Posted by martin:
Posted by djsunyc:
Posted by martin:
i was gonna pile on.... Mike has to have known Donnie's rebuild plan was going to be put in place before he signed on. As any good coach should, he will always ask for better players, it's the GMs responsibility to take the feedback and act on it accordingly.
i don't think anybody knows what they're signing up for until they actually get here...
credit to walsh tho b/c he doesn't give a crap what the fans think. he has his plan and he's sticking to it.
i think there is a difference signing on as a coach with Donnie as a GM and someone like Isiah. Donnie got a plan and if Mike had any smarts he would have asked Donnie what it was (high level) and either taken the money or gone to a different situation.
It's not that far-fetched to have assumed that the Knicks would suck in year 1 (last year) and shoot towards 2010 as the major building block year. No one in their right mind was expecting the Knicks to trade for huge contracts in 2008 or 2009 with Marbury, Crawford, Big Game, Zbo on the team. It was ripe for teardown.
agreed and believe there was really no choice but to tear down and be very very cautious with this year. its a huge gamble though because i dont think a big time free agent (lebron, wade, et al) would look at it as an easy decision to come to a team that has no complimentary parts assembled yet, especially considering the buchering nyc's reputation has taken lately on the bball front - thx isaiah.
most of the time, you are only adding a few pieces to an already established roster to take your team to the next level. with the knicks, you're trying to get rid of an entire roster/culture and build up a new one. sans gallo, chandler, nate and lee, who else have you heard of seriously being on the long term radar for the knicks? IMHO its gonna take time to mesh with all these new players, even if you bring in a real stud or 2 to play with whoever remains from this year's roster. i look at jordan in his early years as an example. dude cld score at will, but it wasnt until the team put the rest of the pieces in place that they started winning....same thing goes for cleveland, yet on a smaller scale b/c they aint won anything yet.
here's the current roster, who do you think will stay/go by 2010, then ask yourself, can the remaining players mesh immediately with a marquee free agent.
Knicks 2009-10 Roster Wilson Chandler
Joe Crawford
Eddy Curry
Toney Douglas
Chris Duhon
Danilo Gallinari
Al Harrington
Jordan Hill
Larry Hughes
Chris Hunter
Jared Jeffries
David Lee (FA)
Darko Milicic
Cuttino Mobley
Nate Robinson (FA)
