Posted by Vmart:

If the Knicks do have a draft day trade with Portland and they do manage to keep their 8th pick with Curry, Derozan and Jennings gone I would strongly consider James Johnson.

if Curry, Derozan & Jennings are gone by pick 8 that means we'll have a shot at 1 of these guys:

Jordan Hill
Jrue Holiday
Tyreke Evans

you'd take Johnson over those guys?

Posted by TMS:

Posted by Vmart:

If the Knicks do have a draft day trade with Portland and they do manage to keep their 8th pick with Curry, Derozan and Jennings gone I would strongly consider James Johnson.

if Curry, Derozan & Jennings are gone by pick 8 that means we'll have a shot at 1 of these guys:

Jordan Hill
Jrue Holiday
Tyreke Evans

you'd take Johnson over those guys?

Yeah I would take Johnson over those guys.

jrue holiday all american mix.

Dionte Christmas woo.

You were right the first time Pres - Flynn was today, Holiday tomorrow.

From Tommy Dee:

So we just got finished up with Ty Lawson, Johnny Flynn and Villanova’s Donte Cunningham and there are some interesting thoughts as the two held court in different parts of the media room.

Both players were extremely (as you’d imagine) complimentary of each other. Flynn admired Lawson’s quickness and strength and Lawson respected the heck out of Flynn’s edginess, which the Syracuse guard knows smaller players need to succeed.

“You have to play with an edge,” Flynn said with a smile that most definitely can light up the Garden. “As a smaller player if you don’t have that you can’t last.”

Flynn is hearing that he is in the top half of “point guards” to be taken in June, but more importantly both he and Lawson want to state their case that they are true point guards, not a two trying to learn the one like Davidson’s Stephen Curry. What makes a player think pass first, you ask? Well, as Flynn points out, getting beat up by the older kids.

“I learned to play the one as a little kid and you have to facilitate or the bigger guys kick you off the court,” Flynn joked. ” Where I’m from you have to learn how to pass first and then scoring completes your game. Then you get with a coach who can allow you to run their office and you go from there.”

Both Lawson and Flynn are very impressive and you can bet that Donnie Walsh will pinpoint exactly what the team needs. You’d still have to figure that Rubio, Jrue Holiday and Stephen Curry are on top of that list, but if all are gone and Walsh wants a real quarterback to drive Mike D’Antoni’s offense, you’d think that today’s workout will have a big part in who he selects should that situation present itself.

Interestingly, Chad Ford has Ty Lawson going 24th to the Blazers.

Tomorrow, Dionte Chrismas (Temple), B.J. Mullins (Ohio State), and Rashaad Singleton (Georgia) will join Gerald Henderson, Jrue Holiday and Stephen Curry.

Notes:

For all you Big East or, more specifically, Villanova fans, Cunningham is hearing interest from Miami, Detroit and San Antonio. Root for the latter, as he’d be a great, lanky, high IQ and active big man who could eventually see rotation minutes. Players like that excel on good teams. Heck, a young Malik Rose made a nice living out of that and Cunningham has a higher ceiling for me.

Lawson, officially put the comparisons to Ray Felton to bed…

Flynn on Lawson’s workout: “I didn’t know he was that athletic….he’s one of the fastest guys I’ve ever seen with the ball…”

Flynn on D’Antoni’s system: “Every basketball player’s type of offense. Most players grow up playing games where shots go up in 10 seconds and to have a coach…”

[Edited by - matt4281 on 06-09-2009 5:13 PM]

Flynn on D’Antoni’s system: “Every basketball player’s type of offense. Most players grow up playing games where shots go up in 10 seconds

IMO this is the statement that will disqualify alot of pg prospects. Nash understood it was more to it than just get shots up and made the system elite.

Thats why I'm hoping Walsh takes the guy he feels will benefit NY the most defensively when NY picks cuz IMO you're not going to get Steve Nash when you open the wrapper on any of these guys. Jennings is probably the closest of all the pg prospects in terms of game and ceiling but it may take longer for him to grow into that player than MDA has to turn NY into a winner.

The rumors today about Lawson and Holiday sound like a smokescreen. How many of the points in this draft have we been rumored to be interested in? Its easier to think of the ones that we haven't. I think Teague is the only one that's been left out so far.

i think SAC or GS would be perfect fits for Jordan Hill at #4 or #7... they could really use him to shore up their frontcourts... of course GS never does anything that makes sense so who knows what they'll do... i don't see any way he'll fall past TOR at #9 tho, especially since it's pretty likely that Bosh won't be re-signing there after this season.

We need this man.

that looks like Shareef-Abdur Rahim who's guarding Evans in that video, near the end.