i dont care what anyone says about his skills, you CANNOT have a 4 who is a basic jump shooter. we need a post up 4 with more athletiscm-- Sweetney is to small to start. they wont trade him because he still gives them a certain confidence factor that they will be good enough to win the shtty east with him [which is no prize] we really cannot draw double teams down low at all. teams can double marbury and let the other guys beat them and the odds say with our shooting %s

i.e the other players other than Marbury and our lack of D will= loss

of course we will win some games because we have streak shooters and we do have some inside presence on the offensive side with nazr


can we get a pietrus and take a salary for KT? i dont know what to say


also, perhaps im flat out wrong about allan. Crawford is such an erratic player that he can create momentum changes both ways and when you are shooting under 40% its more momo for the other team!


maybe its in our bets interets to tell him to STOP firing from all angles and concnetrate on ball movement and easier % shots

for every 30 footer the guy hits he misses 2 of them. hes not awful and the % shooting is a bit skewed because he makes a lot of 3s which equate to more scoring but those misses start fast breaks. just cant keep taking all these jumpshots from every position except 1 jumpshooting teams dont win.....

Kurt's a great player to have coming off the bench for 25 mpg, but he's a well below average starting PF. Briggs, you don't really think Kurt is Isiah's starting PF for the future, do you? If you can trade him for a talented young player, you obviously do it. I haven't seen Pietrus enough to evaluate the proposal you made.

maybe its in our bets interets to tell him to STOP firing from all angles and concnetrate on ball movement and easier % shots

I'd be shocked if Isiah and Lenny haven't been telling him that

kurt's a good player next to tim duncan or shaq. I'm with you..kurt is the biggest reason for our mediocrity

I wouldn't want him as a reserve. it's not like he's bringing in defensive intensity or ahtletism off the bench. He's a good defender but not that special. He'd be great with shaq or duncan because they can play in the post and defend the post. Then KT can stand on the perimeter and take his jumpers which by the way usually don't go in except for maybe 2 or 3 times a year.

Whoa... hold up a minute. KT is playing fine this season--- he's been doing a good job for a couple of seasons now. He is what he is.

To say he's the reason for our mediocrity is nonsense. He's a solid component to any team. Whether he starts or not is irrelevant--- I can't think of a team in the NBA right where he wouldn't deserve good minutes.

We don't have a solid low post player--- that's not KT's fault. There are always going to be 4 other players on the court where you could get it. For example, Gary Payton, Sam Cassell, and Jason Kidd are all excellent post-up PGs. Bonzi Well can score on anyone down low... Carmelo can get points inside at the 3. I read that when John Starks was in the CBA, he used to post up guys before he became the conscienceless gunner in the NBA.

I'm all for trading anyone on the team if it makes us better. We have a couple of developing low post players in Tim Thomas and Sweetney... though clearly there are doubts that they'll ever become the players we want them to be.

Would adding someone like Gary Trent or Marcus Fizer give us what we need down low?

We need a post up player, period. none of this posting up PG's or SG's, we need a big man who can get the post, hold the post, draw double teams and score in the post with regularity, this is when you will see, marbs, Houston and craw at their best.. Eddy curry is one guy that comes to mind. We are a jump shooting team, that is not good, when that is your only weapon...

kurt is a great defender he gives you a double double almost every night and he is not the knicks biggest problem.
the biggest problems are:
1-bad team defence(maybe work hard on zone d)
2-lack of good shooters(craw is shooting under 40% ,houston will help)
3-getting to the line-(the knicks are not getting enough trips to the line)
4-post up player-(houston can post his man very good)

i think allan will help this team on problems no.2 and no.4 and the knicks will be able to will more games.

Posted by EnySpree:

Tim Thomas has been playing better, but you don't really notice it......He's a bum.

so freaking true, eny

A big for small???? come on. Kurt and another player for perhaps Chandler or a 7' that has some sort of defensive ability

Posted by raven:

Posted by BRIGGS:


can we get a pietrus and take a salary for KT? i dont know what to say

I saw this guy play a lot and trust me, I'd do that in a hearbeat.

He used to kill every single good offensive player in euroleague with his hound d. He could defend anybody from 1 to 4, cause them headaches.

I would love to have that guy here. what a defensive stopper he'll soon be.