Dudettes! check this out, I look at this deal in the bright side. Isiah has talents that he can now trade to upgrade. You may not be able to see what he is trying to do right now, but sure enough later on you will see it. We are having a hard time at trading Kurt Thomas who is a decent performer, how else were we supposed to get rid of Moochie and Vinny??? For a while now Isiah has been trying to get rid of Coochie but no one in the league really wanted him. Again, take a chill pill and allow Isiah time to justify this trade. I just want for him to go on and bring in Jamal Sampson to play Center, because we are really thin at that spot. Bruno and TT are the only two who are at least 6'10" on this roster....

Posted by diderotn:

Dudettes! check this out, I look at this deal in the bright side. Isiah has talents that he can now trade to upgrade. You may not be able to see what he is trying to do right now, but sure enough later on you will see it. We are having a hard time at trading Kurt Thomas who is a decent performer, how else were we supposed to get rid of Moochie and Vinny??? For a while now Isiah has been trying to get rid of Coochie but no one in the league really wanted him. Again, take a chill pill and allow Isiah time to justify this trade. I just want for him to go on and bring in Jamal Sampson to play Center, because we are really thin at that spot. Bruno and TT are the only two who are at least 6'10" on this roster....

thats different then expecting greatness from Mo Taylor

You guys are harsh......too harsh.

Isiah has made alot of good moves since he's been hear and since he traded the key to the KVH trade Nazr he proved that no one is safe if they do not play hard and be consistant.

Check out Isiah on sports desk:
http://msgvox2.cv.net/ramgen/msgnetwork.com/022405/ithomas224.rm

Posted by spencerdoobie:

you people are a joke.........these deals are TERRIBLE!!!!!

Isiah is a joke, his deals are a joke and my knicks are in shmables because of this moron.......how are you giving him such a free ride? hell, at this point id bring back layden.....

how many undersized, out of place players can we overpay? leave it up to isiah to find out!! "tweeners" describes the majority of our team....kurt, jyd, rose, taylor, craw, tt, ariza........this is a freaking joke and everyone is laughing at us!

what we really need to do is pressure dolan to sell the team. as long as he is around we have no shot.....

call checketts and grunfield!

the Mo taylor trade, where we are actually giving them picks and taking on 13+mm in salary for what is really our 5th undersized PF has to go down as one of the dumbest trades in NY history, REGARDLESS of what this guy does. I think you should take the himt isiah, HE WAS ON THE HOUSTON IR FOR A REASON!!!!!

Im not going to say Nazr for malik was a terrible move for this reason. It does give us two additional picks and while this years may not be that high, next year there will always be an unkown factor that could really effect the pick--like Duncan injury etc... so it has value.

This year draft is the last where college and foreign under age kids may enter the draft, so the possibility of slippage is good. No one can disagree about the increase in high caliber talent found at the end of the first round in the last 5 years... i.e Gil arenas, mike redd, carlos boozer, david harrison,josh howard, rasahrd lewis, Al harrington--if you look at NBA draft history, you can CLEARLY see a dramatic change in the talent levels at the bottom of round 1 since HS and foreign players became prevelant.

But the moves are contradictory, and there is a long shot possibility we could actually lose pick 31 to Houston and gain pick 30 for SA. that would be something, but Im willing to tak that chance with Nazr. We werent winning anything with nazr

Posted by gunsnewing:

isiah has a plan whereas Layden did not. Layden told you about how good the current team was. how good spoon, eisely and shandon were leaving us with no hope for the future. Isiah has shown that he will do whatever it takes to improve the team and if its packages expiring contracts then so be it. If layden traded for nazr. Nazr would've been our center for 10years and we would continue to have 30win seasons. Isiah doesn't except that!

The problem is Isiah has too many plans. You can't rebuild in NY. We're rebuilding. It doesn't make sense to rebuild thru the draft. Trade for picks. We can't keep taking on big contracts. Take on more big contracts. Naz is the key to the KVH trade. Trade Naz.

After every move he has a different justification and a different plan.

Isiah has spent his whole life in basketball. Do you really think he didn't know what was happening in the league when he was hired? I don't think so and if it was true - he shouldn't have been hired.

As far everything being ok when Houston is gone I don't agree. When Houston is gone our chances definitely improve (if we don't pick up more long-term bad contracts) but you still have to build the team. It's only one expired problem - their will still be a lot of work to do.

What if Mo comes in and establishes himself as the go to guy in our lineup and turn his game around to resemble Chris Webbers'? That boy has the skills and abilities to be that type of player, perhaps given the proper playing time and if he feels like the team is build around him, he can be very special. However, it will be Marburry and Crawfford's job to bring out the best out of the front court. One thing is for sure now, we have guys that can actually play the game of basketball upfront. We still need a scrappy Center......

[Edited by - diderotn on 02/26/2005 16:08:07]