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djsunyc
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3/13/2006  11:06 AM
Posted by TemujinKnick:

I do care. I'm not going to sit here and complain about the failings and the losses every single day. I think we will be a strong team next year. We probably won't be the same team we are today, but THAT I don't care about.

Four straight games they were playing harder and they won two of them. Then we get another setback. This is just the way it's going to be until everyone who isn't giving everything they have every night is gone. I can wait another year.

Be as pessimistic and caught up in the moment as you want. I'm just going to keep watching and pushing for them to win until they do it consistently.

this is nice and all, and is a good read but open your eyes dude. if you think they have the fans best intentions at heart, then you're not seeing what's going on. i'm the worst of the bunch b/c i have season tix so i support them financially. so i'm caught between what's reality and being a fan. in fact, by renewing season tix, i would be classified as an optimist as well. but don't confuse optimism with realism. the team blows and there needs to be a major shakeup - and i mean philosophically.
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3/13/2006  11:11 AM
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Posted by djsunyc:
Posted by holfresh:



You know what, I don't care either..It's either Isiah's or Marbury's fault...That what most posters are up to these days..don't let me stop you...go right ahead....you won't hear a peep out of me....sorry to interrup..


one question holfresh, if it's not steph's fault, (btw i NEVER said it was steph's fault), then is this a case again of a GM not surrounding steph with enough talent to be successful? a case again of a GM not giving steph complementary players to accentuate his game? or do you think that we have the right pieces around steph and lb totally misused them?[

for the record, steph is steph. he's always been steph and nothing has changed since his days in minny. he is what he is and isiah knew what he was when he brought him here. i don't blame steph for anything. i lay blame on the guy that brought him here without a plan.

thats what I believe.

forget salary....age...and how long they been in the L. PLay the best players..

who are the best players?
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3/13/2006  11:16 AM
Posted by Andrew:

Isiah is the person resposible for deciding what players are best for the Knicks. If for some reason he is deferring to LB or if LB is picking the players there is no reason for Isiah to be in NY.
"When Francis' name was mentioned, (Brown) was the first to say hey, this is a guy that we'd be interested in,"

That statement is in no way indicative of LB proposing, negotiating or making the decision on the trade. It was Larry saying...Penny and Ariza for Francis....sure I think that is an upgrade. Really who wouldn't. It is a far stretch to say they are LBs picks though.
I don't have time to look for it, but after the trade Larry was quoted saying that when he learned Francis was available he "begged" Isiah to get him.

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3/13/2006  11:42 AM
Posted by TemujinKnick:

I do care. I'm not going to sit here and complain about the failings and the losses every single day. I think we will be a strong team next year. We probably won't be the same team we are today, but THAT I don't care about.

Four straight games they were playing harder and they won two of them. Then we get another setback. This is just the way it's going to be until everyone who isn't giving everything they have every night is gone. I can wait another year.

Be as pessimistic and caught up in the moment as you want. I'm just going to keep watching and pushing for them to win until they do it consistently.

That's not being a fan, that's being an Ostrich. Putting your head in the ground and hoping that everything will be alright when you come up to watch a game. And if it isn't you just put your head back into the hole and wait for the next game.
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3/13/2006  1:16 PM
Posted by djsunyc:
Posted by holfresh:



You know what, I don't care either..It's either Isiah's or Marbury's fault...That what most posters are up to these days..don't let me stop you...go right ahead....you won't hear a peep out of me....sorry to interrup..


one question holfresh, if it's not steph's fault, (btw i NEVER said it was steph's fault), then is this a case again of a GM not surrounding steph with enough talent to be successful? a case again of a GM not giving steph complementary players to accentuate his game? or do you think that we have the right pieces around steph and lb totally misused them?

for the record, steph is steph. he's always been steph and nothing has changed since his days in minny. he is what he is and isiah knew what he was when he brought him here. i don't blame steph for anything. i lay blame on the guy that brought him here without a plan.



