Derrick Rose is a Knick. Again. That fact is bound to stir up a hornets’ nest of emotions in Knicks fans, but the deal is done, and the time has come for some dispassionate cost-benefit analysis.
So let’s start by examining the cost. If we still have to boil everything down to “lottery pick” when we talk about Dennis Smith Jr., we’re giving him far too much credit and not enough debt. As a prospect, Dennis had eye-catching hops and flashed the potential for some off the dribble scoring chops. Unfortunately the decision making we saw in college never really left his system.