What is the point in not signing him then? He can show the young guys what it is to go ALL OUT. He can POSSIBLY make us better, but we certainly can't get worse. And God knows we have to get better if we want free agents to even wink at us.

Bring him in. It's only for a season that's already burried if we stick with what we got.

We don't see this move as hurting our long-term growth or stunting the development of our young players at all. It is not that we are impatient and can't accept rebuilding, but that we realize we don't have our own first round pick this year and bringing a guy like AI can improve our short term while doing nothing to hurt us long-term.

The guy is not a cancer. He just believes that he is still good enough to be a starter in this league and he is correct. For a lot of teams, he wouldn't be a good fit because he is most effective when asked to be the leading scorer or the go to guy. On our team, he would fit in perfectly because that is what we need right now. We could instantly plug him into our starting lineup and feature him as our main weapon. AI is still capable of scoring 25 ppg in our system and more importantly, he would make us more competitive this season. Do I believe AI is a good fit for us long-term? Hell no. But why not make our team better this season and more attractive to the 2010 free agent class?

Some of you say that bringing in AI will only bring malcontent to the locker room. I say NOT bringing in AI can do worse damage. I've seen every game so far this season and have been there for a bunch of them. After losing some heart breakers, this team has lost a lot of confidence. They need something good to happen before they quit altogether and stop caring about winning (hasn't fully happened yet but you can already see some signs of it). I don't care what you say, it is never a good thing to win less than 20 games, especially when you don't have your own pick. When you lose that many games, which is where we are heading right now, it can have a negative effect on your young guys and it can certainly give free agents a bad vibe about your franchise.

Walsh has said repeatedly he wants this team to be competitive this year and will do whatever he can to do that without compromising his 2010 cap space. If he doesn't sign AI, he will be going against his own words.

I would love to collectively slap the sense back into this board.

What difference does it make. We are 1 and 9 and we stink. Not one person on this team would be a starter for a high playoff team. Only 3 players thats on this roster now will be back next season.The others will be traded if someone is crazy enough to take them and some might be brought out. Give the team to Iverson. Hell this team is already damaged goods. Iverson will be a breath of fresh air. With Iverson and Curry starting we just might see something.

It was Nash all the while and we thought that it was D'Antoni. You can't put a team on the floor and think that they would play like Nash and his team. D'Antoni is maybe not what we thought he was. So far he has no clue on how to coach this time.

During the Knicks games I read these posts saying this on stink that one stink and you are not going to watch any more games. Now you are saying Iverson will mess up this team or he will mess up the young players. If these young players are influenced by Iverson, they don't need to be in the NBA.

nixluva wrote:

Papabear wrote:Papabear Says

What difference does it make. We are 1 and 9 and we stink. Not one person on this team would be a starter for a high playoff team. Only 3 players thats on this roster now will be back next season.The others will be traded if someone is crazy enough to take them and some might be brought out. Give the team to Iverson. Hell this team is already damaged goods. Iverson will be a breath of fresh air. With Iverson and Curry starting we just might see something.

It was Nash all the while and we thought that it was D'Antoni. You can't put a team on the floor and think that they would play like Nash and his team. D'Antoni is maybe not what we thought he was. So far he has no clue on how to coach this time.

This is really wrong, cuz Nash wasn't the only thing about MDA's teams that played better and it wasn't just about Nash. Diaw and Bell improved a great deal under MDA. The things is that Nash was never as good before MDA and what he taught him and Nash openly admits how much MDA helped him and improved his game. So while it's true that you need a player of great intellect and skill, that would be the case for any coach. No coach wins games without good players, so let's not get crazy.

This team is failing to play up to it's potential and I don't know what kind of coaching can really solve a messed up head like Duhon and Chan. Players sometimes go thru this kind of thing and surely MDA didn't do anything but work to boost all of his players confidence, so it's really on the individual players IMO. MDA was always able to get his players to play hard and play like a team, so one 10 period where the team doesn't do that doesn't mean he's somehow lost it or doesn't know what to do. Heck I think he's probably tried just about everything, but you can't just abandon a player cuz he's having a rough patch, especially when it's only 10 games.

To me AI doesn't solve the problems, he may just mask some of them.

My thinking when Curry is ready 9 man rotation.

PG AI
SG TD
F Gallinari
F Lee
C Jefferies[until Curry comes back]
6n Harrington
7 Hughes
8 Hill[more minutes]
9 Nate

NO MORE Lee at C--he has to be moved to PF to concentrate on rebounding and to play a bigger/longer guy at 5--play Jefferies Curry Darko and Hill at C.

Cosmic wrote:

EnySpree wrote:I went hard this summer too to get Iverson....This is a dead season...Iverson for a year would be a nice rental...

But yo.....Imagine next year? What if Lebron does sign??? Iverson is a nice guy to have on a team with Lebron. Iverson and Lebron could easily play together....that would also attract other dudes to follow.

Iverson chucking 35 shots a game and making 9 is attractive to LeBron?

In what universe?

Did no one watch Denver with Iverson?
Did no one watch Detroit with Iverson?
Did no one witness the Memphis mess with Iverson?
Does no one know it's not 2000 and our team isn't comprised of 14 high IQ defensive monsters willing to do all the dirty work not caring Iverson is gunning away every play?

Unreal.......

If the issue is whether AI is better than Billups, then Billups proved to be a better PG. But that is not the issue. The only thing AI wants is to start and finish games. Well, I see no problem with him doing that here. Give him that, and I don't think you will have too many problems out of him. I would sit him down and tell him, we will let you start, but we expect you to be the pg and make sure everyone gets their shots. He can handle it.