Posted by Bonn1997:

7 out of 9 posters have the Knicks making the playoffs. It looks pretty similar to the judgments people had here before each of Isiah's years.

Posted by Bonn1997:

Posted by TrueBlue:

Posted by Bonn1997:

7 out of 9 posters have the Knicks making the playoffs. It looks pretty similar to the judgments people had here before each of Isiah's years.

Eventually one yr they'll get it right.

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Posted by TrueBlue:

Posted by Bonn1997:

7 out of 9 posters have the Knicks making the playoffs. It looks pretty similar to the judgments people had here before each of Isiah's years.

Eventually one yr they'll get it right.

Posted by islesfan:

Playoff Teams

1) Nets - Kidd is on a mission, they have the talent and everyone is healthy
2) Chicago - Another year older with TT and Noah stepping up to bolster their frontcourt
3) Cleveland - I think they could slip lower but have to give them credit for making the Finals
4) Boston - Big 3 is good enough to win regular season games. Playoffs could very well be a different story
5) Detroit - Still a very good albeit aging team
6) Toronto - No major changes but they don't deserve to be any lower
7) Miami - Despite losing Wade and Shaq for 31 and 42 games respectively, they still won 44 games and won their division. Wade will comeback strong by late December
8) Orlando - They gave Lewis too much money and for too many years but he does give them the scorer that they desperately need for Howard to play off of


Bubble Teams

9) Washington - Arenas, Butler and Jamison are too good of a trio to not come close to making the playoffs
10) Charlotte - Up and coming team but Richardson will get hurt eventually
11) Milwaukee - With Redd healthy they're a bubble playoff team
12) Philadelphia - Sleeper team. No Iverson distraction this year

Bringing up the rear

13) Atlanta - Joe Johnson is one of the best all around players in the game and Horford will challenge Durant for ROY honors but the Hawks are the Hawks for at least one more year. The year after, they challenge for a playoff spot
14) Knicks - They're a timebomb just waiting to go off. From Isiah starting the year with his sexual harrassment trial that continues to air MSG's dirty laundry, to Starbury acting like he's drugged out of his freaking mind, to Zach and Curry having to learn to co-exist, to too many players and not enough minutes to go around, to there being no excuses for not making the playoffs this year and the pressure that comes with it. And so on and so on...it's going to be better than the 4th of July when this baby explodes. Isiah, the Bell Tolls for Thee
15) Indiana - O'Neal will be traded to the Lakers in a desperate attempt to appease Kobe, they will be in full rebuild mode by January.

Posted by McK1:

on paper NY should make the play-offs. depends on Isiah's backcourt rotation.

PLAY MARDY!!!

Posted by Bonn1997:

Posted by nixluva:

Posted by TrueBlue:

Posted by Bonn1997:

7 out of 9 posters have the Knicks making the playoffs. It looks pretty similar to the judgments people had here before each of Isiah's years.

Eventually one yr they'll get it right.

The difference in this year from let's say LB's season is that we didn't EXPECT the Knicks to make the Playoffs then. Don't lie and make it sound like there were a lot of people picing the Knicks as some kind of lock to make the palyoffs. Some thought they had an outside shot to get better by seasons end and maybe sneak in. No one was saying they were a lock to make it, in either of the last 2 years. This year they aren't a lock either, but they have a much better chance after a year or more of experience for some of our younger players. We've also improved the roster again and we're now going into our 2nd year with Isiah as coach.

If some of you guys still can't recognize that this team is in fact getting better then I really don't know about your powers of observation. With each off season, we've been adding more young talent and growing that talent. At some point it's got to come together and this looks like the year when that will likely happen.

In regards to Orlando, I don't know that i'd call Rashard a go to guy. I never saw him as a lead offensive guy in this league. He's a great shooter, but not really a great shot creator. He's not terrible at it, but he's not a guy that I look at as a "just give him the ball and get out of his way" late game player. We'll have to see how much of an impact he has.

Miami got some good guys to help in Smush and Daequan, but are they really guys you can count on to make a big difference?

Sorry but I'm calling BS. That year, people thought Eddy would emerge under Larry Brown. There was even one thread predicting a Knicks' championship and people didn't think the poster was out of line. Almost everyone (including me) thought the Knicks were a lock for the playoffs. The year before that, we had just added Jamal and everyone thought he would make the difference and push us far into the playoffs. Before that, everyone thought Steph would make the difference. Now we add Zach and everyone says he will make the difference. We've added a lot of max or near max contract very "talented" players this decade that other teams were dying to get rid of, and not once has it paid off in the standings. A good casual definition of insanity might be doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

[Edited by - bonn1997 on 09-16-2007 08:02 AM]

Thanks Bonn for touching this post. I was definitely going to light it up but decided to wait until today. Nix post is especially comical when he himself has had the team making the playoffs the past couple yrs along with predicting the team would be .500 at least and last yr having them winning as high as 45, 46gms. There have been plenty of fans thinking this team would make the playoffs the past couple season and in particular from the so-called HATER crowd we've always had the mentality that the team should win no less than 45gms/season the past couple of seasons. And the HATER crowd continues to grow.