My point is it's much bigger than Steph and Isiah...How can a GM be expected to put it all together in 2 years given the salary cap issues and the roster that Isiah met here...How is it possible? If you are really trying to be fair...Steph has played the best of any Knick this season, and now this debacle is his fault...OK you don't blame Steph...We went wrong with the signing of Larry Brown...Larry wants vets and will trade all the rooks we have...Ariza and Nate are done with the Knicks..Look for another rook to go in the off season and possibly draft picks...Then you blame Isiah...What is tha about...You complain about the direction of the team but say nothing about Larry Brown..

The pink elephant in the room is Larry Brown...No one will talk about it...Larry is done in 3 years...The players lost respect for him already...No player with any value will sign here as long as Larry is coaching this team...Steph is now trying to get traded and I don't blame him...To me, it seems like having Larry being here is more important than this organization building with young talent...

Marbs is not the kind of talent that you surround a team with...No point guard is...He is a piece of the puzzle...The things is, guards like Marbs don't grow on trees...It took the Knicks 30 years to get a guy like Marbs...30 years...Marbs pouts, yes, Marbs complains, yes but I don't blame him, Larry has took what seemed to be a good thing and turned it sour...Larry gets a pass in this town...

Even you, are trying to pin trades on Isiah that Larry wanted...All posters here is saying Isiah should give the coach what he wants..When he does, you blame him...amazing...Larry time has passed with this team, the players are not playing hard for him, he throws them under the bus whenever he gets the chance...


If you are going to point fingers, point it in every direction...Not just at one or two guys..

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3/13/2006  1:26 PM
holfresh...you say Isiah needs more that 2 years before we start to complain and then you blame LB after not even a full season? Jrose is a LB type player? Isiah was after him for the past year.

Isiah is the GM. He put together this team. This team is full of overpaid, underacheivers. The team is heading in the wrong direction. Isiah is digging the knicks into a hole....time to stop digging.
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3/13/2006  1:37 PM
Posted by holfresh:
Posted by djsunyc:
Posted by holfresh:



You know what, I don't care either..It's either Isiah's or Marbury's fault...That what most posters are up to these days..don't let me stop you...go right ahead....you won't hear a peep out of me....sorry to interrup..


one question holfresh, if it's not steph's fault, (btw i NEVER said it was steph's fault), then is this a case again of a GM not surrounding steph with enough talent to be successful? a case again of a GM not giving steph complementary players to accentuate his game? or do you think that we have the right pieces around steph and lb totally misused them?

for the record, steph is steph. he's always been steph and nothing has changed since his days in minny. he is what he is and isiah knew what he was when he brought him here. i don't blame steph for anything. i lay blame on the guy that brought him here without a plan.



My point is it's much bigger than Steph and Isiah...How can a GM be expected to put it all together in 2 years given the salary cap issues and the roster that Isiah met here...How is it possible? If you are really trying to be fair...Steph has played the best of any Knick this season, and now this debacle is his fault...OK you don't blame Steph...We went wrong with the signing of Larry Brown...Larry wants vets and will trade all the rooks we have...Ariza and Nate are done with the Knicks..Look for another rook to go in the off season and possibly draft picks...Then you blame Isiah...What is tha about...You complain about the direction of the team but say nothing about Larry Brown..

The pink elephant in the room is Larry Brown...No one will talk about it...Larry is done in 3 years...The players lost respect for him already...No player with any value will sign here as long as Larry is coaching this team...Steph is now trying to get traded and I don't blame him...To me, it seems like having Larry being here is more important than this organization building with young talent...

Marbs is not the kind of talent that you surround a team with...No point guard is...He is a piece of the puzzle...The things is, guards like Marbs don't grow on trees...It took the Knicks 30 years to get a guy like Marbs...30 years...Marbs pouts, yes, Marbs complains, yes but I don't blame him, Larry has took what seemed to be a good thing and turned it sour...Larry gets a pass in this town...

Even you, are trying to pin trades on Isiah that Larry wanted...All posters here is saying Isiah should give the coach what he wants..When he does, you blame him...amazing...Larry time has passed with this team, the players are not playing hard for him, he throws them under the bus whenever he gets the chance...


If you are going to point fingers, point it in every direction...Not just at one or two guys..


fingers are pointed all around - as it should be since it's a collaborative effort. but you're talking about lb like he's the main culprit in this mess. and he's not. he inherited the roster and it's probably the first time in at least 5-6 years he had to deal with the type of attitudes on it.

