Hey guys. New member to the blog. Long time observer for all news Celtics, but decided today to get in on the discussion.
I like Lee a lot. He's tough, rugged, rebounds, and is athletic (something this aging core, assuming Ray and Paul resign, need desperately). He is a 77% ft shooter, and shot 56% from the field in his career, which is really terrific stuff.
He had a career year for the Knicks last year at 22ppg-12rpg(3 offensive rebounds pg)-4apg as most of you know. Those numbers would go down, because, lets face it, they were the Knicks, and D'Antoni only cares about the offense. However, I feel his numbers wouldn't dip too much because of his high field goal percentage and vast amount of hustle points he puts up. Of course there would be less shots in Boston, but Lee makes the most of his attempts, which is shown by his fg% (55%,9th last year). You know what you're going to get with Lee, which was listed above. I assume his defense needs at the very least some work because the Knicks play absolutely none, even less than none, but that is pretty much the only down side I see about Lee.
Now with all that said, everyone in the league would like a guy like Lee, and despite my like of him, I just don't know how this is going to work, getting him, Paul, and Ray, plus filling out the rest of our roster. I assume S/T's with Glen Davis and Sheed's contract are the only pieces we have to move in any move. But the fact that Danny has reached out to him makes me think he has at least some idea of a move to accomplish all of this in his bag of tricks. If he does, it certainly would be another slight-of-hand act from Danny Boy. Even if we don't get Lee, he's the type of player we need to look at, and it's nice to see Danny not sitting idly hoping for the Big 3 to find the fountain of youth, and being proactive.
I'm really looking forward to seeing what moves Danny is able to make, and being a part of this online community.