This wont happen because of Zekes love of PGs but a trade of FWill for Quintal Woods would give the knicks better balance and works for both teams.

Gives the knicks a fast long young SF reduces the potential pgs to 3 and increases the potential sf to 3 better balance. It also gives portland better balance.

how many sfs do we already have.....19 right?

no way.. we finally have a great mix perimeter wise. The odd man out is Shandon. Frank will stay and play in a Bobby Jackson type role. Just because we have 2 good PGs doesnt mean we need to trade one. Frank can play 8 minutes at PG when Steph is out, and Steph and Frank can play together as well and really create some nice offense and playmaking. Both are scoring type PGs. Now you have Penny, who finally gives you a GREAT backup to Houston, but can also play the 1,2 or 3 himself.

As far as I am concerned the only thing this group needs is a dunker. Not a great offensive player, just a tall guy that can stuff it when Steph and Frank break down the D. Chris Anderson to me is the perfect guy to go after in the offseason. He's a 6-10 GREAT athlete. Kind of a poor mans Camby. Tons of blocks, good rebounder and can really dunk. No jumper or offensive moves, but we are just talking role player here.

My biggest problem here is Chaney. Everyone knows Fwill is good but Chaney always wanted to play Eisley and Ward over him! He is extremely overmatched. We have to get rid of him. Atleast he has said that Fwill plays over Moochie.

Sage. I would love to get Qyntel on this team. I've seen him play and he's very athletic, good ball handler,.. the only question is his work ethic.

i threw out woods because of his position, type of player who fits with Stephon (the main cog) and upside. I like Williams, who has shown some really good things but whose best position will have the minutes takens up by Stephon.

Penny can play SF but would take more of a beating than at the 1 or 2 and Shandon is inconsistent no matter where he plays. Moochie is servicable at the 1.

If a trade involving Van Horn, Anderson, and Doleac to
Portland for Rasheed and Ruben Patterson doesn't go down then I'm just as content keeping what we have and sliding Van Horn to the 4, Kurt to the 5, and Penny to the 3 when we want to run.
Sign Leon Smith and let's go, but looks like we may need a new coach.

By the way I would not budge from that Portland offer I made above. There is a chance that Portland could get nothing for Rasheed if they wait it out and they want to get rid of Patterson considering the fight he got into with star player Zach Randolph, last year.

Portland is a low post team which makes Van Horn and Doleac good fits. Let's remember Layden brought in Van Horn and Doleac because he thought the KNicks were gonna be a low post team with McDyess.
Now with Isiah the Knicks are going to be more of an open court team, which compliments Wallace and Patterson.

Patterson could be the slasher your looking for HARDCOREKNICKSFAN.

ditto for me. and we get cap space next season.

bredan today doc tomorrow.

But a guy like Sheed would have helped out against Dirk and the Mavs, especially on the defensive side of the ball.
But I have no problem with Van Horn, especially when we move him to the 4 in certain situations.

If we can make the trade that I proposed before, then we make it;
If not then I'm okay with Van Horn. I just feel this is a trade that can benefit both teams.

By the way if Portland demands Frank Williams in the trade then they have to include either Quintel Woods, Travis Outlaw, or a first round pick.