50+ transactions by isiah. not one single defensive player. not one.

that's a huge flaw.

he panicked and hired lenny wilkens to a guaranteed 4 year deal and then fired him in a year.

trading away 4 unprotected lottery picks and only getting 3 back in the 20+ range is another problem.

and that's in the 2 years here.
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3/13/2006  1:46 PM
Posted by Andrew:

holfresh...you say Isiah needs more that 2 years before we start to complain and then you blame LB after not even a full season? Jrose is a LB type player? Isiah was after him for the past year.

Isiah is the GM. He put together this team. This team is full of overpaid, underacheivers. The team is heading in the wrong direction. Isiah is digging the knicks into a hole....time to stop digging.



Isiah was after Vince Carter and Toronto wanted to throw in JRose and Isiah said no...I complian about Larry because every one blames Isiah for moves that Larry wants....

True, Isiah is the GM and I would not get Larry any player that does not fit what I wanted.. But Larry has him by the short hairs...He will run the team into the ground if he doesn't get his way..He is doing it now....
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3/13/2006  1:47 PM
Posted by holfresh:

Larry wants vets and will trade all the rooks we have...Ariza and Nate are done with the Knicks..Look for another rook to go in the off season and possibly draft picks...Then you blame Isiah...What is tha about...You complain about the direction of the team but say nothing about Larry Brown..

we dropped matt barnes and picked up qyntel woods. not george lynch. not glenn robinson, or any other 30+ year old vet out there. we picked up qyntel. 24 years old. more skilled than trev? i thinks so. so they dumped trev in the francis deal. nate has $50+ mil in front of him signed to long term deals. numbers game and nate is gonna have to pay for it. ad was 37, jalen is 33. francis is 29. and i'm not happy that jalen + francis are here but so far, no eric snow. no dikembe motumbo. let's cross that trade away rooks for vets thing when we get to it. (and btw, swapping 21-22 year olds for 24-25 year olds is still rebuilding too)
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3/13/2006  1:54 PM
Posted by djsunyc:
Posted by holfresh:
Posted by djsunyc:
Posted by holfresh:



You know what, I don't care either..It's either Isiah's or Marbury's fault...That what most posters are up to these days..don't let me stop you...go right ahead....you won't hear a peep out of me....sorry to interrup..


one question holfresh, if it's not steph's fault, (btw i NEVER said it was steph's fault), then is this a case again of a GM not surrounding steph with enough talent to be successful? a case again of a GM not giving steph complementary players to accentuate his game? or do you think that we have the right pieces around steph and lb totally misused them?

for the record, steph is steph. he's always been steph and nothing has changed since his days in minny. he is what he is and isiah knew what he was when he brought him here. i don't blame steph for anything. i lay blame on the guy that brought him here without a plan.



My point is it's much bigger than Steph and Isiah...How can a GM be expected to put it all together in 2 years given the salary cap issues and the roster that Isiah met here...How is it possible? If you are really trying to be fair...Steph has played the best of any Knick this season, and now this debacle is his fault...OK you don't blame Steph...We went wrong with the signing of Larry Brown...Larry wants vets and will trade all the rooks we have...Ariza and Nate are done with the Knicks..Look for another rook to go in the off season and possibly draft picks...Then you blame Isiah...What is tha about...You complain about the direction of the team but say nothing about Larry Brown..

The pink elephant in the room is Larry Brown...No one will talk about it...Larry is done in 3 years...The players lost respect for him already...No player with any value will sign here as long as Larry is coaching this team...Steph is now trying to get traded and I don't blame him...To me, it seems like having Larry being here is more important than this organization building with young talent...

Marbs is not the kind of talent that you surround a team with...No point guard is...He is a piece of the puzzle...The things is, guards like Marbs don't grow on trees...It took the Knicks 30 years to get a guy like Marbs...30 years...Marbs pouts, yes, Marbs complains, yes but I don't blame him, Larry has took what seemed to be a good thing and turned it sour...Larry gets a pass in this town...

Even you, are trying to pin trades on Isiah that Larry wanted...All posters here is saying Isiah should give the coach what he wants..When he does, you blame him...amazing...Larry time has passed with this team, the players are not playing hard for him, he throws them under the bus whenever he gets the chance...


