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Risk and Reward

 

It would be very easy to be a GM having all the money in the world and with the great players wanting to play on your team. But usually the reality is just the opposite. So you have 2 options: be quiet or risk.

 

Let's play to be a GM. I would make a risky change: JRich x Eddy Curry. I must say that I looked at the ESPN trade machine and the trade doesn’t work, but only for  100.000 $, so I guess that this problem could be solved.

 

Arguments in favour of the trade:

 

- We have good scorers in the roster and SG & SF position are well covered.

 

- We need big players.

 

- This trade involves changes in the starting lineup; Hill can play at SG and Dudley at SF, keeping LB as 6th man. This team: Nash-Hill-Dudley-Amare-Frye is better defensively and keep scoring capacity.

- Coming off the bench: PG: Dragic-Barbosa SG: Barbosa-Tucker SF: Clark PF: Lou-Curry  C: López

 

- It seems that this season Curry is better physically. He has always been a good scorer in the low post. With the duo López-Curry we can emulate the duo Chander-Curry. One is the rebounder and the other the scorer.

 

- Looking at the financial aspect of the operation, you can save 2,8 m$ in salary and other 2,8 m$ in luxury tax the 1st. year and 3 m$ in salary and other 3 m$ in luxury tax the 2nd. year.

 

To end: I know JRich is an asset for the team and Curry is an ( ? ). But, do we have anything to lose? I think not because we aren’t a championship contender team, simply we are a team that can make a good season.

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Won't happen

Knicks are looking to save money.
They won’t take JRich back simply because they won’t want his salary. They want to shed as much money as possible for free agency next year. They have made that clear and are sticking to it. That is why Nate Robinson and David Lee only got 1 year qualifying deals.

Now if you had a big expiring or non guaranteed contract and some dirt, Knicks would give you Curry

by RGreyslak on Sep 30, 2009 11:20 AM MDT reply actions  

Take JRich back?

They never had him. You’re thinking of Q.

April 29, 2008 Total Eclipse of the Sun. Is the sky falling?

by Hawk42 on Sep 30, 2009 3:01 PM MDT up reply actions  

Even if Curry isn’t a slacker anymore, we need another defender, not another scorer (Lopez or not).

by Species8472 on Sep 30, 2009 12:02 PM MDT reply actions  

Curry is a black hole

the ball’s never coming back. No real defense, and 6 boards a game for a 6’11", 300 pounder is just not right.

April 29, 2008 Total Eclipse of the Sun. Is the sky falling?

by Hawk42 on Sep 30, 2009 3:00 PM MDT reply actions  

+1

Curry’s a toned down Zach Randolph… and anything remotely related to Zach Randolph can’t be good.

Plus, we already have our scoring C in Amare. I bet he doesn’t like the idea of a buffet table clogging the lane.

And as RGreyslak mentioned, NY aren’t taking on $. And they have their own 5’7" JRich already.

Although the idea of flipping JRich for a big is good, I think this is a trade that neither team would be willing to do.

by gadogry on Sep 30, 2009 4:54 PM MDT up reply actions   1 recs

forthed

I’m all-in on the dump Jrich bandwagon. But not for Curry.

by eagleheart on Sep 30, 2009 11:36 PM MDT reply actions  

By the way

Very coincidentally, I made the following comment on watdogg’s most recent comic strip:

http://www.brightsideofthesun.com/2009/9/28/1058592/the-unofficially-official-phoenix#21961921

But I said that before matrix7 posted this. Just want to clarify that I didn’t make that comment to mock you or something.

by gadogry on Oct 1, 2009 4:58 AM MDT reply actions  

Don’t worry, I don’t take bad, I still think Curry can be a good player if 2 factors converge: to be in good shape and to be in the right team.

by matrix7 on Oct 1, 2009 6:59 AM MDT reply actions  

Does anyone mind a question about another center who used to be Curry’s teammate? Will Jerome James ever become a usable player again? I swear, Hollinger had the best basketball putdown I’ve ever read for Jerome James when he was with the Knicks: that they should eat his contract, but he might have done it already.

by Species8472 on Oct 1, 2009 12:22 PM MDT reply actions  

Jerome James has never been a good player because he never had the attitude to play. Throughout his career has only played well in 04/05 PO

by matrix7 on Oct 1, 2009 1:01 PM MDT reply actions   1 recs

Old School James

James did make a difference on the court when he was in his last year in Seattle. He had a “presence” you could tell when he was out there he had confidence and he had an impact.

