Posted by martin:
Posted by djsunyc:
Posted by misterearl:
"Coach told me a million times during the game that I was nervous," Francis said, referring to Coach Larry Brown. "He told me to chill out. But I just wanted to try to do so well to help my team win, and I don't fault myself for that."
A million times?
>>Thomas chided reporters this week for repeatedly citing the Knicks' payroll as $120 million. The figure is unfair, Thomas said, because it includes $32 million being paid to players no longer on the roster — Allan Houston, Jerome Williams and Shandon Anderson. "I want you to add up the dollars that are actually playing out on the floor," Thomas said. The Knicks' starters last night will make a total of $46 million this season. The top nine players in the rotation make $83 million.
- NYTimes
Yeah, fire Isiah.
[Edited by - MisterEarl on 02-25-2006 07:39 AM]
mister earl, if it was up to me, i'd fire both right away and start this whole shebang over this summer. i don't care if the guy that comes in inherits isiah's roster and they start winning next year. i don't care if isiah isn't around to see the "fruits" of his labour (although chances of any "fruit" being shown are very slim). i want to remove BOTH and start with some more candid people.
who you may ask?
i say, ask david stern to hook us up with a legitimate guy - like toronto did and they got colangelo.
be it the pacers assistant or kiki or quincy jones. just get some professionals here that don't double talk and aren't snakes in the grass as gm AND coach.
yeah, but if you had asked Stern to suggest a coach for you last year he would have said Brown. And if you had asked Stern to suggest a GM 3 years ago after the Layden years, he probably would suggest Isiah.
What then? Fire each less than a year in a start over? Again?
Nice patience.
there's patience and then there's damage control.
with the way this thing is going, do we ride this out just so we can "SEE" what happens? if there's ANYONE with cred in this organization it's larry so if ANYONE is going to be kept, it will be him. but with all the players unhappy and none really fit with the way lb wants to play defense, it's a total mismatch. i always defended larry on this board but i also don't care who's running the ship as long as there's direction and we win.
people are still giving the layden excuse when discussing isiah. that's why people keep saying give it time. look at what he inherited and look at the roster now. i would say there are only 3, maybe 4 people that may have had a shot to be bench players for the 90's knicks team. that's a whole lotta money spent for that, no?
two late #1's this year. a swap in '07. and at least one more unprotected pick gone from 08-10. ZERO 2nd round picks. we're over the cap.
hence, trades and MLE are the only real significant ways of improving. combine that with a coach that has about 2 more years here, then we are looking at somewhat of a quick fix. hence the KG talks. you KNOW frye will be dumped in a second for KG.
we can all see this happening. so why not hold a preemptive strike before it actually REACHES that point. dolan is an absolute idiot but he let's his GM's pretty much do what they want so the GM's are making the bball decisions and dolan just says yes or no concerning the money.
i only say this b/c i'm pretty concerned about the direction of the team.
we can have all the patience in the world but if we fired layden 2 years into his regime, then we would be in a better place now.
2/25/2006 10:22 AM