Some may not care, but interesting nonetheless...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060630.wisiah/BNStory/Sports/Basketball/

Greenburgh, N.Y. — Isiah Thomas has already been warned that he's out of a job if the New York Knicks don't improve next season.

Still, he sounds ready to take the floor with basically the same group that won 23 games under Larry Brown.

"I'm not here waiting for Santa Claus to come save us," Thomas said Thursday. "I was told early on we didn't have any money and there was no Santa Claus. And I'm not looking for this great player to come save the day for us.

"The guys that we have, we'll make them better and we have a job to do. Nobody's coming to save us."

Thomas added the coaching reins to his role as team president last week when Brown was fired. The Knicks said Brown wanted to get rid of nearly half the roster, but Thomas spoke as if he can win with those players.

"I do like our players," he said. "And my job is to get their confidence back and I think they can play at a higher level than what a lot of them performed at last year."

The Knicks' salary cap woes would make it difficult for Thomas to make many good moves, anyway. But he didn't sound as if he necessarily needs to seek them, saying he would be less aggressive this summer than in past years.

"I'm very comfortable with our roster. I'm comfortable with the things that we have," Thomas said. "I'll continue to look to get better. If I can get a better player I'll definitely try to get a better player, but if we have to go into the season right now with what we have and the way we look, I'm comfortable with that."

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But Thomas said that wouldn't prevent him from playing his young players. The Knicks now have five players on the roster who were first-round picks in the last two years.

"I'm doing everything that I can to better our Knicks team and the Knicks organization," Thomas said. "I'm not very shortsighted about what's happening, even though this pressure or whatever is out there. I'm comfortable in operating in the environment that I'm in. I take comfort in pressure and we'll operate underneath of it and do what we need to do."

Posted by rvhoss:

But Thomas said that wouldn't prevent him from playing his young players. The Knicks now have five players on the roster who were first-round picks in the last two years.

Correction -- 4 first-round picks, and 1 second-round pick that he erroneously chose in the first round.

I thought he was talking about frye.

and talk is cheap, unless your JJ.. then it costs $30mil