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Allanfan20
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I know a few months back, Bip asked us to give a scouting report of all the players, and lately, their has been a lot of argueing about David Lee and Channing Frye, so I just want people to restate the strengths and weaknesses of these guys, and then I am curious about how we should move foward with them, and how this effects Eddy Curry. Obviously, I'll start.
David Lee- Great rebounder and has a chance to be elite. Very tough interior defender. Has the toughness to ride against anybody, and I can see him being the type of guy to eventually volunteer to guard the opposing teams biggest and toughest fowards/center, down the road. Willing to get dirty and bang and dive on the floor for loose balls. Very good and fundamental passer with some nice leadership skills. Free throw shooting seems to be improving. Could eventually be a captain of a winning team, hopefully the Knicks.
In terms of his weaknesses, he's still not much of a shooter, and he really needs to develop that. Though he tries his absolute hardest, he's still not a very good perimeter defender, and for this reason, I don't even see him becoming a small foward. He's just not quick enough. Not a shotblocker.
Channing Frye - In terms of scoring potential, he really doesn't have a ton of limits. He can post up, has a nice jumphook, run pick and rolls, hit open shots, take a couple of dribbles then hit a shot. Solid passer. Decent interior defender, especially because he is getting stronger. This will only get better because of his work ethic and great attitude.
In terms of his weaknesses, Channing has a tendency to keep himself out of plays to benefit Curry and the other scorers, as opposed to asserting himself. When this happens, he's floating faaaar away from the basket. With the emergence of Curry's scoring, this is happening A LOT MORE. Loses confidence, is hesitant with his jumper when things aren't going his way. Poor perimeter defender and too quiet on the rebounds. Needs to improve shotblocing. No reason for him to not get 1 or 2 a game with his length alone. Same goes for Curry.
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As for my personal opinion, I love both players and wish we can keep both. However, I think it couldn't be more obvious that 1 of Lee, Frye or Curry have to be traded, or else if we're going to keep all of them, at least 1 player will become ineffective as a player. I think if we're building around Curry, which I really don't think we should, then Frye is the first candidate, simply because of his ineffectiveness when Curry is on the court. For whom? I don't know, maybe a shotblocker, maybe a foward who plays smart, can shoot and play defense. Everyone knows that trade proposals aren't my area.
However, I don't think Curry is nearly close to as untradeable as people make him out to be. It's quite dangerous to build around a player who does one single think, and in Curry's case, that's being a dominant scorer in the low post. The reason I think this is because you have to get other players and rely on them a lot more heavily. So if we're not building around Curry, then he, in my eyes, is just as much a trade chip as every other Knick.
In conclusion, I think all 3 of those players will eventually be worthy of 35 minutes a game, and there's just no way we'll be able to keep all 3 w/o somebody being severely underutilized. I don't think this team has the potential to grow into a championship contender, so we're gonna have to make a lot of changes, and those 3 guys could and very well should be considered.
“Whenever I’m about to do something, I think ‘Would an idiot do that?’ and if they would, I do NOT do that thing.”- Dwight Schrute
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2/7/2007 3:58 PM
