Posted by martin:

Posted by JohnWallace44:

Posted by martin:

Posted by JohnWallace44:

Martin, you're right. The rotation is perfect. I wish we started the season yesterday...

Bro, Al Jr would ideally be a backup that you could bring in at the 3 or 4 spots. That way we could exploit the mismatches instead of having it done to us.

We need to compete against the wing tandems in our division like
Allen - Pierce
AI2 - Kapono
Turkoglu - Derozan

I'm sure we could and probably will go into the season with the roster we have. I don't think its a stretch to say that we'd be a better team with more of a classic wing player to at least sub in as opposed to relying on Gallo and Al to play the 3 and Nate and Douglass to pick up minutes at the shooting guard.

so far, Almond is a classic wing player training camp scrub. If you want to advocate a stance whereby the young players on the Knicks team don't get as many minutes for someone who can't even get a vet min contract, by all means. Can he defend? Can he pass and move? What is so classic about a wing player who is a career 39% FG shooter. 29% from 3-point land. What good is that? That's a slower, bigger, much less explosive Crawford. Knicks got to see him play up close and watch him in practice, and yet as a team without a classic wing player (except Hughes, Chandler), they doesn't sign him.

There are 48 * 3 = 144 minutes per game in the 1, 2, 3 positions. Here are some low expectation #s for 2009-2010 and previous season for PG, SG, SF positions:

		09-10	08-09
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duhon		30	36
nate		25	30
hughes		20	28
chandler	30	33
jj		5	23
gallo		20	15
douglas		10	
Al		5	35
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		145	

I think those are realistic. Obviously injuries are going to occur. But I also lowered everyone's numbers when that won't happen for all of the players.

Where does Almond fit in? Can he? And we know MDA likes an 9 man rotation.

Knicks losing out on anything? Not really IMHO.

I don't know, am I missing something? Make your case for Almond. Show me something other than "he is a classic wing player", cause that's all you got so far.

Its not about Almond. Its the fact that we don't have two serious wing players to compete with the others in the East.

Based on your minutes plan, Hughes is your answer to that problem. I just don't see him as a viable player on a winning team.

Almond is a more natural two than what we have.

All I'm saying is that if I'm Walsh, I'm looking for a two guard with handle that we can get in here on a one year deal and play the minutes that you have Hughes scheduled for.

Mobley,Curry for TMac might be too good to be true.
Take a flyer on McCants?
Stack have anything left?

I don't know what the answer is, but I think we're leaning too much on The Mayor to be able to fill all the minutes for two positions, and/or Gallo and Al Jr to be able to play on the wings.