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Knicks should go hard after 6'11 Jonas Valanciunas of Lithuania

"... Shows a soft touch on his shot with excellent shooting mechanics and overall fundamentals ...

Can face the basket and knock down shots out to 12 feet ...

(best part) Good basketball IQ ...

Strong motor. Plays with a strong competitive drive ...

Hard working kid who should continue to improve ... Shows solid vision and court sense, getting rid of the ball and finding teammates when doubled ..."

- NBADraft.net

misterearl wrote:No to Kendrick Perkins

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Knicks should go hard after 6'11 Jonas Valanciunas of Lithuania

"... Shows a soft touch on his shot with excellent shooting mechanics and overall fundamentals ...

Can face the basket and knock down shots out to 12 feet ...

(best part) Good basketball IQ ...

Strong motor. Plays with a strong competitive drive ...

Hard working kid who should continue to improve ... Shows solid vision and court sense, getting rid of the ball and finding teammates when doubled ..."

- NBADraft.net

martin wrote:fair enough, but know that you are losing a voice both on the court and in practice/locker room.

Not sure how much on an impact he has behind the scenes but my guess is it's a LOT. valuable intangible. Plus that beard is awesome.

Keep running out Mosgov. We have great leadership in Amare/Felton and its 100% translated into our younger players playing better and winning games.

Unless I get a really unique opportunity to pick up a great player in a firesale (like Curry + Gallo for Melo) I'm standing pat. Gallo, Fields, Chandler, Williams, Douglas, Mosgov, AR.. all 24 or under. I predicted 45 wins and I think we really have some good pieces here. Amare being 28 doesnt put me on some kind of fast track. Garnett is 34 and Bos has done well developing other pieces (Rondo).

I would be quite happy to extend Turiaf and Chandler. Bring Williams back if he's for real and focus on finding some pieces in the draft. Use the MLE maybe. Stay cap friendly for when deals come around.

Felton outplayed CP3 in NC for a national title. He outplayed him Friday night. We are looking better and better every day there. Lets see what we have (I dont know)

SupremeCommander wrote:

Bippity10 wrote:

NYKBocker wrote:I really want to stick with Timo. I think he will get better as the season progresses.

I'm with you. I think we need another big guy, but I'm okay with Mozgov getting these limited minutes.

I agree with this but when he excelled at the Worlds he was a backup. I think he'll be a valuable rotation player but not necessarily a starter. Maybe he's a 7' high energy backup center. which is awesome, because that just doesn't exist.

I really don't like big, lumbering centers who are a McDonald's binge away from eating themselves out of the league. The likes of Erick Dampier, Jerome James, etc., who overachieve for a big contract then disappear. They also tend to get injured quite often. And rarely, if ever, can they sustain the amount of minutes to play in a run-and-gun system like ours.

I'd rather look to sign Tyson Chandler in the summer, than the likes of Perkins. Marc Gasol, I really don't know his game well, but his numbers stand out.

martin wrote:

fishmike wrote:

martin wrote:

fishmike wrote:

BRIGGS wrote:

martin wrote:Sign him to a long term deal starting at $10M. Pushes Turiaf to bench.

By not going after Melo, allows Knicks to keep Turiaf, Chandler and maybe Azubuike. You platoon SF/PF as Gallo, Chandler, Williams, Amare.

Perhaps you dangle AR, etc for a backup PG.

Dig it.

Guy is always hurt--10mm long term is nuts!

??? up until his current injury he had like 4-5 years of being quite durable no?

I actually like this fit even better than Gasol. Perkins is a true dirty work banger. At 26 I would look at he and Mosgov as a nice rotation at center.

If we passed on Melo Perkins's more reasonable contract would let us resign Chandler

C Perkins/Mosgov
PF Amare
SF Gallo
SG Fields
PG Felton
bench: Chandler, Williams, Douglas, AR

Boy thats a big rugged tough team w/ nice balance of defense, size and scoring. I like it, and it lets us keep this core together which I think is very good. Amare/Felton/Gallo/Chandler/Fields... loving that group. Add shooting, size and depth and we are looking at an elite team IMO

don't forget Turiaf

I'm a little up in the air with him. He's got a PO for next year and its only about $4.5ish. Whats his value? Price? Contract status? Lot of question marks there.

I like him a lot (When he's on the floor) but there are a lot of question marks there. I think its likely he's a salary cap causualty and I'm looking to upgrade w/ Perkins and have AR step into a rotation role

fair enough, but know that you are losing a voice both on the court and in practice/locker room.

Not sure how much on an impact he has behind the scenes but my guess is it's a LOT. valuable intangible. Plus that beard is awesome.

We still got Herb Williams, don't we? Voices would seem to be overrated, over the long haul.

tj23 wrote:cmon 10 mill a year for a scrappy garbage player? Don't get me wrong I like Perkins. He's not a bad offensive player. Plays some real good defense. But his rebounding is a questionmark. Basically giving up 1/6 of the payroll for a defender when we have Turiaf for half the price. I can understand Marc Gasol. He's a more skilled offensive player who also gets rebounds. I dont know if he will help us more than Melo tough.

scrappy garbage player? I don't watch BOS much but I beg to differ.

Dude averages 7.5 rebounds in < 30 minutes of play next to Garnett. Blocks shots and plays some very ferocious D. That kind of plays allows Amare to concentrate on the O end of things and not worry about defense as much. Perfect compliment.

And having Perkins and Moz would be an awesome platoon at C.

Knicks offense is one of the best in the league right now. Their defense is like 18th. He adds to the Knicks' weakness more than Melo does.

fishmike wrote:

BRIGGS wrote:

martin wrote:Sign him to a long term deal starting at $10M. Pushes Turiaf to bench.

By not going after Melo, allows Knicks to keep Turiaf, Chandler and maybe Azubuike. You platoon SF/PF as Gallo, Chandler, Williams, Amare.

Perhaps you dangle AR, etc for a backup PG.

Dig it.

Guy is always hurt--10mm long term is nuts!

??? up until his current injury he had like 4-5 years of being quite durable no?

I actually like this fit even better than Gasol. Perkins is a true dirty work banger. At 26 I would look at he and Mosgov as a nice rotation at center.

If we passed on Melo Perkins's more reasonable contract would let us resign Chandler

C Perkins/Mosgov
PF Amare
SF Gallo
SG Fields
PG Felton
bench: Chandler, Williams, Douglas, AR

Boy thats a big rugged tough team w/ nice balance of defense, size and scoring. I like it, and it lets us keep this core together which I think is very good. Amare/Felton/Gallo/Chandler/Fields... loving that group. Add shooting, size and depth and we are looking at an elite team IMO

Papabear Says

Chandler will not stay here just to be coming off the bench.