As we said in our game story, the performance put forth by Jared Jeffries and the obvious impact his depature made after his sixth foul with 2:23 left in the game were notably positive exhibits of the effectiveness Jeffries can have on a game. And as he dominated the third quarter in the intangible statistic columns -- four steals, two blocks, two charges and countless deflections and hustle -- I imagined Donnie Walsh, watching from home, giddy at the prospect of suitors calling with interest in acquiring Jeffries before the Feb. 18 trade deadline and clearing another $6.8M off the 2010 cap.

TMS wrote:JJfish is playing with some life the past few weeks, we need to keep him playing now & hopefully someone will take him off our hands for an expiring & won't cost us much in assets to get done... maybe including Nate will be enough?

TMS, no one would ever offer to take JJ off our hands with Nate included.

Oh, wait a minute...

nyk4ever wrote:Im glad I was the only person here who wanted him signed way back when

But seriously, the way he's playing now, is the way I envisioned him playing back then, really don't know why it took so long, but I'm glad he finally is. He'd be really useful on a young team in playoff contention who needs a vet to step in and play some D and keep guys in line.

why would u think Fishlips would be good at keeping young players in line? he seems like a likeable & nice enough guy but never struck me as a guy who'd enforce discipline if anyone got outta line... i mean look at him dude.

He is playing the way people envisioned he would play when we got him.

Except for the rebounding, he has been Rodmanesque in recent games, and yesterday's collapse without him is telling.

His trade value is high, but is his value to the Knicks at this time to high to trade him?

Markji wrote:You have to give D'Antoni credit for this. He found out "How" to play Jeffries so Jeffries would play well. Using Jeffries' strengths and hiding his weakness(offense.

give him credit for realizing Fishlips can't hit a perimeter J? shouldn't he have known this from the beginning? i don't think MDA should ever have had Fishlips floating around on the perimeter looking to hoist up 3's to begin with, but at least he's got him playing to his strengths now instead of his weaknesses, so for realizing that i'll give him some praise.

Trade Harrington/Hughes for whatever comes along. We are a terrible team that will continue to blow games. No need to get exctied about anyone on the roster that isn't Lee/Chandler/Gallo.