We have enough offense and I'm in the "he might mess with the chemistry" crowd.

Andrew wrote:What future do we have with JR Smith? Does he make the team better this year? Probably, but he stunts the growth of the younger guys and next season we probably can't sign him for the money he wants.

Unless you think he is going to bring you a championship this year I think you pass.

Hear Hear

NYKBocker wrote:JR would be a bad mistake. I really like Shump and the 3 guard rotation of Lin, Landry and Shump with a little bit of Bibby is going to be ok. Really afraid of JR wrecking the chemistry with this team.

Imagine for a second, if there wasn't any chemistry issues..............adding JR and sitting Bibby is a no brainer to all of us. I don't see why it's even a discussion (again, assuming no chemistry issues).

Chandler and STAT .....................would put JR in his place, period!

JR, Shump, walker, novak, Jefferies.............2nd unit will get a major upgrade...offense and defense!

JR can hit open jumpers........

JR has solid presure / man2man defense.......

He could be that championship piece we need to add. That added swagger type player, just to give our team even more confidence.

I don't think JR would be a chemistry problem, on a team full of solid character guys.

Plus, with this short season, the deepest team may be the team to win it all.....Due to injuries! So for this season, and in MDA's system, it's ok to over load at certain positions......Especially since we've been saying all season (before Landry starting playing better)......

That we are weak at PG and SG......Now we have a chance to actaully be strong at those same positions, by the emergence of LINSANITY (PG) and adding JR Smith (SG).

airchibundo507 wrote:
But the crux of it is this: Why worry about the development of our young role players when the goal is to win the championship in the primes of our stars? God only knows how long Amare's knees will hold up, how long he can sustain all-star numbers.

because Shumpdawg is giving me every indication that he's ready to ball at a high level in the playoffs.

At some point you gotta give it to the young guns. They have to develop at some point. What better time than this season? You throw them in that water.

Remember Tayshaun Prince? Guy came out of nowhere and dropped stupid-ill buckets for the Pistons in the playoffs, he locked people down. Shumpdawg can lock people down in the playoffs; defense doesn't choke come high water.

So in that respect I don't think it works...bench Landry and you eliminate novak from the equation. It changes everything and like someone said, if you add baron eventually you have a deep bench now. Dantoni likes to play 8 guys only...Jared, jorts, novak and shump deserve to play as is. Drop melo, baron and Jr smith in the mix and you have to almost dump everyone down the chimney

MarburyAnd1Crossover wrote:

airchibundo507 wrote:
But the crux of it is this: Why worry about the development of our young role players when the goal is to win the championship in the primes of our stars? God only knows how long Amare's knees will hold up, how long he can sustain all-star numbers.

because Shumpdawg is giving me every indication that he's ready to ball at a high level in the playoffs.

At some point you gotta give it to the young guns. They have to develop at some point. What better time than this season? You throw them in that water.

Remember Tayshaun Prince? Guy came out of nowhere and dropped stupid-ill buckets for the Pistons in the playoffs, he locked people down. Shumpdawg can lock people down in the playoffs; defense doesn't choke come high water.

we did that last year with fields; convenient how most people forgot his disappearing act when it mattered most.

Adding playoff veterans will help the young guns feel more comfortable in the postseason by showing them how to win games, instead of just throwing them out there with huge responsibilities like deer in headlights.

airchibundo507 wrote:

MarburyAnd1Crossover wrote:

airchibundo507 wrote:
But the crux of it is this: Why worry about the development of our young role players when the goal is to win the championship in the primes of our stars? God only knows how long Amare's knees will hold up, how long he can sustain all-star numbers.

because Shumpdawg is giving me every indication that he's ready to ball at a high level in the playoffs.

At some point you gotta give it to the young guns. They have to develop at some point. What better time than this season? You throw them in that water.

Remember Tayshaun Prince? Guy came out of nowhere and dropped stupid-ill buckets for the Pistons in the playoffs, he locked people down. Shumpdawg can lock people down in the playoffs; defense doesn't choke come high water.

we did that last year with fields; convenient how most people forgot his disappearing act when it mattered most.

Adding playoff veterans will help the young guns feel more comfortable in the postseason by showing them how to win games, instead of just throwing them out there with huge responsibilities like deer in headlights.

He had to get that out of the way, and we were far from a well-meshed club in the playoffs last year. Melo was there throwing wrenches into the spokes, you had Amar'e with the injury, COME ON, MAN!

This year, we're feeling good, Lin is dropping dimes, he's getting the entire team involved, you got Landry smiling and giving witty interviews with Jill Martin.

Plus Shumpdawg takes some of the heat off, he'll lock it down for you, he'll swipe the steals, he'll do that for you and all Landry has to do is be Landry.

Year 2, progress.

JR, all he will do is throw wrenches in the spokes. And he won't even be here after the season to clean the bleeding scrapes up, the broken bones. He's going to get payed.

My Gawd, JR is such a cancer