Cut pile swap: Ish Smith for Jeremy Lin

by giantg on Jan 15, 2012 3:14 PM EST

5'11" 155lbs wearing ankle weights

he can't guard anyone in the NBA in a half court set

he's been cut by 3 teams in 2 years...

so why am I thinking we could use this guy more than Lin?

He has fast hands, quick feet, is a heads up hustler and HE IS A PG. Not a combo, not a 2, he is a pure facilitator. Heck the guy can't even really shoot but for the next few weeks 20 turnover games might cease, moral would improve by default and the team could start to run real plays, you know, where more than one pass is involved.

It wouldn't cost us anything but our academic supremacy, and I believe he is still sitting at home by the phone watching the NFL games.

The ideal no downside move, give me 5 new cards, who wants to watch this car wreak of an offense (let alone play in it) and we have another guy who is, at least, playing his true position.

C'mon throw a blogger a bone...

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cutting lin

signing smith and dropping bibby and douglas further down the depth chart will NOT improve morale.

but i think i’d still do it.

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by stingy d on Jan 15, 2012 4:25 PM EST reply actions

if we win more...

their low morale will be only in their own minds with their own families ‘cause they’ll need to keep it to themselves… so i say give ish a shot.

by bucketsncents on Jan 15, 2012 9:14 PM EST up reply actions

I wasn't thinking about bench morale

but you have a point. What is up with TD??? Seems he is dropping himself down the depth charts. Anyone else digging up old ‘Carmelo trade regret’ other than me? If “Hoping for Baron Davis” was the name of a movie you know it wouldn’t end well. What if he signed with the Heat? Was there ever a plan to get a pg?

The D’Antoni/Knick poing guard chart is a classic rise and fall: Duhon, Felton, Billups… crash.

by giantg on Jan 15, 2012 5:05 PM EST reply actions

he's not a difference maker but i would take him

Anxiously awaiting the day my username will be appropriate

by knickswin on Jan 16, 2012 2:35 AM EST reply actions

Is there any way we could sign Gilbert Arenas?

Bobby Baseball - The future of Amazin' Avenue.

by Bobby Baseball on Jan 16, 2012 9:22 AM EST reply actions

yes.

but why?

Last night, a comedian died in New York. Somebody knows why. Somebody knows

by Rorschach44 on Jan 16, 2012 10:20 AM EST up reply actions

Is there any way we could sign Rafer Alston?

Get The Frickin' Rebound

by fuhry on Jan 16, 2012 10:24 AM EST up reply actions

i wish!

rafer was the man!

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by stingy d on Jan 17, 2012 12:28 AM EST up reply actions

I heard he wants back in

But maybe that was something I read on hoopshype while I was dreaming.

Get The Frickin' Rebound

by fuhry on Jan 17, 2012 10:07 AM EST up reply actions

i had a dream last night

that carmelo had the ball after a made basket and just walked on to the court instead of passing it in.

i woke up and said- he really just gets the dumbest turnovers.

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by stingy d on Jan 17, 2012 10:25 AM EST up reply actions

See here's the thing

Mark Jackson, point guard by trade and now coach of the Golden State Warriors and official guy who believes in everything including that David Lee can play defense…

CUT , or at least agreed with management’s decision to cut, Ish Smith and signed Nate Robinson instead.

The Knicks have basically no practice time and a coach who needs, and players who need, a very very good point guard to be good on offense. Ish Smith cannot possibly be the answer here. You need a genius, someone like Baron Davis, with the authority and balls to lead big stars on the floor.

Seriously, you’d be better off getting Iverson, Rafer Alston, or some other cagey vet that is an idiot savant of the point guard position with a record of success. Arenas? Hm, maybe, but see, I don’t think Arenas is really a point guard. But it’s a better idea than Ish Smith – nothing against Smith but he’s probably less likely to help than Lin is.

