At the 23 these guys might be available hopefully, heres how I rank them
Tiago Splitter
Rudy Fernandez
Marcus Williams
Daequan Cook
Marco Belinelli
We need a SG, a guy who can replace Crawford, hopefully we get something fair in return for Crawford. I can't see a Marbury/Crawford back court ever working out, its similar to the Marbury/Francis situation. Marbury needs to play next to a consistant shooter, who is well rounded, or atleast average at everything.
At this point, this is how i see the line up.
Marbury B
Richardson C+
Jefferies D
Lee B-
Curry C+
As you see, we need improvement from the wing positions. Balkman and Collins right now are C+'s, but have potential to rise to a B- or B next season. We still need more dept.
We wont go far with Jefferies starting. He's medicore to terrible at everything. He's only good on a championship team like the Spurs, where he doesn't have to do much. We're not the Spurs, so we can't put so much responsibility on Jefferies as a starter. He's untradable to the genuis that is Isiah Thomas, so lets hope Balkman comes out strong in Preseason and wins the starting job.
Frye is a D, too one dementional, this is why we need a guy like Splitter to back up our big men. Splitter can play PF/C and is an atheletic 7 footer who plays physical defense. He's very intelligent on and off the court and is very coachable. Couldn't we trade Frye for a first rounder this season? I'm sure the 76ers could use Channing Frye, they're in desperate need of a PF.
Phila sends
Kyle Korver
Steven Hunter
2007 Draft #21 Pick
NY sends
Jared Jeffries
Channing Frye
2007 Draft #23 Pick
Successful Scenario
Philadephia
PG - Miller
SG - Iguodala
SF - Jefferies
PF - Frye
C - Dalembert
New York
PG - Marbury
SG - Richardson
SF - Balkman
PF - Lee
C - Curry
6th man
Crawford
Bench
Robinson
Krover
Collins
Hunter
#21 pick (Tiago Splitter)
We get a good young back up center in Hunter, and a valuable 3pt shooter in Krover. So our overall line up will look like
Marbury/Collins/Robinson
Richardson/Crawford/Collins
Balkman/Krover
Lee/Splitter/Rose
Curry/Hunter/Splitter
We need to fill in the gaps at the wings or in a back up defensive big man!