Phil Jackson put a LOT on players who have been down in their careers injured. I think Rose will play good basketball--that was the only deal I was on board with. Noahs going downhill and hes just going to be injury prone and Jennings will be a nothing.

I think we have a great player in Porzingis a really good player in Carmelo and I happen to like Rose myself but hes not a Jason Kidd(meaning hes not a really good true PG and doesnt play tough D on the other end) It will be interesting to see if the cost was too high. So the Knicks will win games but we will be a prisoner to Noahs playing time and needed production.

i def remember you were high on seth curry and i thought of you when he was nailing those jumpers last nite

I like our team but I'm not sure I like building around KP with a lot of old folks.

That said, we have two PGs who can penetrate in a way we haven't had at the position in years. Also maybe Chasson Randle can do some things this year. He looked good in SL and hit a really deep three against the Rockets in the first pre-season game. If Rose has to miss some of the next few pre-season games with the trial, hopefully Randle will get a longer look.

fishmike wrote:would you take Curry over willy or Kuz? Those are the choices. Curry is a nice bench player. He didn't fit economically and I don't have a problem with that as that money went to the guys I mentioned. Just my 2c

Yeah it's always a game you can play if we could've got this guy or that guy! There's a lot that goes into building a team and financially you have tough choices to make.

I actually think Randle has a good shot to make the team. He's got some good talent as well. I'm fine with the status of our guards. We have to give it more than one preseason game for these guys to show what they can really do.

fishmike wrote:would you take Curry over willy or Kuz? Those are the choices. Curry is a nice bench player. He didn't fit economically and I don't have a problem with that as that money went to the guys I mentioned. Just my 2c

Right now, I am happy with Willy and/or Kuz. Actually his contract is equivalent to Kuz. Now if I had to pick between Seth and a combo of Lou and Sasha then I would like to have Seth.

jrodmc wrote:

NYKBocker wrote:

fishmike wrote:would you take Curry over willy or Kuz? Those are the choices. Curry is a nice bench player. He didn't fit economically and I don't have a problem with that as that money went to the guys I mentioned. Just my 2c

Right now, I am happy with Willy and/or Kuz. Actually his contract is equivalent to Kuz. Now if I had to pick between Seth and a combo of Lou and Sasha then I would like to have Seth.

Sasha is a Phil pick. Not that that makes it right, especially given the track record of Odom, Metta World Peace...

Was Seth even still available by the time we signed back Lou?

Seth was signed by Dallas 1 day after we signed Sasha back in mid July. Lou was a very late signing. Seth was available but I guess our scouts and upper management did not think he was a match for what our team needs.

crzymdups wrote:He looks really solid. I do wish we'd been able to take a flier on him. Defensively he has issues, but it'd be nice to have a knockdown shooter at the PG who could also make plays... who wasn't named Jose Calderon...

That said, we have two PGs who can penetrate in a way we haven't had at the position in years. Also maybe Chasson Randle can do some things this year. He looked good in SL and hit a really deep three against the Rockets in the first pre-season game. If Rose has to miss some of the next few pre-season games with the trial, hopefully Randle will get a longer look.

I wanna see more of Randle in these next few games. Agree Crzy -- silver lining to having Rose miss some time with the trial--we get to take a closer look at Randle (along with Jennings in a starting role). Randle looked OK the other night--made that deep 3 at the top, had the nice fake to free himself up for a jumper (that Harrell blocked), then I thought his play fell off a little after that (had that one really bad cross court turnover toward the end). he did look good in summer league too, however I'm not convinced on Randle just yet. Also wanna see who shakes loose from other teams before the season starts. I haven't looked around the league at every training camp roster but off the top of my head, I still really like Spencer Dinwiddie a lot (he may not make that Chicago team), etc..

Bonn1997 wrote:We're talking about 2 games and he's only making 30% of his 2 point shots. His defensive numbers are not good. His man shot 49.1% when guarded by him and 44.0% when guarded by other players last year. 2 yrs, 6 mil is a small contract and I would have been OK with that though.

Good points