• Defined a plan that gives us the best chance/quickest route back to a championship, and through the years stuck to it
• Moved three contracts thought unmoveable - Crawful, Randolph, and Jeffries
• On this last one, had the foresight to realize that to be a player this year, two max slots was absolutely necessary. We wouldn't be in the conversation with just one slot. And Donnie deserves props for realizing this.
• Drafted pretty well, esp Gallo and TD
• Conducted Knicks business like a professional, helping rid the place of Isiah's stench

Kudos, no matter what happens with Lebron.

i thought the amare signing was genius and really put us back in consideration. donnie has handled this whole thing with a lot of class and smarts.

the only complaint anyone could have is the draft in 2009. other than that, walsh has been top notch.

donnie has us in the top three for lebron up to the last minute. can't complain. the rest is up to lebron.

alau53 wrote:bottom line counts..get me lebron and we can give him his due..otherwise our lottery pick may belong to rockets

agreed... i wanna see results... whether he gets Lebron or not, his mission is to get this team back to contention this year... that means there needs to be more moves made other than just Amare to get us there... if he's unable to land the biggest prize, i'm not gonna curse him as long as he makes other impactful moves to get this team back to contention in 2010... & when i say contention, i'm not talking about a 40 win roster that's just able to sneak into the playoffs as a #8 seed... i'm talking about top 5 seed at the very least... i think we've been waiting long enough & we've sacrificed enough assets to expect some real results this year... no more "next year"... it's put up or shut up time for this franchise.

Uptown wrote:

TMS wrote:

alau53 wrote:bottom line counts..get me lebron and we can give him his due..otherwise our lottery pick may belong to rockets

agreed... i wanna see results... whether he gets Lebron or not, his mission is to get this team back to contention this year... that means there needs to be more moves made other than just Amare to get us there... if he's unable to land the biggest prize, i'm not gonna curse him as long as he makes other impactful moves to get this team back to contention in 2010... & when i say contention, i'm not talking about a 40 win roster that's just able to sneak into the playoffs as a #8 seed... i'm talking about top 5 seed at the very least... i think we've been waiting long enough & we've sacrificed enough assets to expect some real results this year... no more "next year"... it's put up or shut up time for this franchise.

So if Lebron signs elsewhere, you still expect us to gather enough talent to finish top 5 in a much tougher Eastern Conference?

Boston
Orlando
Miami
Chicago
Atlanta
Milwaukee

I dont see it. Even with Amare, those teams are more complet than we are and have played together longer. If we can pull the Randolph trade from GS, thats give us a really good young prospect at the PF position moving forward, at a good price.

we should be able to beat out Atlanta or Milwaukee with the right moves this summer... don't give me this stuff that Milwaukee is too tough to compete with, the Knicks this past season had every bit as much talent as they had... we have Amare, that's 1 important piece... if that's the only impactful player we get out of this summer, then i'm gonna be hugely disappointed... i'm sorry but if you're happy with just Amare & a buncha role players, then knock urself out.

Bench: Randolph,skywalker,TD,JJ redick, Currys contract could land us decent guys hopefully
6-7 seed

TMS wrote:

Uptown wrote:

TMS wrote:

alau53 wrote:bottom line counts..get me lebron and we can give him his due..otherwise our lottery pick may belong to rockets

agreed... i wanna see results... whether he gets Lebron or not, his mission is to get this team back to contention this year... that means there needs to be more moves made other than just Amare to get us there... if he's unable to land the biggest prize, i'm not gonna curse him as long as he makes other impactful moves to get this team back to contention in 2010... & when i say contention, i'm not talking about a 40 win roster that's just able to sneak into the playoffs as a #8 seed... i'm talking about top 5 seed at the very least... i think we've been waiting long enough & we've sacrificed enough assets to expect some real results this year... no more "next year"... it's put up or shut up time for this franchise.

So if Lebron signs elsewhere, you still expect us to gather enough talent to finish top 5 in a much tougher Eastern Conference?

