J.R. Smith set to return ( Wednesday )

CA7

Scoring Champ
Balkman is the chemist he cant go, trade Douglas for a 2nd rounder and release Bibby
 

MeloforMayor

BALL DON'T LIE
http://www.hoopsworld.com/knicks-closing-in-on-j-r-smith

The Knicks are closing in on a deal to sign free agent shooting guard J.R. Smith, the Daily News has learned. Smith began the season in China, but has been eyeing a return to the NBA once the lockout ended.

Smith?s agent, Leon Rose, met with Garden Chairman James Dolan following Wednesday?s Knicks? win over Sacramento to finalize a contract. It is believed that Smith, who has also attracted the interest of the Clippers, will receive the Knicks? $2.5 million exception. Rose also represents Anthony, who has lobbied the club to add Smith, an explosive scorer who can also be erratic at times. He has averaged 12.5 points per game over seven NBA seasons.

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I'm getting excited :peace::peace::peace:
 

portega1968

El Cacique
i read an article saying walkers getting cut

This would make sense. TD, Balkman and Jordan have deals beyond this season, and Bibby has to stay if Davis is not ready (although we know he is worth shit)

Walker has an expiring deal and would probably not get many minutes once Melo is back.

Now I understand why Walker has been starting instead of Novak or the Giraffe... We were hoping someone wanted to give us a pick for him and he was being showcased.
 

LeFlume

All Star
Only thing that is getting cut is our chances of becoming a TEAM...cut to pieces by the clusterfu(ks in the front office...:barf:
 

insanity4289

Benchwarmer
Only thing that is getting cut is our chances of becoming a TEAM...cut to pieces by the clusterfu(ks in the front office...:barf:

This does scare me.

But I do have faith in Chandler to keep this ship going in the right direction.

Although Walker is nothing special, I like how our team has gelled and getting rid of him is kind of ruins that. Out of everyone on the team, bibby deserves the Axe. He has played terribly.
 

knickerbocka176

Benchwarmer
not worried, bill walker had one game where he passed the ball well. other games 3 after 3 after 3 and non of them even went in. at least with jr smith he can sink em. and looking at videos smith can run the pick and roll effectively so thats another plus. with tyson chandler on this team no one will be giving anyone problems, hes the vocal leader and i dont see him letting smith pull any shit
 

p0nder

Starter
I can't see walker being the odd man out. My money is on Balkman (tho i think i would rather keep him). He's been in the basement of the doghouse all year and in garbage time has done nothing but turn over the ball.

JR Smith (if he is signed) is a good addition and brings the ability to hit DAGGER 3's. This makes us a much more versatile and dangerous team. Smith is also an upgrade defensively over Novak, who has been our 3pt specialist so far and doing a nice job knocking 'em down. But watching that raptors game he got burned bad on drives. He is just too flat footed.

and on the fight's that happened in 06, is there ANYONE on this team left from that scuffle? just JJ? JJ is a vet and a pro. He's the glue on this team and I know he's too smart to let a scuffle that happened 6 years ago break up the team.

JR is the kind of guy you want on your team because of his intensity. He's a terror to play against because he's an instigator and a smack talker and he goes right at you. He's not afraid to shoot or drive and is a pretty good ball handler and passer when needed. Plus he's one of Melo's buddies from Den. I'm sure he will help lift the spirits of the guys and will be able to talk Asia/Lin-sanity with Lin after spending these past months in China.

Over all This is a good acquisition for the knicks. It adds depth and shooting which was a need for us. As we move forward we continue to plug up holes. Coming into the season we needed a C (tyson), then we needed a Pure PG (Lin) then we moved down our wish list and see we need good 3pt shooting (novak and now JR). The wish list is dwindling. What else do we need right now? a good back up PF/C (Jorts?) good back up PG (Bdiddy?).

Knicks are stacked right now.
 

Scipio

Benchwarmer
Getting Smith concerns me a great deal. He is another ballhog shooter. We are finally beginning to move the ball and are creating some amazing chemistry.

Adding Smith might mess that up considering that `Melo is the same, although I feel that when `Melo comes back he will adapt his game.

There is no way that I would have Smith starting ahead of Landry either. Landry is finally back to being the player he was at the beginning of last season. He has a great understanding with Lin already which can only get stronger. Dumping Landry on the bench for Smith would be a mistake in my opinion.

Hopefully Smith will come in and buy into the movement and chemistry but he is known as an eratic shooter and likes to have the ball in his hands.

