misterearl wrote:Marcus Camby playing 15 minutes a game with the second unit is a smart insurance policyShift du Hartford
Douglas
The Mayor
Bosh
Gallo
Lee
Boozer, a free agent muscle forward
50/50 skill forward (from draft) - one second round pick is a bust, the other can play
Sergio, unitl something better comes along
Camby, just 15 minutes a night is all we need, 15 minutes
Walker/Giddens - I don't care which one, Walker represents the classic West 4th street baller: killer hops, decent handle, a shot and prone to foul trouble. The Answer Man likes him.
Summer League free agent with fire in his belly who pays his way to Las Vegas
that's eleven
I'm actually not a fan of reacquiring Camby at this point. I agree that if we got the right pieces in place he wouldn't be bad, but he's short-term in my eyes. I want youth and long-term to put around whatever star free agents we can get that are in their prime. That's how I wanna see it built...Boozer's good but I'm really not a fan of his either. This is how I see it with regard to these free agent big guys: we should just keep David Lee if Boozer's the only other option available to us. Bosh is better than Lee, not by a whole lot but better, plus he's younger, taller and knock on wood - he's been healthy. I don't think Boozer is a substantial upgrade over Lee. Plus he's almost two years older and a little injury prone. Amar'e's awesome and better than Boozer but same thing, he's older than Lee and injury prone (although if LeBron wanted Amar'e, I'd probably have to do it to appease him and then just cross my fingers)...If I can't get Bosh, I'm leaning toward bringing Lee back but that's me... Hopefully Lebron would be on board with that...Camby & Boozer are good players that could help but they wouldn't be my first choices.
Moving on to this current team, I really think this kid Giddens has got to get a lot of time now. Now way he gets only 10 minutes & 2 shot attempts last night if I'm at the controls...Unless he's physically unable to go more minutes yet, I want this kid getting much more time -- more than McGrady in fact. Let's see what he's got. Giddens should be playing as much as Walker right now. No excuses. Chandler's already out for the remainder - Giddens should be playing ahead of McGrady, Harrington and definitely Eddie House...I'd be giving this kid every opportunity to prove himself right now in this last handful of games. Last night's game was over quick -- I would've thrown Giddens 30 minutes and I would've put him on Roy the whole time..We've found out that Walker can play a little bit which is good. Giddens is one of the last guys we need to find out about, win or lose at this point. If I'm MDA, if I'm gonna go down miserably in these games, I'm gonna go down with TD, Gallo, Walker and Giddens playing substantial minutes in each game. All other priorities should be rescinded at this point (as in making sure Eddie House gets his minutes to throw up brick after brick -- I always thought House was a decent role player that could really shoot the rock - I'm kinda surprised how bad he's been. He's been terrible. No need to see him anymore the rest of the way, definitely not at Giddens' expense)..