regardless of it being L.A. / Hollywood, I just have this feeling that not one of the major FA’s is gonna consider the Clips; especially if we don’t sniff the playoffs and have Baron rolling an effective show before then.

Zach’s numbers will be most welcome. I haven’t watched much Knicks action over the years and don’t know much about him. But if he’s avg a dbl dbl, he can’t be mailing it in too badly.

there was a recent vidclip of Al T in the locker room talking about Chris like he was from another planet. no disrespect to CK, especially when he’s ‘on’, but I’d like to believe that G. Wallace would be a much better fit in the locker room with the others and can’t minimize the importance of that.

it’s be one thing if we were playing .500 ball and looking alive in the losses, but……

let’s do this.

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1. We replace 30 minutes a night of Tim Thomas/Brian Skinner/Novak/etc. with 30 minutes of Zach Randolph. Randolph is leading the Knicks in Roland Rating under Mike D’Antoni’s fast paced system:

http://www.82games.com/0809/0809NYK.HTM

Dunleavy is trying to implement a fast paced system here, Randolph fits in well with that.

2. We replace 30-35 minutes a night of Cat Mobley with 30-35 minutes a night of Eric Gordon. Gordon is a much better fit for a higher tempo system than Cat was. There will be some growing pains from time to time, but again, that is going to be an upgrade for us:

http://www.82games.com/0809/0809LAC.HTM

3. Yes, we lose cap space in 2010, but we just delay it by a year to 2011, where there are still plenty of good players available and probably a lot less competition for them. On top of that, there is no guarantee that we could’ve landed anyone significant in 2010 with so many other teams positioning for cap space that off-season (someone noted that there are 18 teams positioning for max contract cap space in 2010). We very likely could’ve walked away with nothing.

4. If we want to trade Kaman after Dec 15th, we now have much more flexibility to do so.

As long as Dunleavy gives Mobley’s minutes to Gordon and not to Ricky Davis, this is a good trade IMO.

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game over.

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