Childs2Dudley wrote:Got to love the negativity spreading like wildfire. 3 game left in the season, 3 months till the summer and people are sitting here still acting like Chicken Littles and proclaiming the sky to be falling.

Stop making sense? How about stop posting the same repetitive negative nonsense over and over. Why not try and be positive for once in your lives? Why not try and have some hope for the summer? Sick and tired of constant negativity. Do you think negativity helps anything, especially right now? We had a right to be pissed under Layden and Isiah but why are people crying right now? Why are people trying to predict the future? A negative fucture, not even a positive one. Why? Can't you just take things as they come and be a little more positive. Why does everything have to be the worst case scenario?

Listen to The Secret. Positivity brings on positive aspects in life. It's all in the brain, the way of thinking. Negativity doesn't bring anyone any good and just makes people more miserable. To quote the great Stephon Marbury, "don't get caught up in basketball, get caught up in life!". That's it. Be positive just a little damn bit instead of telling everyone we'll sign Jerome James and Jamison Brewer this summer. Can't anyone have anything good to say and have some hope going into one of the biggest summers in franchise history? Jesus Christ!

alot of the same concerns you're hearing rehashed over & over about Donnie's plan have been voiced when Isiah made those trades to acquire guys like Zach Randolph & Eddy Curry in the past... some of the same people preaching patience & optimism now were defending Isiah's decisions to make those moves then... personally i don't think all of us joining hands & singing the Sun'll come out tomorrow & Kumbaya is going to change things this summer... people are voicing legitimate concerns here, don't u think they have as much right to be heard on a forum as anyone who has a different look on things? i hear a lot of talk about how the same complaints are repeated over & over but on the flipside don't u also hear the same company line being towed by the same people that have supported every move that our FO has made for the past decade?

this isn't even about an Isiah vs. Walsh issue... this encompasses a general lack of foresight & irresponsible trades this franchise has made this entire decade to try & piece together a playoff worthy team... personally i don't even believe this ownership could give 2 craps whether we win a championship someday or not, all they care about is selling tickets & putting fans in the seats... judging from the continued support of the loyal Knicks' fanbase i'd say they've succeeded.

Those aren't concerns. It's people complaining just to complain. It's people acting like mini Ms.Cleo's around here as if they know what the future holds. Giving me a doomsday scenario is pointless. We will cross that bridge when we get there, not before it. I'm sure Donnie Walsh has contingency plans we don't know about.

People acting like the world is going to end on July 1st really need to give it a rest.

And for the record, the past decade is over. It's gone. It's in the past. The Layden's, Isiah's, Marbury's, Eisley's, Jerome's, whatever. I'm not looking at July 1st and thinking about Shandon Anderson or Malik Rose. I'm looking at it as a new day for the franchise and putting some hope into the team for the first time in years. That's how I'm going about it. Others here can just swim around in our miserable past and remember the days of Clarence Weatherspoon and Maurice Taylor but I'd rather remember the present and think of the future. We are living in the present, right?

eff tea leaves

Childs2Dudley wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

Childs2Dudley wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

Childs2Dudley wrote:Got to love the negativity spreading like wildfire. 3 game left in the season, 3 months till the summer and people are sitting here still acting like Chicken Littles and proclaiming the sky to be falling.

Stop making sense? How about stop posting the same repetitive negative nonsense over and over. Why not try and be positive for once in your lives? Why not try and have some hope for the summer? Sick and tired of constant negativity. Do you think negativity helps anything, especially right now? We had a right to be pissed under Layden and Isiah but why are people crying right now? Why are people trying to predict the future? A negative fucture, not even a positive one. Why? Can't you just take things as they come and be a little more positive. Why does everything have to be the worst case scenario?

Listen to The Secret. Positivity brings on positive aspects in life. It's all in the brain, the way of thinking. Negativity doesn't bring anyone any good and just makes people more miserable. To quote the great Stephon Marbury, "don't get caught up in basketball, get caught up in life!". That's it. Be positive just a little damn bit instead of telling everyone we'll sign Jerome James and Jamison Brewer this summer. Can't anyone have anything good to say and have some hope going into one of the biggest summers in franchise history? Jesus Christ!

I can't believe the Knicks did the Hill trade. I have felt like this several times before, when they passed on Ron Artest in the draft and when they traded for McDyess on draft night. I think both of those moves still haunt this franchise and my fear is that this trade will have the same or greater negative impact. Sorry I can't put a positive spin on it. Unfortunately unless a miracle occurs I think it will be brought up on a regular basis at least until after the 2012 draft.

