Posted by JamaicanJetFan:

Posted by SupremeCommander:

Thabeet doesn't do it for me... the Knicks need help pretty everywhere and while a 13/10/3 player is nice, he's also a junior. I'd rather take a guy like Aminu who's a freshman that's getting 12.5/8.5/1.5, even though he plays the same position as everyone else on the Knicks (SF).

This would work well for the Knicks and their attempt to corner the market in SFs.

With TT, Harrington, Gallo, Chandler, QRich, Patrick Ewing JR, Malik Rose, and this Aminu guy...we will be the New York Small Forward Knicks: We'll overpower your guards while getting wrecked down low.

I hear you, but the Knicks are a work in progress and their goal should be to get the best player available. The team is going to have to make a trade or two to get the right mix of guys to begin with. I'd rather get a guy who has potential than draft for need when the KNicks have more than one need.

Posted by OasisBU:

And in true NYK style, we will win 2-3 too many games to get a high enough pick to get him and will still miss the playoffs. We definitely need another good pick, Gallo has shown signs but we need another presence, especially with the loss of the 2010 pick and the possibility we won't sign the FA we want.

[Edited by - oasisbu on 01-25-2009 1:21 PM]

I'm hopeful that Donnie has his eye on Thabeet as our center of the future and that potentially he will stock-pile enough assets to move up if necessary to get Thabeet.

Maybe the $4.5M Mobley exception would be usefule in some type of package deal to either swap picks or in a player pick trade.

Posted by JamaicanJetFan:

Posted by SupremeCommander:

Thabeet doesn't do it for me... the Knicks need help pretty everywhere and while a 13/10/3 player is nice, he's also a junior. I'd rather take a guy like Aminu who's a freshman that's getting 12.5/8.5/1.5, even though he plays the same position as everyone else on the Knicks (SF).

This would work well for the Knicks and their attempt to corner the market in SFs.

With TT, Harrington, Gallo, Chandler, QRich, Patrick Ewing JR, Malik Rose, and this Aminu guy...we will be the New York Small Forward Knicks: We'll overpower your guards while getting wrecked down low.

Really guys we've kind of cornered the market on combo SF/PF types.

We need a legit center, a point guard and a legit 2 guard.