how was ernie a bad gm? he made trades to put us under the salary-cap in 96 AND still remain competitive. he brought in arguably the best new york knick team, talent-wise, in years with ewing, lj, houston, oakley and childs wiht a bench consisting of starks, buck williams, ward, wallace and mccarty. he took risk that more times than not panned out ( sprewell and camby).

as far as nelson, he would not make it in new york because EVERY move he makes will be under a microscope. in dallas, he quietly constructed his team into contenders by drafting nowitski, trading jason kidd for finley and nash and trading jamal mashburn. those were MAJOR risque moves that payed off. we also do not need a laid-back coach. we need a coach who is energetic and stern. nellie did not fit the bill. he was right about ewing, though. but there are better ways to do it. not making hubert davis and anthony mason the focal point of your offense. of course ewing is not going to like that. if they brought in a franchise player then he would have thought differently. was'nt shaq a free agent in 96?

Two things, Laydog did not trade Ewing. He traded Rice for Eisly and Anderson. IT was a bad trade, but Rice was a big mistake.

Nelson did not trade J-Kidd. He got moved about a month before. Nelson publically said it was a mistake.

Nelson did well with Milwaukee and Golden State.

Nelsons big mistake was using Mason as his Point forward, a move made popular by Jackson using Pipin. Nellie wanted to blow it up, DOlan was not interested. History shows one thing. Should have blown it up.