I am not the one to ask about foreign players. I have never heard of this kid, let alone seen him play. I just hope that he is worth the money he will receive from the Knicks. Seeing Johan Petro get 3 years and $10 million after not having done much in the league, perhaps this is the going rate. But for that price, I wonder if giving it to Anthony Morrow could have been a smarter move. While I killed giving Travis Outlaw $35 million, I love that potential Morrow signing for the Nets. Excellent shooter and scorer.
anybody quicker than curry is fine by me ..lol
At 12 seconds, the coach tells him, “Igor, use your fangs!”.
He’s actually very, very persistent in the paint – he’s a finisher.
Here’s another representative video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5pNo_L3xH8&feature=related
The first half appears devoted to the pick & roll, the second half moreso to his defense. He positions himself well.
He’s quicker than Gallinari!
So am I!
lol. i watched this and thought “this guy is even slower than Gallinari”.
If it doesn’t work out, Donnie can always get him to give Mikhail Prokhorov an atomic wedgie
The Knicks must be planning on making a blockbuster trade. We have FOURTEEN players on our roster right now.
Considering curry’s riding the bench, they’ll weed one moreout…they’re not planning anything man…especially since we have nothing to offer teams…plus, don’t be surprised if this guy is in the d-league this year
not necessarily .. 2nd round picks don’t have guaranteed contracts but doesn’t hurt to have a full roster and not kill the cap
I guess this probably means that the rookies won’t be dressing right away then.
My first thoughts upon hearing about this trade was a) are we trading away Turiaf in a packaged deal and getting his replacement ready, b) did we sign him for some other team that doesn’t have cap space, but is going to trade us somebody or a pick, and c) was he signed to beat the crap out of Bosh and LBJ when they come to town.
Towards the last point, I’ve never in my life wished a player to get injured, but the dark part of me would gain some satisfaction from 2 of the 3 ubermen coming down with a seasoning ending ankle injury and the remaining superstar having to go it alone with a team of vet mins.
Every team should play as rough as possible with this trio, not to injure them, but to make them pay for their hubris.
I too would have loved morrow but after the lee sign and trade do you not think morrow would have been 1 too many warriors lol.
I would have rather given this money to someone like amundson
Morrow got more than than Mozgov
and I think a legitimate center is more of a necessity than a sg.
In terms of size and strength, sure he’s a C. The guy can play D, which is much appreciated, but from what I read and the clips the guy is very raw offensively.
I don’t think he can be an instant contributor, although I hope I’m wrong, we kind of need it.
After all, he’s gonna get 3 mil per right?
It would suck to pay him to ride the pine.
http://www.eurobasket.com/player.asp?Cntry=RUS&PlayerID=69764
7.5 pts per game 4.8 boards per game in Russia, doesn’t sound like an instant contributer. I’m not worried, we’ll just trade him to the T’Wolves.
LMAO
I hope he powebombs LeBron
thats why we signed him
1st game
BAM
Power bomb into the scorers table
lol… me 2
Then looks for bosh but bosh is already halfway up the stands Screaming like a girl
Mozgov screaming, “Get back here RuPaul! You’re next!”
Donnie Walsh is very close to signing an unknown from the Bayou’s named Bobby Boucher.
Powerbomb. Compliments of Ca-ca-ca-Captain Insano.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5pNo_L3xH8
LOL, his shot around :45 was sooooooo ugly
VISITORS BEWARE!!!! VISITORS BEWARE!!!!!!!
So… we got our Drago.
I have no idea if this guy can play, but the contract is intimidating at least.
According to the video He’s tall & can dunk near the rim. Sweet….zzzzzz
He can touch the rim? Yeeaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think he’d fit nicely into our “Blueprint for Greatness”
Jay-Z’s “Blueprint For Greatness” is to ride Lebron’s nuts since High School, buy a 1 percent ownership to a crappy team, pretend to make a pitch for him when he becomes a free agent, then when he rejects him buy courtside seats to his new team so he can ride his nuts some more LOL!!
