you are going to see alot of this. love will re-sign in cleveland. rondo's the only wildcard. if he's dealt this year, he will re-up with that team.

aldridge + gasol will re-sign on their teams.

but anything can happen.

Phil is looking to cover it all, trade for prospects, draft prospects, manage the cap to attract a max level FA and parts... mostly it will come down to his ability to capitolize on opportunity, but so far so good direction-wise

fishmike wrote:thank god Phil is here. Finally I have an ounce of confidence. I mean even with Walsh here it was a gut and spend all the way. Knicks were just looking for a reboot, grab a star or two and be the Knicks of the 90s again. Melo/Chandler/Amare isnt that bad, but as we saw it was never able to take off because the guard play was so bad with nothing left to really improve.

Phil is looking to cover it all, trade for prospects, draft prospects, manage the cap to attract a max level FA and parts... mostly it will come down to his ability to capitolize on opportunity, but so far so good direction-wise

yeah it was the guard play alright. those three players meshed together beautifully, just like bird, mchale and parish. but yeah it was the guard play that was the problem. check

dk7th wrote:

fishmike wrote:thank god Phil is here. Finally I have an ounce of confidence. I mean even with Walsh here it was a gut and spend all the way. Knicks were just looking for a reboot, grab a star or two and be the Knicks of the 90s again. Melo/Chandler/Amare isnt that bad, but as we saw it was never able to take off because the guard play was so bad with nothing left to really improve.

Phil is looking to cover it all, trade for prospects, draft prospects, manage the cap to attract a max level FA and parts... mostly it will come down to his ability to capitolize on opportunity, but so far so good direction-wise

yeah it was the guard play alright. those three players meshed together beautifully, just like bird, mchale and parish. but yeah it was the guard play that was the problem. check

dk7th wrote:

fishmike wrote:thank god Phil is here. Finally I have an ounce of confidence. I mean even with Walsh here it was a gut and spend all the way. Knicks were just looking for a reboot, grab a star or two and be the Knicks of the 90s again. Melo/Chandler/Amare isnt that bad, but as we saw it was never able to take off because the guard play was so bad with nothing left to really improve.

Phil is looking to cover it all, trade for prospects, draft prospects, manage the cap to attract a max level FA and parts... mostly it will come down to his ability to capitolize on opportunity, but so far so good direction-wise

yeah it was the guard play alright. those three players meshed together beautifully, just like bird, mchale and parish. but yeah it was the guard play that was the problem. check

Didn't Phil miss the playoffs with Kobe?

Didn't Phil get bounced in the 1st round twice with Kobe?

Has any player outside of a Super All-Star ever reached peak level of play in the triangle system besides maybe Fisher.

Phil can only do so much, he will not perfect 10 his way here with every move he makes

Lebron
Kevin Love/ Unlikely if Cleveland trades for him along with LaMarcus ALdridge resigning to a 5year max deal to stay in Portland

I think Bledsoe is the best player to target at a near max deal, a player I feel would be better than Marc Gasol/Rhondo at a max deal, because Bledsoe's MAX is lower and he is a LOCKDOWN DEFENDER that could potentially play/defend 2 spots in PG/SG, which would fit in with Calderon and any of our SG's

Again, he possesses the youth/potential and the rare combination of

Athleticism/speed/quickness/ability to penetrate and finish with contact with his strength
Under the mentorship of the best PG in the league for a couple of years under CP3 certainly helps his ability to LEADER and facilitate

With the cap likely rising in 2015, if he signs a one year deal and becomes a UFA with The Sun's this off season, I think he would fit in with our team, especially with Calderon/Melo
Most importantly, it leaves us some more wiggle room to improve, depending on what happens with JR Smith/Iman Shumpert/Pablo, in addition to the couple million left in cap space and the LLE which is right under 3m

Assets
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We also can trade our draft rights to our 2015th 1st round pick and our 2018 1st round pick, along with 2018+ 2nd rounders

If needed in addition to the trade exemption gained from the Tyson Chandler deal within one year *which could potentially put us over the cap, so we would have the full 4 year 5MLE, which would be closer to 6M BY NEXT SUMMER, to offer a FA, In addition to the couple million left over from offering a contract to Bledsoe

also with our SG position with JR Smith/ Iman Shumpert/ Tim Hardaway JR who could all raise their value's if they play well in a SYSTEM basketball
We also have the draft rights to Thanissis, Cleanthony Early, Early Bird rights to both Jeremy Tyler/Cole Aldrich, and we even have the early bird rights to Kmart RIGHT NOW to offer him a contract that could be a 2-3 year deal, with the 2nd/3rd year's being NON GUARANTEED as trade bait to add up for salaries

I think we should look to get a versatile SF/PF to compliment Anthony like a Jeff Green and Thad Young *both have player options* Wilson Chandler *team option*, though I would prefer Battum for his ability to spread the floor and be a lockdown defender that is a also a great help defender

I believe Monta Ellis has a player option as well and Rudy Gay can also be a UFA, 2 players that I would like if at the right price
Though ELlis is getting a bit older, I would much prefer Bledsoe over him, I think Rudy Gay could play SG/SF/PF and could be a very versatile talented player and could be a very good defender if he was mentored and gave the effort to play
Ellis signed a deal in the range of 7-8m, and I would like Gay at a price from 5-8m *which we could have left if we got rid of some of our 2015 contracts listed above*

Bonn1997 wrote:Direction?
OK, never-mind.

LOL

nixluva wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:Direction?
OK, never-mind.

WTF Man? Do you really think Phil hasn't changed the teams direction significantly? The entire focus now is on a Team Oriented System with more balance. IT'S ALL THEY TALK ABOUT AND WORK ON IN PRACTICE!!! He's only able to do so much right now and still he has the ability to make another deal before the season. What complaints can anyone really have about the moves Phil has made so far tho? Most have been solid and improved the team in terms of how he wants to play. He's got a TOUGH JOB.

dk7th wrote:

nixluva wrote:

dk7th wrote:

fishmike wrote:thank god Phil is here. Finally I have an ounce of confidence. I mean even with Walsh here it was a gut and spend all the way. Knicks were just looking for a reboot, grab a star or two and be the Knicks of the 90s again. Melo/Chandler/Amare isnt that bad, but as we saw it was never able to take off because the guard play was so bad with nothing left to really improve.

Phil is looking to cover it all, trade for prospects, draft prospects, manage the cap to attract a max level FA and parts... mostly it will come down to his ability to capitolize on opportunity, but so far so good direction-wise

yeah it was the guard play alright. those three players meshed together beautifully, just like bird, mchale and parish. but yeah it was the guard play that was the problem. check

Don't be silly, the entire point is that the only way you can mesh Melo, STAT and Tyson would be with strong Guard play or a system like the Triangle that works without the need for a great traditional PG. If we had been running this system these last few years it might have made a huge difference. Now we have a chance to see if we can mesh all of our players the bigs and smalls rather than the way we've struggled with consistency over the years.

i think you're as wrong as can be on this point. they seem as mismatched as any 3 players could possibly be. alas we will never know whether those three would have meshed-- phil traded chandler and one has to wonder how involved stoudemire will be in this version of the knicks.

we had a very good point guard named jeremy lin here but it seems that melo didn't want to play with him, and woodson was disturbingly lukewarm on lin once d'antoni decided he had had enough of melo's shenanigans.