I know I'm not the only one that feels strongly about this; but after watching Eddy in the preseason, it's very clear he is part of the problem and not the solution. The three biggest deturants this season in the knicks quest to make noise are Isiah, Crawford and Curry.

Curry has been picking up offensive fouls at an alarming rate, hasn't rebounded at all, suprise suprise is way out of shape and doesn't play any defense. Randolf may not play defense but at least he rebounds and is efficient. It's time Isiah wakes up and realize that 25 minutes is the max for Curry. Lee is going to put up better team numbers get more people involved and play more defense.

Isiah has always missed the boat on starting the right players, but wake up Nate Robinson over Crawford. Nate is a better defender and already shoots a much high percentage than jamal while being a foot shorter. The knicks season preview said it all, Jamal is talking about his tatatoos in the offseason, tremendous lack of focus year after year from this kid, who will never improve.

In order for Marbury to be effective he can't be on the floor with Crawford, Curry and Zach i don't know why this is so hard for isiah to understand. Anytime the Knicks were in a game in the preseason Eddy Curry was on the bench, along with Crawford. The teams offense flows much better, and we actually look like a team, playing to our strengths which is uptempo ball. Mardy Collins needs minutes, as does balkman, Q, and other two way talent

Marbury/Collins
Q/Nate
Balkman/Chandler
Randolf/Jefferies
Lee/Curry

The team would be much better off, with Jamal out of the rotation, if you wanna give him a few minutes to see if he can score the ball fine, but we are not getting blown out when their are defenders out there, and Nate and Steph can attack the rim and look for Lee and Balkman to finish. David Lee plays 38 minutes a night, period, great things happen when he is out there with renaldo (Who our dumb ****ing coach stated last year, "everytime he is out there he changes the flow of the game, and usually gets a double double", but yet jefferies started the entire time over him)

Isiah needs to wake up, before the season ends.

Two lottery picks for a role player?

Start lee over EC and we will lose every game. Who is Lee gonna guard and besides garbage points, how is he gonna score?

How is he going to score? The same way he scores all the time. We will lose every game are you on drugs, what does eddy bring on defense nothing.

Who is lee guarding that is going to be a terrible matchup, outside of Yao, you put zach on howard, there isn't a lot of great talent at the center position. The sheere fact you believe we are in a better position starting zach and eddy is disgraceful those two don't ever rotate don't ever pass and kill any offense

Posted by Bippity10:

Two lottery picks for a role player?

You see, this is part of the problem. I kow the opportunity to heckle Isiah is too great, but this is THE problem. Isiah at this point is entrenched management. You hear about this ALL THE TIME in the Wall Street Journal. He has everything to lose from the inevitable and everything to gain by a miraculous turnaround. His career essentially hinges on Eddy Curry.

David Lee + Zach Randolph is what is best for the Knicks. They are the two best players on this team. Anyone with half a brain sees this. Getting them both on the court for 35-40 minutes a game is this team's best chance for success. But--entrenched management--pushes another agenda, his own. Eddy Curry's success is what is best for Isiah Thomas, not what is best for the Knicks.

Posted by SupremeCommander:

Posted by Bippity10:

Two lottery picks for a role player?

You see, this is part of the problem. I kow the opportunity to heckle Isiah is too great, but this is THE problem. Isiah at this point is entrenched management. You hear about this ALL THE TIME in the Wall Street Journal. He has everything to lose from the inevitable and everything to gain by a miraculous turnaround. His career essentially hinges on Eddy Curry.

David Lee + Zach Randolph is what is best for the Knicks. They are the two best players on this team. Anyone with half a brain sees this. Getting them both on the court for 35-40 minutes a game is this team's best chance for success. But--entrenched management--pushes another agenda, his own. Eddy Curry's success is what is best for Isiah Thomas, not what is best for the Knicks.

Yup. This was evident the day day we made the trade. We go as Curry goes. IF he is mediocre, we will be mediocre. If he is great, we will be great. That's Isiah's only hope.

I agree...our team makes a lot more sense without Eddy...it plays to Zach and Marbs' strength more and gets Lee and Balk more minutes.

I think we need to decide on a centerpiece and a style of play before we make any more trades

Cosign. Lee and Balkman are the "glue" guys that will actually make this mess work. You sit Curry and limit him to 25-30 minuts and make sure that Lee is the one that is always playing with Zach or Curry and the frontcourt will be more productive. You give Balkman at least 25 minutes and our team defense will improve. Don't play Jeffries at all and tell Crawford that he needs to stop the crossover pullup j's and you will see our FG percentage go up. Tell Marbury to lay like his has a head on his shoulder and start taking over games in spurts and our offense will become more consistent. The players are here. The discussion of entrenched management is a fact. IT has to justify the Curry trade and the Jeffries signing that he has to play these guys even though it is clear they don't deserve the minutes they get. IT winning cures all. Sit Jeffries and limit Curry and watch the wins pile up and we will forget how we gave up 2 lottery picks for this guy. I really don't care because in Balkman and Chandler, I think IT found lottery level talent outside of the lottery, so IMO it really is a wash. What matters now is putting the best players on the court who can work together as a unit.

Z-BO -C
Lee pf
chandler -sf
Q Rich-sg
Nate-pg

3 shooters two hustlers 1 can knock down outside shots and slash-chandler

Posted by Killa4luv:

Who is Lee gonna guard?

Who is Eddy gonna guard?