1 Raymond Felton / Toney Douglas / Andy Rautins
2 Wilson Chandler / Bill Walker / Kelenna Azubuike*
3 Danilo Galinari / Landry Fields
4 Amare Stoudimire / Anthony Randolph / Ronny Turiaf
5 Timofey Mozgov / Eddy Curry / Jerome Jordan
* = surgery recently
Trade Chandler
Play Randolph as the 3/4 and 5 depending on the matchups.
It’s all about matchups and the Knicks can create some very challenging ones for other teams.
This team is loaded with young prospects. I can’t wait for the season to start! There is going to be a ton of competition just to make the roster, let alone make the rotation!
According to Jay-Z the “Blueprint For Greatness” is to ride Lebron’s nuts since High School, buy a 1 percent ownership to a crappy team, pretend to make a pitch for him when he becomes a free agent then when he rejects you buy courtside seats to his new team so you can ride his nuts some more LOL!!
This guy kinda looks like a potential beast. I’ll tell you what, if Isaiah was still coach he would def send a 12th man goon into to game to injure the Queen.
Also, is anyone else watching the Mavs/ Rockets Summer league game. Jordan Hill looks beyond terrible…
Yup. It doesn’t look like he has improved at all since last season.
Darren Collison was an absolute steal in that draft.
Jordan Hill still holds the title for being the only player in history to have a highlight video that after seeing it, left me completely bummed out.
I hated Jordan Hill from second one. Even the dude’s looks, his hair made me hate him. Glad we got rid of him, not glad (at all) we wasted a lottery pick.
What team in the NBA likes International players more than us? The Surs. mmmmmmmm?
oops Spurs!!
i think the raptors would top the list…
+1
Like the handle. Have a decent one myself…
ESPN = Everything Sox Patriots Network
ABC = All Boston Channel
NBA = National Boston Association
Ha thanks man. Its ashame ESPN has gone down the tube so badly recently. I don’t even watch sportscenter anymore. I stick to the local shows on SNY or MSG. Stuart Scott is just a joke of an anchor the way he tries to infuse “street-talk” into his clealry gentrified speech.
From Lebron James to Timofey Mosgov: The Knicks version of “Another 48 Hrs.”
Rather have our version of this scenario than the Cavs version. They really got gaped
I just decided I like this deal.
DraftExpress No doubt here RT @thebrandino: Tell Knicks fans the Mozgov signing is a much more worthwhile risk then the Nets spending the same $ on Petro
so. 2 videos and nothing but layup and dunks.
WTFK, MD is never playing this guy. Forget it. 9.3 Mill to ride the bench.
Guys let’s get real here;
D”Antoni only plays 7-8 players.
Amare
Gallo
Chandler
Randolph
Felton
Douglas
Walker
Azuibuke
Turiaf
Guys like Curry, Rautins, Fields, Jordan, and Musgov aren’t going play.
Fields & Rautins will get some run! Mark my word jeffyboy!
I’ll be watching the summer league games. It’s more likely that Fields plays in the D League and Rautins takes his game to Europe. Maybe I’m wrong, but Fields is one of too many forwards and Felton’s signing just ate all the guard minutes.
You just know that the curse of the Knicks will bless Lance Stephenson. The guy looked solid in the Orlando games.
Yeah, I was able to catch him play. He looked good. This backcourt still needs assistance, but I’m more than welcome to be proven wrong by both Walker and Azubuike
Even if Walker and Azubuike can’t cut it, it’s hard to see Rautins filling the need.
Felton and Douglas should be good for 55-60 minutes per game, so 20-25 left ain’t much.
Exactly, a 7-8 man tight rotation and a 14 man roster?
Your list is accurate.
I hope DW’s getting different pieces for a trade.
Unless someone gets injured. That is also a factor. We’ll see if it works out next season.
And when somebody gets injured??? umm yea.
Cmon dude you know everyone gets their time to shine during the course of the year in the NBA…or any sport really. With our team as it stands, we can never have enough big bodied offense rebounders.
BTW according to draft express he weights 0 lbs.
must the invisble 7ft russian.
Yeah, that’s how he got serious hops and the ability to run the floor.
