struggling to improve
We don’t have the talent level of the Los Angeles Lakers.
We have two guys in Wilson Chandler and Danilo Gallinari that are going to be better than most of the players on the Lakers (except for their all star) but we don’t have the depth that the champs have and that is why we lost the ball game. It was an exciting one to watch and we kept it close throughout. Moral victories do nothing for me these days though. 8 years under Layden and the other guy and I’m ready to start winning ball games, no excuses.
We need to upgrade our point guard position, obviously. Duhon is too inconsistent. He struggles at Madison Square Garden, the world’s most critical arena.
The trade deadline is next month. The free agency this summer is rich with two guard and small forwards. Maybe Walsh can swing a deal now to improve the team?
Upgrading at PG is going to be tough.
Notable 2010 unrestricted PGs:
Ray Felton, TJ Ford–not exactly champs
unrestricted in 2011:
Tony Parker
would you trade chandler to upgrade PG?
KD is that pic a hint as to who you would like running the show here?
Trading Chandler to upgrade the one is plausible but he’d have to be really good and reliable… as well as needing to diamond tough!!
Parker would be good. Felton seems like a short two. I don’t know what we can do, I hope Walsh figures it out.
Maybe Walsh thinks he can get LeBron to come and be New York’s point guard of the future…
Here is what Artest said about it recently according to K-berg:
http://ken-berger.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/11838893/19717327?source=rss_blogs_NBA
Walsh can’t go out and get a point guard. Unless it includes Jeffries of Curry and he gets back a contract that won’t impact getting two big free agents this summer. That has been the plan all along. We won a few random games in December and January. We can’t get excited about this team making the playoffs. That is not the goal Walsh created. He wants maximum cap space. With only 40 some games left in this season – I am on board with whatever Walsh wants to do.
I don’t want to start “winning games now” if it sacrifices winning championships in the future. Getting murdered by the Celtics or Cavs in the first round is not what I am interested in.
Walsh’s year will be close to a failure if he can’t unload Jeffries. Jeffries has been playing well and somebody in this league probably owes Walsh a favor. That needs to get done. As much as it is fun to watch Harrington make some big shots and help us win games – guys like that will not be on this team going forward. This team needs to hold on to Lee and Gallo and hope to get two big free agents and work with that going forward.
Very well said PC…
–Yet signing Lee AND getting two big names here will be close to impossible, especially if Lee somehow makes the all-star team (the numbers are there, obviously our wins are not).
Sessions looked servicable last night. Flynn seems kind of short, but then again we’ve got nate in our back court…
The game was intersting to watch from our section. The people in front of us were big Syracuse fans they cheered only for Jonny Flynn, it seemed very off-beat to see these people get rowdy over a player whose team was getting smashed.
I guess they thought they were true NY for cheering for Flynn but in Madison Square Garden, if you’re not cheering for the Knicks, you are my enemy for the evening.
You’re right about the Lee thing. It sux that he is having his monster breakout year this year. Signing him will be expensive – hopefully, he takes a paycut when he hears two beasts are coming to NY to help him win a championship. But this will be Lee’s one chance to get overpaid by this league that finds a way to overpay just about everyone at least once.
So you’re right. And it’s sad. Because even if we miss out on the wade lebron sweepstakes and we get Joe Johnson and Bosh, they would love to play with David Lee and his sweet friggin set “jumper”