I'm really excited about Felton -- everything you ever read says that Felton doesn't belong in the same class as D-Will & CP3...Now that may be true but everytime I see Ray play, he impresses me immensely with his talent. Ray's always gonna be be compared to these two seeing as they all went close to each other in the draft a few years ago..I just don't think that's fair -- let's just let Ray be Ray..He's good enough on his own..Like I said the other day, he's a MAJOR upgrade over any PG we've had recently and probably the best PG this city's had since Derek Harper, and Mark Jackson/Rod Strickland before that..He's not exactly a guy I'd necessarily be thinking about upgrading...I might be in the minority here but I might wait on making a trade for Paul right now. Definitely not interested in totally emptying out the cupboard to get him..I kinda like what we have right now and I'm curious to see how it all works before we mess with it...Any trade for Paul would have to involve a hefty package starting with Felton & probably Gallo plus whatever else (again, minority view but I'd prefer to hold onto Randolph over Gallo if it ever came down to it)..Not saying Paul wouldn't be worth it, he probably would be--the man's a great PG, but I just assume wait on this for the time being. Felton/Gallo is a lot to give up and might be more valueable to us in the long run than Paul by himself...A few of you are predicting a spike in production for Felton in NY and I agree..Say Ray goes for something close to 17 & 8 with good chemistry and the team's starts winning --- would CP3 be that much of an upgrade over that?? I don't know..Maybe, but maybe not..Call me nuts but I'm not sure emptying the cupboard before we even know what we have here is the right move at this moment.
No doubt we could give Ray a little help though (I'm just not sold on TD as a backup and definitely wouldn't feel good about the situation should Douglas ever have to take over fulltime for some reason God forbid)..I still think Patty Mills is the best option for us right now..We need to sign this kid to an offer sheet and then see what Portland does. They might conceed this player to us seeing how their backcourt is pretty much set. I truly believe that we could steal a young very talented PG talent right now with this guy..The backup PG/SG and big forward spots should be filled by Mills, Sylven Landesberg and Wayne Chism. Three no-brainers for me..They'd be perfect additions -- 3 young talents with very good promise and negligible cap impact..I can't believe we're not hearing that the Knicks have interest in any of these guys. I'd be all over these three if I were Donnie. We should be able to get all three guys in here with the limited cap room we have leftover (and if it involved letting go of Andy Rautins, you do it. Sorry but Rautins is not a better prospect than Mills, Landesberg or Chism imo). I love Landesberg and think he's a true big SG with a very bright future but based on Fields' strong play in SL, I want that kid to play eventually. The last thing I would want to do is bury Fields, though if viable, I'd still add Landesberg as well. You can never have enough talent...So maybe backup PG and another skilled big forward for added depth are the more important spots to fill right now. Mills' talent speaks for itself imho and Wayne Chism is a younger, probably better version of Anthony Tolliver, a player we're supposedly interested in. Tolliver had some success last year and is gonna look to get compensated accordingly. I like Tolliver and can see why they're interested but why overpay for him when you can get Chism for less??
7/22/2010 6:17 PM
