NBA Free Agency 2017: 5 potential destinations for George Hill
By John Buhler
New York Knicks
East, Atlantic
Let’s be honest. Don’t hate on The Triangle Offense until you’ve tried it. It can’t be that bad and outdated, right? Phil Jackson appears ready to die on that hill saying that it is the only offense that matters.
Could Hill run The Triangle for Knicks head coach Jeff Hornacek? Maybe, but we do know one thing: Hill is not Derrick Rose and that’s everything for the Knicks this summer. This franchise loves to give out horrible contracts to rapidly decaying players. The Joakim Noah deal looks so bad after just one year. We’ve got three more years to watch him do also-ran things.
That being said, the Knicks have a unicorn in power forward in Kristaps Porzingis. Besides getting out of their own way, the best thing the Knicks can do is play Porzingis at the stretch five and have a reliable veteran pass-first point guard constantly feeding him the rock. Hill might even think about bringing the idea of defensive tenacity to Madison Square Garden.
Hill is an adult, something the Knicks need desperately. No, it’s not his job to baby sit whomever on the basketball court. Hill could be paid handsomely to pass the ball to Porzingis, play some defense and maybe run a little Triangle for Jackson through Hornacek. It can’t be that horrible of business proposition for Hill, right? Well, that’s why money talks.