You can do anything as long as you have a plan and it makes sense.

You can do anything as long as you win

Plan or no plan.

Anything else and you are french toast

>> if a gm comes out and says "hey, we're gonna rebuild. it's gonna take some time and we have some bad contracts that we may have to wait out, but we're gonna try it this way. please be patient."

All of a sudden $1000. courtside seats don't look like a good investment

All of a sudden your competitors are picking over your team like vultures witnessing your certain demise

All of a sudden people stop buying your merchandise and your cable ratings drop

All of a sudden six years seems like an eternity in NYC. That's how long it took the Bulls.

Every team rebuilds, evey season

you really want to start from scratch?

no gurantees.

We fire everyone after one year. Since 1999 we've been through 5 or 6 coaches, 3 GM's and now 5 new franchise players. Who in their right mind is going to try to rebuild if they know they won't be there to see it come to fruition? Every move that every GM makes is in an attempt to catch lightning in a bottle to save their jobs. They worry about championships after that.

To me it's not a tough concept to see. It's been going on for 6-7 years and I've been talking about it for 6-7 years. When we have stability, you will see changes. Until then it will be more of the same with just different names.

Our organization is a free-for all with everyone watching out for themselves. Our GM's and coach's undermine each other because they know whoever is on top will be the last to be fired. Let's let our guys make mistakes, adjust to their mistakes, make more mistakes, adjust to those mistakes and give them the 5 or 6 years it's going to take to turn this around. I don't care if it's LB and Zeke. I don't care if it's Chaney and Layden. What I care about is giving a GM a chance to implement a plan so he is making moves that fit his coach and can help us build. Instead of having to make moves to please fans, sell tickets and worst of all SAVE HIS ARSE.

Posted by Bippity10:

We fire everyone after one year. Since 1999 we've been through 5 or 6 coaches, 3 GM's and now 5 new franchise players. Who in their right mind is going to try to rebuild if they know they won't be there to see it come to fruition? Every move that every GM makes is in an attempt to catch lightning in a bottle to save their jobs. They worry about championships after that.

To me it's not a tough concept to see. It's been going on for 6-7 years and I've been talking about it for 6-7 years. When we have stability, you will see changes. Until then it will be more of the same with just different names.

Our organization is a free-for all with everyone watching out for themselves. Our GM's and coach's undermine each other because they know whoever is on top will be the last to be fired. Let's let our guys make mistakes, adjust to their mistakes, make more mistakes, adjust to those mistakes and give them the 5 or 6 years it's going to take to turn this around. I don't care if it's LB and Zeke. I don't care if it's Chaney and Layden. What I care about is giving a GM a chance to implement a plan so he is making moves that fit his coach and can help us build. Instead of having to make moves to please fans, sell tickets and worst of all SAVE HIS ARSE.

layden and isiah did not try a rebuild. they tried covering sh t with ketchup. at what point, as a business man, and more importantly, a basketball man, do you see what's going on and say "hold on a second, we need to stop some of this." that's the problem here, neither mills nor dolan are smart enough in that department to say that. hence the ineptitude that goes on with this organization. it's no coincidence that it all went downhill once the bball minds left upper management. you say only in ny do we want to fire anybody. funny, b/c on in ny, with dolan and mills in charge would these guys actually get a bunch of years to work it out. layden got 4, sather got 6...and he was SAVED by the lockout. so isiah gets 4, i'm assuming, right. THANK GOD brown is here b/c if isiah had total autonomy, who knows what would happen.

You can do anything you want to if you HAVE A BRAIN

You can't rebuild the traditional way with Cablevision/Dolan owning the franchise. It has nothing to do with New York. If Cablevision ran the Charlotte Bobcats, it would be "you can't rebuild in Charlotte"

I'm sorry but the bulls had a frontcourt of Miller, Artest and Brand and they came out of the deal with Jalen Rose and Tyson Chandler

They had Scottie Pippen and they didn't get picks or anything of value in the trade, they ended up signing Brent Barry because no one would take their money because of Jerry Krause, because he did MJ wrong players remember stuff like that

So the Bulls would have been able to do it right away

The Nuggets turned around the fate quickly and are at least exciting to watch, the magic would have done it had they kept Ben Wallace for next to nothing with T-MAC and Duncan was very close to going there

It takes a little luck but it can be done....

The Bobcats could have been one of the better teams in the East in a couple of years if they knew how to draft.....5 and 13 could have been Villenueava/Frye and Granger instead of May and Felton.....its all about luck planning and not overestimating what a player does in a playoff series (Croshere, James, Lue, Dooling)

Isiah Thomas should have simply used his 2 talents. He should have used his used carsaleman qualities to lure a free agent by selling NYC and simply drafted players.