two guards that are really really undersized like

Jayen Brunson makes up for it a lot by fighting all every single game and he’s got a stock your body but at the end of the day he is a undersized point guard and emmanu quickly is also an undersized guy so you leverage the value that is

Emmanu quickly now before you have to pay him yourself and then you realize maybe our best lineups when it matter the most may not have Emanuel quickly in them so do I want to pay Emanuel quickly I I’m making up a number I never really know how to scale contracts now $25

Million annually if we go to the playoffs and we’re closing out games and he can’t be on the floor because jayen Brunton is also on the floor right so you trade those pieces away and you get back OG where there’s no lineup imaginable that the Knicks can run where

Ogan and Obi won’t be able to fit in I’ve seen both sides of the corner where oan and Obi where sometimes people talk about him and I’m like man you’re highly overrating him and I’ve seen times where people are highly undervaluing him so it only time Mel now playing in a bigger

Market in New York the New York Knicks where everybody’s going to get a full grasp of who Oobi is as a player but I also can’t help but look at this and think to myself this can’t be all that Leon Rose and them are thinking about

Doing this kind of and I’m just saying this I’m not a cap expert right I can look at the salaries and everything which let’s do that so I look at the salaries and you think about making that ultimate trade the one that brings in a superstar because of RJ Barrett’s

Contract being out the door they don’t really have that super salary soer guy like uh Evan fornier is 18 million and maybe a disgruntled Quint Grimes is one of the young pieces that goes win this but that’s only $21 million in salary cap so where else do you make it up are

You getting rid of Josh Hart or Dante Devan chenzo to bring in that Superstar player I mean they still do have all of their draft Capital they only gave up the 31st overall pick in this year’s draft I still believe there’s more to be done from the Knicks perspective so

Again we going to watch it end up happening on the court and all but this feels like a trade to go into another trade but again obviously there’s inherent risk because Oobi is on the last year of his deal so you’re basically trading for him not as a

Rental you’re traded for him as as with the mindset that you’re going to extend him this off season and what that number looks like I can’t even know because if I want to remind you that there are many teams that were interested in oan and Obi and that’s going to have us shift

Off to the to the Toronto Raptors perspective of this deal there were a lot of teams interested in OG noi last deadline um there’s been a lot of reports last deadline I think it might have been Zack low or some of the other guys that are ear to the ground when

When talking to these organizations that the Indiana Pacers and the mempis Grizzlies both offered three first round picks and some stuff for ojan anobi and messiri said no we good we going to sit on this and we gonna get something else so as a Raptors fan watching this video

You tell me would you rather have emanu quickly and RJ Barrett or would you rather have the draft Capital stuff that was introduced by the Memphis Grizzly or the Indiana Pacers I I don’t really know but I am super excited to see Emanuel quickly in a role now with the Toronto

Raptors that allows him to spread his wings not saying that he was pigeon hole because when when he did play with the Knicks he was obviously a six-man of the Year candidate last year he was the runner up and this year he’s in the conversation as well but this the

Toronto Raptors are a team that desperately needs guard production specifically guard creation for them himself and for others around them and EM manual quickly can provide that to the highest degree but on the flip end everything that we just talked about with the with the New York Nicks about

Them not wanting to pay emanu quickly or getting off the contract of RJ Barrett that that is now the Raptor’s burden at the moment they’re guaranteeing RJ Barrett the money for the rest of his contract and then you’re going to have to pay emanu quickly come off season so

You got to think about it again hypothetically let’s say Emanuel quickley is worth $25 million annually that’s about $50 million in cap that you’re getting to those two players I’m happy that they ended up making a decision um because wals had talked about it two days ago on in one of his

Articles or something or maybe he was on threads replying to to NBA stuff either way he was asked about what the Toronto rapers are doing he said hell the Toronto Raptors haven’t made a decision one way or another on what they were going to do with Pascal seak and OG and

Now we got the trade this also tells me that they’re gearing up from a pascal SE yakum trade as well which I think you just have to do at this point go completely in on on building around Scotty Barnes but it’s interesting to see them go player production versus

Draft capital and that makes me think that the Raptors aren’t thinking about a rebuild but rather a re tooling with a little bit of potential incentive right Emanuel quickley has a potential to spread his wings and hit the next step but actively he’s good at the moment and

I think that maybe the Pascal SE yakum trade could do something very similar or he did the one trade that can bring in players that can help now and then the Pascal seak trade is for draft Capital but I want to remind you that Pascal is

Also on an expiring contract so what is the value of a guy like Pascal our team’s going to be willing to make a trade for multiple draft picks or multiple decent players now that have potential to be good later down the line for a flight risk and again that is the

Decisions that Messiah has to really come up with what’s the right deal what’s the wrong deal but given a circumstances and given that that Toronto is one of those places that you need to get people foot in the door for a long amount of time trading for RJ

Bear I don’t hate the idea who knows what he can be he’s he’s 23 years old he’s 23 years old at the moment and now you got him under contract for four years to really get a evaluation period to figure out is he a part of the Scotty

