Comments on: 2010 Summer Interview: Toney Douglas

By: nicos

nicos — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 05:37:43 +0000

Nice interview Mike. I’d actually consider starting Douglas at the two- TD’s playmaking, while subpar for a point, would really help what looks to be a pretty bad passing team (Gallo, Stat, Chandler, Azu, Randolph, and Walker all put up pretty unimpressive passing numbers). Add to that the fact that Chandler, Walker, and Azu (who played as much 3 as 2 at GS and won’t be helped by the knee injury) have been more effective guarding the three and Toney looks like a pretty viable option. On the down side, all three of the other guys are probably better finishers when running the wing on the break (something I’m sure D’Antoni wants to do a lot more of). Worse, if D’Antoni wants to run the same defense where every screen is switched on the perimeter, Toney would wind up having to guard plenty of 3′s as well which would be a real struggle. That said, I think a 1,2,3 of Felton, Douglas, and Gallo (or Randolph) would be the most effective starting three in terms of keeping the ball in front of them that we’ve seen in almost a decade. And I think he’d wind up being as efficient a scorer as any other option we have. I guess the bottom line is that I’d rather see Douglas logging 30+ minutes a night than Chandler, Azu, Walker, or Mason so if that means playing him heavy minutes at the 2 then so be it.

By: DS

DS — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:44:29 +0000

@22 & 23 – I have to say if Walsh indeed has turned down Randolph & Gallo for ‘Melo I’m impressed w/ Donnie’s restraint. It seems like many NBA GMs would mortgage two prospects of their caliber to lock up a guy who averaged 28 ppg. With a starting lineup of Felton, Azubuike, Carmelo, Amar’e and Turiaf w/ Chandler, Douglas, Mosgov, and Chandler coming off the bench, he wouldn’t receive any blowback (outside of the readers of this website). ESPN might call him a genius.

Granted, if ‘Melo only wants to play for the Knicks and everyone in the league knows it, the obvious move is to just wait it out until 7/1/2011.

By: d-mar

d-mar — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:13:03 +0000

Tastycakes – I like the position the Knicks are in with regard to Melo right now. We just saw a deal with the Nets disintegrate that probably is the best one talent-wise the Nuggets will see, and the reason was likely because Melo wouldn’t sign an extension with NJ. So the Knicks can sit back and wait for Denver to come to them or best case, wait until 2011-2012, I don’t think there should be any urgency on the Knicks part to get a deal done, particularly if it involves both AR and Gallo. And the writers can calm down now, after making the idiotic case that Melo to the Nets would be a complete and utter disaster for the Knick franchise.

By: tastycakes

tastycakes — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 23:50:36 +0000

I’m sure everybody is sick of the Melo talk, but whatever. Saw this yesterday. According to ESPN:

“The New York Knicks, who are Anthony’s team of choice, have continued to pursue Anthony, but Denver has generally been cold to conversations with the Knicks. Sources told Broussard that the Nuggets are not only lukewarm on the players available from the Knicks but also believe that New York might have done some back-channel recruiting of Anthony over the summer.”

I call BALONEY. Seriously, the Nugs are going to not make a trade with a team because that team *hurt their feelings*? Hahaha. Funny stuff.

I get it: the Knicks don’t want to give up AR + Gallo, the Nugs want at least that, ain’t no deal happening anytime soon.

/beating dead horse

By: BigBlueAL

BigBlueAL — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 23:15:28 +0000

Watched on NBATV Knicks training camp today. One thing that stood out to me was Felton and Mason I dont think missed a jumper all night.

By: Z-man

Z-man — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 23:03:58 +0000

THCJ, BTW, Love has a sore knee.

By: GAx

GAx — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:59:46 +0000

You misspelled ‘Ricky Rubio’. Common mistake.

By: The Honorable Cock Jowles

The Honorable Cock Jowles — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:14:21 +0000

I wonder what it would take to get Kevin Love…

By: DS

DS — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:39:49 +0000

What’s wrong w/ Randolph being the primary 5?

By: ess-dog

ess-dog — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:32:58 +0000

Well ok then. I do have a slight fear, now that D’Antoni has weapons, that he’ll tinker too much with lineups… he does have the tendency to do that.