LOL WTF does anyone here REALLY watch Knicks games??? Where do you get off saying Balkman is better than Wilson Chandler??? Chandler does everything Balkman can do and more. He's way more a complete palyer than Balkman. Chandler plays some decent defense and actually has a offensive repetoire. And too the dude who said Balkman can't dunk for his life then WOW. Thats about ALL Balkman can do on the offensive end...
Take my word for it, the "Tazman" overall performance and court-awareness has Chandler beat by a mile. I'm not taking anything away from Chandler, he prove to me that he have a little bit of everything in his talents & skillz.
It's bad that Chandler did not receive any playbook assignment on offense or defense throughout all his rookie playingtime. He was just thrown into every game at the end of the season as if the coach said, "show me what you can do". I was not suprise by Chandler injury, if I was his agent I would've told him to pull an injury earlier.
Alot of the young Knick players do not mind being traded to the next team, what they don't want is to be traded to a team with one of the Knick cancer-players that cause chaos on the entire team.
Read between those lines.
balkman can run fast and has air time whenhe jumps i know this he can defend..great...but better than chandler?? NO and idk why everythinks hes fantastic during the end of the season balkman was horrible as i said before i would laugh watching him play...HE WOULD AIR BALL 2 FOOT SHOTS and miss countless dunks game after game don't deny it Balkman fans he would..if u miss more than one dunk in a week as an NBA player u got problems... he has to work extremely on his offensive game...will never be a starter unless he works that out...just hope that Q-rich can bounce back since he did average 17 ppg last time with D'Antoni even though it was a while ago but confidence can make any player good but Chandler i can see getting better over time the SF and C positions are still killing the Knicks.
Balkman is the SF that gives you a little of everything by helping-out the SG to the PF on offense and defense. His dribbling, rebounding, and passing skillz are all underratted (that's why he got the tag the "Tazman").
Balkman is a system role player inwhich all his teammates receive a role to play, and are able to switch role positions to the same play (the Spurs system).
You have four players on the Knicks that could do this (switch roles with each other) Nate, Crawford, Balkman, and Lee.
You did not see coach Isiah Thomas put those four players on the court in a lineup together this season.
The previous season those four players (with Frye) were the Knicks come from behind players, all comming off the bench together to prove Isiah Thomas starters of Marbury, Francis, Q.Rich, Frye, and Curry were a flop.
Another thing you need to know is that Balkman shows leadership in his performance by doing alot of things to bring out the best in his teammates.
In the Knicks Summer League Games with Chandler and Demetris Nichols, everyone seen how Nate & Balkman was giving the two drafted players the same task to do equally on offense & defense, the two players were hard to compare which one was the better, but the majority of fans & players picked Demetris Nichols over Wilson Chandler because of Nichols court awareness, passing skillz, peremeter shooting, peremeter defense, and he could do all that at the SG position which Chandler had big problems playing the SG position.
Which position did the Knicks need the most help in after Isiah coached his first season? the SG-position. But Chandler was a first round pick compared to Nichols being a second round pick.
Why did Isiah cut SG-Nichols who could have worked out this entire season at practice with Chandler to improve both their talents for the NBA?
just so he could give SG-Fred Jones another shot at making the NBA.
Nichols 3 point shooting by itself would make you cut a player like Fred Jones with the quickness.
