Posted by nyk4ever:

Kurt Thomas is as true blue and orange as any Knick has been. He came to play everynite, played out of position almost every nite, played injured and did his best every single nite for the New York Knicks. Kurt your toughness and defense will be sorely missed by most Knicks fans (the ones who don't have their heads in their @$$'s and aren't grateful for just how much you've done here). Thankyou Kurt and best of luck in Phoenix.

take your backhanded insult & shove it up your ass...to hear some of you guys talk you'd think KT was the second coming of Patrick Ewing...should we retire his # now? gimme a break...he was a solid role player in his time, but this team wasn't going anywhere w/him as a starter & he didn't fit the mold Isiah was trying to achieve here at all...see ya later Kurt...thanks for the memories...whatever they are.

First off TMS, that post isn't worthy of a response, but I just thought I'd say that I didn't think there was anything unreasonable in my reply or anyone elses. Nobody is talking about him like he's Ewing. HE DID come to play every night. He did play hard every night. HE WAS and IS a solid role player. He DID help the team out more than hurt them. And next to Marbury, HE WAS the Knicks best player this year.

I know you didn't really like Kurt, but sheesh man.

This statement below is crazy...

He DID help the team out more than hurt them. And next to Marbury, HE WAS the Knicks best player this year.
I know you didn't really like Kurt, but sheesh man.

Posted by sbensol74:

KT was all heart, personally I'm going to miss him and the knicks will no doubt miss his toughness.

Now lets get rid of Tim Thomas already

LOL... I'm glad we are moving on.

Posted by diderotn:

This statement below is crazy...

He DID help the team out more than hurt them. And next to Marbury, HE WAS the Knicks best player this year.
I know you didn't really like Kurt, but sheesh man.

Who was a better player besides Marbury? Crawford? He couldn't play defense and his shot selection was absolutely abyssmal. KT played defense hard. He was never a good perimeter defender, but his low post D was always real good and his help was also good. Not all NBA, but still real good. Nobody else on the Knicks was quite as good on D, and next to Marbury, he was the most consistent on offense. Please explain to me how that's crazy? Is it crazy that yes, he was our second best player? You know it. Is it crazy that he's relied on as our best big man? Yep. But he did well in his role and I had no knocks on him. He did everything he could. Toast to Kurt.

I guess b/c he got a nice post about him by me, I think he's right there with the Ewings and Willis's though. *Sigh*

Posted by Allanfan20:

Posted by diderotn:

This statement below is crazy...

He DID help the team out more than hurt them. And next to Marbury, HE WAS the Knicks best player this year.
I know you didn't really like Kurt, but sheesh man.

Who was a better player besides Marbury? Crawford? He couldn't play defense and his shot selection was absolutely abyssmal. KT played defense hard. He was never a good perimeter defender, but his low post D was always real good and his help was also good. Not all NBA, but still real good. Nobody else on the Knicks was quite as good on D, and next to Marbury, he was the most consistent on offense. Please explain to me how that's crazy? Is it crazy that yes, he was our second best player? You know it. Is it crazy that he's relied on as our best big man? Yep. But he did well in his role and I had no knocks on him. He did everything he could. Toast to Kurt.

I guess b/c he got a nice post about him by me, I think he's right there with the Ewings and Willis's though. *Sigh*

That's why I didn't blame Marbury at all for the fact the team won only 33 games. Other than Marbury, no one on the team was good enough to be a starter. It's hard to compare Crawford and Kurt because they're so different, but both should be 6th men.

I will be even happier when the deal is official....

Posted by TMS:

Posted by nyk4ever:

Kurt Thomas is as true blue and orange as any Knick has been. He came to play everynite, played out of position almost every nite, played injured and did his best every single nite for the New York Knicks. Kurt your toughness and defense will be sorely missed by most Knicks fans (the ones who don't have their heads in their @$$'s and aren't grateful for just how much you've done here). Thankyou Kurt and best of luck in Phoenix.

take your backhanded insult & shove it up your ass...to hear some of you guys talk you'd think KT was the second coming of Patrick Ewing...should we retire his # now? gimme a break...he was a solid role player in his time, but this team wasn't going anywhere w/him as a starter & he didn't fit the mold Isiah was trying to achieve here at all...see ya later Kurt...thanks for the memories...whatever they are.

whatever they were indeed. I associate KT's name with 4 consecutive 30win seasons. When I think back to the last time we were a good team I remember Spree & Camby, when he wasnt injured being the greater reason for our success.

Again Kurt would've been a great PF to have coming off the bench for a true frontcourt player or starting next to Ewing, Shaq or Duncan. We tried to put together a real Frontline by trading for Dice but that backfired and we kept KT as our starting PF for longer than we wanted to.

Posted by TMS:

Posted by Allanfan20:

First off TMS, that post isn't worthy of a response, but I just thought I'd say that I didn't think there was anything unreasonable in my reply or anyone elses. Nobody is talking about him like he's Ewing. HE DID come to play every night. He did play hard every night. HE WAS and IS a solid role player. He DID help the team out more than hurt them. And next to Marbury, HE WAS the Knicks best player this year.

I know you didn't really like Kurt, but sheesh man.

a-fan, my reply was directed at nyk4ever's comment

Kurt your toughness and defense will be sorely missed by most Knicks fans (the ones who don't have their heads in their @$$'s and aren't grateful for just how much you've done here).

just because i'm not crying over KT's departure doesn't mean i didn't appreciate the role he played on this team while he was here...but he was clearly not what i wanted as the starting PF if we were going to move forward w/Isiah's plan of getting younger & more athletic...i don't see anything in what i wrote that should be taken personally by you.

nice to know we agree on this we might've been the only ones who wanted Kurt gone 4yrs ago before everyone else jumped on the bandwagon this year