Doug:
Yes Bob, you’re a regular Cassandra around these parts.

i prefer to be a regular salome and i want the head of td, not john the baptist, damn it! :-)

bobneptune: if we were writing for the ny times “nuthugger” would be disrespectful. it is no different than “fanboi”, merely stating you think the other guy’s opinion is clouded with something other than objectivity. no disrespect meant.

as to following the media party line, readers of this blog will note i was pilloried widely for suggesting the knicks try for barera to start at point BEFORE the season began (we drafted toney, he’s ‘our guy’ and we should let him somehow ‘find himself’… blah, blah… blah) because td’s shortcomings as a starting pg were obvious to all that weren’t wearing orange and blue colored glasses.

he’ll probably put up 28 tonight just to spite me…….

Thanks for the explanation. No disrespect taken

I was thinking of that thread before. I don’t think I posted anything on it but I read it with interest. I think, the consensus from the worthy people on this site was, if you could sign either of them outright, which it turned out we couldn’t, fine, but few wanted to give up Douglas in an S&T for either of them, citing his defense and his upside.

I think, on this site, there’s very little blind enthusiasm for the home team. I mean, from the way people talk about Melo you might think he plays for the Celtics. My take on the Douglas / Fields backcourt was that this is what we have and until someone beats them out, this is the best we have. Starks defeated all comers, kept his starting job for a long time, and played on some good teams. I thought maybe these guys might have similar careers. Who knows maybe Toney goes 3-18 tonight just despite me (and gets replaced by Jeremy Lin!)

danvt: It’s the nut hugger comment that was disrespectful, nothing I said.

I don’t think I ever made TD out to be more than he is, but, I think he’s better than he’s shown and he’s just one player on a team.I think, we will succeed or fail based on many factors.Right now, I admit, I’d like to see TD play really well so that the media party line of “The K’s have no point guard” and the blogosphere panic “TD doesn’t possess a single quintessential pg skill” dies down.

if we were writing for the ny times “nuthugger” would be disrespectful. it is no different than “fanboi”, merely stating you think the other guy’s opinion is clouded with something other than objectivity. no disrespect meant.

as to following the media party line, readers of this blog will note i was pilloried widely for suggesting the knicks try for barera to start at point BEFORE the season began (we drafted toney, he’s ‘our guy’ and we should let him somehow ‘find himself’… blah, blah… blah) because td’s shortcomings as a starting pg were obvious to all that weren’t wearing orange and blue colored glasses.

he’ll probably put up 28 tonight just to spite me…….

jon abbey:
people know that no one is taking Melo or Amare for any of the top PGs, right? why are we still talking about that?

Because we’re Knicks fans and we hold a grudge/cling to hope like few others do

jon abbey:
people know that no one is taking Melo or Amare for any of the top PGs, right? why are we still talking about that?

Well like I said, I’m dreaming. I’ll include Fields in that dream trade so we can both be happy with it.