Posted by Bippity10:
Posted by Nalod:
Bottom line is our cap is TWICE the level and nobody was even close.
55 Wins in two seasons and your payroll is a national joke.
Your leader is on a "POP" (pay one price, ride all day!) for the BiPolarCoaster, your franchise player is not an allstar, and you have 5 coaches in 3.5 years.
If those are all anyone knows, then your gonna get dissed. And we certainly deserved it!
It sucks, but what ya gonna do!
Agreed, people seem to want the media to applaud our moral victories like being the best "33 win team of all time". All we have to do is win. I personally could care less what any writer has to say because I know we will be negatively judged(fairly or unfairly) until we start winning. That's life. Deal with it.
What does that cap have to do with the product that is placed on the floor? The cap gonna suit up and play?
The focus of this article was the prospects for the '07-'08 year, not the a dollars-to-wins financial ratio analysis. Those are mutually exclusive. The Knicks were beset by injuries down the stretch, have added new pieces, and have young players on the roster that are improving --- is it that much to ask to talk about those things, rather than the popularity level of Isiah?
Other teams have had just as poor of a record over the past few years, yet they were given the benefit of the doubt, in this article, when it came to this season upcoming. Other teams have just as many question marks, yet they were given the benefit of the doubt in this article (the writer even went so far as to include Yi as a plus for the Bucks, when so far that pick has been an unmitigated disaster).
We "deserve" it --- Weak, but ok --- well, by that same token a paid writer should be called out for an article riddled with faulty logic and nonobjective thought-free analysis that resulted in a column that doesnt "deserve" the designation of toilet paper. Points which Nixluva and Earl have already astutely pointed out.
If you think that winning will finally earn us respect from the media types, then you're a fool. When the Knicks won the lottery to secure the services of Ewing, we cheated. When the Knicks won in the '90s it was because we we played thug ball. When the Yankees won in the late '90s it was because we were taking advantage of the lack of a salary cap (completely dismissing the fact that most small market owners sat on their billions, other teams were spending a comparable amount, and the core of those Yankees came through the system)
Bias against New York from the south/midwest stems from the fact that New York is a big, gluttonous, multi-cultural city (damn Yankees!) not the shot selection of Jamal Crawford. Bias from the L.A stems from the fact that New York is considered the 'biggest' city in the world, not the conditioning of Eddy Curry. I wish some around here didnt have tunnel vision when it came to their skewed opinions.
My saliva and spit can split thread into fiber and bits/ So trust me I'm as live as it gets.
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8/14/2007 7:37 AM