Posted by nyballer:
When i look around at the other elite teams in the league i realize that most of them have 2 stars and a good supporting cast. I think that we will be in good shape next year because McDyess, if healthy, is a star, without a doubt. he's up there with the webbers, garnetts, duncans, o'neals (jermaine), in my opinion. Teams like sac have webber-peja, the nets have jkidd-kmart, san antonio has duncan-smith, la has kobe-shaq. I think with McDyess as star #1, Spree and Houston combined are better than players like kidd, kmart, smith, and even kobe. I think what you need to ask is what players would you trade bOTH spree and houston for (regardless of contract issues). the only one i would trade for is shaq, and maybe duncan. I think with our team and maybe if we get van exel, we will be in excellent shape
The nets are overated... if they were in the west they would be a 4 seed at best definately behind LA, Sac, Dal. Kmart is not a star, he can jump and run thats it. San Antonio is really hurting. Smith is on a steady decline and it has been a good 3 yrs since he could be considered something even close to a star. Duncan is great but San Antonio wont make it anywhere deep in the playoffs because they dont have a good 2nd option.
Layden better make some moves before you guys can talk about the knicks being in the category of the lakers, kings, etc. All of the top teams rebound and have strong defenses. We have a good shot blocker in dice but we need a real center. Doleac/kt will not get it done. KT might be able to handle the centers in the east, but he will get destroyed by all of the centers in the west. We are lucky because with the east being so weak we have a shot at making it far in the playoffs. And if by some miracle chaney leads the team to the finals... anything can happen in 4 games. I just hope that layden makes some move, a move, any move to improve the current roster.
If somehow houston was traded and spree could play the 2 that would be great. Spree is a top 5 SG if he was playing there. At the sf he is not even in the top 10. The problem is if you trade houston, you trade away our only real shooter, so that means that you must get a shooting sf in return while finding someone dumb enough to take on his $100 mil contract. With our cap situation it would be very difficult to make any big trade.
Man if only we had not traded Ewing (means that we wouldn't have anderson 6mil or eisely 5mil or knight 4mil), not resigned houston or resigned him to a much smaller deal (14 mil), no signed spoon (6 mil) we would be in great shape. That means that we would have $35 million off our cap. Essentially we would be in great shape right now if the knicks management would not have made any moves in the past few years. What we could have done was draft artest instead of weis and have:
ward/williams
spree/postell
artest
dice/kt/othella
doleac/ewing
Ofcourse if we didnt do the ewing trade, we probably wouldnt have had the 7th overall pick and we wouldnt have traded for dice, but you get the idea. The main thing is:
If we would have had a monkey as our GM the past few years our team would be in better shape!!!!