Boston
Orlando
Miami
Chicago
Atlanta
Milwaukee

I dont see it. Even with Amare, those teams are more complet than we are and have played together longer. If we can pull the Randolph trade from GS, thats give us a really good young prospect at the PF position moving forward, at a good price.

we should be able to beat out Atlanta or Milwaukee with the right moves this summer... don't give me this stuff that Milwaukee is too tough to compete with, the Knicks this past season had every bit as much talent as they had... we have Amare, that's 1 important piece... if that's the only impactful player we get out of this summer, then i'm gonna be hugely disappointed... i'm sorry but if you're happy with just Amare & a buncha role players, then knock urself out.

Never said I'll be happy, just being realistic. If we dont get Lebron, then what do you suppose we do? Everyone has their hopes up at this point and we'll all be hugely disappointed after being in it right up to the bizzer. But if we miss out, we cant get the draft picks so we have to move forward and use the cap-space wisely and try and improve the team. Not saying the Bucks are to tough, but realistically, Amare is the best player on both teams but after that Milwaukee certainly has the next 2 best players possibly 3.

TMS wrote:

Uptown wrote:

TMS wrote:

Uptown wrote:

TMS wrote:

alau53 wrote:bottom line counts..get me lebron and we can give him his due..otherwise our lottery pick may belong to rockets

agreed... i wanna see results... whether he gets Lebron or not, his mission is to get this team back to contention this year... that means there needs to be more moves made other than just Amare to get us there... if he's unable to land the biggest prize, i'm not gonna curse him as long as he makes other impactful moves to get this team back to contention in 2010... & when i say contention, i'm not talking about a 40 win roster that's just able to sneak into the playoffs as a #8 seed... i'm talking about top 5 seed at the very least... i think we've been waiting long enough & we've sacrificed enough assets to expect some real results this year... no more "next year"... it's put up or shut up time for this franchise.

So if Lebron signs elsewhere, you still expect us to gather enough talent to finish top 5 in a much tougher Eastern Conference?

Boston
Orlando
Miami
Chicago
Atlanta
Milwaukee

I dont see it. Even with Amare, those teams are more complet than we are and have played together longer. If we can pull the Randolph trade from GS, thats give us a really good young prospect at the PF position moving forward, at a good price.

we should be able to beat out Atlanta or Milwaukee with the right moves this summer... don't give me this stuff that Milwaukee is too tough to compete with, the Knicks this past season had every bit as much talent as they had... we have Amare, that's 1 important piece... if that's the only impactful player we get out of this summer, then i'm gonna be hugely disappointed... i'm sorry but if you're happy with just Amare & a buncha role players, then knock urself out.

Never said I'll be happy, just being realistic. If we dont get Lebron, then what do you suppose we do? Everyone has their hopes up at this point and we'll all be hugely disappointed after being in it right up to the bizzer. But if we miss out, we cant get the draft picks so we have to move forward and use the cap-space wisely and try and improve the team. Not saying the Bucks are to tough, but realistically, Amare is the best player on both teams but after that Milwaukee certainly has the next 2 best players possibly 3.

depending on who we get this summer that could quickly change... just because we miss out on Lebron (if that happens) it doesn't mean Donnie's off the hook in terms of looking to make other moves to improve this roster... his job is halfway finished... he landed us 1 bigname guy to build around... now it's time to land the second.

I'd rather his job be half finished this summer rather than overpay for 2nd and 3rd tier guys who will deplete our funds leaving us out of the running for possibly signing a max deal next summer. If San An and or Denver dont bite on trades this summer, I'll wait it out until the trade deadline and even into next summer. Why does the second player absolutely have to be this summer? I know what Walsh said, but things change. Plans change. I just wouldn't want him to pull a trade just for the sake of pulling a trade for the summer of 10. If he sees somehting better in '11, then I have no problem picking up a Randolph this summer and going hard after Melo or Parker next yr.