Chandler May Be Done for the Season

ugh wtf .. al harrigton gonna start the rest of the year????????
sorry Gallo

Yea it is good that they compared liked that, could very well increase his trade value for bigger moves!

Wow. That sucks, but it’s not like we were playing for anything. Would be interesting to see Lee at the 4 with Gallo at the 3 and Douglas and T-Mac in the backcourt. Of course this would mean putting Curry in at the 5. Could we put Bender in at the 5?

it sounds like the kind of thing he could play through if he needed to… A slight strain of one of those muscles that never fully heals without rest. Doesn’t sound to serious; if sitting out the rest of these useless games will make him healthy enough to have a full summer of training (unlike last year), then I’m all for it, and I’m not worried.

The rest of this season is all about Toney. I have a problem not typing ‘tony’

Well I guess we can’t make the playoffs now with this bad news! I wonder will DVJ modify his 30-35 games win total now!

Better shut down Peanut Brittle too otherwise we’re gonna have just plain peanuts next year!

what do u guys think about the chances of this …

1- Toney Douglas (i know its a small sample but if we get Lebron then we dont need an expensive player at the point plus i think the kid has potential to be pretty good)

2- Lebron …i dont need to explain

3- Rudy Gay (unless we can land bosh, Maybe sign and trade?)

4- Wilson Chandler (Wilson shows so many flashes of bein a really good player and playing with Lebron would only make him look that much better)

5- Marcus Camby (I have been wishing for a player like camby for years and he would def come back to teh garden for the MLE if we have these players around him)

Bench:
Harrington
Gallo
Bill Walker
House
T-Mac??
(id also try and find a way to find a back up center unless we can get bosh and then take out Gay and put wilson back at the SF )

i cant wait to watch a playoff game at MSG it has been way to long since theres been a meaningful game there…i know everyone talks about why would Lebron leave the team he has in cleveland but if we were able to put this roster together then this team would def be better than his team with cleveland this year….i cant honestly believe that mo williams would have made the all star team last year if he wasnt playing with Lebron he just makes the players around him that much better and thsi would give him the best shot at a title and as other players have said NYC isnt just the center of the USA its the marketing center of the world and with him being in NY he would be on the same level as Tiger Woods (Pre-cheat)

D Howard would DESTROY that front line!! 3 small forwards?? The Griz said there matching any offer to Gay. Chandler is a small forward we need to stop trying to turn him in to a SG or PF.

Shouldn’t JR Giddens be available for tonight’s game?

We need balance not video game line ups my friends! Dont be afraid to go hard for a superstar PG it is what our team has always needed and every team always needs. The last time we won a championship what type of team did we have? Did we have great guard’s? Ball distribution? Defense ? Low post players who worked hard on the glass? In other words did we have balance and the answer is yes we did!

We need to go big or go home but we have to do it the right way for long term success! Start with a full out blitz for CP3! Trust me we get that done and everything else will fall in to place!

Good question

+1 Makes sense to me. The near All Hobbit line-up ain’t cutting it!

td,joe johnson,lbj,gallo,camby
or
td,gallo,lbj,lee,camby

wow some really sad news there. I was really digging Doug, Chandler, and Gallo together. Too bad it had to end. Im beginning to worry about Chandler’s durability..it seems like every year now he has some type of injury. Hopefully its just soreness like said above and they are just being careful. Hopefully he comes back better than ever now after a good offseason work out.

Interesting article on TrueHoop, called ‘The Robots are Cranky, and Their Coming”. It talks a lot about a new book called Stumbling on Wins, and basically how NBA Gm’s wrongly value scoring, which is easy to do with enough shots, as their top thing in signing contracts. It ends up talking a lot about Starbury and Isiah and how this was an example of that, and how Isiah’s whole time with the Knicks was spent acquiring scorers above all else. Very interesting for anyone looking to read it.

Shut Al down Too.

Actually, I’ve thought about that lineup as well, but I would start Gallo at the 4 instead of Chandler, and Al Harrington would be nowhere in sight. Instead I had Tyrus Thomas in there. So basically it was
PG – Douglas
SG – Lebron
SF – Gay
PF – Gallo
C – Camby

Bench – Walker/Wilson/Thomas

We’d be playing small ball, but we’d be athletic as all hell. I know folks don’t like that lineup, but there’s no need for a lumbering center in D’Antoni’s offense. Maybe we can pick up another long backup center (Javale McGee type)..But I think that lineup looks pretty damn good.

The Wiz have some interest in Al Buckets, maybe some kinda S&T for Mcgee? Idk…

i think ill will can develop into a 4 .. but if you get LBJ u want to surround him with a better perimiter shooter,espeically at the 4 which could do a great job of stretching the D or giving Lebron more space to operate 1-1 .. hence gallo over chandler at the 4

Sorry to hear about Chandler, but I’ll bet Gallinari’s point production significantly increases. Those two have had difficulty playing together throughout the entire season. When Chandler is the focal point of the offense, Gallinari seemingly struggles-and vice versa. It wouldn’t surprise me if Gallinari now goes on his best scoring stretch of the season.

really disappointing about chandler.

i love the way he has developed these past 2 years. credit MD for getting him to lay off three’s and take it inside.

Thx I’ll check that out for sure. IMO, Isiah went totally awry trying to go more athletic but decided to play a totally half court style into of running in transition and etc. You don’t put a dumb althetic team together and make them have to play soley half court where they are forced to THINK longer.

That team Isiah put together towards the end was built to play more uptempo on defense and push the ball in transition whenever possible. Having guys like Balkman, JJ, Frye, N8, Marbury, Crawford, Lee and etc play half court was a total mistake.

The reason you allow low b-ball IQ players who can’t shoot but can run and be althletic play uptempo because because it requires it require less thinking and allows them to just play on instinct. Beuilding around Eddie Curry was a disaster. Hence, big/small ball disaster experiment