What added insult to injury was that Hill sucked, aaaand we whiffed on a bunch of other "true pg" prospects before drafting combo guy TD.

Collison, Lawson, Maynor, Holiday....

To do that when your team is desperate for a PG... that's pretty rough.

I've started at least 20 threads on this since that ill fated draft so I won't go any further into it. It is what it is.

Juice wrote:I should hit holfresh in the face with a Jennings Jumper...but I won't.

bam

Juice wrote:I should hit holfresh in the face with a Jennings Jumper...but I won't.

As we see Jennings came back down to Hell

martin wrote:bam

lulz

You know they used to do that on.....

*In Living Color....see quotated footnote below<-------One of my favorite skits

* Funky Finger Productions ("Black-Strong" also called "B.S. Brothers") - Two showbiz charlatans, Clavell (played by David Alan Grier) and Howard Tibbs III (played by Tommy Davidson), with a knack for commandeering events (a funeral, a Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony) and property (a movie set), both public and private, or Keenan Ivory Wayans' monologue, to promote their latest flim-flam "project". The would-be moguls enter by shouting "this must be the place!" in unison. They claim to have managed a band of 16 horn players called "Satern", but later had to fire ten horns. From there, they undermine their grandiose pitches with ill-conceived videos, business cards with their mothers' address and telephone number, or business cards of other businesses such as carpet cleaners with the proper business crossed out and their names written on it, and reliance on public transportation. Another stunt was for one of them to have their phone number shaved into their hair, which quickly turned into a basketball afro. Their spiel invariably climaxes when Tibbs stuns the unsuspecting mark by suddenly pulling out an item integral to the sales pitch (e.g., business card, sales brochure, videocassette) while simultaneously shouting "BAM!".

Emeril Lagasse adopted the exclamation "BAM!" for his cooking show....and now martin on the UK

Solace wrote:

nixluva wrote:I fully expect Donnie to buy some picks. It's the cheapest way to add some talent to your roster, even tho it can be a crap shoot. We've been pretty successful finding late rd. players. We have a little flexibility with the cap after this season. The Knicks have $45.4 mil in contracts next year and Walker and Billups are team options amounting to $15,116,100. Depending upon what the Knicks choose to do, they can reduce their cap number and go after some free agents. The only thing we don't have as a viable option is trades.

Depends on what the goal is. Are we building around Melo and Amar'e or are we waiting for a third? We won't be able to pay a third *max* most likely, but a good amount anyway. Buying picks, in this case, would be risky, unless we get Euros we convince to stay overseas for a year or two.

Pending New CBA(it could get extended 1 more yr I think by early fall)

If nothing changed here's what we're looking at

- $45mil is without Billups and Walker factored into payroll. Current Cap is $58.044mil do the math

- Purchased pick is going to come in the garden variety of Jerome Jordan at best. I really don't hope you think the fate of this team lies on our GM buying a low second round pick that puts us over the top. We barely have the resources to do this for the record

- We have a moderate 1rst round pick(cap hit 120% scale) and a very low second round pick from Boston. Cash and Boston's 2nd will only get us so much. It won't fill out the roster and most certainly won't produce sure fire impact players that late. Players like Fields are extremely rare. Denver and the Rockets have our picks(2012/2014/2016(right to swap 1rst)/2012 and 2013 2nd) from here on out next 3yrs besides a 2013 1rst. Not having 2nd round picks makes it more difficult to purchase picks. Jerome was bought for $1mil but it's somewhat rare..... a straight cash purchased pick(2nd rd) is a player who is yrs away from contributing.

- If we don't pick up Billups and Walker's options you immediately have to find a point guard that can lead 2 alphas in Melo and Amar'e who also can adjust to D'Antoni's system right away. Championship caliber point mind you. There is no time to waste as you and many others have already begged off into next season. This player is not Toney Douglas, so get this out of the mind if it's there. A starting point guard with this large of role will command a salary between the $6-10mil minimum range if they are even available. This will leave us with about MLE money to find bigs and rotation depth....peanuts

- If Billups and/or Walker go to a team like Miami/Orlando/Atlanta/Chicago/Boston via being let go it becomes that much more difficult to match rosters

holfresh wrote:
His salary would have gone a long way to adding major pieces to the two stars...

Olbrannon wrote:I don't see Jennings listed on any of the playoff rosters this year meanwhile ESPN had this to say about TD

"So it's a special topping for the new-look Knicks that Douglas has already found his groove before the regular season finale. In fact, since the All-Star break, he leads the league with the most 3-pointers (59) and he's only had three bagel games from beyond the arc.

Douglas has also improved his playmaking, a big concern of Mike D'Antoni's earlier in the season. Before the All-Star break, the most assists he had in a game was seven (just once). Since then, he's had five games with seven or more, including an 11- and 10-dish night.

Now if only the Knicks could hold an opponent to under 100 points, which they didn't do for the third straight game against a bottom-of-the-barrel team. "

http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/knicks/post/_/id/4165/billups-toneys-confidence-at-all-time-high

Definitely lookls to be getting some chemistry with Stat and Stat actually looked to be enjoying himself a bit last night.

i think you have to attribute some of his success to the addition of chauncey. i'm sure chauncey has been in his ear a ton and rightfully so, no better guy to learn from.