Positive spin? What's there to spin? It's cap space. It can be used. That's it. That simple. Nothing more, nothing less. Crying about Jordan Hill and telling me we're not signing anyone because we traded Jordan Hill doesn't help anyone or anything. It really doesn't. Neither does bringing up the Mcdyess trade from 8 years ago. This is 2010. This is April 2010. July 1st, 2010 is a big date. The other stuff is in the past now and it will definitely be when that date rolls around. Having some hope isn't a sin, regardless of what you think about Jordan Hill. Only negative thinking like yours - wallowing in misery for no apparent reason - can produce the events for which you foresee occurring. Miracle? No. It will hardly be a miracle. It's New York, it's free agency, it's cap maximum cap space for 2 players. And it's 3 months away. No miracles here. Just reality.

Reality is unless the Knicks get LeBron and Wade or Bosh they messed up.

Reality is that you're not reading anything I say and continue to spew negativity.

CrushAlot wrote:

Childs2Dudley wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

Childs2Dudley wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

Childs2Dudley wrote:Got to love the negativity spreading like wildfire. 3 game left in the season, 3 months till the summer and people are sitting here still acting like Chicken Littles and proclaiming the sky to be falling.

Stop making sense? How about stop posting the same repetitive negative nonsense over and over. Why not try and be positive for once in your lives? Why not try and have some hope for the summer? Sick and tired of constant negativity. Do you think negativity helps anything, especially right now? We had a right to be pissed under Layden and Isiah but why are people crying right now? Why are people trying to predict the future? A negative fucture, not even a positive one. Why? Can't you just take things as they come and be a little more positive. Why does everything have to be the worst case scenario?

Listen to The Secret. Positivity brings on positive aspects in life. It's all in the brain, the way of thinking. Negativity doesn't bring anyone any good and just makes people more miserable. To quote the great Stephon Marbury, "don't get caught up in basketball, get caught up in life!". That's it. Be positive just a little damn bit instead of telling everyone we'll sign Jerome James and Jamison Brewer this summer. Can't anyone have anything good to say and have some hope going into one of the biggest summers in franchise history? Jesus Christ!

I can't believe the Knicks did the Hill trade. I have felt like this several times before, when they passed on Ron Artest in the draft and when they traded for McDyess on draft night. I think both of those moves still haunt this franchise and my fear is that this trade will have the same or greater negative impact. Sorry I can't put a positive spin on it. Unfortunately unless a miracle occurs I think it will be brought up on a regular basis at least until after the 2012 draft.

Positive spin? What's there to spin? It's cap space. It can be used. That's it. That simple. Nothing more, nothing less. Crying about Jordan Hill and telling me we're not signing anyone because we traded Jordan Hill doesn't help anyone or anything. It really doesn't. Neither does bringing up the Mcdyess trade from 8 years ago. This is 2010. This is April 2010. July 1st, 2010 is a big date. The other stuff is in the past now and it will definitely be when that date rolls around. Having some hope isn't a sin, regardless of what you think about Jordan Hill. Only negative thinking like yours - wallowing in misery for no apparent reason - can produce the events for which you foresee occurring. Miracle? No. It will hardly be a miracle. It's New York, it's free agency, it's cap maximum cap space for 2 players. And it's 3 months away. No miracles here. Just reality.

Reality is unless the Knicks get LeBron and Wade or Bosh they messed up.

Reality is that you're not reading anything I say and continue to spew negativity.

I don't think you should be telling people not to lecture you when you reply with a post like that.

Really? I thought that post was a disrespect actually. You obviously don't want to listen to what I have to say. You are too stubborn to accept anyone else's point of view so damn me for even trying. You don't care about what I say. So in that case, you might as well reply back with something sarcastic or just some general negative sentence without elaborating any further.

That's cool. But don't act like you proved anything with one sentence. I replied back because you said nothing constructive and just regurgitated a line that I'm sure you've written 200 times over in one way or another.

Whatever dude. If this is what makes you happy, so be it. But it doesn't make me happy reading constant non-stop negativity.

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Childs2Dudley wrote:I'm not sure why you think every post I or someone makes is an insult towards you or is made to incite an argument. No need to go after me and tell me to post elsewhere. All I want is people to stop acting like the Knicks franchises' funeral will officially take place on July 1st. I don't know what you've been posting. I only know what others around here have been posting, mainly guys like BRIGGS and CrushALot. If you're offended by my posts then you must fall in line with their thinking or just simply want to argue for the sake of arguing. I don't want to argue or turn this into a you vs. me discussion.

My original point still remains and people should heed that point. Get the message. Don't be walking into the summer wiping away tears of pain. Have some hope. Because it seems some around here love misery. You know what they say, "misery loves company". Looks like that's been going on here recently. It's been Groundhog Day every day here.

i didn't attack you in any way shape or form... i am telling u that there is a good amount of other posters here who want to talk about these issues... those that don't choose not to... complaining about the threads people post up to spur discussion on a particular topic serves no purpose but to incite arguments & derail threads into flame wars... if u don't want to talk about a particular topic, don't click on it... it's very simple.

It's not about the topic, it's about the line of thinking. And when 75% of the topics are the same thing, it's hard NOT to get annoyed eventually.