Posted by nixluva:
Posted by loweyecue:
Why do people keep bringing up Layden when talking about Isiah??
1. We were in a mess.
2. We hired Isiah to get us out of the mess.
3. We paid mucho dollars to Isiah to get us out of the mess.
4. Isiah got a 25 win team
5. Isiah sold our future prospects to trade for career losers who "Contributed" to make us a 33 win team.(Yeah Beeeeeeg deal!!!)
6. Isiah made sure we would be over the cap with no prospects for another 4-5 years.
6. In any other industry professionals like thet don't get to see the light of the day.
Guys he was brought here to get us OUT of the whole not dig a deeper one. What is so hard to understand?
So when he took over was there somehow now a magic pixie dust that he was supposed to spread over the team to make it instantly a winner? I remember the predictions were 3-5 years for him to fix the mess Layden left. How about the mandate from Dolan that he had to deal with for the 1st season and a half? He wasn't allowed to come in and just clean house. Even if he did there's no guarantee that this would've meant a shorter path to building a contender.
At some point we had to expect that this team was gonna have to go thru something drastic to fix the mess we had. Isiah has completed 3.5 seasons here and as of right now the team is better than it's been in a long time in terms of the personnel we have and the youth we've added. It's not perfect, but it's a good deal better than what we had at the start. You can win with this team and you can continue to build on this team. We had nothing before and now we at least have a team that can be in the mix.
And what mix is that again? The bottom of the league mix?
No one said anything about magic fixes so give the stupid sarcasm a rest.
His job was to make the team better, and he knew this was an intensely scrutinized marquee franchise that he was taking charge of. So far he has totally failed to deliver any measurable improvemnet and getting a bunch of overrated me-first chuck happy no defense losers on the same payroll does not put us in any mix. There is absolutely no evidence that this roster can even form a semblance of a TEAM.
Just read the other posts here, his life time acheivement as Knick GM is 0.393...you can call it progress if you like I want his retarded rear end off my team. The only real thing to be said in his defence is he counted on Houston being healthy and he lucked out on that one. Don't pretend this guy had a plan or that we are "fixing" something. We are just getting into a bigger hole with each "blockbuster" trade.
My opinion is fairly clear, the guy had 4 years to deliver and has shown no evidence that he can. The remarkable progress you delude yourselves with is going from 25 wins to three seasons of 33, 23, 33 wins and that may be quite enough for some people including Dolan. I feel otherwise. When you judge people's performance in sports just count the W's.
TKF on Melo ::....he is a punk, a jerk, a self absorbed out of shape, self aggrandizing, unprofessional, volume chucking coach killing playoff loser!!
