Is Hasheem Thabeet worth chasing?

our two best players are at a risk of being lost this summer. the only guy i feel is worth hanging on to, besides lee and robinson, is gallinari. everyone else is suspect. thabeet has potential, and i bet he does better in the league than the average stiff. i’d love to have him. i wouldn’t mind having a terrific point guard such as rubio or jennings.

it’s a tough call. we really need a whole lot of help. i’d invest in thabeet.

Athletic big men without basketball skills are the fool’s gold of the draft.

This isn’t track and field. It actually matters what someone can do with a basketball in their hands.

This is actually my first post here but I’ve been following this blog now all year and love it. Fans here actually use some sort of logic. Coincidentally I find logic refreshingly therapeutic for my brain’s central processing core.

I digress, At this point I think having monkeys picking names out of hats would be just as helpful picking prospects this draft year.

Not that I don’t trust Walsh, just that the pick is just so easy because barring a bust (which can happen to any team at any time.) ANYONE in the projected top 10 could feasibly help this team. Will fans like just ANYONE in the top 10? Probably not, but we all saw how Gallinari’s reception went and he seems to have a pretty good game.

SGT, I agree that big men without solid skills are indeed fools good (Muresan,Yang Zhi Zhi, Sam Bowie, Pervis Ellison etc…) but Thabeet has the one thing we are in desperate need of and that’s shot blocking.

With a 7’ 3" frame and 152 swats in 09’ I can’t argue with a pick like that, even if he does bust given our deficiencies I’d say it would have been a justifiable pick. Sometimes things happen. We could pick up Curry (Who I’d love to see as a Knick.) and he could bust.

In fact I’d like Curry. I don’t like Duhon’s game, He’s unselfish but even when healthy it seems he can be too hesitant with both shooting and passing at times. And I don’t know how much of a leader he is on the floor?

 He can set a play up and execute okay but does he motivate his comrades to finish those plays? Do any Knicks even give a crap if they muck up a potential momentum changing play? What’s Duhon gonna say or do about it anyway???

There are more than enough guards to pick up someone else in this draft, but we’ll be drafting potential. There are no studs out there who have dominated their positions other than Curry and Griffin.

Griifin will be unavailable to us and I love Curry’s game but he really isn’t what we need right now.

…don’t misinterpret, I want him on the team. The guy can light it up!!!

But we were 4th in the league in scoring…yes, hard to believe but 4th scoring 105.20 ppg but our opponents outscored us frequently.

Thabeet will give us that strong D and Curry will give us that clutch scorer we’ve lacked these last few years, then there is a whole host of players in between.

Like I said though, we have more than one significant hole that needs fillin’ and at this point it’s a toss up. Any pick could possibly help us in any one of those areas. I’m for the Thabeet move but wouldn’t care much or put much into it if it didn’t happen either way.

the only guy I would want us to trade up for is ru-ru-rubio.

If Thabeet somehow falls to us at 8 (crazy shit happens every draft) then jump all over him.

I actually think that us not being able to trade lee or nate before the draft will help us net rubio.

Let Memphis draft him, then he say he doesnt want to play for them… or he will have to wait 2 more years before he can. They will be sitting between a rock and a hard place.

Thabeet “Key” For Thunder At 2009 NBA Draft…In More Ways Than One.

Hello, My Name is Hasheem Thabeet

I love to play poker but there is no way I part with either Lee or Robinson plus the 8th pick for a move to any spot except the number 1 spot. The 8th pick is very intriguing and it saves us a ton of dough.

Here is a legitimate question do you all in Knickerbockerland think that the current knicks roster plus Lebron could have done better than what he and the current cleveland team done? I say hell ya. Because who on clevelands team is better than either Robinson or Lee other than Lebron?

So you see were not to far from completing the puzzle. Keep the #8 spot, resign Lee & Robinson to go along with Chandler & Gallinari and a role player like Harrington. And get rid of the everyone else to acquire one or two key free-agents to put us in a position to be ready for the free-agents who will be in the market next summer.

2010 is not just the Summer of LeBron: It’s also the Summer of Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, Amare Stoudemire, Tyson Chandler, Manu Ginobili, Richard Jefferson, Joe Johnson, and Michael Redd, each of whom can become an unrestricted free agent in 2010. There are others Like T-Mac, Dirk, Yao, Paul Peirce and Ray Allen I feel these last 5 will not help the knicks in the long run. We need to build a team for longevity not just fr now

cream of the crop 2009 unrestricted free agent. One name stands above the rest and would help us now for the upcoming season. One name only Carlos Boozer.

He will help shore up our frontline and place us in the position to make a good run for the title once the 2010 crop of free agents are available.

….I could not have said it better myself. Though picking up Dalembert would be great, we need youth to make it work. Trading either Lee or Robinson would be suicidal. We don’t need a big man to be a great scorer just a finisher. What made the Knicks a lottery team is we didn’t have a closer. Imagine how many games we would have won if we had a LeBron or a Wade?