Posted by ARES:

nec overpaying Ewing and not trading him faster has hurt the knicks as well. the whole thing has been accumalative. Trading him when he had no value really hurt us

to be fair, i would of traded hi right after the finger roll game.

Oh, come on. If it were up to you, you would've traded the draft rights to Ewing!!

I feel ya, tho. I'd trade Housless away for some crusty government cheese and warm can of Tab.

lemme say like this the priority is not winning it's turning a huge profit.

and unfortunately there are a ton of teams like this. Check the bengals the clippers and Jets out.

the knicks are in this same mold, winning is secondary.

... of course, the end result is a Garden as quiet as a funeral parlor.

you getting timid in your old age

that was some vintage bait

pike we aint never going to see a knicks championship again, period.

aint you lucky you old enough to see one.

I'm glad I'm a lakers fan.

you hear that Prodson. I'm a lakers FAN. no bandwagon in me holmes.

if lampe is the goods, then it's time to clear cap for lebron,

I'm I'm the gm thats my goal in three years.

but watch lebron go to another team.

Posted by ARES:

if lampe is the goods, then it's time to clear cap for lebron,

I'm I'm the gm thats my goal in three years.

but watch lebron go to another team.

Ice, I posted this on another thread, but it applies here:

While I agree that NY should rebuild, (particularly getting rid of the albatross that is Allan Housless' undeserved contract) I can't agree with the 'we'll never be under the cap' comments. Look no further than this year's champions for the blueprint on how it's done. Getting under the cap does not mean getting there and staying there. It means planning for that one season where your team can be 14, 15 million under, even if you're over the cap the seasons before (as SA was) and will be over the cap for quite a few seasons after. If a GM with a clue (read: NOT Scott LayDUMB) can come up with a long term plan to get this team under the cap for the end of 2007-2008 season, get a QUALITY free agent (at or entering his prime) that will justify putting NY back over the cap, then he's done a hell of a job.

Now, if these draft picks turn out as well as everybody expects, that's one hella step towards that. Dumping the Housless', Eisley, Anderson contracts would be another. Even Spree, if NY commits to this path. Assuming the picks play well, NY would be in exactly the same spot (mediocrity), but moving in a direction that would enable the team to add a top-notch free agent to the mix at approximately the time these kids would be 'coming into their own' as far as their NBA games go.

Your call for Lebron is a perfect example. Can you imagine if we had a GM with the foresight to plan on clearing the cap space to be able to make a REALISTIC run at Lebron when he's a Free Agent? But, as we all know, it'll never happen. We'll still be looking to spend our MLE on people like Luscious Harris, instead.

Hate... I'm joking around... don't you remember how badly I wanted the Knicks to get "the GLOVE" five years ago? Having said this, I'll be rooting against the Lakers every game... just like I have for years. They're looking more and more like the Yankees every day.

Hold on about Ewing. Perhaps we didn't make the best decisions with the Ewing trade, but he was forcing our hand, demanding a trade.

The Knicks came home w/ Knight/Rice/Longley. Had Rice and Longley not gotten hurt, we would have fielded an excellent team. Longley's big body, great hands, and super passing would have given us the inside balance we needed. Unfortunately, he suffered a career ending injury. LJ's rapid demise (and retirement) also caught us off guard. Suddenly we lost what would amount to two starters on the team to injury/retirement.

Without them, we had no inside presence. Throw in Camby's propensity to be get hurt, and we were toast.

Rice wasn't working out at all--- so we picked up a starting PG (Eisley) and our 6th man (Anderson).

It's not so much that Layden sucks, it's just that he's gotta play the hand that he was dealt.

Last year's move in retrospect (because McDyess got hurt!) was bad--- but as a result, we have the potential of Vranes/Lampe. If McDyess ever comes back... we'll have a monster team. If not, we'll just have cleared out 20 Mil in cap room if we let him go at the end of the season.

Posted by technomaster:

Hold on about Ewing. Perhaps we didn't make the best decisions with the Ewing trade, but he was forcing our hand, demanding a trade.

Comments like this absolutely drive me CRAZY!! He DEMANDED a trade!! Who gives a **** what 16 million dollar a year Ewing DEMANDED? You think Red Auerbach would have given a D**N? Of course not... what's best for the TEAM should be all that matters... Layden is WEAK in addition to being stupid, short sighted and incompetent.