we need a new owner..... new coach...new gm... cablevision should sell their stocks back to the ppl...i say P. Diddy as the new owner!!

We need an exorcist.

Posted by crzymdups:

MARBURY. my god.

are you sure marbury was bringing us back in that wolves game? cause I remember that we were down even when he got injured.

Posted by SlimPack:

Posted by crzymdups:

MARBURY. my god.

are you sure marbury was bringing us back in that wolves game? cause I remember that we were down even when he got injured.

we were down by 18. he scored 9 straight points, cut it to 9, the entire team started playing better and the MIN lead was 6 when he went down. Not a lock we would have won, but we were showing the resilency we showed against Atlanta, Dallas, Phoenix and Seattle in the prior few games that led to wins.

Marbs goes down, we lose by 4 or 5. Hey, this whole season is over, but Marbury makes a huge difference to this team. He runs every offensive set, scores by himself when things aren't working and was playing the best D of his life. Marbury goes down and no one has run offensive sets, no one can penetrate and get to the foul line and get Frye and Curry easy shots. I mean, this is ridiculous to devalue Marbury and act like it's a mystery and a shock that we're losing.

Since Marbury has gone down, I've picked the Knicks to win in gamepicker exactly three times. They've won once.

Posted by BasketballJones:

Marbury has been just awful during this losing streak. He disappears for long stretches of games. In fact, I can't remember one good thing he's done recently.

I can remember a couple of good things he's done, but Im not naming them becuae Im too lazy.

Posted by Finestrg:

Posted by BasketballJones:

Marbury has been just awful during this losing streak. He disappears for long stretches of games. In fact, I can't remember one good thing he's done recently.

What are you talking about???? The guy's been hurt. He hasn't been playing.

sarcasm

Oh yeah, to answer the original question -
We need to:
(1) Get Marbury back healthy
(2) Establish an effective defensive scheme that works, is easy to understand and has everyone motivated and excited about using
(3) Acquire an interior defensive presence/shotblocker and a swingman that can score it and play strong defense - and I'm not talking about Theo Ratliff and Darius Miles - I want both at a low or manageable salary (there's a shot we can get both in this upcoming draft)
(4) Start Channing Frye and play David Lee more. It's downright criminal that Lee hasn't been getting any PT recently
(5) Establish a consistent rotation, only going about 9-10 deep and no more
(6) Let Penny just come off the cap - don't trade him for any unmanageable/long-term contracts. Those days are over. Either we get a can't-miss trade opportunity or he just walks. Period. He's worth more to us as a guy we know is coming off the cap rather than a guy we can acquire a whole new headache or headaches with.
(7) Continue to regulate the cap. First we start with Penny this year, then about 4 other contracts come off the books next year.
There's more but let's start with these first.

Posted by crzymdups:

MARBURY. my god.

the team still sucked when he was playing... we need a roster overhaul.