fishmike wrote:crzymdups wrote:it's unfortunate that the center lottery is happening right now. the knicks desperately need a center and a younger point guard. among several other things (backup PF, more shooters, etc)
I feel like the Knicks desperatly need a floor general. Billups might have the personality to run this but he doesnt have the game. He's 2 steps slower than his Det prime days and he's not a great playmaker. An elite 2-way PG is really the piece that will make this trio. The Suns competed for a title w/ Amare, Nash and parts. With decent (size) role players around Amare/Melo and a young uptempo PG in MDAs offense no reason Knicks couldnt do same.CP3 is a the key.. it will really come down to how important playing in NYC is with Melo
To be fair, Billups said he need to come into this season lighter and ready to run. Billups might still be the man but is he the man for the MDA SSOL flying circus? Take a guy like Felton and put him in the right situaton his production got much higher and he was playing at near top 10 pt guard levels for a while.
SSOL is not easy on the point.
Nix, We have a pt guard who after 27 games had to slow down and he broke. Remember Chauns and the knicks had to slow the pace down as the team was not able to play the system.
Our starting center is Turiaf. This is not good Nix is it? Fields caved with Melo, and we don't know if he can play with him.
And Shump is a rookie who has to prove himself before trusted.
Turiaf is good for how many minutes? Stats back?
We are not spending any money so tell me Nix, how do you really see things?
The roster as it stands now is only improved by health (TD, Billups) and Im assuming Stat is at near MVP levels he was at last year. Melo should be good for 25 and 7 every nite but statistics alone does not win games.
12/6/2011 9:43 AM