Posted by playa2:

This guy only draws charges because he can't challenge by playing above the rim. He can't score if you put a defender on him, his handle sucks and he's hot headed and makes stupid fouls at bad times in a game. He's good at giving oppossing team momenteum by those stupid fouls. How soon we forget!!!!!!!!!

who said KT was an all-star? He is a very very good role player. That's it.

that would be fine.

Posted by playa2:

This guy only draws charges because he can't challenge by playing above the rim. He can't score if you put a defender on him, his handle sucks and he's hot headed and makes stupid fouls at bad times in a game. He's good at giving oppossing team momenteum by those stupid fouls. How soon we forget!!!!!!!!!

very good discription, but i think he's has played a little better of late. gives the knicks a good chance to find a taker for him. hopefully we can package him with some other knick and get a younger, more athletic, energetic, talented, stronger(optimism)(things that thomas isn't) guy to play for our knicks. i would love to see: ronnie ron, swift, cato(not really an offensive player but got hands and can dunk, allong with playing good defense ofcourse), harrington(pacers, you know, guys like that.

Typical casual fan mistakes in your rant about Thomas guys, what he brings to the game is not in the box score. He is one of the best lowpost defenders in the league, those of you who saw the Bulls game must remember how well he defended Curry once he was swithced onto him in the post, pretty much shutting him down in the 2nd half (albeit Curry was tired out). He is a luxury as we don't have to doubleteam in the post, thus bolstering our fledgling preimeter D. He is great at pick and rolls, a very good shooter at PF to 20 feet, how can you even mention Cato in the same sentecne as Thomas? There are very few PF's in this league who shoot better from 15-18, and those do are ither allstars or roleplayers who don't do anything else ala Doleac (even thou he has imporved greatly). Thomas in only below the allstar lowpost guys like Brand, Webber, Duncan, etc. He is way better then Swift or Cato, Swift is just a diffrent player. And if you want to talk about handle, passing and cathcing, Cato and Swift both are very very dumb bball wise, their bball IQ is incredibly low, so don't expect any kind of offensive execution excpet for finishing right next to the basket from either one.

Curry is a damn kid, Kurt played with him pulling his shorts and all. Now put him up against most pf that play over the rim and you will see how weak his game is. 6 fouls on the bench

I disagree about KTs D. He is a good low post defensive player. The problem is he is usually playing D against Centers who are much bigger physically.

BTW Here are some PF that play "below the Rim" I would Piss my pants with joy if the knicks got:

Elton Brand, Zach Randolph, Tim Duncan, Karl Malone (10 yrs ago)

[Edited by - bigblitz2001 on 01/18/2004 18:57:24]

The point is, who do you think is better then KT that WE CAN GET!!!

Posted by martin:

Posted by playa2:

They can all jump KT can't. Cmon man.

didn't we go over this in the Chris Wilcox thread? Athleticism may be an important part of a pro athletes repertoire but by no means is it the end-all be-all to the importance of the player. How many players can I mention without using a half brain cell? Keon Clark, DMiles... on the other side, Larry Bird, Stockton. You get the picture.

hey, all i know is that the knicks need a combo of a tall, strong, athletic, talented swingman. i hope the knicks get that by using what ever unconventional methods that thomas reffered to when he took over.

Posted by simrud:

What do we need another swingman for? Or do you mean a 4-5 combo guy like Camby? Either way there are few guys right now at the 4-5 that can be had that are better then KT, notice how I emphasize CAN BE HAD.

who? Weed is semi available...