I am excited about his addition, his scoring can be explosive. If he comes here and buys in then he will be a great addition.
 

nyk_nyk

All Star
If it's true I'm gonna puke for a week. What Starbury move...**** me...I hate Jr Smith....-He started the brawl with the Knicks back in 06. Jeffries and him threw punches...what retarded move if we sign him...:barf:
From a pure basketball standpoint, how can you hate JR? the dude is capable of being straight lethal on offense and is basically what we have in Walker x100.
 

BachaCho

Benchwarmer
From a pure basketball standpoint, how can you hate JR? the dude is capable of being straight lethal on offense and is basically what we have in Walker x100.

Exactly, JR can shoot the 3 better, can pass better, can drive to the hoop better, is more athletic, he is Walker 10x
 

NYk_Reloaded718

★KNICKS-TAPE★
To all those complaining about the JR signing, your now getting a guy who can put up points, run fast breaks & finish them, and some one who can penetrate to the basket.

idk if some of you are aware but when our bench comes to the floor, the ball is moving, but its Moving East and West going absolutely no where and then were stuck taking a bad 3 point shot

you now have Jr coming off the bench who can put up 20 any given night, penetrate to the basket, and run the pick and roll.

headcase? :agreed: he can be a head case sometimes, but id more worried about his sister more than him, if she cant keep her cool with the China fans god knows what would happen in New York:teeth:

but if you want to beat the Chicago, OKC, Heat etc your going to NEED a 6th man off the bench that can go off any given time.

Btw we should start posting in the official Jr thread which ever that maybe, the Mods can lock some up? keep one up?
 

LeFlume

All Star
Just wait and see. He will ruin it for us, everything we just got going. Jeffries/chandler/fieds..they hustle and play hard, team basketball, whats gonna happen when JR flips and decide to take it upon himself?...because that will happen. :barf:
 

NYallDay

Benchwarmer
yea im not thrilled about this either. with a true point guard like Lin, offense will not be our Achilles heel. And how come no ones talking about the effect of the shrinking minutes of everyone else. Guys need to get into the flow of the game, touch the ball, dribble, cut, all that. Novak, jorts, shump, we cant expect them to play half of what they're playing now and still be equally effective. You need to get that first wind and get into the flow, sadly which wont happen.
but heres to optimism that tyson and amare can keep everyone in check. :beer:

Just wait and see. He will ruin it for us, everything we just got going. Jeffries/chandler/fieds..they hustle and play hard, team basketball, whats gonna happen when JR flips and decide to take it upon himself?...because that will happen. :barf:
 

amazinz5

Benchwarmer
i'm afraid that theres gonna be games like minny and toronto where we need defense late and mda is gonna go with lin-jr-melo-stat and we put up 30 in the 4th but give up 35
 

portega1968

El Cacique
Just wait and see. He will ruin it for us, everything we just got going. Jeffries/chandler/fieds..they hustle and play hard, team basketball, whats gonna happen when JR flips and decide to take it upon himself?...because that will happen. :barf:

you are more depressing than a Paul Pierce game-winning 3pointer against us in a game 7 eastern conference finals

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Forrest17

Rotation player
Just wait and see. He will ruin it for us, everything we just got going. Jeffries/chandler/fieds..they hustle and play hard, team basketball, whats gonna happen when JR flips and decide to take it upon himself?...because that will happen. :barf:

Last lockout we had Sprewell.. Who helped lead us all the way to the finals.

Seriously, Sprewell makes JR Smith look like Michael Cera. We will be fine, Smith will be a great option, and we finally have more than one legit deep threat.. Novak was the only one who could hit three's with any sort of reliability.. That isn't enough. We had no dynamic scoring option whatso ever in our second unit, no we do.
 

amazinz5

Benchwarmer
Last lockout we had Sprewell.. Who helped lead us all the way to the finals.

Seriously, Sprewell makes JR Smith look like Michael Cera. We will be fine, Smith will be a great option, and we finally have more than one legit deep threat.. Novak was the only one who could hit three's with any sort of reliability.. That isn't enough. We had no dynamic scoring option whatso ever in our second unit, no we do.

i hate hearing about jr's ability from 3. his career % is marginally better than landry's and in landry's only full season his was higher. he just cant make a contested 3, which we shouldnt be counting on anyway. kinda like complaints about mda with no pg, were not gonna compete without one anyway so any suckage is moot.
 
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