Beavis: "Yeah, like once, I like, tried to polish a turd, you know, with some black shoe polish, but it's like, I just couldn't do it!!"

Butthead: "Huh huh...I told you, dude...I'll bet it was pretty cool to try, though"

Where amare is Ewing and Chandler and Gallo are Starks and mason.

We'll definitely sniff some magical years and if the ball bounces right win a title.

Starks tried valiantly to beat the rockets.
Camby tried his best against Duncan.

But alas, no stars (plural) no rings.

That team made me a fan, so I'd rather keep the farm and take my chances in free agency.

Just like Rasheed going to Detroit, if it is meant to be it's meant to me.

Would you have traded Starks and mason for pippen or for drexler?

In order to beat that, you would need your own version of 3 all stars. Right now, we only have 1.

2nd team in the league for next 5yrs will be Chic Bulls.

Nalod wrote:

TMS wrote:no big 3 on the Spurs? what are Parker & Manu, role players?

Parker was drafted and they developed him. Not trade him for Jason Kidd. Manu was euro player (from argentina) and came here at 26. Not trade his rights before he even played a game.

Spurs grew the rest of the team around duncan.

Melo is fine at the right price.

That is the whole point. Walsh has to play The Price is Right with Denver to get Melo at the right price. Like Briggs say, Knicks will be great with or without Melo. Put a little trust in the old man.

I'm with you on rolling the dice on signing melo as a free agent. That would make us scary. Gutting the team of our youth would make us slightly better than the Hawks. I say we don't make a move unless Denver gets a real offer from someone else. We can't be afraid of Melo playing out the season in Denver.

BRIGGS wrote:The Spurs are the blueprint. Deep team with mutli skilled two way players. very similar to what detroit had in its two runs. There is no big three there so to speak.

The Knicks have a nice deep young talent base. If we trade Randolph--we will have two first round picks plus a boatload of cap space. I think we can resign Chandler for something along the lines of an MLE. Gallo WC Chandler Douglas Mosgov will all get better next year and we should be a hard out in the playoffs this year. The net-net on the trade =0 we are better off staying as is. If Melo really wants to come here--FA is there.

My hope is DW has a secondary plan where maybe we bring in a Dalembart and Sessions at the deadline if this thing goes no where.

Spurs might be a good blueprint, but where is our Tim Duncan? We have no one who can even compare to him in his prime. If they win it this year that'll be a nice confirmation of the system working. Untill that happens (and I don't see it) they have only won with teams built around an all-world Tim Duncan.

BRIGGS wrote:

AmsterdamKnicksFan wrote:

BRIGGS wrote:The Spurs are the blueprint. Deep team with mutli skilled two way players. very similar to what detroit had in its two runs. There is no big three there so to speak.

The Knicks have a nice deep young talent base. If we trade Randolph--we will have two first round picks plus a boatload of cap space. I think we can resign Chandler for something along the lines of an MLE. Gallo WC Chandler Douglas Mosgov will all get better next year and we should be a hard out in the playoffs this year. The net-net on the trade =0 we are better off staying as is. If Melo really wants to come here--FA is there.

My hope is DW has a secondary plan where maybe we bring in a Dalembart and Sessions at the deadline if this thing goes no where.

Spurs might be a good blueprint, but where is our Tim Duncan? We have no one who can even compare to him in his prime. If they win it this year that'll be a nice confirmation of the system working. Untill that happens (and I don't see it) they have only won with teams built around an all-world Tim Duncan.

Tim Duncan is far from his prime. hes still very good but not the same 23-12-3 guy

Exactly. Which is why I would credit "the blueprint" if they win this year. If not, you still can't look at the blueprint as the prime reason for all those previous titles with a prolific Duncan on all those teams..