Posted by Anji:
Gag me with a spoon...... only thing that is funny is a season from now guys like you will encourage these players more then you discourage them with constance booing if Isiah is gone. WHile the "kool-aid" peeples still won't Boo the players for the coach they have or the owner or Larry Browns terrible season or missing some free throws..........
The thing about some "kool-aid" people who are ok with Isiah (or were for a while, even when he was getting blasted) and hated Layden is that the criticism took longer to build against Layden and the kinds of players who seemed to be all old "vets" who had zero potential for improvement.
I''m not saying I'm a huge Isiah fan either, but the idea to support him is that he got rid of guys like Spoon, Eisley, Shandon, Ward who represented all that people hated about Layden and brought in younger, more athletic players who may have had big contracts, "baggage" or bad reps (because that's what the pereception was you had to do in trades unless the Knicks "blew it up"), but still had some believing these players had potential, because of the talent -- mostly offensively.
Isiah was kind of like a social worker for the NBA. Always willing to give "outcasts" a shot, and I think that also appealed to people who like to see that kind of story develop a la Darryl Strawberry or Doc Gooden. Of course, it didn't go quite to plan, to say the least, and has led to all sorts of criticism, some justified, some maybe not so much, but I believe that's part of the major reason some had been/are willing to support Isiah vs. Layden even with the poor record.
Forum Po Po and #33 for a reason...
