I'm interested to see this offseason who we add instead of JR SMIFF (will he re-sign?), Sheed, Cope, KMart, Priggy?, Dirty Kurty, possibly Camby and Kidd depending on them retiring. And as said by others, we really do need a little speed/durability to our roster.

Also, Renaldo Balkman is still on our caphit this year at 1,6 mil.

skeng wrote:Well put, knixkik.

I'm interested to see this offseason who we add instead of JR SMIFF (will he re-sign?), Sheed, Cope, KMart, Priggy?, Dirty Kurty, possibly Camby and Kidd depending on them retiring. And as said by others, we really do need a little speed/durability to our roster.

Also, Renaldo Balkman is still on our caphit this year at 1,6 mil.

Ahhhhhhh... a nice comfortable thread with actual Knick fans. Nice work fellas.

Agreed, skeng, +1 to knixkik

IMO, Sheed, KMart, KrazyEyes, Camby and Kidd are most likely toast, although Kidd might try another season here, mostly for the quality of the club chicks and booze. Prigs has already been reported as being not overly in love with the NBA. We will most likely have a lot of roster spots available at the end of this season.

We need to treat this years pick like it's gold. It's not a deep draft but there will be some players. We need to draft a PG or a shooter.

I think that if history has proven anything, it's that any contract is moveable. Even Kidd's, Camby's or anyone else's in conjunction with other pieces. I'd be surprised if either of those 2 make it to the end of their contract here.

The biggest need we have is a consistent shooter at the 2 or 3. As it stands now we're a contender in the East. We just need a bit more I think, although I'm not writing off a good run at it this year.

MSG3 wrote:I think the only valuable piece we have in trade options, besides expirings, are Shumpert and Felton (like him or not, he's making less money than he's worth). Then you have guys like STAT who could become tradeable if he doesn't get hurt this year and continues playing well. In addition, we have our first round pick and 3M a year in cash we could throw into deals. Finally, if JR signs an extension at the 5/6M range we'll be able to keep him for without hurting our cap, he becomes a tradeable asset as well.

We need to treat this years pick like it's gold. It's not a deep draft but there will be some players. We need to draft a PG or a shooter.

I think that if history has proven anything, it's that any contract is moveable. Even Kidd's, Camby's or anyone else's in conjunction with other pieces. I'd be surprised if either of those 2 make it to the end of their contract here.

The biggest need we have is a consistent shooter at the 2 or 3. As it stands now we're a contender in the East. We just need a bit more I think, although I'm not writing off a good run at it this year.

I don't think there are any consistent shooters in this league....it's the system that makes them consistent.

Put Novak on another team, and he might break all NBA 3pt records....Similar to what he was doing when Dantoni and Lin was here.

It's hard for a shorter to find a rhythm when you have Melo, Smith and company playing iso (black hole) basketball.

During the beginning of the season, we were the best shooting team in the NBA. We were also the best passing team. Now we are terrible at both. The personal is the same, so what changed you ask? The only thing that changed was Melo going back to his iso days. Which forced the other stars to do the same, and share the ball less. Which resulted in a lower team shooting efficiency, and more turnovers.

It's hard to change a culture in one year.....Hopefully we are slowly changing back to winning basketball.....We'll see tonight.

NYKBocker wrote:

jrodmc wrote:

skeng wrote:Well put, knixkik.

I'm interested to see this offseason who we add instead of JR SMIFF (will he re-sign?), Sheed, Cope, KMart, Priggy?, Dirty Kurty, possibly Camby and Kidd depending on them retiring. And as said by others, we really do need a little speed/durability to our roster.

Also, Renaldo Balkman is still on our caphit this year at 1,6 mil.

Ahhhhhhh... a nice comfortable thread with actual Knick fans. Nice work fellas.

Agreed, skeng, +1 to knixkik

IMO, Sheed, KMart, KrazyEyes, Camby and Kidd are most likely toast, although Kidd might try another season here, mostly for the quality of the club chicks and booze. Prigs has already been reported as being not overly in love with the NBA. We will most likely have a lot of roster spots available at the end of this season.

Camby has 2 more years after this season. Kidd has 2 more years after this season. They are not going anywhere.

Camby has 1 more season guaranteed, he's essentially an expiring contract. We can add J O'Neal, Mozgov, or maybe other underutilized big men that should be available as well for minimum or close to it. We can replace Prig with a young PG via our first rounder. Add a quality big like Blair via mmle. Plenty of options and directions to go.

fishmike wrote:Melo said no trades and this is the best team he's played on. Let's see what that translates too come spring

Melo was clearly feeling euphoric at the time of that statement. The Nuggs team that went to the western conference finals was better than this team.

frankly, we already had a team of similar level when Amar'e and Felton and Gallinari were dropping buckets for us, I don't see much improvement

Knixkik wrote:

IronWillGiroud wrote:It's a decent team but it's nothing like you would expect it to be with a world beating superstar like Melo,

frankly, we already had a team of similar level when Amar'e and Felton and Gallinari were dropping buckets for us, I don't see much improvement

Team of a similar level? That team was a .500 team prior to the trade. Were we 2nd in the EC? Of course not. Melo is the difference in that. He makes us a 50 win team and management must work to build this team into a contender with him.

that's all assuming we will win 50 games this year, which will be very difficult, I outlined this in the "playoff picture..." thread,

50 wins I would be very happy and impressed