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isiah thomas (december 24, 2003 - present)
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8/12/2005  9:57 AM
Posted by fishmike:

over all ISiah gets an A for the draft. I would say B+ for this year and an A for last. Frye, Nate, Lee and Ariza with 8,21,30 and 40whatever is a hell of a good job.

His trades? I give him a C. I'm not sure he made a single trade that really made us better. I love Marbury but even thats debatable as far as money well spent. Moochie, TT, Nazr, Penny, JYD, Rose, Mo Taylor... lots of player movement, not sure how it really helped us, and some of it clearly didnt work. I will count Crawford (S&T) however, and Crawford, Q and Marbury are good players. Some good, some bad... overall C.

FA signings? F
Dermaar, Butler, Brewer, whatever... none of these guys have yielded anything so much as a Lavar Postell usefull 2 days when someone got hurt. 5 years for James? 2 years for Vin Baker? Am I missing anyone? Sorry, but he hasnt used his "charm" to lure anyone here and the guys that have come have been pretty bad. If you want to put Crawford in here the trade grade goes down and I will move this to a D. Crawford was a little expensive, and some are down on him and his upside. I'm not.. love the kids attitude and skills. Aside from JC, bad job by Isiah. One of those things where doing nothing would have been better.

Coaches: A
Scummy way to fire Chaney, Lenny was a BAD call, but those teams had so little going for them I could have cared less. Now will some guys actually worth working with Larry is huge and all past sins are forgotten.

completely fair analysis...i agree w/all of that...the realist is a dying breed around here lately.
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8/12/2005  9:59 AM
"Flexibility" seems to be the new buzzword around here, we will be flexible once our huge contracts expire very soon. Don't blame IT for trying to improve the team in the meantime. I love these posters who are waiting for these unnamed future players who they can't seem to put a finger on yet, meanwhile what do we tell our 12 guys: "You're not going to win now because we are trying to stay flexible, someday down the line we might get Shaq or KG or someone, we don't know yet--just keep playing hard!" Yeah right.
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8/12/2005  10:36 AM
It is an overused word at that. If one quickly points out that the Knicks have been over the Salary Cap for 9 seasons. That is 7.5 more seasons before Isiah got here. That is 3 seasons before Layden got here. I am trying to think and the last real FA that this team can say that has been somewhat effective for this team was Houston, and among NBA elites this is debateable at best. I mean flexability for what. To sign players who within a year, fans will be screaming why did we sign this guy. Get rid of this guy. I am looking at the Hawks, Billy Knight has flexability but can't land the big guys, so he has to max out contracts on guys who you know isn't worth it, look at Denver can you tell me the Nuggets cap space was the reason for their success. They signed Martin, let me know what impact he had on that team. Same for Utah big FA signings. It's a crap shoot, Dallas was able to compete when they were over the salary cap. I mean if Mo Taylor is what is holding back this franchise then it doesn't say too much for this franchise and its history. This franchise is really screwed because they have a history of disrescpecting the draft and what it means for a franchise future.
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8/12/2005  11:15 AM
i like flexibility in my team's cap and in my women.
isiah thomas (december 24, 2003 - present)

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