djsunyc wrote:he said the one thing he wouldn't have done is sign jerome james...

F isiah! he doesn’t deserve good people like jerome. i didn’t see jerome cost us 4 #1's like f'g marbury and curry did. I didn’t see him cost us trevor ariza like stevie f’g franchise did. I didn’t see him cost us andrew bynum like the drafting of channing f’g frye did. tell isiah to put the bird back in the cage and quit his f’g chirping.

In the game you get some right and some wrong. Reezy, Nate, Dlee, Wilson, all good picks. solid picks, and some trades like KVH, Mo Taylor, etc kind of sucked but its gonna happen with the best of GM's.

But, Two trades doomed us: Eddy and Ma Bu Li!

I understand his logic at the time but as a GM he should have one insight that fans don't and thats the guys personality, heart and desire. He failed miserably on both accounts.

Even little old Nalod was beaming with disgust that he could be so gulliable to take on Jerome James!!!

PHuck Isiah!

Marv wrote:

djsunyc wrote:he said the one thing he wouldn't have done is sign jerome james...

F isiah! he doesn’t deserve good people like jerome. i didn’t see jerome cost us 4 #1's like f'g marbury and curry did. I didn’t see him cost us trevor ariza like stevie f’g franchise did. I didn’t see him cost us andrew bynum like the drafting of channing f’g frye did. tell isiah to put the bird back in the cage and quit his f’g chirping.

blame Francis on Larry Brown (aka Magoo), who brought him in to play head games with steph. Went wrong when the 2cancers became Gemini's

Isiah drafted well, its everything else he did bad

DurzoBlint wrote:blame Francis on Larry Brown (aka Magoo), who brought him in to play head games with steph. Went wrong when the 2cancers became Gemini's

I never believed that and still don't. Isiah was GM

The problem is that the fanbase itself is becoming diminuative. Isiah definitely contributed to that.

Panos wrote:

Allanfan20 wrote:The thing that struck my nerves the most was that he said he had to get Marbury to fill up the garden because he said it was empty and nobody was coming. Please. Maybe it wasn't selling out anymore, but people have always come to Knick games.

The problem is that the fanbase itself is becoming diminuative. Isiah definitely contributed to that.

My thoughts exactly.
If anything, attendance hit a low point during Isiah's LATER years when they were getting blown out
by 30 points in the 2nd quarter, and the only entertainment at the garden was chanting "FI-re Is-AI-ah!"

Yeah, but the sad thing is that in Isiahs LAST YEAR, the attendance was very high. I remember that specifically because Isiah kept reminding us that the team was a success because of that.

The Marbury trade was fine. I still remember this board the day of the trade and the thread went like 30 pages in a few days...Cats were geeked around here.

It was the Eddy deal that sunk us.

Allanfan20 wrote:Frank WIlliams was still getting a little playing time, and even played in the playoffs that year. He turned into a nothing though. The two things that really killed us in that trade had nothing to do with Frank Williams though. It was the fact that we gave up two draft picks.

If I recall Franks mother had passed away all around the same time, he played well, he even stood up to J.Kidd when others on the team wouldn't.