welll...nobody is gonna take allan houston right now...so either hes stuck with us, or we buy out his contract or waive him or something, and THEN he goes to another team.
the reason i ask about his health, though, is cuz he seemed really optimistic last season. he kept saying "i can still play"...once i think i remember him saying "if it was the playoffs maybe id play"...hes fallen under the radar (which i think is a good thing for him to keep the pressure off), and maybe hes recovering very nicely and its just that nobody has talked about it...
he IS a bit of a defensive liability...but hes a smart veteran guy. and its not like crawford is a defensive stud...
houston doesnt need to be a start, qrich can do that, but he can come off the bench and play against the other teams bench guys (who will be less athletic), and maybe get easier shots against weaker opponents, especially with marbs or nate penetrating and dishing...
id honestly rather see allan houston comming off the bench to play the 2 than crawford....as long as houston is healthy...
and the other reason i say that is because with crawford, qrich, houston, marbs and nate, how many minutes are there to divide up for the 1 and 2???? not enough...someones gonna be unhappy...
in a trade, we woudlnt get didley squat for houston, but theres a good possibility we could seriously get something for crawford...like maybe stromile swift in a sign and trade if memphis signs swift to a similar deal as crawfords....
the way our teams roster is right now, id rather have swift than crawford...
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the thing i wanna say about crawford is that hes really overrated...that last year with chicago when he averaged a lot of points...it was on a shitty team and his field goal percentage was really bad. anybody can score points if they chuck up a lotta shots. a guy who scores 12-14 points a game on .550 fg% (i think swift could do that if he came to the knicks) is better than a guy who scores 20 on .390 fg% (what crawford will have probably). it doesnt matter that he can play the 1,2 or 3...the point is he cant do ANY of those WELL. id rather have a guy who can play ONE position great than 3 positions not so great.
usually the teams that do the best are where the players have their roles and they do what they can do, not "a little bit of everything". in detroit, ben wallace doesnt try to be a scorer, he focuses all his energy on what hes good at, blocking shots, rebounding, and D. all the other guys just know their roles and play withing themselves. crawford is the exact ANTITHESIS of that. he ruins team chemistry, tries to do too much, and is really just too skinny and one dimensionaly for a 2. yeah, its great that he makes some flashy plays once in a while, but that really doesnt impress me...
lets get rid of crawford for stromile swift in a sign and trade
only thing - isiah prolly wont wanna trade a guy he just signed a year ago...it'd be a blow to his ego to say a player traed for himself isnt living up to expectations...so i doubt crawford will ever be traded...even though he should