Aaron Brooks shouldve been on the Knicks radar throughout the Lockout, when players return from China, a deal with Phoenix for Brooks shouldve been establish before signing JR Smith. Brooks style co-exist with Melo.
Ish Smith speed & passin-skills match perfectly with what Stat need to score the majority of his points down low.
I havnt gave up on Toney Douglas, his pressure-defense off the bench is to valuable....a team with a high scoring SG (Miami/Lakers/OKC) would be blessed with a 20 mpg Toney Douglas off the bench averaging 0.5 turnovers.
Melo's personal dislike for Toney Douglas has put division in the Knicks lockerroom in the 2010-11 playoffs. Plus its the main reason why a interim coach Woodson is not goin to upset Melo by putting TD in the rotation. Bibby skills has diminished lower than any PG in the D.League.
Toney Douglas never had any problems passin the ball to Gallo, W.Chandler, R.Williams, Turiaf, and Mozgov when Felton & Stat were on the bench.
In the 2011-12 season Toney Douglas was given the job to get the ball up court to pass directly to Melo, not Fields, not Stat, not Tyson....Melo went out of his way to make it difficult for TD to pass him the ball, everytime TD would get Melo the ball or have to pass to Stat on the peremeter....ISO ISO ISO