Get The Frickin' Rebound

by fuhry on Jan 16, 2012 10:32 AM EST reply actions

Lin is 6'3

i think hes around 200 lb.
Do the math i guess :)

by 420man! on Jan 16, 2012 7:21 PM EST reply actions

I hear you

I was thinking about getting 2+ weeks of help until Baron Davis shows up. I don’t think Alston would go for that, I don’t think Iverson or Arenas is a point guard. Ish Smith is a third string point guard on almost any team in the NBA I grant you that, yet as of now that is NY’s first or second best option. Until Davis shows up and even then he still might be as effective as Bibby.

Lin can’t play the point, so what is the point of having him?

by giantg on Jan 16, 2012 7:21 PM EST reply actions

amare and landry...

for scola and lowry or scola, kevin martin and dragic.

i don’t care… we just gotta rearrange the furniture.

by bucketsncents on Jan 17, 2012 7:03 AM EST reply actions

that would be selling the furniture

not rearranging.

I think it was Bobby V who said: "You are never as good as you are when you are at your best, and you are not as bad as when you are at your worst."

by gbaked on Jan 17, 2012 12:22 PM EST up reply actions

done...

by bucketsncents on Jan 17, 2012 8:45 PM EST up reply actions

but then where are you going to sit?

I think it was Bobby V who said: "You are never as good as you are when you are at your best, and you are not as bad as when you are at your worst."

by gbaked on Jan 18, 2012 9:59 AM EST up reply actions

We could probably re-fashion Kevin Martin into a lovely wicker chair.

Fish Fingers give me a break.

by GAx on Jan 18, 2012 10:03 AM EST up reply actions

hmmmm...

I think it was Bobby V who said: "You are never as good as you are when you are at your best, and you are not as bad as when you are at your worst."

by gbaked on Jan 18, 2012 10:19 AM EST up reply actions

Just look at that armchair.

So efficient!

Fish Fingers give me a break.

by GAx on Jan 18, 2012 10:56 AM EST up reply actions

I am gonna buy all of you guys Binky's!!!!!

Geesh! It has been 13 games, the real point guard is hurt, 8 new players and all you get from Knicks fans in WAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!! I want my MAMA!!!!!! GEESH people relax.

by Robert Curre on Jan 17, 2012 12:43 PM EST reply actions

while the WHAMbulance is most definitely filled with fans dehydrated from all the crying...

i’m wondering your thoughts regarding the pervasive, overwhelming sentiment by former players, “experts” and commentators that wholeheartedly agree that the team is fatally flawed… from coaches to all-stars (and please don’t ask me to identify who i’m talking about so you can disparage their credibility… the negative perception is everywhere).

you seem to be the only voice of reason currence… please, do share what you know (or see from our play) that the rest of us mere mortals seem unable to see so we can keep rooting with optimism and we can turn our faucets off.

by bucketsncents on Jan 17, 2012 8:50 PM EST up reply actions

Pile on alert

For all of the folks that are (actually still reading this post…) able to sit back calmly, confident that everything will turnaround when the Knicks finally get a point guard…can you level with me on one teeny tiny point…? Don’t you feel a little uneasy when you find yourself thinking, let alone saying, “When Baron Davis shows up, we will start to be a winning team?”

Have you spoken to any Clipper fans? Isn’t he the guy that couldn’t even be traded for the proverbial bag of chips and had to be traded with an unprotected LAC lottery pick? Isn’t he coming back from a back problem and soon to be 33 years old. Read this giddy writer at the time of the trade: http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/24/report-clippers-trade-baron-davis-to-cavaliers-for-mo-williams/

Even assuming if you are right and Baron is able to do everything he could do 2 years ago, doesn’t knowing that a knee tweak, the back recurrence, a conditioning issue, etc and the Knicks go back to what we are watching now?

Just to throw on more log on the fire…http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/news/story?id=5754345

I think, barring some mighty powerful persuasion, the best I can say is, Knicks fans are in “hope mode.”

by giantg on Jan 19, 2012 12:54 AM EST reply actions