Buffet of Not-So-Goodness?

………………. and he’s obviously a really nice guy, probably my favorite personality on the team.

But he’s a jumpshooter and I HATE power forwards that think they are jumpshooters.

David Lee gets an AWESOME rating from me.

massively out of shape and vastly overpaid Eddy Curry in the deal.

Meanwhile, though, my guess is that the New York Knicks will stand pat unless Walsh can somehow swing another cost-cutting trade. For example, a hypothetical transaction of Malik Rose and Jared Jeffries being dealt to the Chicago Bulls for Larry Hughes would cut $6,883,800 from New York’s books come 2010.

Besides, Lee is currently entreched at the pivot in Mike D’Antoni’s fast-paced, up-tempo offense.

Trade: ESPN

Explanation:

Basically we would trade raef/channing for even more cap space. i think the knicks would do it because all 3 incoming contracts are expiring and they really want to be rid of marbury.
OBVIOUSLY we would not play marbury. we would just give him raef’s inactive spot and keep him away from the team. wait for his 20 mill to come off the books. would they include david lee? i guess thats the only question. i think the financial relief of raef’s insurance would be enough to pursuade them. plus channing would fit well with dantoni. this also helps us consolidate one roster spot. thoughts?

My take:
Lee would be a great backup for us who would bring something completely different than Frye to the table. Yet I’m not sure about the deal since Lee is expiring and wants to be paid big money according to everything out of NY (> MLE to < $10M) – and preferably also start. And Marbury’s contract is pretty much unmovable at the deadline unlike Raef’s, so he would have to be bought out if NY doesn’t find a “dumb” taker (that would be us in that scenario). But it is an idea of how to benefit from the Knicks’ effort to get far under the cap.

His skillset: shooting 20-footers reasonably well

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no, there’s nothing more.

Being able to pass, dribble, and rebound is kind of important in basketball.

“He needs to play like a guy who’s 6’11”. Not like a guy that’s 5’11"."

But can we really get over this grass-is-greener attitude that’s been going around lately? No one is looking at the positives that Channing brings to the floor, but instead are wallowing in discontentment. In that Sacramento game, their bigs drew ours out of the middle and opened up their inside game. Channing, when he was on the floor was doing the same. Granted, Channing’s percentages are down this year, but he still has the reputation of a good-shooting bigman. You have to go guard Channing. That opens up the middle for our wing players to attack. It’s not Channing’s fault that they don’t. Sure, he’s a little softer than we would like, but he’s a back-up. 9th man on the bench. That is why I just don’t get this statement:

…the Blazers will need to make an upgrade at the back-up power forward position in order to get to where they want to be.

For all those who want to dump Channing, what are you going to get for him? A middle-clogging, offensive-deficient 6’10" clod? How does that help? And if it did, wouldn’t Diogu get more playing time? Channing fits with the offense that the Blazers are running. If he can pick up that shooting percentage, and work as getting a cople more rebounds, he’ll be spot-on perfect in his position as our 9th man.

Can this be argued? Sure, but no one is doing that. Nothing but an avalanche of “Frye Sucks” posts. I’m sick of all the whining, and the win-now-or-die mentality that’s been going around. Gameday threads are practically unreadable anymore. The troll-infected board at Sactown Royalty was better than our fans whining about a win.

(huff, huff. /end rant)

I also like Brandon Bass, and almost mentioned him in the post. I’m not sure the Mavs would go for a straight up trade of Frye for Bass, but if we could bring him in somehow I’d be happy.

I agree that Travis works well as a Power Forward off the bench, that was very apparent last year. I think that when Martell comes back, Travis will get a lot of the minutes that Frye is currently getting at back-up power forward, and that will be good for the Blazers.

Blazerhopeful – Not to confuse the issue, but my long-term vision involves the Blazers signing Hedo Turkoglu as a free agent this coming off-season, and becoming our starting Small Forward. To me, that would make Martell and/or Travis expendable for other trades (ie point guard), leaving Batum as a young solid back-up Small Forward with a huge upside.

TDarkstar – I understand where you’re coming from about the “grass is greener” attitude. Like I said, I love our team this year, and I’m looking forward to an exciting and successful season. However, it’s likely that the Blazers will make some roster moves before they become that true title contender that we all believe they can be. The only question is what will those moves be? Guessing at that, and giving our opinions is part of the fun of being a fan, right?

His game and his stats are sick (pun intended). It’s not a beauty contest.

He won the Most Improved Player award last year.

He is averaging 17 points, 5 rebounds, and 4 assists so far this year.

He just scored 35 points on our Blazers the other day.

His career 3 point percentage is just under 40%.

He operates as a “point forward” which lessens the need for a point guard.

He’s a veteran with playoff experience.

And – I’ve never heard anyone say he’s a bad teammate.

no matter how crappy he is at bball

yet teams like the L*KERS use people like Luke Walton and Kwame Brown in Frye’s place. Detroit uses McDyess in Frye’s place. Boston used old man PJ Brown. Would you take any of these guys over Frye?

Frye’s happy with the limited minutes he gets. That’s a rarity in this league. He LOVES PDX. He made it his adopted home. That’s a rarity. He’s a glue guy and great chemistry/locker room presence guy. That’s a rarity. He’s a great intelligent guy to interview and puts together a great blog in his spare time. Why would you give something like that away?