Every highlight video is only him on offense. He is supposedly limited on offense but can apparenly run the floor and plays amazing D (a block per 9 minutes…) I would love to find a video that highlights this D…
Here’s a video that reveals some of his activity on defense. He moves his feet and positions himself well on defense. He’s instinctive in that sense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5pNo_L3xH8&feature=related
You got hear this too funny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZr2qOXQJ4w
HALF FULL SPORTS BAR HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
As always, excellent analysis from LeBetard…Sports journalism continues to look good this week…
What a moron.
I subscribe to their podcast. I’m not from MIA, don’t like it there, but his show is funny sht. Not the part about the Knicks having another decade of mediocrity, though. We’ll show them.
Can’t say anything until I actually see the guy play, but Idk 3 years 9 million is a little much no? Regardless I am stoked to see these new Knicks. I love the Felton signing especially for only 2 years. He fits the system perfectly. I believe Anthoyn Randolph will be an absolute stud! I love what I see from him. Has anyone seen the video of him him dunking on Yao or blocking Kobe and Tyrus Thomas, the kid’s an animal. Amar’e will fit perfectly, I’m not worried about injuries, he has gone 2 seasons with no problems. As far as Melo, it isn’t going to happen IMO. I mean maybe next year if he doesn’t sign the extension, but I don’t see us trading for him because we just don’t have the pieces and I wouldn’t give up both Galo and Randolph.
With whole Lefag stuff, I’m not even gunna think Melo.
I will enjoy this team and trust in Walsh
I woudn’t get attached to this full roster. First DW says he’s done with the FA and this guy gets signed and then he talks about possible S&T.
With a 14 man roster (almost entirely made of new faces), I can’t see all of them getting solid minutes, it tells me that there’s a bigger picture here. I don’t know what it is yet.
I hope though, that this guy’s given a fair chance to show what he’s made of, and if he’s worth those 3 mil per.
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/041cczJ0Nb8Rm/610x.jpg
Scary.
He looks like the guy from Happy Gilmore with the nail stuck in his head, minus the moustache.
3 years???? Why? What competition has be ever played against? Is he the next Swen Nater, Rik Smits, Andres Biedrins or Freddy Weiss? 3 backup center scrubs + 1 useless Eddy Curry.
is this guy going to play in the summer league?
A reliable source says Carmelo Anthony will be on the team by opening day. Denver has 10 players on its roster without Carmelo and that includes Coby Karl and Brian Butch. How many and who on our roster are going to Denver? Your thoughts
I hope Gallo or Randolph (I have a good feeling about that kid) are not part of this so called Melo trade.
If your reliable source is right though, which ever way you look at at it, some good young talent is gonna have to leave.
Tony Douglas, Will Chandler, Randolph, picks..
Either way, we just don’t have enough to trade for Melo. No way the Nuggets trade him. They can probably get better from someone else, or keep him for a season and thn sign n trade him, getting a trade exception and maybe of some of the players i mentioned early.
Throw enough at the Nuggets and they will eventually bite. It just scares me thinking about how much we are willing to throw.
I’m starting to like the young roster we are building, but I agree with the previous poster who said that the roster is pretty stacked right now, which leaves me to believe Donnie is building his chips to go all in on a big deal. Now, whether that deal works out or not is another thing.
please guys stop with the “reliable sources”…haven’t we learned out lesson already LOL
Let’s face it, most of these guys are clueless…and I trade Randolph, Gallo and Wison Chandler for Carmelo in a second btw..assuming he agrees to extend with us of course
Reliable source (Brandon Tierney) could be called “common sense”. Melo is not jumping at an extension. Kenyon Martin is not recovering from this bum knees. Without Martin, Denver has no power forwards or centers except for Nene. If we take Carmelo and Kenyon for Eddy Curry and some favorable contracts (Chandler, Gallo, Randolph, Azabuike, Douglas) it kind of makes sense. Of course, Melo has to want to come back to New York.
If we take martins contract and melo we’d have to send back curry plus another 23 million in contracts since we’re at the cap number and contracts would have to match. We don’t have the contracts to make that work
In the end they turned out to be right though.
