yellowboy90: Maybe luke Ridnour. Who would you(anyone) take.

I guess I’d prefer Barea to Ridnour? Ridnour brings nothing to the table that Jason Kidd can’t already do. Barea is great at breaking down defenses and getting into the lane, which no PG on our roster besides Felton can do, and he can score or pass on the PnR. He’s a defensive liability, but so are all of our PGs already.

I’d consider Prigioni and Brewer/Copeland/White for Barea. Clears them some cap and we don’t lose anyone crucial. They probably want Novak though.

flossy: Maybe we’re trying to add JJ Barea in our ongoing quest to graft the 2011 Mavericks onto the mid-2000s Nuggets?

heh, this is a good one-liner. trade for Barea, pick up Kenyon Martin, and we’re two guys closer!! :)

flossy: Maybe we’re trying to add JJ Barea in our ongoing quest to graft the 2011 Mavericks onto the mid-2000s Nuggets?

Maybe luke Ridnour. Who would you(anyone) take.

flossy: Maybe we’re trying to add JJ Barea in our ongoing quest to graft the 2011 Mavericks onto the mid-2000s Nuggets?

What’s your trade suggestion?

That said Lee miss 1 game so far and Lin has miss zero games. Injuries one thing about this season that been hard for me to watch. Felton missed 14 games and Amare had missed 32. That got to be biggest plus that former Knicks player have over the current incumbents.

It would be so nice to have player rotation stability.

flossy: Maybe we’re trying to add JJ Barea in our ongoing quest to graft the 2011 Mavericks onto the mid-2000s Nuggets?

You probably nailed it, actually. Knicks went after Barea before last season and the Wolves have a logjam at PG now with Rubio back.

Frank:
lol never mind. Now twitter says this:

@DarrenWolfson: I’m sure Kahn is talking trade w/ lots of teams, but one for sure according to two league people: the #Knicks. Not sure of any particulars.

and goes on to talk about maybe Ronnie Brewer? can’t imagine why. Looking at the trade machine, they only thing that seems plausible would be to trade for a guy like Malcolm Lee, who looks just like a younger version of Brewer (can’t shoot, good D). And maybe Minny wants Brewer because of his veteran leadership? Adelman likes his off-ball movement? I have no idea.There are obviously guys that we would want on the T-Wolves like Shved, Stiemsma, Budinger, etc. but I can’t imagine that any of those guys are worth trading Shump for, and we don’t have much else to offer.

Maybe we’re trying to add JJ Barea in our ongoing quest to graft the 2011 Mavericks onto the mid-2000s Nuggets?

@DarrenWolfson: I’m sure Kahn is talking trade w/ lots of teams, but one for sure according to two league people: the #Knicks. Not sure of any particulars.

and goes on to talk about maybe Ronnie Brewer? can’t imagine why. Looking at the trade machine, they only thing that seems plausible would be to trade for a guy like Malcolm Lee, who looks just like a younger version of Brewer (can’t shoot, good D). And maybe Minny wants Brewer because of his veteran leadership? Adelman likes his off-ball movement? I have no idea. There are obviously guys that we would want on the T-Wolves like Shved, Stiemsma, Budinger, etc. but I can’t imagine that any of those guys are worth trading Shump for, and we don’t have much else to offer.

BigBlueAL: I dunno, I guess Im just someone who just blindly roots for my team (Yankees/Knicks) and whoever plays for them. Once a player leaves I no longer care how they do and certainly dont root for them to do too well and make the Knicks regret getting rid of them.

Yeah surprisingly I’ve sort of lost interest in Jeremy Lin – I do check his box scores every now and again but it’s really not the same now.
And I have to admit part of me was kinda rooting against him earlier in the year so that Grunwald et al were proven right. As it is, I think it’s been a win-win-win situation for the Knicks, Rockets, and Lin –

I basically haven’t thought about Lee and/or Gallo since they left. They only time they enter my thoughts is when we have slapfights over their greatness here.

Meanwhile, I’ve started trying to listen to podcasts from ESPN Radio on the way to work – and it’s amazing the straw men that the hosts are beating down re: the Shumpert trade. No one in the whole wide world thinks a Shump for Dudley trade is a good trade. Dudley might help this year slightly more than Shump will (until he really gets healthy), and certainly would be able to give us more meaningful minutes from a 2-way perspective than Novak/Brewer/Cope. The real question was always – what if they offer a lottery pick? That’s a much harder trade offer to turn down.

Anyway, sounds like Woodson batted down these trade rumors yesterday on Michael Kay – I think it’s likely we have the team we’re going to have going into April/May unless both Wallace and Camby suffer more setbacks.

nicos: I get the feeling that there are a fair number of people on the board who’d like the Knicks to win but would prefer that Amar’e (and certainly Melo) had nothing to do with it which I don’t get at all.

This is a great point. Obviously true, but rarely stated. ‘

I’ve loved Amar’e from the beginning (or even before–loved him when he was in Phoenix too), but I haaaaated Melo and hated the trade and missed Gallo and Chandler a lot. Last season did little to change my feelings as Melo showed up fat and got injured a lot and then blatantly phoned it in until he won his little war of attrition with D’Antoni.

But this season he has definitely won me over. I don’t honestly see how any Knicks fan could watch the games this season and not appreciate his (imperfect, but awesome) game and what he’s doing out there, not just for his own stat line but as the engine that makes this team run.

Slowly changing my mind about Melo has opened my mind up a bit and I honestly think it’s given me a more nuanced understanding of the game. But there are a lot of people here and elsewhere who are not open to having their minds changed and would rather be right and miserable than enjoy themselves if it means being wrong. It’s too bad, really.

Still miss Gallo though.