Vdesai - it is a stone cold defacto that championship teams must play solid defense, Of course, the protoypical seven footer in the mold of Kareem is rare but not the least bit less essential to competing for a ring. The Lakers frontline goes 7". 6"11 and can bring Odom at 6"10 off the bench

Orlando at 6"11, 6"10 and 6'9 is no defacto picnic either

Lee was pressed into duty at center out of necessity. There is no need to continue to play him out of position or force (fingers crossed) Amare to the middle where his microfractured knees would bang against bigger men

It's time to move forward, get a legit center that goes at least 6"11 and let go of the past

and that's factorial

the objective is to win a championship

one more time with feeling....

David Lee is not a center

You bring back a guy who has value, is young, gets better every year and plays team ball. Lee doesnt need a ton of shots and offensively Lee and Amare could fit well together.

You have no help defense, but Amare is a very good man to man defender, so he can guard the best post player. You put Lee on the opposing center because he's the better defesive rounder.

An Amare/Lee/Gallo front court is good, will make us MUCH better than last year and keeps our equity.

You have a team with a ton of size, speed, skill, BBIQ and rebounding as well.

SupremeCommander wrote:I keep flip flopping on this but I think I'm with you Briggs... two All-Star big men isn't exactly a **** offseason

thats it... you have Gallo/Amare/Lee. 3 guys with great size and skills that compliment each other. Sign Mike Miller and you can play Douglas off the ball more at PG

Mike Miller/Douglas = 10x better than anything we had last year
Amare/Lee = 10x better than Harrington/Lee from last year

Chandler can sub for anyone 2-5 off the bench. He can be give you 30+ minutes off the bench

Thats a good team, with good value players that all fit together. Earl Barron can give you some size off the bench

s3231 wrote:If we finalize with Amare and strike out on the other big FAs (e.g. LeBron, Wade) then why not bring Lee back?

if you're a fan of the idea of giving up more points than we'll be scoring, then it's a great idea.

VDesai wrote:What if we S&T Lee for Amare? Would we then be able to give Amare a 6th year but a little bit less per annum (thus giving us more space to add a 3rd FA- i.e. Miller?)

I think the Suns renounced Amare's rights

VDesai wrote:

SupremeCommander wrote:

VDesai wrote:What if we S&T Lee for Amare? Would we then be able to give Amare a 6th year but a little bit less per annum (thus giving us more space to add a 3rd FA- i.e. Miller?)

I think the Suns renounced Amare's rights

Not yet- they haven't officially inked Warrick yet. If they bring in Lee for Amare I think the difference in the salaries may give them enough space to take on Warricks deal. At least I thought I read something like that last night.

I'm not sure how that works... if it's possible to do what you said well then yeah I'm all for that

You know, If Lebron wants a certain situation to happen, he better get off his high ass horse and make a decision.

If he gotta 100 crying campers so beit but unless he wants a choice of Cleveland or play with Beas and some Dleaguers he better get-er-done!

Im sure those "backchannels" are digging tunnels as we speak.

Its all a charade.

Heck, I just don't know anymore.

Amare has me pining for the 2011 class.

Must say most fun off season ever.

TMS wrote:

s3231 wrote:If we finalize with Amare and strike out on the other big FAs (e.g. LeBron, Wade) then why not bring Lee back?

if you're a fan of the idea of giving up more points than we'll be scoring, then it's a great idea.

Or I'm just a fan of having as many assets/trading chips as possible.

There's a lot of interest in Lee and with all that is said about NY not having assets, why not bring him back if all else fails? If we ever have to do a sign and trade for Melo at some point, wouldn't it be nice to have a young all-star big man to use as a chip?