Posted by franco12:

Posted by Bippity10:

I think Walsh is a believer in dealing from strength. Why trade now, when you could have a half season or season of pumping up player values before trading them. Only time will tell if this is a good strategy.

what happens to Zach & Curry's value if they fail to perform under D'Antoni? Can a player become more worthless?

Does anyone believe the Clippers only wanted Zach if we gave up a first round pick?


And I guess buying a late first rounder for the draft would have been dealing from weakness?

Posted by EnySpree:

All the rumors this off season have come true.......big time players have switched teams.
Knicks have Gallo and Duhon. On the green grass side, the Knicks have a steady point guard that knows his position. They also got a 19 yr old draft prospect that has some skills and personality traits that could become something 2 years down the line.

On the dark side, Duhon is a waste of the exeption cuz if the Knicks had any forsight they woulda knocks 2 birds with one stone and drafted Bayless. The mid-level could be there to sign Jr Smith or Childress, or Monta Ellis for that matter.

Dude the roster should look like:

Zach/Lee
Chandler
Camby
Bayless
Craw

Right now who out there is available? And how do we get them and who wants what we have to get them?

Why is Donnie here? To babysitt? Cuz right now with Gallo being 19 and projected to play Zach and Lee's position?........Duhon is a stop gap? Yeah so......it looks to me boys and girls that the Knicks are going to let nature take its course.

D'antoni is the only reason I have to watch the Knicks. I'll have to watch and hope he can get the club working like a pro club on the court.

i think stern *encouraged* all of these moves. isiah/dolan embarrased the team and the league. ny has been a terrible team for years. so he gets walsh there, then promptly gets the best free agent coach there. gets an international marketable player there. all that's left is to deliver the big blow and that's a big time free agent in 2010. imho, stern is the wizard of oz...

Posted by nyk4ever:

Posted by franco12:

Posted by Bippity10:

I think Walsh is a believer in dealing from strength. Why trade now, when you could have a half season or season of pumping up player values before trading them. Only time will tell if this is a good strategy.

what happens to Zach & Curry's value if they fail to perform under D'Antoni? Can a player become more worthless?

Does anyone believe the Clippers only wanted Zach if we gave up a first round pick?


And I guess buying a late first rounder for the draft would have been dealing from weakness?

1.) Zach and Curry's value are both so low that they can't go any lower, it doesn't matter if they don't work out for D'Antoni.

2.) Tough question to answer. It's definitely possible. TEams may not be willing to take on his personality and may be asking for more in return because they know that we are in a position of weakness. That's what happens when you are in a period of weakness. For all we know the Camby deal may have been almost done and the Clipp decided to see what they could get out of the Knicks before they finalized that deal. When they couldn't get a number one they decided to close the Camby deal. Or they could have offered a second rounder for Zach and Walsh turned it down. Point is, we don't know, so why get your panties in a bunch over things you don't know. The papers write all this stuff becuase they know they can get people from the Walsh camp all fired up, as well as those that don't like Walsh. This is how they sell papers.

3.) Buying a late first rounder would have been great and I wish we had.

[Edited by - bippity10 on 23-07-2008 12:24 PM]