josh howard recently said in an interview w/ espn that most players in the nba smoke weed. dude just lights up, its not like hes blowing lines or shooting up.

say yes to sean williams

Posted by subzero0:

A druggie? No thanks.

-- Just say no --

A former colleague of mine was at a party back in the day with Phil Jackson who was lighting up.

So, if its good enough for the Zen Master- and I think he has more rings than fingers- its good enough for me.

Posted by Allanfan20:

If he's there with a second late pick, I'm taking him, but I've also heard he has work ethic/attitude problems. Not sure if it's worth the risk taking him at 23, unless we get another pick that's even earlier. If we do that and draft Williams and Almond, we just had ourselves our best draft in a good long time.

Agreed- if we have one pick, we need outside shooting a lot more than interior defense.

Balkman can block shots for us, but we need someone to hit outside shots who isn't a circus clown (Nate) or a medical exemption waiting to happen (Q).

a new party mate for the big game!

You don't want to take the chance of drafting someone who has a chance to be arrested at any time for drug abuse.

Posted by Pharzeone:

Posted by Solace:

You don't want to take the chance of drafting someone who has a chance to be arrested at any time for drug abuse.

No you just put them in the White House.

LOL.

Posted by franco12:

Posted by Solace:

You don't want to take the chance of drafting someone who has a chance to be arrested at any time for drug abuse.

Detroit has done pretty well with Raweed Wallace.

I was being a little facetious, but you're right. Moreso, the issue would be bringing any negative influences to New York without cleaning house first. Let's think about it:

Negative influences/attitudes on the team, IMHO: Stephon Marbury, Steve Francis, Eddy Curry, Jerome James (epitome of collecting the $$$), Nate Robinson. Clean out some of those guys, replace them with hard working guys who give guts and then maybe there's a chance of a positive environment faciliating turning a bad attitude around and getting them to play in a team system. But you can't risk adding another potentially bad attitude to a team that should be called the New York Cancers.

Posted by BigSm00th:

josh howard recently said in an interview w/ espn that most players in the nba smoke weed. dude just lights up, its not like hes blowing lines or shooting up.

say yes to sean williams

Exactly. It's about time we start winning around here and I don't care what the hell it takes. Go get this kid. I want Almond more, but figuring out a way to get both would be nice. All in favor of trying to trade for an additional 1st rounder to get him and I'd dangle Frye and Nate out there to do it. Absolutely.

Character issues huh? Say no to a druggie? The guy's got a bad work ethic? Look, did you all root for Sprewell when we got him, who played like an all-star and eventually took us to the finals? I did. I LOVED that trade - one of the best trades the Knicks ever made and Starks was probably my favorite player. And Spree went after PJ with a 2/4 for Pet's sake! Talk about character issues.... And did you all like the Qyntel Woods pick up last year? I loved it! I was like, damn, we just picked up lottery-level talent right here for nothing! And Q2 didn't even play that badly too. He showed promise and most of us around here screamed about him getting more PT last year. I for one wanted him back and wanted to see the Knicks develop him. Maybe with a semi-developed Qyntel Woods we're not talking Morris Almond right now, who knows... Did the Celtic fans turn on the Chief when the dogs found the weed in his suitcase? Parish is still beloved by so many up there man. That whole thing was just one big afterthought in Beantown... Williams made a mistake and he paid for it. That's it. Case closed. New book now, new chapter, page 1. And Allanfan, I gotta tell ya bro, I don't really know how bad a guy's work ethic can be if he's leading the NATION in blocks - probably the biggest hustle stat out there. You need skill, timing and athletism to block shots, sure, but you also gotta WANT TO DO IT. You gotta want to intimidate and play defense, bottom line. Ask our two big bananas (Curry and Frye) if they wanna play any defense. Plus, as Jeff Goodman points out, the rest of Williams' game was showing significant progress (I couldn't resist) before the dismissal. With a little work with Aguirre in the gym, who knows. We might be looking at a much more than just a one-dimensional shot-blocker here.

Two things are working in our favor. One, his stock obviously did take a hit with the the whole marijuana thing and that certainly puts him in our range, when maybe before he would've went mid to high 1st round or possibly in the lottery. And two, for whatever reason, Justin Williams from Wyoming, a very similar albeit slightly more raw post defender, went undrafted last year, which tells me that there might not be a lot of interest out there in a player like this right now. That's good. Good for us. Securing Morris Almond to shoot/score the ball for us and Williams to block shots would be one of the best drafts we've had in a long time - I agree with you there Allanfan. I say yes, go get this kid.

I'd take Sean Williams in a heartbeat. We also need a shooter though, as has been well documented.

Maybe we can trade Frye or Nate for a mid first round pick to grab Almond or Rush or one of the other SGs with a shot.

Williams and Almond would be a very solid draft.

[Edited by - crzymdups on 04-28-2007 2:06 PM]