If you are going to point fingers, point it in every direction...Not just at one or two guys..


fingers are pointed all around - as it should be since it's a collaborative effort. but you're talking about lb like he's the main culprit in this mess. and he's not. he inherited the roster and it's probably the first time in at least 5-6 years he had to deal with the type of attitudes on it.

50+ transactions by isiah. not one single defensive player. not one.

that's a huge flaw.

he panicked and hired lenny wilkens to a guaranteed 4 year deal and then fired him in a year.

trading away 4 unprotected lottery picks and only getting 3 back in the 20+ range is another problem.

and that's in the 2 years here.



Well if Larry played to the strength of this team you would see a different team on the court...They would be more positive and more receptive to ideas and play harder on the defensive end...You can't tell me that 35 line ups in 50 games is is helping this roster gel and play as a unit..It is impossible...That alone will lose you 30 games...but while doing that you lose the players as well..Why don't you guys see this as being important? I'm watching Malik Rose play over Frye and Lee, both of whom will put up better numbers than Malik if given the same time...

Tons of teams out there don't play D and are competitive....Dallas,PHX,Nets,Kings,Denver and could name more....They play to their talents...



[Edited by - holfresh on 03-13-2006 1:55 PM]
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3/13/2006  2:05 PM
Personally, I wish I could just stop being a Knick fan, but thats not something you can do. I'm going to the game on Friday, I have no idea why (well 2 half priced tickets from a desperate freind who has nobody to go with as EVERYBODY canceled on him because they are disgusted with the team) but I'm going. I could be going to my freinds house party, but I'm passin that up, to go the game just to see if we loose by 40 or 30 pts. Or maybe we will even beat the spred and only loose by 12 after a spirited "comeback" with 4 minutes left in the game and us down by like 26. IT has ruined the team that Layden also ruined, and that Dolan has put into the grave. If you like rooting for a qalking zombie organization that can't do a thing right, and is the joke of the nation, congratulations, and you know who you are.

Playes that come to NY need to realize that here its us against the world, the refs hate us, the rest of America is gelous of NY, so its for the leage ratings to keep the Knicks down. Look at Bobcats game, they got a sellout of comign in and wathcing the hated Knicks struggle. Same everywhere. The NY GM needs to realize that the odds are stacked against him, and that he needs to be perfect, otherwise everybody will conspire to screw him.

It takes a special brand of toughness to be a Knick player, GM, or coach. The biggest problem we have with the team is the its just not tough enough to play against the odds every night. They are not tough enough to handle the brutal beatin by the refs every game, not tough enough to handle fighting the world.

IT I thought would be tough enough, but he is also an idiot who just doesnt know what he is doing. Larry prolly is tough enough, or at leat used to be touch enough. But you think Curry and Craw are toughe nough for anything, you are out of your mind. Craw looks like the type of kid that used cry when they stole his milk in preschool. Curry is a fatas who takes being punked on practically every game.

A team of heartless punks we have.
A glimmer of hope maybe?!?
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3/13/2006  3:29 PM
The Knicks are the perfect extension of Corporate Business of Cablevision.
The high paid booms that play for the money not for the love of the game.
Dolan need the fallen team to justify the new arena. He will get more money from this project that Knick budget for 1000 Years...
What can be better for CV and Dolan that this controversial mess...? - Attention brings money and created publicity...
Knicks are not the expensive toy like Sacramento or Dallas - they are a part of profit making machine regardless of the sport results.
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3/13/2006  3:47 PM
Posted by arkrud:

The Knicks are the perfect extension of Corporate Business of Cablevision.
The high paid booms that play for the money not for the love of the game.
Dolan need the fallen team to justify the new arena. He will get more money from this project that Knick budget for 1000 Years...
What can be better for CV and Dolan that this controversial mess...? - Attention brings money and created publicity...
Knicks are not the expensive toy like Sacramento or Dallas - they are a part of profit making machine regardless of the sport results.



LB should play guys who care--like Lee Frye etc.. and sit every arse that causes problems or doesnt care. If Cablevision doesnt like it, pay LB his 40mm and create more crp.
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