Frankly I think the Colangelos are good GMs put they got lucky some idiot took Marbury or that franchise would have been ****ed. Not to mention they moved Joe Johnson instead of locking them up early for nothing.

Brian is doing a very overated job in toronto as of right now, ford is just ok, the italian kid was the wrong choice, but anything is better than what we have. I guess you have to cater towards your market especially in toronto.

Why not Mark Jackson he was a good pg not a great pg which is important because he knows how to get the best of out his skills something great players take for granted in many respects. He is respected by players, knows what NY is all about and would bring in Ewing to work on the bench a very important addition to the heritage of this team.

We need to get lucky in the draft, move curry and crawford and start to build. Get childress and lowry and guys like that to go with David Lee. I even think jackson could get Artest to behave and be a great addition.

I would love to see the following

Lowry
Artest/Nate
Chandler/Balkman
Zack (not going anywhere)
Lee

I think if we start to get guys like that we are not to far away from bringing in the professionalism we need.

Posted by Nalod:

Praise Colangelo all you want, but this is the bonehead that traded kidd, which I understand, for Marbury, which I understand, and gave him max money! The Suns have not won a title either, so why is this guy so high on alls list?

Probably because he's 10 times better than what we have now, despite never having won a title. That's like saying why trade Zach Randolph for Steve Nash since Nash hasn't won a title.

Also The Marbury thing was Bryan Colangelo. He's not available because he's with the Raptors. Jerry Colangelo was the one who first took over for the suns and was responsible for forming the first suns finals team with Leonard Truck Robinson, Connie Hawkins, and the Van Arsdale Brothers (whoever those guys are). I don't really know much about that team, but I do know that that was the team that had that triple overtime game against the boston celtics in the NBA finals, a game which some consider the best game ever played. He also rebuilt the team after that first team reached it's ceiling by creating the Dan Majerlie, Charles Barkley, and Kevin Johnson Finals team.

As for Walsh, I think he's a pretty good General Manager. The Current Jail Pacers team is mostly the fault of Larry Bird who has been the GM there for the last 5 seasons, although Walsh did acquire Artest, Stephen Jackson, and Jamaal Tinsley. I would say that Walsh is impressive because he put the finishing together that 52 win pacer team with Reggie Miller, Rick Smits, and Chris Mullin. Under Walsh the Pacers made it to the NBA finals for the first time in franchise history.

Perhaps more impressive is the way he rebuilt the team after they got too old. He replaced them with Jermaine Oneal, Brad Miller, and Ron artest, Al Harrington, and Jamaal Tinsley pretty quickly. They didn't really go through much of a down time between the Reggie Miller era and the Jermaine Oneal era. He did Make some mistakes though, like trading Brad Miller away for next to nothing because he (or it may have been ownership) didn't want to fork over enough money to keep him. and trading Antonio Davis for Jonathan Bender.

In any case I certainly wouldn't have a problem with Dolan hiring someone who has presided over 2 different NBA finals teams to be our GM. Both Colangelo and Walsh have done that.



[Edited by - Slimpack on 03-18-2008 1:09 PM]

[Edited by - Slimpack on 03-20-2008 07:56 AM]

there is no savior.

the hope is that the team doesn't become a national embarrassment, get some players that can play well together and make the playoffs. if along the path they are able to get lucky and draft a superstar, so be it...otherwise that's all you can do and all you can hope for from a new gm.

colangelo is overrated in toronto? quite the opposite. i think he singlehandedly saved a franchise from extinction (pun intended). building an elite team is DAMN HARD in this watered down league. but putting together a competative team is all you can hope for. the goal should be to become denver, wizards or utah b/c that's attainable.

if the knicks weren't able to give ewing a perennial allstar in 15 years then expecting a savior is foolish.

indiana is stuck
they are actually worse than ny
they have no young guys to build on or trade
thier franchise player would rather be here
and larry sucks (that has nothing to do with it but i dont like him)

Walsh?! Yes' big time!

Jackson? He blows! We can do much better.

We need some enthusiasm on the side and someone who can instill 'REAL' discipline into the young guys.

It would be a wet dream, definitely.

Posted by Panos:

I don't care if Isiah stays on as coach next year.
The point is to start remedying the problems with the roster with someone who knows what they are doing. Let Zeke sit there and get booed every night thru the rebuild. Who cares.

Auuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhh.................I think you better think twice before you wish.

isiah can have jordan, Bird, Kareem, Magic, Dr. J, Duncan, Iverson on this team and still somehow **** it up.

It won't be the new GM that would be the problem. The poison will still be on the bench.

It is also likely that Walsh would seek assurances that Dolan stay away from the day-to-day operations of the team.

It remains to be seen whether a new team president would have the authority to decide Thomas’s fate as coach. Dolan signed Thomas to a multiyear, multimillion-dollar contract extension a year ago, and he may prefer to keep him on the bench.

Walsh, who gave Thomas his first coaching job, may be the one N.B.A. executive who would agree to that arrangement. (It was Bird, not Walsh, who fired Thomas as Pacers coach in 2003.)

The other wild card in play is the Simon brothers. Walsh has run their team since 1986, and by all accounts they want to keep him. That could mean firing Bird and handing daily control of the team back to Walsh. Although Walsh hired Bird, first as the coach and later as the team president, their working relationship has been strained in recent years. Bird acknowledged this week for the first time that he may not be back after the season.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/sports/basketball/19knicks.html?_r=2&ref=basketball&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Walsh's relationships are more important to investigate than just his credentials

Does Dolan change Knicks corporate policy to suit Bronx-born (as I am) Donnie?

Whoever comes in I plead that they and the coach are on the same page