kam77 wrote:

martin wrote:

kam77 wrote:Did anyone from the Knick organization ever respond to this thread?

no, they all got fired after missing out on Blair and are out looking for jobs.

Maybe Brian Wendth can offer some kind of explanation?

LOL

Finestrg wrote:

Paladin55 wrote:

BRIGGS wrote:

oohah wrote:Anyway, to simply state my case. I want the GM to pick pro-ready players and stop worrying about all the extracurricular stuff. And if you pick a project, he should be unbelievably talented even for the NBA and have incredible upside, like a Hasheem Thabeet.

Chandler is a project. Hill is a project. Nate and Lee are projects!

Why can't our project be Brooke Lopez...or be a pro-ready guy like Gordon? It's so disheartening. And then when inside tougness is our most glaring weakness, Walsh passes on the toughest inside guy with what is basically a second-round pick.

It makes me sick.

oohah

I'm sick too. This was a TERRIBLE choice for a coach. If we brought in Mark Jackson--I can assure you we would have Brook Lopez Ty Lawson and Dejuan Blair.

This guy only cares about 6-8 players who can shoot 3's doesnt believe in the post game and his teams dont play defense. This is not F France.

Also as evidence--look how they tried to develop 6-11 Jefferies--by teaching him how to shoot 3s YES take a 6-11 player and move him out to 30 feet. It's asinine.

If Lopez is as good as you think, would Utah have had our pick this past draft? And if Jackson were to be as good of a coach as you think he might be, we would have even been better last year, and not gotten our #8 pick this year, or lost it to Utah, especially if he had somehow managed to reach Marbury in some way or another and gotten positive things from him.

Having Jackson and picking Lopez might have had unforeseeable implications and completely altered the chain of events leading up to the present.

Read some science fiction, my friend- or watch the episode of the Simpsons that deals with this issue.

Just a thought.

Not sure about any of this but just talking about Utah, Kyle Korver's now out in addition to CJ Miles. That's two important wings down for them right now, out recovering from surgeries...Now might be a good time to call them and offer them Wilson Chandler. I continue to like Briggs' idea of trying to pry Koufos away from Utah. You give me Kosta Koufos and Wesley Matthews Jr., a guy I'd need to replace Chandler with in the rotation, and I do that deal. With regard to the salary cap, the deal works. I think that's a fair trade for both clubs. We'd get a young skilled center to rebuild with, Wes Matthews who's young and can play, and then maybe we work Larry Hughes back into the mix for the rest of the year. At the very least it'd keep Hughes happy, but Larry may play a lot better now knowing he's got a steady job once again...

Just to go a little further on this Utah trade scenario, I was just reading on Hoopshype that the Jazz have cut off contract extention talks with Ronnie Brewer. They say the plan is to keep him around but I wouldn't be so sure - Utah's GM and Brewer's agent are said to be far apart on a number.

http://nba.fanhouse.com/2009/10/30/according-to-agent-ronnie-brewer-will-not-get-utah-extension/

Murky situation out there with all their wing players recently huh? First they draft Morris Almond and then turn around and give up on him (honestly, after getting a close look at this guy in SL, I wasn't impressed either), Matt Harpring may retire if he didn't already, Miles & Korver are out hurt with no timetable to return and now extention talks have broken off with Brewer (Brewer's not that great a player anyway). Wilson could help that club big time. If I'm Donnie, I'd call the Jazz and offer up Chandler to see where it got me. Briggs talks about it a lot and I agree with him -- I'd love to pry that kid Koufos loose. Man, pick up the phone Donnie...Anyone else feel like it might be in our best interest to explore this?