David Lee

[bobhait]

not a chance. all I know is that I'd rather have Lee than D'Antoni

[earlofny]

It's crazy to think about what the roster will look like next year. The Great White Hope should be gone.

Maybe...

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/nets/lee ... zjOPCs4KGJ

[StevoStarks]

Stevo!! Nice job getting on board!

BH, still waiting for you to see the light (or lack thereof)

Hahahaha, not quite there yet DH. Lee is still my boy. But like everyone else, I want to win. And fucking A am I tired of losing. So whatever it takes to win, I'm behind. I'm no GM, so I'm not going to pretend I know how to put together a team better than Donnie Walsh. So if it doesn't include Lee, then it is what it is. Winning is the most important thing.

My friend told me some movie called Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks was coming on ESPN, and laughed about if I could subject myself to it or not. And I said, pretty quickly, I wouldn't mind being reminded what it was like when the Knicks put a winning product on the floor. I'll take the Miller highlights just to see a team that competed their asses off every night.

[nbafreak724]

My friend told me some movie called Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks was coming on ESPN, and laughed about if I could subject myself to it or not. And I said, pretty quickly, I wouldn't mind being reminded what it was like when the Knicks put a winning product on the floor. I'll take the Miller highlights just to see a team that competed their asses off every night.

I've been seeing the commercials for that lately (which comes with clips). It's quite depressing really, especially when the voiceover guy says "What if Reggie Miller was the reason that this city never sleeps?"

It airs this upcoming Sunday night I think

[DerekHarper]

It's quite depressing really, especially when the voiceover guy says "What if Reggie Miller was the reason that this city never sleeps?"

Son of Sam reference...kinda creepy!!

[nazrmohamed]

I love lee, and I hope we keep him. But if ive ever seen a guy in need of a clean slate, and prone to cater to his (Olympians, it's MikeD.
The logic of Lee in Newark NJ is so obvious now,Im surprised i didnt think of it. . NJ can tap into Lee's fan base and Lee gets to keep his home and stay near his friends.

also Brooklyn >Newark will be > the meadowlands.

since I get the Yes Network, I have no prob with NJ improving.

Id never challenge your fandom but please dont let me ever hear you say that again. F the Brooklyn Nets

[bobhait]

how much fun would it be to see the frontline of Lopez and Lee on the Nuts, fully knowing that that could've been the Knicks' bigs?

[nbafreak724]

how much fun would it be to see the frontline of Lopez and Lee on the Nuts, fully knowing that that could've been the Knicks' bigs?

Real fucking talk

[knicksfan4life]

Like any player in any sport, Donnie should set a price tag for David before the off-season, if he'll play for it bring him back ... if he won't, you don't. You can't overpay to keep your own talent or overpay anyone for that matter when you have cap space. Lee's replaceable but I'd like to keep him, hopefully his agent isn't a douche this year. If we lose him though, he is replaceable.

[H20Knick]

After seeing smoove run around trying to swat everything all night, i'm starting to fall back in amore for amare. 3 consecutive 30 pt games, 7 blocks in the last 3 games. Maybe he really is back to old form.

Amare's got 10 30pt games this season. Bosh has 11. Lee has 4.
Amare's got 17 games with 2+ blocks this season. Bosh has 16 (and is the only one with a 4blk game [2]). Lee has 5.
Amare's got 3 games of 15+ rebounds . Bosh has 12. Lee has 18
Amare's got 13 games of 5+ offensive rebounds. Bosh has 12. Lee has 8.

But with all of that said, I still don't like amare's attitude. And I dont think D'antoni does either.

From August 2008

Amare Stoudemire: The bad defense isn’t my fault

By Austin Burton
Amare StoudemireAmare Stoudemire, Dime #14

In an interview with a Phoenix Suns TV program, Amare Stoudemire praises new coach Terry Porter while taking a backhanded swipe at Mike D’Antoni:

“I love Terry Porter, his method,” Stoudemire says in the interview. “His way of coaching is going to be great for us. You know, he’s extremely focused on the defensive end, something that we haven’t practiced at all in the previous three years, and now we’re definitely practicing and improving on the defensive end.”

Now from a team standpoint, I can almost believe STAT’s claim that D’Antoni didn’t practice defense. I’ve talked to Team USA players like D-Wade and Carlos Boozer about the way D’Antoni would perk up in practice when it came time to work on offense, but was almost invisible during defensive time. But never one defensive drill in three years? He didn’t have an assistant whose job was to focus on defense?

And if Amare is looking to blame D’Antoni for his own personal defensive deficiencies, he’s in the wrong. At the pro level, every player has to take it upon himself to improve individual parts of his game, including defense. I’m sure D’Antoni’s lessons didn’t include, “Stand straight up while Mehmet Okur blows by you for a dunk.”

[StevoStarks]

After seeing smoove run around trying to swat everything all night, i'm starting to fall back in amore for amare. 3 consecutive 30 pt games, 7 blocks in the last 3 games. Maybe he really is back to old form.

Amare's got 10 30pt games this season. Bosh has 11. Lee has 4.
Amare's got 17 games with 2+ blocks this season. Bosh has 16 (and is the only one with a 4blk game [2]). Lee has 5.
Amare's got 3 games of 15+ rebounds . Bosh has 12. Lee has 18
Amare's got 13 games of 5+ offensive rebounds. Bosh has 12. Lee has 8.

But with all of that said, I still don't like amare's attitude. And I dont think D'antoni does either.

And it looks even better left handed. Love watching him on the defensive end. He just dares people to drive on him.

[StevoStarks]

I'm going to say one more thing about Lee and his subpar defense. He definitely has no defensive instincts. But since he arrived from Florida, he has played for coaches that have no defensive philosophy and not one frontcourt player on the roster since he has been in New York have played any defense, so he can't learn from any teammates. It's been a revolving door.

He has the work ethic to want to learn, I don't doubt that. So when we Lee supporters want a defensive center to play with him, I think we aren't necessarily alluding to that player cleaning up his deficiencies, we are also talking about a player that can give Lee some pointers and teach him how to defend successfully in the NBA. We know Mike's coaching staff isn't concerned about D.

But still, Lee's D is pathetic.