fmoran
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Knicks Trade: No one
Knicks Receive: McDyess (later this season), Vujanic (next seson), 1st and high 2nd round Draft Pick.
My Lineup: PG- Vujanic- Promising young point guard. Could be the missing piece. SG- Houston- Proven 50-plus point scorer (whoo!) and big reason for Knick's dominating 3-point game. SF- Sprewell- Streaky shooter, playmaker, defender. Best all-around player for the Knicks. PF- McDyess- Dominating low post presence. Scores, defends, and rebounds. C- Thomas- Undersized, and still one of the best centers in the league. Nice outside touch, and some great defense when not getting called for the foul.
I hope they give the team one more year, because we're breaking up a unit that hasn't even been given a chance yet. I've been hearing people whine about "We need a superstar" this and "Let's get worse to get better" that. But sometimes the whole is geater than the sum of the parts. Compare Detroit and Orlando. Orlando has the superstar, and Detroit has a bunch of role players. Detroit would have to package several players and picks just to get a crack at a player like T-Mac, but would they? T-Mac can't even win half his games, while the worthless players they would be trading have proven they are better then him. Maybe not individually, but most certainly as a unit.
And just maybe we have something special like that. A destructive 3-point assault, complimented perfectly by the interior presence of Dice, KT, and maybe a couple picks. The ideal, all around, "pick your poison"-type team. The thing is we still don't know. What we do know is we won't be any worse with McDyess in the lineup, and since we are a .500 team with everyone healthy already, the sky is the limit.
Point is, we have some good players already, and need to keep this core of players (Spree, Houston, KT) together, at least until we can see them with McDyess. Nothing wrong with making small improvements until then, but demanding a blockbuster trade is just ignorant. Why do you think championship caliber teams want players like Thomas and Spree? No, they aren't suckers. They see what we take for granted.
Any thoughts?
go knicks!
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