TripleThreat wrote:BRIGGS wrote:We sign Bargs back for two years 12mm(1 guaranteed)WE DO NOT NEED TO SPEND BIG MONEY ON ANYONE and thats the way to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Andrea Bargnani is a power forward. In no way shape or form is Bargnani a center.
Carmelo Anthony, despite whatever some roster sheet says, is a POWER FORWARD. It's where he has the best chance to create mismatches that give him offensive opportunities in line with his skill set.
Carmelo Anthony is not even an average defender. He's a toxic mix defensively of Don't Care/Don't Try/Don't Understand/Don't Be In Shape when it comes to defense. He has no business at this point in his career trying to defend faster, younger, smaller wings.
Carmelo Anthony AVERAGES 36-37 minutes per game over his career.
If you put Bargnani on the floor with Melo, either Melo is the PF and Bargs is the center. Or Melo is the SF and Bargs is the PF. Either combination creates a defensive sieve. Even if the Knicks win the draft lottery and/or sign a free agent pivot who can defend the rim, the best way to mentally break said player, esp a rookie, is to ask him to anchor a frontcourt with two minus defenders. ( the "minus" part is actually probably a much softer word than what could be used)
Bargnani doesn't have a league average three point shot. He's not an even average player with his back the basket in the low post. He's not even willing to give six hard fouls ( the staple of any fringe big man in the league) Defensively he creates all kinds of problems with Melo and offensively he kills the spacing on the floor.
As a reserve PF, do you want to pay him 12 million over two years to play 12 minutes a game? Because the only way to prevent a turnstile defense with Bargs and Melo is to separate them into different units.
Briggs, if you repeat something other people have been saying all off season and all season long, while you were literally breaking the NBA Trade Machine trying to extort picks and/or framework how taking in other bad deals around the league was sensible, I guess you can say later that it was all your idea and you can take credit for it. It's a No Fail system you have my friend, why play a game of darts throwing one dart at a time when you can throw a thousand and only count the ones that hit the board?
Crazy idea, before the Knicks spend 12 million to retain one of the worst trade acquistions in the entire Knicks history, how about waiting to see how Free Agency plays out first, see what Tier 2 and Tier 3 big men might be available. I'm sure Bargs will still be around even then if the Knicks want to bite that kind of big bullet to resign him.
TT Are you even a Knick fan? Why are you here? I do not understand half of what you post, its non nonsensical jibberish that has nothing to do with the Knicks or the NBA. You are bellicose in almost every response to any poster--really a no no here on these boards. Of course Bargs can play the 5 spot--is he Bill Russell--no but if we had a frontcourt of Anjica Bargnani Admunson and Towns?Okafor--we'd be one of the hardest match ups in the league. Of course Anthony can play 3 thats his position for 95% of his career. Unless we moved down into the draft and took a Justice Winslow instead and moved him to 3 I dont see the strategy of keeping physical pressure on Carmelo by lining him up against 250 pound opponents.