misterearl wrote:BRIGGS wrote:Need a 6-9 245+ PF type on this roster who can play. Any time amare is out--were thin.
The Answer Man would settle for 6'8 225 pound Wilson Chandler.
Every other quality 6-9 245+ dude is employed.
Would love the Mayor back but its just not realistic for this season, our only *not too realistic* shot remains if he comes over for the MLE, while we probably will lose
Fields
Lin
PG *unless someone comes for cheap*
I think our best FA this year to acquire would be AK47 for the SF/F/C position.
JR Smith is a player with talent, but we just got Melo to play team ball, he isn't the type of player we would want for 1 year because his goals would be trying to build up his stats
for this year for next year and beyond on his personal level. I agree with Briggs that JR Smith isn't the type of player we currently should target although we are missing a player with his caliber whether on the starting G or on the bench. Players like Fields, Lin, Melo, Amare, Jorts, and our team concept/identity that we are trying to achieve could find themselves greatly lost in the mix. Especially Lin/Fields, which both play within team concepts, feed off ball movement, and as our glue players. I mean, if we want a chucker, we have one in TD, while he doesn't have that same skills as JR Smith. Iman also has the ability to defend and can get his shot off if he wants, we have yet to see him play SG with a capable PG in Lin, so he can focus on other areas instead of helping the PG.
As a talent POV, JR Smith, would greatly fill a great need, as easily the best shooter and capable of creating his own shot.
However, on a coaching, locker room, and TEAM concept/chemistry POV, he could be a very big gamble that would hurt our chemistry.
With Amare and Melo, buying in and trying to play back team ball, instead of 1v1 mode, Smith could be the 3rd player that will create a headache.
Unless JR Smith is willing to sign a 2 year deal, the max capable of the mini MLE, and he gives the mentality that he is here to do what is best for the team.
At that price, you won't be able to acquire talent like Smith, with the ability to sit him and play him limited minutes.
In which, Coach George Karl, did for many games during his tenure at Denver, but we don't have the luxury that Denver has with their depth, so its a tough call.
Basically if he is only willing to only sign a 1 year deal for the rest of the season, its a red flag. I would rather target Ak47 so we no longer have to see JJ in for many minutes.
Ethics/team players/ coachable players have generally been Walsh's philosophy during his tenure here in New York and in his career. We can see, it sometimes works out for us, while
sometimes it didn't. Isiah Thomas was the complete opposite, picking physical skills and potential over Walsh's philosophy. Its the same reason why we
missed out on talents such as
Jennings
DeAndre Jordan
chose Rautins over *unproven Jeremy Lin with weak competition at ivy league college bball*
got steals in the development of
Fields
Jorts/Jerome Jordan to be determined....
the one time he picked talent, potential, and bought in to hype was picking
Jordan Hill while missing out on players like Derozan, Jennings, Hasbrough, Holiday, Lawson, Daren Collison...
trading down with the Gallo and Jordan Hill pick, would have been ideal, as PGs with Centers, were strong and Briggs should get credit with an eye of talent...
but no ones what will happen in the future and how players will actually develop, reach their ceilings or not.
GM's must decide the factors we don't look in to that help determine the players development they can become in the futures.
It is easy to say we missed out on this and that, but no one can really say if they would have developed the same way had we drafted them, and the reasons why we chose what we did...
2/6/2012 1:18 PM
