Finestrg wrote:This is the stuff that just gets me nuts. Miami just signed 7 footer Justin Hamilton for about 100k for the rest of the year with an option for next year. See, that's just smart leadership right from the top. Hamilton's had a very good year in the DL -- almost a 20/10 season. He's not the most explosive or the quickest but what he does he does very well -- very good jump-shooter with legit 3-pt range, he'll run the floor, take up space inside, play reasonably good defense and rebound the ball. 7' 265....This guy will definitely be effective at the NBA level if given a chance... Picture a much better version of Michael Doleac with deeper range; maybe something close to more of a legit C version of Troy Murphy in his prime. Very nice move....

And then the Thunder just sign 6'6" SG/SF Reggie Williams to a deal. Monster scorer in college, proved he could play at the NBA level with GS a couple of years ago. Just reading somewhere where someone said they just effectively replaced James Harden with this move. To a degree that's true -- he's not Harden obviously but he has a very similar game. Lefty that can shooter and score the ball in a wide variety of ways..

Two great moves where the rich just got richer. And what do we do? Astonishingly enough, we manage to bring in a pretty good young talent/good fit with Earl Clark, a guy who looked real good in the big road win @ Boston, only to turn around and waive him 10 days later...and we keep Shannon Brown, a guy who's a terrible fit. Even if Phil did that to throw one of his former players a bone, OK np. But why waive Clark? So far we've done nothing to fill the open spot. If there was a plan to bring in a better option than Clark, OK let's see it...We're down K-mart probably for the remainder, Jeremy Tyler's looked pretty bad down the stretch here, Woodson just won't give Aldrich a legit shot, Amar'e's looked very good recently but as we all know, he can break down at any time, etc.. -- I mean Clark's a frontcourt player who can ball and could've helped here. WTF?

Hopefully this is a just a minor mistake to start off the Phil Jackson era. I remain hopeful. When this guy says things like "we're on a search for talent" and we need to go out there and "shake the trees" for some talent, that's music to my ears. Hopefully we really leave no stone unturned. There's a ton of guys out there that could help us...Just hate to see other teams out there make good moves to get themselves better and we do nothing.

Yeah, I still don't get the rationale of the move (waiving Earl Clark). It was incredibly dumb IMO. He could've fit/contributed in this system AND he could've been an excellent fit in the triangle.

As for Shannon Brown, I think he was brought in to add some depth at the 2 in order to move Shumpert this offseason. Brown's nothing special but I don't think he has been any worse than Shumpert has been this season (save for a little hotstreak he went on in either January or February).

On a side note, there is a lot of talent in the dleague. I am not sold on Tyler or Murry. Murry may not be 15th man material the way he has looked. It seems like the Knicks could bring someone in that could help and possibly be a part of the future. Gutierez (nets) and Curry (Cavs) would have been my choices.

Being a poor man's TD IS NOT GOOD.

gunsnewing wrote:Murray is TD without the 3

Being a poor man's TD IS NOT GOOD.

Being compared to Tony Douglas in any capacity is not good, lol.

I do agree the Knicks need to be better at finding talent but the bottom line is Clark is not some hidden gem.