crzymdups wrote:BRIGGS wrote:martin wrote:BRIGGS wrote:if we had OJ Mayo Jason Thompson and Luke Ridnour in the 8 man rotation replacing Douglas Turriaf and Shawne Williams? My bet its a different ball game.
true true. Knicks are close.
We need 1 more magical 6 months of trading and drafting from Donnie.
Just look at the Dallas's the Spurs--they just have more and a little more diversified size wise. We have some greta young pieces--the way to get this team better is to get another 3-4 really good players--maybe 2 scorers an additional defensive big and PG etc... a full 9 man set--where we can go 48 minutes hard--be able to match up 2 big when needed etc.. its simple its a great bunch of guys but we need more without subtracting.
hard to do the adding without subtracting part until the summer.
they can maybe add one piece during the year, maybe two, if they use AR and Kelenna's expiring.
but i think some of those other pieces will have to wait until they can use their MLE (or caproom) and draft picks this summer.
it's a building process. it took nowitzki's mavs three years to get to the playoffs, etc.
I agree with Briggs and everyone else, we need more pieces and I think we all knew that. The problem is exactly what you stated - it is VERY hard to get everything we need without subtracting some pieces.
Most likely it is going to cost us Gallo or Chandler and the problem there is we need those guys otherwise we will have a very poor second squad and the first squad will take a hit too. We probably need to get lucky and sign Melo as a FA. I don't think we need CP3 but if you can get him it certainly doesn't hurt.
We need a true second option and a big. Amare was getting triple teamed with no help out there. It was ridiculous and i expect to see the elite teams continue to triple him until the knicks can keep those defenses honest with a second option.
The Heat have hit their stride and we can't compete with them. Time to upgrade to the next level, unfortunately it won't be easy - but we have come this far.