A few of us mentioned him awhile back, I know AMP and I were on board with the idea. Portland seems open to giving him at least his QO but I don't know what their front office is doing since they just fired their GM so who knows.
So.......youguys do realize that because of Melo's greedy @!# the Knicks have nocap room to sign any of these guys, right? Chandler, Gasol and Jordanare WAY out of range. As in they literally shouldn't even be mentionedin this thread. Dalembert you'd have to throw the whole midlevel at,and then that would basically be the end to your summer. Reggie Evansand/or Chuck Hayes would probably be the way to go. But if you couldfind some way to get Dalembert and Evans/Hayes then the Knicks woulddefinitely be a lot better team.
sickkkk, lets not read my $!#$%!! article where i wrote a $!#$%!! paragraph on Greg Oden and his circumstances and wrote about possible cap situations for every player thats a possibility (in my eyes at least)
i agree. miami really has the total package and is a legit 2-way team in that they can kill u on both ends. right now we have the offensive talent to match miami's but we're nowhere near as close to miami on defense. theres no way in hell we're beating miami with them finally getting in sync offensively unless we get a coach with actual defensive schemes and not just preaching hustle and hard work, unless of course u have dwight who's basically a defensive scheme himself.Originally Posted by tyisny
Assuming the knicks are trying to be a CHAMPIONSHIP contender i just came in to this post to say......
After watching the heat through these playoffs there is NO WAY the knicks are gonna stand a chance against the heat with Dantoni as coach unless they find a way to get D.Howard
Dantoni's running this knicks team at full offensive potential is never going to be able to match the Offensive/ Defensive combo the heat have
no one is arguing that we shouldnt go after Gasol if we had the $/he would leave Memphis and they wouldnt match. 100% you take that over nothing. what i and a few other members ARE arguing is that we would RATHER have a guy like DeAndre Jordan or Tyson Chandler here. I would take any one of the 3 if we had the shot, but realistically we probably dont on any of them, however if we did my order would definitely be 1. DeAndre 2. Tyson 3. Gasol
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no one is arguing that we shouldnt go after Gasol if we had the $/he would leave Memphis and they wouldnt match. 100% you take that over nothing. what i and a few other members ARE arguing is that we would RATHER have a guy like DeAndre Jordan or Tyson Chandler here. I would take any one of the 3 if we had the shot, but realistically we probably dont on any of them, however if we did my order would definitely be 1. DeAndre 2. Tyson 3. Gasol
and going after Oden is MUCH different than pursuing Yao. Yes, Oden has had his injury issues but he still has a high ceiling and even if he never reaches that ceiling, when hes healthy he is capable of giving us a defensive minded 7 footer who can give uz 10+ rpg and 2+ bpg, EXACTLY what we need. sure its a risk and sure he has HUGE injury concerns but it is a much different situation than Yao's.
Oden has has had many injuries but they have been in all different parts of his body, and they dont really have long term effects while Yao has one specific SEVERE injury that is career threatening. The concern with Yao is that he never recovers from this injury while the concern with Oden is that he gets injured again, but he is still healthy at the moment. which are 2 very different scenarios... and why the $!@+ would Oden want to go to Memphis when they are clearly content with Marc Gasol and Z Bo coming off his best ever NBA season?
in unrelated draft news i have really been warming up to the possibility of selecting Josh Selby at 17. Im starting to think that of all the potential PGs that could be available he has the highest ceiling and therefore best shot of running this team long term. However he is also pretty unpolished and one of the biggest risks, but idk we might have to take it after not taking it in year's past. HE very well could just turn into a Toney Douglas type, and if we are looking for role players im looking at Faried all day rather than another undersized 2 guard, but Selby's potential intrigues me quite alot. Ive pretty much narrowed my list down to Selby, Faried, and Morris i think.
thats exactly what i said and exactly why i said im warming up to taking the risk on him. what i said however was if he doesnt reach his ceiling and ends up being a TD like player (which is possible IF he doesnt pan out the way that he can) thats my concern and thats what would want to make me go for a Darius Morris or Faried over him... out of all the 3 i definitley think that Selby by far has the highest ceiling, but he is also the biggest risk of the 3.
exactly. no to Yao even if hell take the vets minimum. Yao may never play again, and even if he does i see him coming back and (especially with this roster/system) providing us with the Eddy Curry syndrome where he can only clog the lane and not get back on defense and pretty much just make a negative impact on the court.
