Posted by MS:
This team and this organization is ****ed, if we come back with the same cast of players we are lucky to lock down the 7-8th seed and i mean lucky. Would I rather have thomas and our pick this year without question because curry has shown he isn't ready to lead or to be a professional.
Look for Ty Thomas to average 15pts 12rbs 3blks in his third year in the league, and Mike Conley Jr. to be the next great pg in the league. Frankly I would much rather watch the Knicks improve with a unit of energy than fold when the going gets tough and make excuses. Isiah is clueless and i think i would at least be eye opening to dolan had the bulls obtained the number one pick and the knicks be the joke of the national media again. Because dolan cares more about the papers than about wasting money on marginal talent.
And we are locked into players that won't help, francis, jefferies, james, and I would even put crawford in the mix because isiah doesn't hold him to the same standard as other players the guy is offensive liability and one of the few players in the nba that can't guard anyone. And unfortunatley instead of starting marbury with collins next year we will have to watch crawford come back without improving his game and takin horrendous possession killing shots.
Addition by substraction of frye, nate, and crawford, bring in artest you can get him for a package of players and i think the kings would do it we need fighters on this team.
The Knicks didn't just fold when the injuries mounted. They simply didn't pull out wins, but they had a lot of close games, in which they showed a lot of heart in fighting to try to win. Sure they had a few stinkers in there, but overall they kept up the effort level and gave a strong effort in most of the games. You don't want to play wounded and out of character at the end of the year. This team had lost 3 guys that gave this team much of the things it needed to win games. There were HUGE adjustments that they had to make on the fly and they didn't do a great job of closing out games. Teams basically knew that all they had to do was clog the middle and close out on Steph at the end of games and it was a wrap. Frye's poor play, Balkman and Collins inexperience and Nate's immaturity was too much to overcome. They started to play better towards the very end but it was too little too late. Especially with Steph finally going down.
Now we have to make the most out of the 23rd pick and of course hope that Chi doesn't get a gift and move up in the draft. If not for the injuries I believe that Isiah's gamble would've paid off, cuz I don't believe this team would've missed the playoffs. At the least we would've ended up far away from any good shot at the lottery and even right now they don't have a great shot.
4/22/2007 10:22 PM