Posted by 30andOverClub:
JW, you want size and then tell us the Knicks should have drafted an undersized, no wingspan, 6'3" two guard in Bayless over a 6'10" Gallinari? As far as I can ascertain, most of your argument with Donnie comes from the fact that he hasn't drafted the guys you wanted him to. But you're not even consistent with your own arguments. I imagine you'll say that Bayless is taller than your average PG, but he's shown nothing that would indicate he'll ever be a PG.
Also, those proposed trades would also have absolutely no shot of going through. Carmelo for what amounts to Chandler? Dumping Curry for expirings when he hasn't played in well over a year? Donnie would do the Knicks more harm than good by suggesting such trades as the other GMs would most likely be extremely insulted.
I won't even get into the rest. You throw way too much out there and haven't even commented on my post a few days ago about what 2011 free agents we're supposed to target that would make foregoing the 2010 free agent class a solid strategy.
What do you want me to say folks? Our GM has done a bad job to me. I've laid it out. Nobody can point to something Donnie's done that has been a wild success?
Look, size = mismatches. Say it with me now... Derozan is a huge SG. Bayless is a big PG. Holiday is a big PG, he was the other pick I was pining for this Summer.
Who has been in the finals the last two years? Look at their rosters. They have extreme size and mobility mismatches at several positions. Odom playing small forward, KG, Rondo, Rashard Lewis, Turkoglu... you want a championship, that's what we need to be building.
I put out a list of the 2011 guys that will be out there. Also, there's going to be huge stress put on a lot of franchises because of the economy. You think we won't be able to steal players from teams because of the economy using our expirings? I think there are owners that will take those deals.
Bottom line, the 2008 draft was a disaster and there were several guys we could have picked over Gallo that would have been much better. Dude had a bad back and we knew it. Come on folks! That doesn't bother anyone? The 2009 draft bothers me because Hill was immediately getting whipped in the Summer League by guys like McGee. McGee is going to be this guy's peer for the next decade. Hill had better get to work.
The 2010 plan just seems un-New York to me. We're on our knees begging this guy to give us a chance and sacrificing anything else in the mean time. The drafts have been bad from what we've seen so far, that's all I can go on, and so if LeBron doesn't come, what are we left with?
Why can't we build step by step? Get a chip every year through the draft. Sign guys to smart deals. The things a normal GM would try to do...
I support this team more than anyone, but basically throwing our hands up this year and last year is something I never thought that I'd see.
That Mobley contract is a big deal for teams who are in bad financial positions. We should leverage that contract as much as we can.
I don't know folks, I just hope that all of this is worth it at some point, and that we've got a contending team in 2011. I wouldn't have gone about it this way and the point of this post is just that the LeBron flirting and the ongoing Lee, Nate, Hill, Kidd, Sessions drama is an embarrassment. And, all this happens as the potential 2010 targets resign with their teams to get as much money as they can. I would think that LeBron, Wade and Bosh would be the only major FA's still on the market by next Summer as they try to use their own leverage. I hope we get LeBron, it just seems like completely suspending our normal team operations from a few games into last year until next Summer is a big price to pay. The economy is another obstacle now with the shrinking cap, and I would think we could use that to our advantage in an alternate plan.
Alan Hahn:
Nate Robinson has been on a ridonkulous scoring tear lately (remember when he couldn't hit Jerome James with a Big Mac in early January?)
9/10/2009 6:38 PM