What Isiah said after he traded for Mo T:

When you look at, the way I looked at Vin Baker and Moochie Norris contracts, we have two years of those contracts, we take on an additional year with Maurice Taylor, but we get the benefit of, in my opinion, the better player for these two years. Also, if you look at what's happening with expiring contracts, that's really how some teams are acquiring talent if you're not under the cap. With Maurice Taylor's third year, it becomes an expiring contract, which becomes a huge asset to us.

What a lying arsehole.

Who else throws away assets like Isiah does? Between buying out players (Shandon Anderson, Allan Houston and Mo T) and throwing 1st rd draft picks, including lottery picks, away in trades (2 in the Marbury trade and 2 in the Curry trade) it's amazing to think what a real GM would have been able to do with those kind of assets to go with the bottomless payroll.

[Edited by - islesfan on 09-29-2006 8:09 PM]

I'm thinking one of Steph's cousins must have been put in charge of the buyout.

[Edited by - blueSeats on 09-29-2006 8:32 PM]

Posted by Masterplan:

Posted by islesfan:

What Isiah said after he traded for Mo T:

When you look at, the way I looked at Vin Baker and Moochie Norris contracts, we have two years of those contracts, we take on an additional year with Maurice Taylor, but we get the benefit of, in my opinion, the better player for these two years. Also, if you look at what's happening with expiring contracts, that's really how some teams are acquiring talent if you're not under the cap. With Maurice Taylor's third year, it becomes an expiring contract, which becomes a huge asset to us.

What a lying arsehole.

i dunno, we did overkill the expiring contract thing just a few months ago. at the time he said it, we had marbury and were missing houston, so mo's deal could have gotten us a good piece. since then, we brought in curry, jalen and francis with expiring deals, kind of making any taylor deal redundant all over again.

i didn't like the mo T trade at the time. i'm glad he's gone and not in a kmart trade or something ridiculous like that. both of those sentiments are an indictment of IT. still, i'm really surprised that the guy who was the 10th or 11th player on our roster is stirring up this much anger with IT, though. wow, some IT haters (not meant as an insult or anything) really came out of the woodwork on this one.

Is it a huge deal? Probably not but it's just the fact that the mismanaging of the Knicks keeps going and going and going with no end in sight.

so he made mistakes with expiring contracts in the past and he is now trying to correct them! whatever. do you guys trust Isiah to do something good with Mo T's expiring money? I dont so its fine that he is waived. I'd rather him be saved till the trade deadline to see what can be done but whatever!

Posted by EnySpree:

Posted by nyk4ever:

Am I over-reacting as much as everyone else over-reacted when Brown was crucified for the problems of the Knicks for the last 9 years? No, I am not.

Crucified? Stfu.

Eny, you a bad man.

Let me get this straight...You guys are now pissed that Isiah didn't add more bad contracts and continue the movement of adding salary that no one else wants....

See ya, Mo.

Its dumb that isiah waived him. He should have just ignored him like penny.

So he's waived. That means its done. Move along. Why is it so important that to bad mouth isiah so hard everytime he does something. Its stupid now.

I hate layden and I might be tempted to eat his first born but even he didn't get torn into as bad as isiah has. Layden didn't make one good move. Every single move he made was idiotic and there was nothing good about him. Still he never got raped with the stuff you guys write about isiah.

Again I respected brown till he got here still I never ran him over with all this nonsense. My signature says how I feel about brown.

I tell you man you guys are killing me with all this bull****. Its disgusting. Talk basketball.

Posted by islesfan:

Posted by Silverfuel:

so he made mistakes with expiring contracts in the past and he is now trying to correct them! whatever. do you guys trust Isiah to do something good with Mo T's expiring money? I dont so its fine that he is waived. I'd rather him be saved till the trade deadline to see what can be done but whatever!

I really don't understand the reasoning that it's ok to squander assets since you believe Isiah would have messed it up anyway. That doesn't make any sense.

Assets. Please! You would have been the first one sniffing up Isiahs A** had he traded Mo T's expiring contract for another contract with extended years.

Whats the difference, put Mo on the bench to rot and complain or cut your loses now and open up a roster spot?