fishmike wrote:Nalod wrote:Panos wrote:I wonder if Melo leaving would be the straw that breaks Dolan's back.
What will it take to get him to sell?
Your assuming he has a backbone?
Dolan is not selling a profitable and appreciating asset.
He need not sell, he need just leave it alone.
I will say one thing... If Melo doesnt resign here it should blow up this CAA/MSG thing thats going on and simply cant be good.
The lack of transparancy is true with many teams and MSG I doubt is going to share with us their strategy going forward. What Melo will or won't do won't be known until it happens. There are many handshake deals and back channel aspects to how the teams handle their business.
What boggles the mind is how awful MSG operates and how bad the knicks are given the resources both monetary and the brain power that can buy.
Dolan operates a huge complex company that is technologically advanced as is its finances. Could running a basketball team really be this hard? Can't one fathom the simple concept that winning is good, and since the team has a huge following which appears "winning" is not a prerequisite to revenue can we just put a plan togther for sustained competitiveness? If championships can't be had in the way we do busisness why not just go the route of longer term mediocrity? It would be an improvement!!!
I'll take some dark seasons if need be. If melo walks we first have to stop panicking and trading assets.
I thought under Layden we were actually doing this two years after Dice went down. Naturally Dolan panicked because the garden was dying but it was dying with older players and no public relations to sell a team in transition. Isiah came in and not only spent those assets, but leveraged. Its an old story but needs to be told because the very outcry that grew in the "Stale" garden was the very problem that patience in the mecca cannot be allowed.
Do I think Layden made mistakes? Of course. IN a word "Sweetney". Do I think Lampe and Shandon were the future? Nope. But Isiah and Marbury sure as hell was not!
Dolan kicked the cane out from Donnie and also did not allow him to hire a successor. This is the guy who kept Isiah on speed dial and tried to bring him back post Donnie.
I fear this man but also try to look at what is with some hope. Mills might not be a basketball man, nor was he able to manage AnuchaGate but we all know Dolan runs the show. Mills is an educated man and one that might not be able to scout well (we have other people do that) but he might be the intelligent person who brings a savvy approach.
We can hope. THats about it.
2/21/2014 2:28 PM