I don't see the Knicks doing anything this season without a shot blocker. PG's are leveling up, especially the young ones and lottery teams are improving and will be bigger challenges to this team.
The lack of footspeed within Amare, Bargnani and their vulnerability on defense makes us desperate for a big man.
Our best defenders are World Peace and Martin, considering they're at the end of their careers...this isn't a strong bet that they'll play 82 games within the season.
Same goes for Tyson Chandler, who isn't a good shot blocker and his interior and post defense has dropped by 2-3 levels.
I hate the Bargnani trade altogether, seems very Isiah Thomasish. Focusing on talent instead of team necessities is a recipe for disaster.
I can't stress this enough how this current roster is built for a treadmill run in the playoffs into an early exit. This isn't pessimism either, if you take time to sit down and analyze this roster in comparison with the top 5 teams in the NBA, you'll begin to see how the 2013-14 season will be a waste of time.
I honestly rather rebuild and acquire two lottery draft picks to draft some Superstars for our future than waste a season for nothing.
Great Point Metro .... pessimistic has nothing to do with the many offseason improvements Knicks oponents made to their roster.
Did GM Grunwald improve our 54 win roster?
Did GM Grunwald improve our poor postseason performance roster?
The Bargani trade was an Isiah Thomas trade in every way.
Do we have decent defensive-players? HELL YEAH!
We have an above-average defensive player at every position on our roster:
C-Tyson, PF-K-Mart, SF-Meta, SG-Shump, and PG-Beno ....
The above 5 players do better than block-shots, they give us STOPS.
The problem lies in do we have a defensive-coach that can GELL these defensive-players into lineups with their other teammates?
Hell NO!
Do we have a HC that can improve these defensive-players level of B.Ball?
HELL NO!
If u were to compare HC Woody's team-defensive ability towards Bulls HC Thibs team-defense ability from 1 to 10 what number would u give Woody?
I say 5
Do the Knicks really need a backup center? NO! Knicks need a same-page coach for ISO-Melo/Amare.
The Miami Heat won consecutive championships without a center?
Is this thread really about the Indiana Pacers series where C-Hibbert ate us up alive? HELL YEAH!
HC Woody loss the Pacers series by DNP a healthy Camby, Amare, and Copeland.
Or is this backup center thread worried about the centers in our conference like "Hibbert, Noah, Lopez, Varegao & Bynum, and Greg Monroe"?