CrushAlot wrote:

WaltLongmire wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:Didn't realize he is averaging 19 a game in preseason.

Ended up paying for the Ball Streams...might check out one of his games.

Nice. I love their service. Let me know what you think.

Thanks for mentioning it in one of your posts.

I have had decent luck with the free sites, but this is consistent in terms of quality, and being able to see stored games is nice. Those others sites sometimes had glitches and quality issues- this does not.

Finestrg wrote:

WaltLongmire wrote:Grant can also be a "SG," I would think.

Don't think that this is a priority for Phil at this point, IMO. I think the guys we have on the team at this time should be able to cover the position this year.

Agreed. I think Grant's very much in the mix playing some 2 off the ball. Might actually benefit him at times by being able to concentrate more on being in attack mode.

I hope you're right about having the position covered this year. I just feel the frontcourt is deeper than the backcourt. If one of our primary guards ever went down, I feel like we'll be scrambling a little bit. I also wish Galloway brought a little more PG skills to the table which would improve overall backcourt versatility. I do like what he does bring though. He's definitely growing on me.

of course our front court is deeper. Our front court is pretty solid while our backcourt is one of the weakest in the league.

People are putting too much on Grant out of the gate. He looks good but he may have a long way to go in becoming a consistent shooter. Jose looks awful. Sasha is feisty but thats about it. Galloway has really surprised me the way he has come out of the gate but I am not sure if he can be consistent enough offensively.

I think that we are being picked where we are because of how bad we are at guard.

Knicks1969 wrote:

callmened wrote:we talked about Jenkins over the summer. great shooter...but a horrible horrible defender coming off a Knee injury. sure id rather have him or vujevic. but what vujevic adds is knowledge of the triangle and a mentor.

both are scrubs though. lol

Knowledge of the triangle is a very important asset to have on the bench and the court other then the coaches. Sasha does not have to be great when he is on the floor. We all know he can shoot the ball; thus, he will not be as useless as you all think.

Just my humble opinion-

(1) John Jenkins can play. Jenkins > Vujacic. Not even close in my eyes. Moot point I suppose--he's making that Dallas team.

(2) "Knowledge of the triangle" is overrated. No one on this team has any real working knowledge of the triangle anyway, save for Sasha V & the few holdovers from last year, 2 being scrub-level players (Amundson, L. Thomas) and our key guys have all performed just fine. It's not even a 100% triangle system anyway, which I'm glad to see btw. It looks to be a hybrid system that looks to take advantage of individual players' strengths first and foremost: ISO opportunities for Melo, some guard penetration, transition play with Grant and the quicker players, post-ups for the bigs (even with Afflalo who's a good post-up option once he gets back to being 100%), a little pick & roll/pick & pop, etc.. I love it. Why bog things down with predictability?

(3) "Vujacic doesn't have to be great" -- I guess that's technically true, but he does have to perform, no? Bottom line--he needs to hit shots. If he's not connecting on jumpers he's useless. We'll see if he can find it. If he remains ineffective, I'm gonna want to see them go out and find a reasonable upgrade.

Just saw the Spurs waived Jimmer Fredette. Meh.. Never really a big fan. Dreadful last year for New Orleans but to be fair, he was decent for the Kings. I wonder if they look to bring him back now and cut Seth Curry... I personally think Seth Curry's the better player. Travis Trice might be better.

callmened wrote:i mean the folks you mentioned arent exactly franchise players here but i agree that lance thomas is horrible and seth curry is better. therefore, coach karl will most likely keep him. "The Jimmer" can shoot but cant do much else. Trice simply isnt NBA material

Vujacic isnt a good player and even worse is the fact that he hasnt received that memo yet. however phil likes him for teaching the triangle and supposedly he has formed this bond with KP. (which i agree is overrated - but the fact that the media is writing how great of a zen teacher Vujacic is tells me that phil wants him to stay)

Right now, it's not about making a splash, adding a big name---hopefully that'll take place next summer, maybe at the trade deadline. In the meantime, it's about shoring up some weaknesses with what's available to us..Don't sleep on Trice, man. I was excited when I heard we inked him up for training camp. He can play. I though he looked VERY GOOD against Charlotte. Hopefully we see a little more of him tomorrow night in Boston.

martin wrote:

callmened wrote:...(looking for search button, trying to find my "the case for john jenkins" post from the summer)...

google, just add in "site:www.ultimateknicks.com"

http://www.ultimateknicks.com/forum/topic.asp?t=51933

He would be a nice shooting guard off the bench for us !