93BUICK wrote:I'm happy about it and the Lee for AR Turiaf and Azabukkake was unreal- if anyone had proposed that trade here it would have been shot down as unrealistic. I like Felton too and I like Amare. No complaining from the BUICK.

Knicks had a trade in place similar to this during the season back in December. At times the principles changed. As I recall it was Lee or Nate but Randolph was involved in trade talks with the Knicks but his injury occurred which negated it. Nellie was looking to move him since his rookie season. Once Mullin was moved it became obvious that it was going to happen.

I really really hope Randolph blossoms like Camby did, and starts to achieve his potential, and I also hope that all those GS players are fully recovered from what are pretty serious injuries. We need a lot of luck and good fortune for these moves to pay off, but I hope we're due that after all these years- it feels like all our risks and gambles blow up in our faces, but the good things about these moves are that they are correctable if they don't work out (except Amar'e if he gets injured). I hope some of our picks shine in the summer league too!

It's going to be a long offseason I think, and quite a torturous wait until the new season begins!

Knixkik wrote:At this point in his career Felton has better numbers than Nash did at 26 and Nash didn't put up better numbers until he was 30 and in phoenix. Felton has never played in a system like this or with a star like Amare. Who says he's not the next Nash?

interesting, didn't look at the early Nash stat. I am thinking though he was a much better shooter than Felton but really haven't peeked at the stats.

oohah wrote:There is no plan B. There is only trying to scramble, and recover by trying to salvage an 8 seed team out of the failure of plan A.

Plan Bad.

oohah

How about Plan Y for You SUCK?

Childs2Dudley

Knicks can very easily get a #5 seed this year and we got an entire roster under 27, thats a great job from a few years back

we halfway completed our goal this summer... getting AR for Lee in that trade was nice, but we are still lacking that 2nd star to give us a realistic shot to compete in a really tough Eastern Conference.

sidsanders wrote:

TMS wrote:grade so far = C

we halfway completed our goal this summer... getting AR for Lee in that trade was nice, but we are still lacking that 2nd star to give us a realistic shot to compete in a really tough Eastern Conference.

id rather see what happens with out going after another guy cuz the choices arent good that are left. the blizzards for sure wanna dump arenas and thats what i fear the most (right now). take some of what they acquired and drag his poop shoe behind here.

i agree, i'd rather not starphuch again just for the sake of trying to win a few more games this year at the expense of any hopes of winning championships in years to come... just saying purely for the sake of this question asked, i don't see how anyone can give DW an 'A' grade this summer when some of the same people are projecting 35-42 win type predictions for this roster... after 3 years i expected to see better than that in 2010, i'll be totally honest.

Walsh did a great job after the Lebron fiasco, thats why he earns an A with plan B. We actually have a solid team that should take its first steps towards turning it over, possibly earning a low playoff seed. You could only expect better if we had actually signed Lebron, but as we have found out now, that was impossible since e was a Heat way before the free agent process started.

Oh, and most importantly, we have the pieces for a deal for Melo. We'll see what happens.

franco12 wrote:

TMS wrote:

sidsanders wrote:

TMS wrote:grade so far = C

we halfway completed our goal this summer... getting AR for Lee in that trade was nice, but we are still lacking that 2nd star to give us a realistic shot to compete in a really tough Eastern Conference.

id rather see what happens with out going after another guy cuz the choices arent good that are left. the blizzards for sure wanna dump arenas and thats what i fear the most (right now). take some of what they acquired and drag his poop shoe behind here.

i agree, i'd rather not starphuch again just for the sake of trying to win a few more games this year at the expense of any hopes of winning championships in years to come... just saying purely for the sake of this question asked, i don't see how anyone can give DW an 'A' grade this summer when some of the same people are projecting 35-42 win type predictions for this roster... after 3 years i expected to see better than that in 2010, i'll be totally honest.

I was as critical as any of the Jefferies trade- and I think its fairly evident that that cap space was efficiently used this off season.

No, we did not add 2 stars- but we've fleshed out a nice roster that we can start building with and around.

Some nice young talent that might be traded for Melo- better assets than we've had in quite some time.

The picks owed Houston might very well turn out to hurt- and I think their ultimate position is what fully determines the grade this off season.

I've voted B- if those are top ten picks we gave up, then the grade has to drop to C, and likewise, if they don't end up hurting and we make the play offs- then you have to give him an A.

i don't got a problem with any of your reasonings behind your grades... i just don't see this as an oustanding result right now... time will tell what the true grade should be, but right now i'm giving him a barely passing grade... if we end up adding a piece like Melo using some of the pieces we got in the D Lee trade, then it gets upgraded w/o a doubt, but i don't see that happening... at least, not this year.