C – Lee
PF – Gallinari
SF – Chandler
SG – Crawford
PG – Anyone other than Marbury as long as he’s a pass first PG and plays good defense

Lee will have to really concentrate on the the boards, start the fast break, and finish.

Assuming Gallinari is not ready to start in the beginning of the year, then put Curry at Center and Lee at PF for awhile.

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I’d do backflips for either Hinrich or Gorden, with Gooden. Hopefully, this rumor is more than just speculation.

You meant as in “Big Gulp”, right? Eddy “Big Gulp” Curry . . . I kind of like that.

Either way, I agree with you at least with regard to being an offensive threat. In 2006, with Craw feeding him in the post, he was unstoppable.

Rose for Blount + Chalmers. It gets them 8 mil more under the cap next off season when they supposedly want to make a run at Boozer or Brand. In theory with the cap room they would have they could resign Marion and still be under enough to offer a max deal to someone.

I have always liked Chalmers because he is from Anchorage, I am too, and I like his game and now with this article I have stats to back up my interest. We could groom him behind Miller (if we can get him) or Marbury (if we cannot) and then give him the reigns next year.

As for the Philly trade we would take Evans if they forced us but they are actually well under the cap so they could trade Miller straight up for Randolph and Nate, which of course would be much better.

Even if they cannot get Calderon I doubt they think Miller is their future and with Louis Williams and Nate they might be okay at the position. Also I heard Washington does not want to offer Arenas a max deal so Philly could. That would at least on paper solve their PG problems.

Arenas/Calderon
Igoudala
Young
Zach
Dalembert

With Willaims or Nate, Green and Speights as backups.

That seems like a team that could win 50+ games, at least on paper and I do not think Philly has the greatest management.

Then I really hope that the sign and trade rumors are true and we target either JR Smith or Josh Childress for Crawford. Both are good for us (Smith is better) and Crawford should help Atlanta and Denver more than Smith or Childress because of his ability to handle PG duties.

LOL Z….I have to agree…frankly, I found myself rooting against the Knicks regularly because of Zeke and the freak show he created this year.

It was an odd year for me — always hated the Celtics and rooted for Knicks and Lakers against them since (yeah, I’m old) the late 60s……but don’t like Zeke or Kobe, and really do like KG’s work ethic, so found myself rooting for the Celts! The self-discovery was that individual character mattered more to me than the uniform…but it was awfully strange rooting for the Green in the Finals…

I think D’Antoni and Walsh are high character guys — at least I hope so — and can’t do anything about Dolan, the creep…so at least the creep brought in some guys we can root for…so, yes, they will be “respectable” in terms of their character, but the W/L record may leave alot to be desired next year.

PG: Marbury
SG: Crawford
SF: Chandler
PF: Lee
C: Curry
1st 3 off the bench are Randolph, N8, and Balkman, with Gallinari hopefully seeing about 10-12 minutes/game. I guess Q will probably see a few minutes too but I definitely don’t need to see JJ1 or JJ2 ever on the floor.

I think we’ll lose Curry completely if he doesn’t start, and I somehow just don’t see D’Antoni wanting both Lee and Balkman on the court at the same time.

And who knows, maybe D’Antoni can light a fire under Curry. His two other coaches have been Skiles who probably insulted him every other word, and Isiah, who was just an idiot. When Curry wants to play he can be a *gulp* force on both ends. Unfortunately that happens only about 30-40 seconds/game.

I don’t see why there’s any reason to believe even this as of now.”

Well, as far as I know Donnie Walsh hasn’t called any co-workers “black bitch” yet, so I’m optimistic…