You and I both know that hasn't worked and will not work. You need the PERFECT player to pair with Lee in the front line and that guy is not available. It ties the hands of the franchise and because of that he's less valuable.

Because Lee needs a physical partner in the post, Gallo can't play the 4 and that takes away some of his value.

They are not a good pairing.

Lee understands his place in all this. He may not like it but its the way of the world. Walsh handled Lee as well as he could have.

iSergio wrote:Screw David Lee. When your team wins 29, 33, 23, 33 and 23 the last 5 years, you are under no obligation to show loyalty to ANY player.

Thank you I've been telling my friends this for the longest. He's a good player who played on terrible teams. When the game is on the line do you say give the ball to Lee? no you don't because he cannot create his own shot or make a play for someone else . Don't even get me started on his defense. He's probably a great sixth man on a good team not a starter. We don't owe Lee anything and I don't wanna hear he averaged 20 and 10 because I've seen Clarence Weatherspoon average 20 and 10 with bad Sixer teams and Chris Webber on one leg in Philly average 20 and 10 so what does that really mean?

BRIGGS wrote:All this team needed to do was concentrate on building up the frontline with Lee and Gallinari as the stalworth's and use the picks cap space on finishing out the wings and PG spots. This whole FA was crazy. If LBJ wanted to come here--he would come here and we had the space. You want to build a team built with all components. The Ny Knicks saw what Boston did a few years back and believe they could shotcut and follow the model--hiring the same GM who pulled in Grant Hill and T mac 9 years ago. But despite our poor record--we had some things going in the right direction. Now we are shuttering and revamping again---every two years we have done this. We still do not put emphasis on D+R--have not done that since JVG left and lo and behold we havent been a good team since. We try anything and every to cut corners and when we finally decided to take our time--we absolutely blow the 2nd draft that was PG heavy missing what looks to be a star PGs two picks after us 1 pick before us. Now they are going to run around the uS begging players in a incoherent fashion to join a skeleton crew of a team --while a great player who was drafted and only has been a Knick gets pushed aside. Ny deserves what it gets.

that may well be true briggs, but another year or two of mediocre play and the fans would have revolted, heck just read this forum and realgm, the fans are nuts over these losing seasons.. the Knicks are trying to give the fans what they want at all cost... what you said makes a lot of sense, I agree, but this is NY, and people say you can rebuild here.. Again, I question that theory..