Zach Lowe

Um, no, they lost by only six last night.

Usman Jang had a huge game.

Um,

that will be revisited.

And just the sort of general, like if this team tops out as very expensive and not quite good enough,

going to be a very interesting off season for the Knicks.

If, if we get to that point and I think about it a lot, it's like, you know, so the bridges trade, the bridges trade was made because the team got better more quickly than I think they even anticipated.

That was the year it was after they had lost to Indiana in the second round of the playoffs.

So, and they had just like ran out of players.

Basically everybody got hurt.

And they thought pretty confidently, like we would have won that series if we were healthy.

We're there.

We're there now.

We can't afford to wait for theoretical player X to become available.

Embiid was already too much of an injury risk for them to go chase at that point at this level.

And they were just like, maybe Giannis just never demands a trade.

Maybe he still never demands a trade.

And then you start to think like, well, what are the other players that they could have gotten?

had they used some of the bridge's ammo, not all of it.

And you're like, well, Brandon Ingram went for a lot less.