on a 10 day contract why the hell not? doesn't make much sense to be playing D Lee the last few games anyway & risk him getting injured before the summer free agency blitz.

I think we should approach everything very deliberately at this point - I wanna see us take our time on decisions and do everything in an A before B style leaving no stone unturned in the process. That's why weeks ago I started calling for Donnie to bring up some of the top D-League performers and give them a shot. It's obvious the season had been lost at that point -- with everything we need, why not tryout a few of these NBDL guys and see if they could plug some of the holes & on the cheap too?? Why not try a very productive D-League big like Dwayne Jones and see if he could've plugged a hole at center, why not see if hungry & aggressive Alexander Johnson could've had a role as a big forward in this system, why not see if talented lefty Curtis Jerrells could've been an NBA PG and a guy that could've split duties up with Douglas for the rest of this year and beyond (I didn't know Jerrells already had something cookin' all along with SA until recently -- point is if he were available, we probably wouldn't have shown any interest in him anyway)? Now I can't go too crazy here because they did manage to find this guy Barron and he's playing well but the move came way too late in the game and I still think there may have been better guys to call up anyway...Now it's obvious we need to add some kind of shot-blocking element to the mix here -- whether we find that with a vet player that'll cost us some money or a role player we can either draft or find cheap somewhere (my preference), I think it's important. Maybe not the top priority but it's important..I'm so tired of the swiss cheese defense already -- it's embarrassing and it needs to be addressed..At this point in time, unless that element's coming as part of a solid overall veteran's package (a real difference maker provided we upgraded the rest of the team accordingly), I'd conserve the money and try to find a young guy on the cheap that could supply it and I would've starting looking for it already...My thing is, why even use a 2nd round pick on a guy like Jarvis Varnado when we could bring in a guy like Hilton Armstrong and take a look at him first? Makes sense to me.. Again, A before B...Armstrong just became available last Friday - if it were up to me, knowing my team's weaknesses moving forward, Armstrong already would've been wearing a Knick uniform...

I look at Armstrong as a guy who's had a very similar road to the NBA as Jordan Hill. Hill put up the better numbers his last year in school over what Armstrong did but both guy's excelled their last year in college without showing much the previous years. Then when they both first hit the NBA, they both weren't given the time initially to prove themselves early on but did manage to show flashes. Now Hill's getting the time for his new team and he's producing...I'm not saying Armstrong's as talented as Jordan Hill, he probably isn't, but my point is, when you're not given a chance, you can't show your worth...Jermaine O'Neal wasn't ever given a shot in Portland early on, mostly because they had a successful veteran team at the time and didn't have the minutes for him..Once he got traded to Indiana however he got the PT & blew up and became a very good player. Again, I'm not calling Hilton the next Jermaine O'Neal, but let's pick him up right now for next to nothing and see what he could do for us. We've got nothing to loose...I'm intrigued by him -- I liked him in college. He could come in here in the limited time remaining with a little bit of a chip on his shoulder and something to prove. His back's really up against the wall right now - he'll be playing for the rest of his career. Take a chance. Maybe we catch some lightning in a bottle here..