fishmike wrote:hard to stomach touching Conley coming off this injury. If he was healthy fine... but this wreaks of Amare/Grant Hill/McDyess etc etc

callmened wrote:wait a second, why would conley come here again?

stupid $$$$$$$$$

Let me dream you bastards.

newyorker4ever wrote:We need to get two of the top guards to come in and sit down with Phil and our front court of Melo, KP and Rolo for an interview and sell those two on playing with our front court. They want to win, well if you put lets say M.Conley and N.Batum or D.Derozan and R.Rondo with our front court then they will win and they'll do it playing in the Mecca that all these players always talk about how much they love playing at the Garden. The problem would of course be that they'd have to take a reasonable contract to make it happen but players were doing this just a couple of years ago.

Let me dream you bastards.

What we need is another high quality big a two way 2 g who plays more of a team game than Affalo some spacing 3 pt shooters some new bench players and a 15 th man we can develop

If we want kp for 12-15 years we need to keep his minutes at 30 but we don't want to drop quality of play when he sits

Oh yeah we need Calderon gone

My take is I'd rather wait for Westbrook next year instead of Conley. I don't know who phil wants or not, but this is the dude that took Jordan and Kobe natural talent and coached them to what they became.
If he thinks conley is his man, im good with that.

Media gonna be on his ass either way. If he signs a big name, they'll say its dumb. If the don't, they will say he can't attract the talent.
If he blows us away this summer, we won't see it coming.

Amare in our history has no bearing on the future.

newyorker4ever wrote:We need to get two of the top guards to come in and sit down with Phil and our front court of Melo, KP and Rolo for an interview and sell those two on playing with our front court. They want to win, well if you put lets say M.Conley and N.Batum or D.Derozan and R.Rondo with our front court then they will win and they'll do it playing in the Mecca that all these players always talk about how much they love playing at the Garden. The problem would of course be that they'd have to take a reasonable contract to make it happen but players were doing this just a couple of years ago.

Let me dream you bastards.

i like the dream approach. THink of how many rings we can put on the table.

personally i'd prefer a push for Durant and/or Derozan. Durant because he's awesome in so many ways on/off court. And he's already been on stacked teams and lost. Phil could sell the missing ingredient is a playoff-winning system. Strangely, though he'd be a tougher fit than Derozan (it's just the undeniable talent). Derozan intrigues me more and more. His game continues to improve and he seems to have that triangle game. Big question will be whether he'll be better still if he's not the other teams primary focus on D (as he currently is) or whether he'll be worse from having to share the ball more.

I also like Batum and Barnes

WOuldn't touch Rondo -- too risky as an individual and also his game. Never been hot on Conley and trending down IMO: too old, too short, and too expensive. Add to that now maybe too risky (with injuries). My guess is Memphis has already told him they're not giving him big money. Otherwise his actions make no sense, especially given his lobbying for M. Gasol. We want guys to come to the Knicks for the reasons you say above-- i.e., the dream, not because we're simply paying more money. That never works

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fishmike wrote:for a guy with balky achilles... bad biz.

Especially since there is a lockout coming in 2017 and we have no idea what the cap will look like for years 2-5 of that contract.

Max contracts signed this summer could cripple the cap if the league winds up lowering it in a lockout.

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Nalod wrote:I applaud Briggs for at least attempting to find value where most are starphuckedly unimaginative!

My take is I'd rather wait for Westbrook next year instead of Conley. I don't know who phil wants or not, but this is the dude that took Jordan and Kobe natural talent and coached them to what they became.
If he thinks conley is his man, im good with that.

Media gonna be on his ass either way. If he signs a big name, they'll say its dumb. If the don't, they will say he can't attract the talent.
If he blows us away this summer, we won't see it coming.

Amare in our history has no bearing on the future.

To me the no brainier is Curry no matter what anyone says. In the triangle you need that pg to hit that open 3 make a smart play have the ability to drive and play a part of a good team defense. I don't think we need a star or even a ball hawk that's why I like curry. Blaze more is a better version of a gs than affalo

Curry did decline his $1 million option for next year making him a RFA so we'll see what happens with him. So Jeff Van Gundy just said that M.Delladova will get at least $10 mil per from whoever signs him this off season and M.Jackson sounded like he was gonna choke when he said it...lol