Barnes team in the future right the Toronto Raptors notoriously is not a team that’s gonna have to take all of this cap space and go get a superstar player in free agency they’re going to have to do with the good old organic way of making good trades here there are

Drafting really well and we can say that they drafted really well with the with the Scotty Barnes pick a few years ago because he’s blossoming he just had seven three-pointers the night before and now take a do I want to say flyer because again RJ beard is guy has

Average 20 points per game in his career you know what I’m saying basically 20 points per game for his career so I didn’t want to say flyer because he’s a good player he’s just maybe not worth the contract that he’s guaranteed over the next couple seasons one thing I’m

Very curious about um because RJ Barett is a guy that I feel like he’s at his best when he’s putting the ball on the floor and getting to the basket if I remember correctly I can’t show you this for too long I’m paying I’m paying good

Money to see this but I just want to show you that RJ Barrett so far the season has played with the worst spacing in all of basketball the Knicks just don’t have positive spacing that’s one of the reasons why they traded for OG adobi who’s a catch and shoot

Three-point shooter they don’t have that okay so it’s not much better in Toronto I I didn’t think it was but I want to see so it is slightly better for RJ as far as the spacing on the court but it’s not not by a lot it’s not like he’s

Going from a team with zero space into a ton of spacing but at least he’s got that kind of I don’t know opportunity to get to the basket a little bit more I don’t know you know the one thing about the Knicks though obviously you give up

A Off the Bench super score like a guy that could come in and and do 15 points in a row like that’s the type of production you got for menu quickly Off the Bench and obviously you trade in two piece in exchange for one I know a lot

Of people are high on prua coming back in this trade I’ve watched a lot of pru in my career and I’m never going to be on the point of like giving up on NBA player because I’ve seen careers completely turn around with some change of sceneries and stuff I just want to

Tell Nicks fans don’t get your hopes up too high he’s going to be better than Taj Gibson playing minutes I tell you that much but with Tom the don’t trust him more like he trust Taj Gibson you gotta remember who your coach is you gotta remember the to Gibson and thibs

Are like this until the day that want of them perish you know so uh they ended up getting that back in the trade and my homie is really how A Malachi Flynn I couldn’t give you a scout report one way or another you know so um out of nowhere

Trade I I really do like this I’m curious to see what the Raptor’s potential starting lineup looks like I I think that we kind of know the Nick starting lineup for the for the future at least until they make that next trade if that next trade happens but I’m

Curious to what the Toronto Raptors decide to do because I’ve been in love with Point Scotty so far this season um and emanu quickly doesn’t take the ball out of his hands any anything but they just need more spacing and they need guys that can create for themselves so I

Wonder do you you put him back on the bench and say hey reprise your role as a six-man for the rest of the season or do you insert him back into the start of lineup because they again they’ve been waiting for guard production uh Dennis shuder has been fine this season he’s

Had a lot of ups and downs I think he started off really well um but now it’s just like he he does some things every once in a while are you okay with just giving that spot completely to quickly or do you start both of them when you’re

Talking about small back courts I don’t know I mean luckily on the back end you still do have like a RJ Barrett you still have Scott you still have Pascal but like there’s a world where quickly comes off the bench there’s a world where it’s quickly RJ Scotty Pascal and

Yaka purle I’m excited to see the lineup that has quickly and I know I know Gary Tren Jr has been very not so great this season but quickly Gary Trent Jr RJ Scotty and Pascal like I feel like they can close with that quite a bit so they

Have a little bit more options and I’m curious to see under darko’s new offense having another guy that can catch and shoot and create for himself might help them on the offensive side of the ball uh cuz Oobi just wasn’t that too much somebody asked me on Twitter who’s the

Best player in the trade and I can undoubtedly say that it is uh it is ogan and Obi as the best player in the trade but I still believe that there’s a world where I don’t know two years three years down the line we like damn that Emanuel

Quickly guy got traded in this deal and now he’s averaging this and now he’s consensus this in all the basketball so I again I enjoyed this trade from both perspectives where I understand where the mindset is uh grades are we grading there’s something to be said about

Getting the best player in the trade like historically when you get the best play in the trade you end up winning not all the times now but um Nicks B minus and that can definitely change with a secondary trade where this looks a lot

Better um B minus B I would go even I’m going to go even B for the Knicks and maybe B+ for the Toronto Raptors the 31st overall pick is something I even talk about that’s that’s pretty that’s a that’s a pretty good penny and that’s I

Just gave you like a podcast segment hey go listen to the Kenny Beach and podcast I will probably be talking about this more in depth um I film an episode tomorrow we’ve been having a lot of fun with the episodes I’m just saying if you like these videos you going to like that

Because though the podcast is an extension of it where I talk you know for 30 minutes to an hour about specific stuff and I try to think a little bit deeper than these these surface level videos here there so I’m just saying go check it out the link is in the

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