"A troika of Lopez ($9 million to start), West ($8 million) and Green ($10 million) isn’t marquee stuff, but would empower Fisher’s soft, 17-win defensive squad."

"Jackson has desires to re-sign Jason Smith as a backup center and try to lure back combo guard Alexey Shved, who had an excellent brief stint late in the season. It might be challenging. The Knicks prefer not to use any cap space to do so. But if they don’t renounce their rights, there’s a scenario of being able to re-sign them and go over the cap."

I have no problem with Green or Lopez. Both are the right age (28 and 27 respectively) and bring needed skills. Both can defend their position.

West brings toughness and veteran leadership. Look at what a difference that made the year we had Kidd and Rasheed. We have to acknowledge that Carmelo cannot and will not ever be that voice in the locker room and we need to supplement that with different guys.

In a separate article (http://nypost.com/2015/06/27/porzingis-will-have-a-buddy-on-the-knicks-just-not-next-season/) Berman says Hernangomez will be stashed until 2016-17.

We'd wind up with a roster looking something like this (include the best player from Summer League and figure we'll play Melo at 4 with 3 guards a good amount):

PG: Calderon (34), Galloway (23), Grant (23)
SG: Green (28), Shved (26)
SF: Melo (31), Early (24)
PF: West (35), KP (20)
C: Lopez (27), Smith (29)

Koufos/Lopez and to me goes well with Tobias

Ajinca and Danny/Carroll goes well with Monroe

The only person Jordan goes well with is West

We know the kind of guy West is.

This thread might be linked to the culture change thread at one point.

If you see certain kinds of players being brought over my own belief is that this will signal a continuation of the power struggle that Phil initiated on draft night.

BRIGGS wrote:I love the Porzingis pick and I hope the Knicks themselves have strong faith in it. I really think one mistake they made was drafting the c from Spain over Powell. We need an athlete who can penetrate with physicality and bring the same on the d. That Lithuanian c looks better than the Spanish c from my point of view. Powell would've made a great deal of sense for this team on the 2 nd unit as a lock down perimeter defender and elite g finisher with a power body. That's the type of defender we needed.

I think we took Hernangomez as a way of showing Porzingis we are committed to him and as a way of easing his transition to the team. Sort of wish we could've nabbed another second rounder or two, but oh well.

Something like lee looney and #1s in 2018and 2020. Lee is younger than west and can do just as much in the triangle

callmened wrote:excuse my ignorance...what is "BOTP"?

Berman of the post.

BRIGGS wrote:To be honest I'd rather spend the money on 1 year contracts then settle for secondary players

Something like lee looney and #1s in 2018and 2020. Lee is younger than west and can do just as much in the triangle