Comments on: All Things Considered, I’d Rather Have the Green Hornet

By: Notta Fan

Notta Fan — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 21:42:59 +0000

Cato is too preoccupied with the $1.5 million he threw away trying to open a strip club in Tucker, GA. to be useful.

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By: jys22

jys22 — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 04:02:45 +0000

Kelvin is just another big, useless body to fill in the line-up. Anyway, Marcus Williams is making Isiah look like a fool more and more for passing him up. And Renaldo Balkman seems to play well only at Madison Square Garden. What a shame, so I guess Jared Jeffries will be sorely missed in a train-wreck waiting to happen.

By: Hudson River

Hudson River — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:51:12 +0000

I think we can sort of accept we can’t stop Tim Duncan, Yao Ming and Shaq. Actually history has shown duncan and KG actually dont play as well against shorter more athletic defenders. I agree hes useful, but we should make a trade (next years 2nd round pick?) for Paul Milsap and drop Jerome James.

By: mase

mase — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:56:02 +0000

If the guy can rebound, block a shot or play acceptable low post defense somewhat dependably then he was a good signing …The Knicks have a lot of mismatch players on the roster so it is up to the coach to make it work.

Which brings my other point, its mistake to make your coach a lame duck as Dolan has done. If he kept his mouth shut or fired Isiah then he would’ve restored order in the organization. Instead he made a bad situation worse by taking away Isiahs power which was the very thing he was hired for. The knicks need to have Isiah as GM or as coach or neither.

By: Jim K

Jim K — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:08:31 +0000

While the trad. center may be a dying thing, it’s only dying until the next 7-2 guy with talent shows up and dominates. I mean Cato is at best 12th man on roster, and he seems just fine for that role — there’s still Duncan, Ming, O’Neal and all sorts of seven-footers out there. If Cato can once in a while go out there and match up with these guys, he’s useful.

By: Hudson River

Hudson River — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 01:53:38 +0000

Although i agree he is definatly an upgrade over Jerome James, but Isiah could have made a better move. Kelvin Cato is better than Curry at rebounding and defense, and that should be commended, but he does not fit with the knick’s scheme. He runs the floor about as well as Eddy Curry last year. By that I mean when he runs he leaves footprints like a normal person would leave in the snow.

The Knicks are trying to run a more uptempo offense, and while rebounding and shot blocking are very useful for a fast break (A la ‘Zo on the hornets), but the knick should have picked up a lanky shotblocking, rebounder. The ideal player is second round pick, Paul Millsap, now on the Jazz. He could’ve been had for a second round pick next year. If they insisted on a veteran they could have gotten a player in that mold from europe, or the D-league.

The real center position is gone from the NBA, and the knicks would have been more sucsessful with a talented, shorter player. Instead of getting a better Jerome James, the knicks should have gotten a better big man

By: Ken Bannister

Ken Bannister — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:44:21 +0000

Not to keep pounding nails into the floor with my forehead, but the Cato signiing does reinforce how utterly ludicrous it was for Zeke not to RE-SIGN JACKIE BUTLER!! And yeah, he had the ducats ticketed for Jeffries but I’m sorry, a 21-year old Center with serious low post skills for 2.3 million/year is peanuts, considering the deals signed by the likes of Nene, Dalembert, Gadzuric, Wallace, Chandler, and our own beloved, Eddy Curry over the last two years. If Isiah had locked up Butler BEFORE he became a free agent (allowind him to throw the full mid-level at Jeffries), none of this would be an issue.

Ok, now I sound like the borderline-deranged drunken uncle at a family reunion, bellowing, “When I was a boy, we had to haul a block of ice for five miles in order to have a decent backup center! Harumph!!”

By: Seth

Seth — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:58:51 +0000

Without Jeffries, the Knicks backcourt is pretty mediocre at perimeter D, so having a potential shot-blocker in Cato is nice. Isiah is to be commended, for once, for filling a hole cheaply.

By: miik

miik — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:48:41 +0000

I think it’s a great move. Injuries aside, Cato’s declining stats are probably due more to Dwight Howard’s emergence and his not fitting into the Pistons’ shortened rotation. For the Knicks it’s a solid fit. I almost wish he’d start and play 20 minutes, and have Curry come off the bench for instant offense. Watching Curry this preseason, especially his D, is making me miserable.