Yahoo Sports senior NBA analyst Kevin O’Connor and Legend of Winning discuss whether the Knicks offseason moves are enough to get them over the hump this season. Hear the full conversation on “The Kevin O’Connor Show” and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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Jalen Brunson is gonna be MVP candidate this year.

But I think that, but I do think the Knicks off-season is grossly overrated.

I think, I think a lot of people are blowing a lot of things what they did with the Knicks out of proportion.

I think OJ A nobi is overpaid.

He's very rarely available.

He's a max borderline max player contract wise, but he's effectively a role player.

Josh Hard is already talking about how he doesn't know what his role is and we're like a week or now a day away from the tip of the season.

Mal Bridges is talking about how his shot is broken.

He's been trying to figure that out for the past couple of years, which I was like, that's crazy.

That looks ugly and the shot has always look bad, but now that you come out and said it, that's kind of crazy.

Um Mitchell Robinson is out until I believe January it is and Carl Anthony Towns is at Billie Eilish uh concerts watching Timberwolves preseason games.

I don't even know it don't even like he wants to be there.

So, um and in a more serious note, what what Carl Anthony towns like, I think people tend to forget who Townes was as a defender without Colbert.

Like he was really, really bad with the Knicks.

There are a lot of ifs.

Like, I think you're right about the availability of Ogn and OBI.

Obviously they got some guys out right now.

Carl Anthony Towns, I would say he's improved individually defensively over the years, but at the same time, it is different when you don't have Rudy Gobert next to you at the five.

That's a dramatic difference.

Michel Bridges, man, like I don't, I don't want to read too much into the broken looking jump shot, but it looks bad and the percentages aren't there either.

And if the guy you invested so much in, in the future isn't able to effectively space the floor that changes a lot of what we're talking about when it comes to floor spacing for the Knicks.

Are you concerned?

They gave up a lot of draft capital to go get him and in theory who he's supposed to be great two way player, wing three and D guy with a pretty high upside of what you hope he would be when he was transitioning to his last year from Phoenix to his first year in Brooklyn.

But a lot of that got diminished last year or really on both sides of the floor.

You were hoping in theory that it would come back this upcoming season, but I am kinda concerned because the, the truth of the matter is if the player himself comes out and tells you that my shot is, I don't know what's going on.

I've been trying to constantly work on it and we're, we're like literally days away from the season starting and that this is news coming out that is really concerning.

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