i dont want amar'e to need to adjust to iggy's speed and blow his knees out by playoffs. every player needs to be on page amar'e (the way felton is). melo's tempo is a perfect fit for amar'e. if ny does not get melo by deadline, no iggy.

plus i do feel iggy does play like a point-forward; which may diminish felton's role when felton/amar'e/iggy are on the same court together. i dont want felton to feel he has to defer to iggy because ai makes nearly twice his yearly salary.

as for the pace at which he plays, if Iggy can't succeed in MDA's SSOL system, what system can he succeed in? this system is built on fast pace & uptempo... having a defensive guy like Iggy on the perimeter makes for more fastbreak opps for him & Felton together... Felton is money on the fastbreak too... Amare won't necessarily have to keep up with those guys when they're running for us to get easy baskets, & even if he does, he's still 1 of the best running bigmen in the NBA.

he's a top notch perimeter defender. he creates well off the dribble and can finish really well. on top of that he has good shot selection and won't try to force things. he's a bad 3pt shooter and even out to 20 ft so that's one of his weaknesses which don't really mesh too well.

basically he shoots about as well as carmelo but not able to score in the myriad of ways that melo does while being superior in every other facet of the game. if it came down to it iggy is about on par with melo as far as who would get more wins to this team.

BasketballJones wrote:I didn't know Iggy Pop played basketball.

TheGame wrote:

scoshin wrote:He's very underrated. But the problem is his contract imo.

$12M
$13M
$14M
$15M

That's a high price to pay imo. Especially when Fields could be Iggy-lite or even better in the future.

Exactly. What can Iggy do that the combination of Chandler and Fields cannot do and we can resign Chandler for about $7-$9 million per season.

(1) he's an elite defender and (2) he can run point forward. Maybe the two of them can develop those aspects to their game but neither are there yet.

Solace wrote:I kinda agree with cheers. I don't think Iggy does much to make the team better and he's probably going to be costly. I could see Iggy taking a lot of minutes from Fields and, frankly, I want Landry on the court as much as possible. As good as Amar'e and Felton have been, Fields is probably a close third in the running for team MVP. If we're not getting a star SF, it's best to focus on improving at the positions we need it: center, and backup PG.

i would only consider Iggy if we miss out on Melo... i don't consider him our #1 target at all, just a worthy plan B if it comes to it.

TMS wrote:

Solace wrote:I kinda agree with cheers. I don't think Iggy does much to make the team better and he's probably going to be costly. I could see Iggy taking a lot of minutes from Fields and, frankly, I want Landry on the court as much as possible. As good as Amar'e and Felton have been, Fields is probably a close third in the running for team MVP. If we're not getting a star SF, it's best to focus on improving at the positions we need it: center, and backup PG.

i would only consider Iggy if we miss out on Melo... i don't consider him our #1 target at all, just a worthy plan B if it comes to it.

Eh, if we strike out on Melo, I still think our best move is to use our cap space on a legit center. There are some good and affordable ones hitting the market this summer -- Gasol, Tyson, Dalembert...and they should come at a price range where we can still resign Chandler.

Once we get the C, I think then we should look to see if we can combine enough contracts/assets to pull off an Iggy trade. e.g. a resigned Chandler + Mozgov maybe?