Knicks · JR Smith might be available (page 3)

What are you getting from him that this team NEEDs that you aren't from Landry Fields at a cheaper price? We don't need another slasher and Fields is a better shooter and gets boards which this team sorely lacks. If you want to ink him to a 1 year MLE, fine but no more than that. I doubt he accepts that. But we don't want to be locked in for multiple years hampering our ability to upgrade our positions of weakness. Chances are he'd be sulking that he wasn't getting touches and creating trouble for the team anyway.

AnubisADL wrote:2011 & 2012 Free Agents: http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story...

Please show me the great C, SG, and PG prospects that we can get with the MLE.

We probably would have to sign & trade for JR Smith because he is worth at least 7 million per in the open market.

nykshaknbake wrote:What are you getting from him that this team NEEDs that you aren't from Landry Fields at a cheaper price? We don't need another slasher and Fields is a better shooter and gets boards which this team sorely lacks. If you want to ink him to a 1 year MLE, fine but no more than that. I doubt he accepts that. But we don't want to be locked in for multiple years hampering our ability to upgrade our positions of weakness. Chances are he'd be sulking that he wasn't getting touches and creating trouble for the team anyway.

AnubisADL wrote:2011 & 2012 Free Agents: http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story...

Please show me the great C, SG, and PG prospects that we can get with the MLE.

We probably would have to sign & trade for JR Smith because he is worth at least 7 million per in the open market.

I would use JR Smith like Jason Terry and Jamal Crawford are used. He would come off the bench and finish games. Our bench scoring is trash.

I think Fields is more valuable to us in a trade to get a starting caliber C and/or PG.

Rather get this guy......

AnubisADL wrote:

nykshaknbake wrote:What are you getting from him that this team NEEDs that you aren't from Landry Fields at a cheaper price? We don't need another slasher and Fields is a better shooter and gets boards which this team sorely lacks. If you want to ink him to a 1 year MLE, fine but no more than that. I doubt he accepts that. But we don't want to be locked in for multiple years hampering our ability to upgrade our positions of weakness. Chances are he'd be sulking that he wasn't getting touches and creating trouble for the team anyway.

AnubisADL wrote:2011 & 2012 Free Agents: http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story...

Please show me the great C, SG, and PG prospects that we can get with the MLE.

We probably would have to sign & trade for JR Smith because he is worth at least 7 million per in the open market.

I would use JR Smith like Jason Terry and Jamal Crawford are used. He would come off the bench and finish games. Our bench scoring is trash.

I think Fields is more valuable to us in a trade to get a starting caliber C and/or PG.

Stop posting...please...fields younger, higher shooting percentages, cheaper, rebounds...please stop.

Carlos aroyo, nene kristic, jeff foster, Tyson Chandler, Carl Landry, Jason Richardson

All great unrestricted options. Better than JR.

baby, I agree our biggest needs are PG and C, but the close third is SG. While I love Fields and still hope he develops into a solid starting SG, the truth is that since the trade, he has been exposed as a guard that can't get his shot off unless the PG finds him at the right spots and even then he isn't consistent. The mystery of why Fields has been such a liability since the trade is big, but has made us realize that unless he can get his act together and show improvement next season, he is better suited in the bench.

And at that point, you need to realize you need a starting SG for the Knicks.

Now, this by no means is me wanting JR. There are better and cost-effective alternatives out there.

If theres one nugget i want, its gotta be afflalo. I love the kids heart and work ethic

Anubis ADL, I owe you an apology. I still think you're absolutely batsh*t crazy for thinking it was a good idea to sign trade for Brandon Roy but you were the driver of this bandwagon.

Wow!

Still not a fan of his.

Allanfan20 wrote:Still not a fan of his.

haha. trust me i can def. understand why. i suppose there's still time for JR Smith to piss away a game taking a horrible shot at a pivotal moment or getting T-d up or starting a crazy brawl that gets our best players suspended.

it would be a cool (albeit expensive and timeconsuming feature) if we could somehow like..click on a posters name and see a profile of their opinions on various players in the league or various trades.

there is a website called tick tocker that allows you to set reminders on the web for certain events. we should start using it to do things like:

- Set an alarm 3 years from now on whether Gallo developed into an all star or he really was just a figment of our imaginations like posters X Y and Z said. he was having one hell of a season before he got injured.

Allanfan20 wrote:Still not a fan of his.

He's playing better than I expected but he is a player who could be so much more effective with some very simple changes in shot selection. If he doesn't make those changes though he's going to be a super-talented player who shoots around 40% for his career.

he's come in with the right attitude and has been a tremendous addition. sometimes all anyone needs is a change of scenary

Will the opportunities to chow JR crow never end?

Why weren't there any "gee, all you league backing guys who said they're be no way in hell a player's league would ever happen were right!" threads?

JR to me, seems to play with the biggest balls out there. Does not look scared.

too bad he prob won't be on the team next year...

SupremeCommander wrote:he's come in with the right attitude and has been a tremendous addition. sometimes all anyone needs is a change of scenary

Hold on you are using logic. The self-righteous haters use something other than logic to come to their conclusions!

He looked like crap yesterday. Dude was crap.

Im rooting for better games from him.

Nalod wrote:He looked like crap yesterday. Dude was crap.

Im rooting for better games from him.

At least yesterday didn't add any cred to the -Fields = +JR arguments.

Did it?

The more I see shump the more we don't "NEED" JR. Shump comes up big on defense in crunch time.

IM not seeing anyting from JR after just a few games. There were things yesterday I saw I did not like from JR. On one sequence he went 1 on 4 and quickly got yanked.

Im not ready to start suggesting "Trades" quite yet! Thats a joke BTW.

JR is still needed in the 2nd unit. If MDA finally makes the switch to Shumpert (which he should do), then you need someone besides Baron that can create his own shot. Landry sure as hell can't...