Posted by Silverfuel:

Make way for the big dogs that roll. HARD CORE IS BACK!!!

No Doubt, Silver... No Doubt about that at all...

I am loving what Isiah is doing with our roster!
Increasing the fire & talent level on this squad is JUST what we need.

Where's the rest of the Big Dogs?!??!

This team is definitely going to win more than 43 games, in fact I am even predicting 63 games as where we will be. We are going to be solid at home and on the road. We have a handful of players that can take over a game at any given time. TT, Marburry, Crawf, a healthy Houston, and let's not forget our young boys: Sweetney, Ariza, will all comeon on some nights and dominate. You watch, our team will be shuting a lot of teams off with Defense, yes, I did say DEFENSE. JYD, SWEETNEY, DAMPIER, KEON KLARK are defenders, and they will all be in a Knicks uniform. Trust in Isiah.

63 wins? WOW.

dido, if the knicks win 63 games, i will give you a free ticket to a knicks game next year with food and beverages included. i'll even buy you one of those big ass foam fingers.

holy shnickeys - well dido, you OWE ME a foam finger.

it was 50/50 - lenny/kurt

thank god they're both gone. who will the new whipping boy be?

It will obviously be all Allans fault even though he'll either be on the bench the entire season, playing 10 minutes or less per game, or wont even be with the team. If we don't win, it's all b/c of Allans defense. Damn him. Damn him to hell.

Posted by fishmike:

if the shoe fits...

My only point to all this was if people want the greatness they are happy to predict it takes time and patience. Sometimes you catch a little lightning and things go well but its the exception and NOT the norm.

AMen!

But we all know its Laydens fault! Isiah can turn over the team many times, but if not for layden, he would not have had too!

But would Isiah even be here if Layden was not who he was?

its interesting to see whats up from year to year. How much people valued JYD and what he could bring. How "everyone" wanted to play here. How NO WAY would Swift go for the MLE (he did). How close we might have been to getting Dampier. How guys thought we were pretty close to winning a division and overtaking the Nets.

I'm backing off all that crap. I'm looking at this as a bona fide rebuild and looking to next year before we really start coming together. If we catch some breaks and someone really plays well great. If we are riding Penny, Malik, JJ and Marbury to 42 wins and a shot at the Pacers in round 1 I could care less. ITs all about how the young guys play.

funny how other teams are able to play through injuries to STAR players and still win games and we are not.

we also should have been able to pick up after those injuries better than a lot of other teams given the experience we had on our bench. i think this last season was underwhelming in a lot of ways, nothing we can do about it but move on, bring in players to suit our needs without counting on guys like houston and penny for major contributions.