Giving Faried does not require coaches to call plays for him makes him the ideal player to put next to Carmelo. He rebounds at both ends of the court and is the ENERGY the Lowenergy Carmelo needs to be great. You simply would require to have a true CENTER on the court to complement both players. The dude does not hold the ball on offense; he moves it because he knows his strength.

Draft a true center, play both Carmelo and Faried and have shooters in the back court.

CrushAlot wrote:He was a draft night mistake. The Knicks should have known that Shump was the player he was at Georgia Tech and not the freak that he appeared to be in individual work outs. He isn't worth his contract in my opinion. Similar to missing out on many good points in the Hill draft, several franchise pivots in the Gallo draft or Rondo in the Balk draft, the Knicks messed up.

We had Amare & Melo. We we not looking to draft a PF. Guard was a major weakness. We lacked a perimeter defender

CrushAlot wrote:

gunsnewing wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:He was a draft night mistake. The Knicks should have known that Shump was the player he was at Georgia Tech and not the freak that he appeared to be in individual work outs. He isn't worth his contract in my opinion. Similar to missing out on many good points in the Hill draft, several franchise pivots in the Gallo draft or Rondo in the Balk draft, the Knicks messed up.

We had Amare & Melo. We we not looking to draft a PF. Guard was a major weakness. We lacked a perimeter defender

Faried was a hot name on this board. Shump was supposed to go second round before individual workouts. D'Antoni loved him. Walsh went with his coach every draft. It didn't turn out to well.

They were picking between Shumpert and Chris Singleton.

A lot of teams passed on Faried not just NY

Amare was coming off an mvp caliber year and they had Melo. Faried was not on their radar with that pick.

CrushAlot wrote:

gunsnewing wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:He was a draft night mistake. The Knicks should have known that Shump was the player he was at Georgia Tech and not the freak that he appeared to be in individual work outs. He isn't worth his contract in my opinion. Similar to missing out on many good points in the Hill draft, several franchise pivots in the Gallo draft or Rondo in the Balk draft, the Knicks messed up.

We had Amare & Melo. We we not looking to draft a PF. Guard was a major weakness. We lacked a perimeter defender

Faried was a hot name on this board. Shump was supposed to go second round before individual workouts. D'Antoni loved him. Walsh went with his coach every draft. It didn't turn out to well.

The curse of D'Antony is crippling two historic franchises thus far (KNICKS & LAKERS). I don't what teams saw in that dude to hire him as a head coach. 3 seconds or less? Run and Gun has ever won championship.