Posted by Swishfm3:

Posted by King1:

You have one person on the team you can trade and get shorter contract back and a good player that is Lee. The knicks are stuck with everyone else and if I was Dolan I would keep IT on until all the contract run out. There is no GM that can come in and clean this up without a minimum of three years being bad

exactamundo

The knicks have long term, overpaid players. The only way to get rid of them is to trade for other long term, over paid players.

The Knicks can always release players like James, Rose and Richardson, but doing that will not help our salary cap. We have a good team and good players...what we dont have is a good coaching staff. I.Thomas is a terrible coach. I personally dont care if Thomas remains as a GM, but DOLAN needs to fire him as coach and bring in someone who knows what their doing on the bench.

Posted by oohah:

People wanting to trade lee for a draft pick people calling the kid a role player.

Lee is a role player. If you don't understand that then you don't know what a role player is. He does the dirty work of rebounding and cleaning up garbage shots very well. He is unskilled offensively and his defense is poor. He does what he does well but he is limited. A player like that is the very definition of a role player.

You act as if that is an insult. It is simply accurate, and good role players like Lee are very valuable to a team, more so to a good team than a bad team like the Knicks.

oohah

I agree 100%...is camby a role player?

Posted by knicks1248:

Posted by oohah:

People wanting to trade lee for a draft pick people calling the kid a role player.

Lee is a role player. If you don't understand that then you don't know what a role player is. He does the dirty work of rebounding and cleaning up garbage shots very well. He is unskilled offensively and his defense is poor. He does what he does well but he is limited. A player like that is the very definition of a role player.

You act as if that is an insult. It is simply accurate, and good role players like Lee are very valuable to a team, more so to a good team than a bad team like the Knicks.

oohah

I agree 100%...is camby a role player?

David Lee is not really comparable to Marcus Camby.

Camby is a much better rebounder than Lee, he gets not quite as many putbacks, he changes the game on defense with his shotblocking, He can guard 3 different positions, and while he isn't a good shooter, he is much better at shooting from the outside than Lee.

Camby was a role player earlier in his career, but he has much more talent than Lee (And a lot of other players) and he has put in the work to round out his game so he can offer more than just rebounding and shot-blocking.

Camby certainly has improved since he got traded.

oohah