one way or another crawford=bench--i think we can all agree with that.

what if we draft a Ray Felton for PG and move Marbury to SG? That gives you multiple assets on the SL we dont have. hes a mean powerful athletic defender. He can really push and get to the hole and rebound from that position. hes not that great of a shooter, but hes been getting much better. Marbury is strong enough to cover 2s and wed really improve th head of our D quite a bit and we can bring Craw off the bench?

Its just another possible venue, if we cant get Green, Bogut etc.....

not a bad idea if bogut, green and taft are gone. It would depend on who impresses Isiah more: mcCants, paul or felton

unless Ray Felton is a 6'5" or taller G who can defend on the perimeter & distribute, i'd rather pursue a trade to try & get a Corey Maggette from the Clippers (maybe Crawford & the lottery pick protected to #5?)

i don't like the idea of having 2 small G's on the perimeter...they'd be mismatched every night.

Posted by BRIGGS:

Posted by gunsnewing:

not a bad idea if bogut, green and taft are gone. It would depend on who impresses Isiah more: mcCants, paul or felton

No paul, way to small.

What does small have to do with it? Lately smallish type players have been some of the best NBA players. Wade, Boykins, Andre Miller. I can think of a few more. You can't argue with Pauls sheer skills and athleticism, I'd gladly take him and move Marbs to SG if he were available.

Posted by TMS:

the 1 position we DON'T need to address this offseason is PG, & you want to use the lottery pick to draft a PG? BRIGGS, you feeling OK?

have to think of every option

Posted by gunsnewing:

Posted by nyk4ever:

Posted by BRIGGS:

Posted by gunsnewing:

not a bad idea if bogut, green and taft are gone. It would depend on who impresses Isiah more: mcCants, paul or felton

No paul, way to small.

What does small have to do with it? Lately smallish type players have been some of the best NBA players. Wade, Boykins, Andre Miller. I can think of a few more. You can't argue with Pauls sheer skills and athleticism, I'd gladly take him and move Marbs to SG if he were available.

I agree it would work great offensively but we need perimeter defense in the worst way. Thats what Briggs is saying. There are good defensive pgs like bobby jackson, chris childs etc. but Paul is 5'11 with a 6'2 shooting you're going to be in big trouble defensively. extremely over matched in the backcourt. Felton seems to be a better defender. I rather not draft any of them really. I think we'll have a very good shot at bogut, green, marvin and taft or even Martynas(if he realllly impresses the knicks in draft camp) or a shooter like McCants would also be great for this team.

[Edited by - gunsnewing on 04/03/2005 21:38:20]

Oh I understand that but if Paul is the best player available then you have to draft him, as we've all said before, you can't pass up a great player just to address a need. If that means trades must follow then thats what happens. No doubt I'd still like Taft, Bogut, Marvin and McCants but if Paul is the best player on the board, you gotta take him.

Briggs, what are your thoughts on Deron Williams? Great defender, decent size. Plays with fire. He could look good next to Marbs in the starting lineup.

Posted by gunsnewing:

forget about Deron when you can chose between bogut, green, marvin, taft & mcCants

I'd take Deron in a second over McCan'ts and even Green. Deron fits a huge need: perimeter D and competitive fire. I'd take Taft and Bogut over him, sure, but not too many others. Deron is going to go in the top 5, so we probably dont have a real shot at him anyway.

it worked fine for Iverson when Snow was the PG and he was the SG. Last I remember they went to the finals!

but I agree I dont want an undersized SG when we have no perimeter defenders on the team. But if I had to chose between paul, felton, deron i would chose the better player. PGs with Derons build just aren't successful starting nba players. Give me McCants who is close to 6'4 and a much better shooter & explosive anyday over these guys at SG! We won't have to worry about that though because we'll be in the running for the best players in the draft like bogut, green, marvina and taft!

[Edited by - gunsnewing on 04/04/2005 00:22:01]

francis is barely 6'1.

deron has the body of a malik rose. not good for a PG

well whatever....we need a star froncourt player or at least a potential star player like gerald green not an at best okay PG who might not even start especially since steph & jamal are already here!