Seeing him in New York… Not so much, pretty much invisible out there as regards to affecting the game.

by eagleheart on Oct 2, 2009 12:13 AM MDT reply actions   1 recs

He was playing for a contract.

April 29, 2008 Total Eclipse of the Sun. Is the sky falling?

by Hawk42 on Oct 2, 2009 9:41 AM MDT up reply actions  

Yeah

I was just sayin he was effective for one post season. He could be a decent 3rd (2nd?) center to take up space on the bench. If they can sign him for peanuts, I’d rather have him then Blake Griffin’s baby brother. That way we can get him in the game if we need someone to get in Shaq’s way or foul out or something. Whatever I guess.

by eagleheart on Oct 5, 2009 3:15 AM MDT reply actions  

Poor Taylor Griffin.

by species8473 on Oct 5, 2009 10:43 AM MDT up reply actions  

he doesn’t even realize that Taylor’s Blake’s older brother… haha

by SunsFTW on Oct 5, 2009 11:52 AM MDT up reply actions  

Oops. I knew it, but didn’t think of it. Well, Taylor Griffin should perhaps wish some other team had drafted him. Someone who has room for him, because the Suns sure don’t.

by species8473 on Oct 5, 2009 12:27 PM MDT up reply actions  

now they do

April 29, 2008 Total Eclipse of the Sun. Is the sky falling?

by Hawk42 on Oct 5, 2009 3:00 PM MDT up reply actions  

Not really...

…because Griffin’s not even big enough to pretend to be a center, is he? Unless the Suns either play small lineups all the time, or say to hell with the center position and sign no replacement center.

by species8473 on Oct 5, 2009 3:13 PM MDT reply actions  

play STAT at 5 and Griff

at the 3. Clark plays the 4. No big deal.

April 29, 2008 Total Eclipse of the Sun. Is the sky falling?

by Hawk42 on Oct 5, 2009 4:41 PM MDT up reply actions  

What about Grant Hill and Channing Frye?

by species8473 on Oct 5, 2009 4:54 PM MDT reply actions  

Forgot about those guys

play Hill at the 2 guard. Frye? Let him play point.

April 29, 2008 Total Eclipse of the Sun. Is the sky falling?

by Hawk42 on Oct 6, 2009 11:17 AM MDT up reply actions  

Well, if position doesn’t matter, why don’t you just say so? I’m not the most knowledgeable basketball follower—it took me years to understand what a pick-and-roll was and to understand that a screen-and-roll is the same thing.

by species8473 on Oct 6, 2009 12:33 PM MDT up reply actions  

You're right

Hill would be a nice point guard. Play Frye at the two.

April 29, 2008 Total Eclipse of the Sun. Is the sky falling?

by Hawk42 on Oct 6, 2009 4:54 PM MDT up reply actions  

I like the lineup as is

Nash
JRich
Hill
Amare
Frye

Off the bench, I can see Lou playing a bit at the 4 & 5, Amare playing a bit of 5 as well. I can see Clark playing the 3 and 4, and for pre-season purposes, I see TGriff playing the 3 and that’s it. He’s too slow for the 2 and too small for the 4.

by SunsFTW on Oct 6, 2009 2:41 PM MDT up reply actions  

one more note, I see Frye playing at the 4 as well

by SunsFTW on Oct 6, 2009 2:42 PM MDT up reply actions  

+1000

April 29, 2008 Total Eclipse of the Sun. Is the sky falling?

by Hawk42 on Oct 6, 2009 4:55 PM MDT up reply actions  

Eddy Curry’s head reminds me of a peanut. No, a squash.

by species8473 on Oct 6, 2009 5:37 PM MDT up reply actions  

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