AnubisADL wrote:We have to spend this summer even if we do nothing more than to make the 8th seed for the next 3 yrs.

cuz of dolan?

knickstorrents wrote:If we can't get any top tier free agents, how does overpaying 2nd tier agents to use up our cap help us???

Don't ask why. Simply put: That is what will happen if the Knicks don't get the top 3 free agents. History and current moves point toward it being true.

oohah

ItalianStallion wrote:EXACTLY.

If they don't use all that cap space in 2010 on excellent players at salaries that make sense then we gave up Hill and picks for nothing because Jeffries would have come off the cap in 2011 anyway! When I hear stuff like that from Walsh and some of the announcers (and media types) I can't help but think we are surrounded by morons.

he's just paving the way for possible failure this summer in landing the players he clearly is aiming for... he's putting it out there that he never once said it was about Lebron, Wade or Bosh this summer because he knows damn well there's a good chance we don't get any 1 of them... this was a huge gamble move & he better hope for his sake it works out, because most Knicks fans aren't so stupid to buy this "flexibility" BS he's dishing out now after making this trade... the Knicks already had flexibility before they made the deal & they had their draft picks to boot... this trade was all in for Lebron James, end of story.

holfresh wrote:
I don't think they have any clue as to the rage that will ensue if they don't produce this summer...

Just imagine, all the dudes who have put all their belief in this "plan" immediately blowing their collective tops!

oohah

Question is where do we find a warm body to play some defense? Bring Balkster back?

AnubisADL wrote:We have to spend this summer even if we do nothing more than to make the 8th seed for the next 3 yrs.

And that is the major danger with all this. All you guys that are so happy about cap space don't realize that cap space don't mean squat unless you can sign franchise caliber talent. If we miss out on Lebron, Bosh, and Wade, which is far more likely than less likely, then we are going to be stuck overypaying for second-tier players (with no high draft picks for the next 2 years). If you think Walsh is going to just sit on his hands, then you don't understand the pressure he will be under to sign someone. As others noted, if we just hold onto our cap space, then we traded Hill, our 2012 pick, and the 2011 pick swap for nothing because Jeffries was going to fall off the cap anyway. There is no way Walsh is going to do that. He is going to sign someone and is probably going to have to overpay for them, which is going to leave us in an even worse mess than if we had simply cut Jeffries, traded Hill and Douglas for a future picks. If we had done that, we would have created probably an extra $5-$6 mill in cap space (but we would still have our own picks plus whatever we got for Hill and Douglas). Instead, for the privilege of getting $9.4 mill in cap space, we lose our 2012 pick and have give Houston our pick if we suck, which will definitely be the case if we don't sign Lebron, Bosh, or Wade. Walsh may prove to be an even worse GM than IT before it is all over.