Posted by COSSUCKS:

Picture a high performance 6 cyl sports car. It should be doing 0-60 in 5 seconds flat. It has a bad spark plug. So its stumbling and misfiring to a time of 8 seconds in the 60. Does that mean the whole car needs to be junked or that bad plug just needs to be replaced?

Posted by islesfan:

Posted by COSSUCKS:

Picture a high performance 6 cyl sports car. It should be doing 0-60 in 5 seconds flat. It has a bad spark plug. So its stumbling and misfiring to a time of 8 seconds in the 60. Does that mean the whole car needs to be junked or that bad plug just needs to be replaced?

Really bad analogy. Why are you assuming that all the other pieces are of high performance quality and that they all fit together in a way to make that car perform at a high level?

This team is more a collection of expensive odd parts that didn't fit in a bunch of other cars but are being put into this junker, in a haphazard manner, with the hope that they can be an average car.

All the new young parts are just pieces like windshield wipers, A/C and automatic windows. They don't do much for the overall performance of the car but they have a role in certain situations.

Posted by kam77:

Posted by islesfan:

Posted by COSSUCKS:

Picture a high performance 6 cyl sports car. It should be doing 0-60 in 5 seconds flat. It has a bad spark plug. So its stumbling and misfiring to a time of 8 seconds in the 60. Does that mean the whole car needs to be junked or that bad plug just needs to be replaced?

Really bad analogy. Why are you assuming that all the other pieces are of high performance quality and that they all fit together in a way to make that car perform at a high level?

This team is more a collection of expensive odd parts that didn't fit in a bunch of other cars but are being put into this junker, in a haphazard manner, with the hope that they can be an average car.

All the new young parts are just pieces like windshield wipers, A/C and automatic windows. They don't do much for the overall performance of the car but they have a role in certain situations.

And instead of driving the car, Isiah can't get it running. But if it rains, look at our shiny wipers go.

Posted by djsunyc:

the 1988/89 knicks went 52-30 with the following under the age of 27:

ewing - 26
newman - 25
jackson - 23
gerald - 25
oakley - 25
strickland - 22
kenny walker - 25

Posted by RemBee76:

Posted by Bippity10:

Say all you want about the rookies and what they will do for us. Our current core is Marbury, Curry, Zach, Craw, Q, Lee and Balkamn etc. They are for the most part young, and here for a long while. This is Isiah's core whether you beleive it or not. They have the talent to outdo 33 wins and get into the playoffs today. But as usual, the "true optimists" among us are already trying to find reasons to lower expectations. And "pessimists" who have high expectations of the team are called "haters".

Sorry, come again? The "haters" have high expectations for this team? Sorry, I must have missed that somewhere between our front-court being called the "lard-ass twins" (or whatever)and the suggestion that we would be better off "executing" Marbury and Curry.

I don't recall anyone making predictions for next season before Solace did (though you have to wonder how someone can moan about a lack of improvement then say we "should" see a ten game up-tick next year) and I am going to hold off doing that until I am sure what our roster will look like (we might still make major changes, after all).

But I said many times here, before the Randolph trade, that our core gives us at least a .500 record next year and that yet another losing season should be cause enough for making changes in management.

So again, if Isiah keeps adding young talent and the team continues to win 33 games at what point does the "bitching" become honest opinion.

Well, if over half of our "current core" (as listed by yourself) is out with injury for part/all of the last two months as it was last year, I don't think it unreasonable to temper the "bithchin" about a 33 win season. But when others do, I have trouble seeing it as "honest opinion".