fishmike wrote:
neither what I hope or what I think. Its what I see. If you are going to tell me that Dolan mandated Isiah and Layden to field competitive teams I will agree. Winning teams sell out in NY. Only the Giants sell out when they are bad. Any NYC teams that are good sell. Thats a fact.Did Dolan mandate Isiah trade for Curry? Zach? Steve Francis? Are you going to tell me that this current management is the same as previous management? Its not. This GM has a longer track record than anything you can bring up with Isiah and Layden, both of which were terrible GMs. The GM has deep league ties. He hasnt starphucked at all. Furthest thing from it. He's dumped starphuck players to cleans the culture and make room for new.
Is this is a starphuck management than why isnt Allen Iverson a Knick? Surely that would have sold some tickets.
The Starphuch under Walsh was Mike D'Antoni. remember that Walsh was leaning toward Mark Jackson -- one of his guys -- then when D'Antoni became available the Knicks snapped him up. That has Dolan-type starphuching written all over it. Right now Mike D'Antoni is the face and the hope of the Knicks more than any player.
OPINIONS:
I believe that D'Antoni does not want to coach a 3rd year with no true star, and Dolan wants a star to hype the team in the media. The understanding, in my opinion, between Dolan, Walsh, and D'Antoni was for D'Antoni to work with low-talent teams for 2 years then to have 2 Stars, Lebron + somebody else.
In regard to whether Dolan mandated that Isiah trade specifically for this player or that player, I don't know. But you have to look at the trends. The Francis move was at the behest of Larry Brown (As Brown admitted.), and I believe the Randolph move was Dolan/Isiah trying to upgrade the team too quickly, basically getting ahead of themselves because they thought they would have made a push for the playoffs in the pre-Randolph year if not for the injuries to Marbury, Lee, and Crawford.
oohah
