This team has potential. If they can get a 2nd big and if Douglas is the real deal it could get interesting

fishmike wrote:looks a lot better when the guards actually play some. Giddens, Walker and Douglas challenged every shot and every drive. Kept the frontcourt guys from being exposed over and over again.

This team has potential. If they can get a 2nd big and if Douglas is the real deal it could get interesting

Had to agree - block, charge, 3 stills, 16 boards, 5 fouls, hold his man, helped a lot on Melo and JR. Still get 12 and 3 assists.
Probly his best defensive game yet...

fishmike wrote:looks a lot better when the guards actually play some. Giddens, Walker and Douglas challenged every shot and every drive. Kept the frontcourt guys from being exposed over and over again.

This team has potential. If they can get a 2nd big and if Douglas is the real deal it could get interesting

Line up

Bosh
Lee
Gallo
Chandler
Douglas
Harrintgon
Tmac
Giddens
Walker
Fredette
6-11 athletic big man drafte free agency SL etc..

BRIGGS wrote:

fishmike wrote:looks a lot better when the guards actually play some. Giddens, Walker and Douglas challenged every shot and every drive. Kept the frontcourt guys from being exposed over and over again.

This team has potential. If they can get a 2nd big and if Douglas is the real deal it could get interesting

If No LBJ--but Im thinking it is now possible--
Resign David Lee
2nd premium big max Bosh or Stoudemire
Fredette for back up PG
Retain Al Harrington for bench
Giddens and walker continue to devlop
T mac vet min

Line up

Bosh
Lee
Gallo
Chandler
Douglas
Harrintgon
Tmac
Giddens
Walker
Fredette
6-11 athletic big man drafte free agency SL etc..

Good backup plan if big FA will bolt on us (and they most likely will).
Then we will have another shot next year to improve the team... and a lot of space to do so.

Cosmic wrote:Lee himself has been playing more and more defense over the past 6 weeks or so. It's noticeable now that he is playing defense.

Doing this makes it a lot harder to just dismiss the possibility of re-signing him.

The deadline trade makes this a greater possibility as now we can sign a max/near max player AND retain Lee and then look to 2011 to add that additional big time player.

Why it took Lee so long to decide to start playing ANY defense is a tough question to answer. He was so atrocious on defense right into January of this year that you really wondered if he was worth signing to a big contract.

Hopefully he's not just doing this to get that big contract but has actually taken on defense and a semblance of a post game as his next areas of improvement.

I think it is. Sometime around after he was called out by reporters for getting owned in the paint against a team (I forgot who) he started to play more decent defense. I remember where he defended himself for being an undersized center and whatnot but he was outed after one truly terrible performance. I'm sure everyone around the league knew he was a bad defender but I don't know if Lee knew they did. Once he started getting hounded in the press for it I think he started giving more of an effort on that end. He's still not very good on defense but he is improved. And for Lee, that's a big step.

I was impressed with Giddens. I like him and Walker, and Walker gets a lot of attention, but I love Giddens game a little better.

This is the scary part--the guy is way to good to just let go for free. We added one player--Douglas and one player has stepped up--Gallo and it has changed the differential.

The Bucks added John Salmons and since they added him they are 16-2 +14

I will say it again--we do NOT need to SUBTRACT--we need to ADD. If you take away a David Lee--thats a huge subtraction.

This season going south had 0 to do with David Lee

A. I would say the number 1 problem was inconsistency from the PG position
B. A close second was team defense
C. No second big--most teasm play with two bigs and we were consistently overwhelmed by size
D. Gallinari and the bench were very inconsistent shooting in the low 40's until the last 5 games

If we address a second big--to me its either Stoudemire of Bosh
Resign Al Harrington to a reasonable contract
Keep Giddens and Walker
Tmac to vet minimum or close for a bench role/spot starter
Back up PG who can shoot the three with consistency {I like Fredette]
6-11 big man with out other pick or find a guy like Mahini for vet minimum etc.. or both

We've always said that Lee just needs a C next to him that has his back and can help defend the paint. If DW can do that Lee is our best and cheapest option at PF. The only question is would Lebron come if Lee is here instead of Amare or Bosh or JJ3? Is Lebron ok with being the only max player here until we get someone else in 2011?

nixluva wrote:I remember when everyone wondered if MDA would want to keep Lee cuz he didn't seem to fit the system. Then over the last two yrs Lee has become the most perfectly suited to the system on the team. The only flaw was help D. Lee wants to stay and he's proving that by making the effort to improve his game yet again.

We've always said that Lee just needs a C next to him that has his back and can help defend the paint. If DW can do that Lee is our best and cheapest option at PF. The only question is would Lebron come if Lee is here instead of Amare or Bosh or JJ3? Is Lebron ok with being the only max player here until we get someone else in 2011?

If we got Lebron james

we could run

C-Lee
F James
F Gallo
F Cahndler
PG Douglas
F Al Harrington
F Tmac
G Walker or Giddens[or both]
PG hopefully Fredette
thena few mm left over for a 6-11 guy[s]

I still think Mike D likes going small if you add James the guy avg 8-9 rebounds anyway If Gallo can come up to 6--we can rebound very well.