Im thinking Wilson, Eddy, Randolph, TD For Melo.
I like the fact that we now have a true PG and, hopefully, a true C. Those are the cornerstones of a good team.
We don’t need Mosgov to score much. The key is defense and rebounding, to take pressure off Amar’e and let him do his thing.
I’m loving this off-season.
I know nothing about this guy but what I read on DraftExpress (quote from them below), but I like what I read.
He and Jordan are all potential and maybe neither see a minute in the NBA this season – or maybe just a few minutes, but I think at least one of them makes it as a decent back-up, if not better in a year or two. Being real, you can’t ask for more than that from the 2nd round and from an undrafted European.
Did we overpay? On a strict value basis, maybe. But it’s unlikely we get him over here without putting some $ on the table as he’s probably a commodity over there.
But, man, if they got this right … !!!
“Defensively, Mozgov is a major presence, as he’s extremely difficult to post up on the block and has all the size, length and athleticism needed to swallow up opposing centers whole, and then grab the ensuing rebound for good measure. He blocks one shot for every 9 minutes he’s on the floor, and grabs a rebound every 3 minutes, which obviously makes him one of the more productive players you’ll find at his position in Europe. He brings very good intensity to this end of the floor, and has the added bonus of being agile enough to step out and hedge screens, showing very nice agility in the process. Mozgov still has a ways to go in terms of improving his fundamentals and all-around court awareness—he still makes too many rookie mistakes to be trusted by most top-level coaches. He’s also fairly foul prone and has a tendency to bite on pump-fakes, being a bit naïve as you might expect from a player with little experience.”
Nice footwork for the big fella, nice finisher as well.
OMG just imagine the jokes upside:
I must break you! (LBJ comes to the Garden)
From Russia with Love
Red Storm Rising
And so on… that by itself is worth the 3 mil..lol
Now all kidding aside, he sure looks like a nice prospect and every time you can find a 7’1 Center with some upside you gotta go for it. Maybe he’ll be a nice surprise.
BTW I’m liking (not loving) Ny’s FA so far. An all star, a nice Pg suited to play uptempo basketball, a huge talent in Randolph, and now Sabonis 2.0 (I know he’s from Lituania not Russia).
hehee yeah a lot of jokes will be said especially when playin the Nyets!!! Prokorov is probably eating himself up rite now for not finding him before we did!!
credit to us for keeping him secret for 1 week to avoid other teams swoopin him up just like they said in NYPOST!!!
This guy is just Andris Biedrins for 1/3 the price.
Speaking of which… don’t the Nugguts have their eye on Biedrins?
http://bayarea.sbnation.com/2010/7/1/1547365/denver-nuggets-warriors-andris-biedrins
Chandler, Douglas, Mozgov, Curry, 2012 first rounder for Melo?
We don’t have a 2012 first rounder. It went to Houston in the T-Mac deal. The next first round pick we can trade is our one in 2014.
Footwork and body type remind me of Rik Smits. Another Walsh diamond in the rough. I hope he’s got more of the Euro-Sabonis style game. Depends how high his bball IQ is.
Ironic to sign a Russian prospect with Prokohov next store. Got to be a blow to his giant ego.
I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised by the highlight reel. I was expecting to see a slow lumbering center and this guy actually looks like he is a pretty decent athlete for 7’0.
“No, I didn’t talk to him,” Mozgov’s agent, Bouna Ndiaye, said when asked if Prokhorov had tried to land Mozgov for the Nets. “I really focused on the Knicks. And I did not focus on the Nets because the Nets would take longer to rebuild. I liked Mike D’Antoni’s system better than the Nets.”
BURN!
Wow, he doesn’t look terrible at all. He’s surprisingly coordinated and loves to finish at the rim — not everyone does.
Basically, he is our 2010 1st round draft pick — same basic salary. I guess I don’t understand how he doesn’t have to get drafted, but whatevuh.
I’d like to see him get some minutes, but if D’Antoni never played Darko, is he going to play this guy? Sigh.