Mardy, Balkman, Q and Lee are a nice core of worker bees with good heads and hearts and the will to get after it and create something. These solid citizens should be the core of the team going forward from which we draw our personality. I'm hoping Curry continues to improve and that marbs can hold it together physically and mentally. Francis needs to go. Give him his Dolan parachute. He may do well on some other team but not to worry Mardy will pick him clean when it counts. So we're looking to consolidate the rest of the roster and add two way talent. Lets try to send Crawford, N8 and Frye to Sacremento for Artest and Abdur-rahim. Artest is a head case and is prone to freelance in ways that derail his team's offence The first statement applies just as well to N8 and Francis and the second applies to all three. Artest brings all defensive team type play on the other end. Frye and Abdur-Rahim statistically this year are a wash, however Frye is longer younger and theoretically all upside while Reef is all diminishing returns. They can both shoot the J and are both suspect on D. However reef has none of Frye's confidence problems and he has the Savy to be effective on an off shooting night. He can be an excellent back up and mentor to Lee and compliment to Curry for some stretches.
We would then need to draft a guard as well as find a free agent back up PG
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Nice breakdown and I have few disagreements.
Let's face it, Artest has Knicks blood in him. Isiah is saying the Knicks don't have to take risks these days but that shouldn't preclude him from taking a calculated risk anyway.
Judging by the Maloof's past behavior, they may be ready for a rework of that team. I very much could see them asking and getting Nate because he'd be a hit there. Jeffries and Nate for Artest might be enough. Jeffries will come back strong.
I could also see Francis there if they decide to move Bibby (and there's some talk that Bibby is on the block). That would be a perfect landing for Francis.
We'll see.
No way Crawford gets traded for Artest. Not a chance. Certainly not with Frye as well.
How is the market for Artest right now? Does anyone want him? If Sacto was dying to sell (which I do not believe they are), could they beat an offer of either Malik & Frye or Jeffries & Frye?
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