For what we know now trade lee for Azzy Randolph and Turiaf was a great idea?

[knickzrulezH20]

Hey everyone David Lee is gone. I thank him for being an overachiever and a hard worker and wish him the very best in Golden State. For those of you who can't let go and or criticize the David Lee Trade I will simplify it for you.

1. David Lee is not worth 5 years/60 Million as his stats were inflated by our system, and he was the "best" player on an awful team. He is OVERRATED much like Devin Harris of the Nets who was part of the same Dynamic.


5 years 60 million? He didnt get that money he got 6 years 80 million....even worse lol

 

[elcol]

nobody can stop david lee
david lee can't stop anybody
nobody can stop david lee
david lee can't stop anybody
nobody can stop david lee
david lee can't stop anybody

 

[WVKnickfan]

Reading the above of some members comments make me leary of
their b.ball IQ of team performance.

David Lee was a Knick-KEEPER......especially in the Big Apple.
Lee was our best complimentary bigman since having Bill Cartwright.
Lee made all his bigmen teammates performance better.
A Knicks starting frontcourt lineup of F/C-Lee, F/C-Amare, and SF-Chandler,
wouldve been 10 times better than Phoenix frontcourt lineup of "Lopez or
Frye, Amare, Hill" in a running uptempo offense, and halfcourt offense.
Rookie Mozgov skills/talent coming off the bench to play with Amare or Lee
would become refine quicker to the NBA level of b.ball.

David Lee performance was outstanding on the Knicks the first day he put
on a Knick Jersey "Lee was consistent". There was not a team in the league
that could stop Lee's hustling talent from getting a 8 pts, 8 rbds, 2 ast,
performance in 24 minutes of playingtime during Lee's first two seasons in the NBA.
So only a nitwit or person who did not witness Lee's first 3 seasons as a
Knick would believe Dantoni's coaching excelled David Lee performance.
Dantoni's so-call system stagnated David Lee's performance.
PF-David Lee will give u WINS rather than stats if u put a center or PF in the
same lineup with him, which Dantoni refuse to do for 2 straight seasons.
Carmelo knows that Harrington is a SF.....

The first thing Knick-Fans shouldve realized about David Lee was that he
wanted to stay a Knick. David Lee wouldve excepted $7M to $9M per to
stay in New York. It was Donnie Walsh and Dantoni wanting to trade David
Lee for some stupid...ss or foolish "2010-Plan" which forced David Lee and his
agents hand into going to the media to announce Lee will test the FA waters
at $10+M per (Pure Bussiness) to stop any trade offers Walsh make to the
next team involving David Lee.
Recall :gony:
New York Fans turned on coach Larry Brown when he took rookie David Lee
out of the rotation, coach Brown put David Lee in the starting lineup for 8
straight games to win 6 straight games out of 8 the first week of January
(then DNP Lee for the remainder of the 2005-6 season).
David Lee became a Fan-Favorite at the start of his 2nd season by winning
the MVP of the Rookie All-Star game, plus putting the Knicks into the playoff
race, before catching a season injury.

Only a FOOL with very little NBA knowledge would think or believe that three
throw away GSW players (Turiaf/Randolph/Azu) could equal-up to David Lee's
complimetary performance in the frontcourt.
Donnie Walsh only had 4 players under contract, he gave Amare $20M per,
and Felton $5.5M per contracts which only gave the Knicks 6 players under
contract on July 9, 2010.
Donnie Walsh panic......it look like our St. Johns star the ex-GM of GSW Chris
Mullin working under Walsh co-signed the talent of 3 players (throw away)
from the GSW to add to our Knick roster to make it 9 players under
contract on July 15th, 2010.
The Knicks resigning Lee before the Bulls/Nets/Wolves offered him $12M to
$14M contract had Walsh in a panic of losing Lee for nothing. Its bad b/c
that was Walsh intention with his "2010-Plan" getting the next team top FA
for nothing. Doing to others what u dont want them to do to u WTF.
It looks like NBA teams and NBA Players cut Donnie Walsh off in the 2010
FA offseason.
:smokin: :gony: :smokin:
David Lee was more of a Keeper for the 2010-11 season than
Donnie Walsh/Dantoni
:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

I agree with this 110%! I can't get over all the hatred some of you had for this guy when he was the ONLY player on the team that played his ass off.Your only fault to Lee seemed to be his defense.Well tell me did anybody on that team play defense? NO!!! So if you are going to keep throwing Lee under the bus b/c of his defense well then you will have to open up your eyes and say that that whole team sucked with defense.

You guys can say what you want but you never gave Lee a chance! You bashed him every night and every game.I will never know the reason why you hated the guy so much but there was something else behind the story that caused the hatred.When a guy like Lee that went out there every night and played his ass off for your team yet you still hated the guy..It just does'nt add up!!

Lee was one hell of a guy and one hell of a player and imo he still should be here playing for the Knicks.I wish nothing but the best for Lee and I hope he kicks some major ass and has a great career.

 

[iJoe]

*sigh

Some of you seem to forget that David Lee worked with the Knicks and chose where he wanted to go. He could have left for nothing, or just demanded a trade for less value. We essentially got a bunch of young talent in return for nothing.

In the end, David Lee left on a wonderful note and I'm sure the Garden will go nuts whenever he plays here.

There was absolutely no way in h ell that we were going to resign him and lose out on all the money Lebron or Dwade could have brought in and any GM in the league would have done the same. In fact, we still have a lot of flexibility going forward.

David Lee did his job and did it well. He earned a nice fat paycheck and we the Knick fans got everything we could ask for from him. There shouldn't be any debate on whether we should have kept him or not. That would never have happened unless maybe we had the Timberwolves' GM who would have immediately traded or signed for 3 more point guards as well

 

[petescud]

I liked D Lee as much as the next guy here, but we did well in this trade. Kelena and Randolph would had been a good deal. Add Turiaf and its even sweeter. Lee will still be getting his Double Doubles, but i think this year will be more like 15pts pg 10 RPG which to me isn't All Star Numbers. I personally can't wait for Kelena to get healthy. I also hope he's not included in the Melo trade if that happens