Posted by TMS:

the only realistic options i see for the Knicks as far as getting a starting calibre SG to put in front of Crawford based on the trade assets they currently have are Jalen Rose & Jerry Stackhouse...maybe Cuttino Mobley, but i don't want to use the MLE on a SG when our needs in the frontcourt are so much more pronounced at this point.

Finley too. You could try to trade Kurt for any of those players. You may have to add a player (JYD, Mo, or Malik) to make the salaries match. Then you still have the draft picks and expiring contracts to improve elsewhere

[Edited by - Bonn1997 on 05/01/2005 16:43:20]

Trade bait. Just kidding...

Posted by TMS:

looks like Bonzi Wells will be another trade candidate this offseason judging from his no show in the playoff game tonight...he's the last guy i'd want at this point...how any player could think of himself before the team when they're in a playoffs series just tells me volumes about that guy...keep him out of NY, please.
[Edited by - TMS on 05/01/2005 20:15:02]

What incident are you alluding to?

Posted by Killa4luv:

Posted by TMS:

looks like Bonzi Wells will be another trade candidate this offseason judging from his no show in the playoff game tonight...he's the last guy i'd want at this point...how any player could think of himself before the team when they're in a playoffs series just tells me volumes about that guy...keep him out of NY, please.
[Edited by - TMS on 05/01/2005 20:15:02]

What incident are you alluding to?

Tonight's game - kind of weird, huh:

http://cbs.sportsline.com/nba/gamecenter/recap/NBA_20050501_PHO@MEM

Memphis coach Mike Fratello tried to jumpstart his Grizzlies by telling the disruptive Bonzi Wells that he wouldn't be playing and not to bother sitting on the bench. Williams, perhaps in silent protest, wore a blue sweatband around his left biceps with Wells' No. 6 on it.

Fratello thought it worked.

"I thought I saw a genuine -- for the first time in a long time -- a genuine pull for each other. If you're going to go out, you want to go out swinging, and I thought the guys did that," Fratello said.

and the plan was to start him as a 6th man and slowly groom him as a starting combo guard...am I the only one that has a memory that last before the last loss?

It's truly amazing sometimes how we forget all the work and press conferences from the summer that had crawford coming off the bench to back up both marbs and houston until houston's contract expired and he would be the starting SG with starting SG money.

I see some of the posts are in the thousands, so I am sure some of you remember it, but just in case you forget, I'm sure someone can dig up an old press conference link...
http://www.nba.com/knicks/news/crawfordwilliams_040806.html

Going into the season...that was the plan...Houston turned out to play on 20 games, thus hurrying Crawford into a starting role playing out of position as a SG that stands on the perimeter.

Couple that with Tiny Tim's Funk and was there any wonder why January sucked?

If we are able to replace Houston with a starting Guard worthy of the MLE that can defend on the perimeter and get a shot blocking center...we are suddenly the 5th best team in the east OVER NIGHT!

Yep, everyone has injuries, but we lost arguably one of our best players to injury and the other to mental defect.

Come to think of it...We could have used shandon.

The more I think about it...Shandon and Mourning would make the 4 seed in the east (3 seed because we win the division)