Otherwise you make a play for Joe Johnson and Amare Stoudemire because they might actually leave and the Knicks need to target quality players they can get. Not to mention they win.

There is going to be a feeding frenzy for the best. It's like when you walk into a Irish pub loaded with dudes throwing down round after round of Guiness and Jameson. Then a group girls walk in. Everyone in the bar is either hitting on the hottest one or the least intimidating one. Second hottest is usually the most attainable if and only if she is pursued first, and she doesn't think she's the second option.

Anji wrote:

TMS wrote:

Anji wrote:Why are we signing Bosh and Melo??? is Bosh and Ellis a title team????

Why is melo terminating his deal when his team should be in the Western conference finals for two or threes with Billups?? I get the Lbj situation with New York, the media and the money. But now every star in the league has secret Nike deal money for playing in NY???

I think wanting all these guys to leave champion contenders is a pipe dream at this point. We have a 20win team that is going to let 75 percent of it's roster walk, with no first round pick.

Who says Gallo is ready in 2-3years to be starting on a title team. What about hill??? Is he going to put it together before a Stoudimare/bosh hits 33. Or is Melo plus Bosh suppose carry a bunch of 24 year olds and walk-ons to contender stasis??? Pixie Dust and Unicorn farts if you ask me.

i don't even get the point of that post... so what do u propose we do then & what do u expect to happen in this offseason when free agency hits & we have all this cap space to play with?

I want a solid plan.

I expect everybody but Bosh to resign and if Donnie is a good Gm he should too. Because you are going to have to search for a while to find the last time a team that finished in the 8 of the nba lost its best player. Banking on contending teams stars is a waste, even before you add that the Knicks are probably a 20 win team.

We need to start thinking about building a team at this point.

ok well this year we don't own our 1st round pick... so unless u got some franchise saving trade ur thinking of, then free agency is our best bet at improving this team right now... yeah it's a gamble but so is the draft... u need to take advantage of every available resource to build a winning franchise & free agency is included, especially for us in our current situation, cap flexibility is probably our biggest asset right now.

Anji wrote:Most young small forwards don't put up gaudy assists numbers. Rudy gay is on the brink of becoming a prolific Small forward. I wouldn't be worried about him moving the ball with Mike D.

al harrington.

rudy gay may be last or next to last amongst all starting sfs in assists.

orangeblobman wrote:

djsunyc wrote:you guys have to get steve nash. don't know if d'antoni can *coach* anybody else...

i love how everyone is hating on mda while totally ignoring the fact that this team as presently constructed CANNOT be successful. remember, i say long ago, it is not so much the COMPONENTS of a System, but the CONNECTIONS between the components that determine whether or not it will succeed. right now the sloppy web of connections between contract year misfits like hughes and harrington and our young core is holding the team back. god couldn't do much better with this. add the fact that mda is preaching a more unique approach than anything most of these guys have ever seen, and you have a recipe for disaster; which is what we have now.

don't worry...lebron will be a knick next year than everything prior to that day will be forgotten...

djsunyc wrote:

orangeblobman wrote:

djsunyc wrote:you guys have to get steve nash. don't know if d'antoni can *coach* anybody else...

i love how everyone is hating on mda while totally ignoring the fact that this team as presently constructed CANNOT be successful. remember, i say long ago, it is not so much the COMPONENTS of a System, but the CONNECTIONS between the components that determine whether or not it will succeed. right now the sloppy web of connections between contract year misfits like hughes and harrington and our young core is holding the team back. god couldn't do much better with this. add the fact that mda is preaching a more unique approach than anything most of these guys have ever seen, and you have a recipe for disaster; which is what we have now.

don't worry...lebron will be a knick next year than everything prior to that day will be forgotten...

i don't know , maybe you sarcastic now, but you're not wrong...lebron or not, this will be forgotten when we have assembled a team that works well together; that is, a team made up of players that have a future here.