If there's one thing you can't deny it's that we are way way way better than last year.

Even if it's only in bunches, at least its bunches of games - Last year we had ONE stretch.. the rest of the year it was more like.. a quarter here a quarter there.. Now we're putting together multiple stretches of good looking basketball and almost the whole year have played hard.

So hats off to the Knicks, they are improving! IM HAPPY!

Yes, with Fran gone and nate in his place the team is developing into its roles and working together.

IT takes time and there is improvement.

If francis were in the lineup this entire time we would be terrible, Marbury is playing much better and thats the difference between us now and at the beginning of the season.....

It was pretty clear the team would be better with a more in shape Curry that had a training camp and a healthy q in body and mind. That alone should add 5 wins to the team.....

And a more solid rotation is going to get you a few, as is the progression of the rookies

Isiah knew more about the game of basketball than all those booing fans all along

I'm hoping we'll be better enough to finish 42-40.

Only 26 to go.

You don't get credit for going from mediocre to bad and back to mediocre again.

Building a title contender requires some ultra-mega superstars and some solid role guys. We have some guys who when they feel the love, can play like superstars (Starbury, Curry). We have solid character guys and players who know their roles in Lee and Q rich. And we have a bunch of energy guys and jokesters to keep the mood right. We're just now getting it as a team. Plus we have assets like Channing Frye who can yeild us a talent in a trade should we choose or as a wild card himself that may get better.

I think the "haters" are doing some butt-covering right now, the tune has very subtly changed from "Isiah is an utter baffoon who has made this team the laughingstock of all time" to "No matter what Isiah does, short of making us a contender, its all a con game and we're none the better off for it.

But you wanted youth and Isiah has delivered it. You wanted draft picks, but with Isiah gone, how many more Freddy Weisses would we have selected? the biggest critique I see around here is about cap room and luxury taxes. Luxury taxes i care little about, but cap room is a good argument. We would have been under the cap after this season by a smidge if Isiah had made no moves. But then, no moves, no Curry, no Curry, no franchise player. No franchise player.... No way of winning a title.

So really, what you're saying is, Isiah has brought us the franchise player that will make us a contender for years to come. You just didn't realize thats what you were saying.

ForwarD!

Posted by kam77:

Building a title contender requires some ultra-mega superstars and some solid role guys. We have some guys who when they feel the love, can play like superstars (Starbury, Curry). We have solid character guys and players who know their roles in Lee and Q rich. And we have a bunch of energy guys and jokesters to keep the mood right. We're just now getting it as a team. Plus we have assets like Channing Frye who can yeild us a talent in a trade should we choose or as a wild card himself that may get better.

I think the "haters" are doing some butt-covering right now, the tune has very subtly changed from "Isiah is an utter baffoon who has made this team the laughingstock of all time" to "No matter what Isiah does, short of making us a contender, its all a con game and we're none the better off for it.

But you wanted youth and Isiah has delivered it. You wanted draft picks, but with Isiah gone, how many more Freddy Weisses would we have selected? the biggest critique I see around here is about cap room and luxury taxes. Luxury taxes i care little about, but cap room is a good argument. We would have been under the cap after this season by a smidge if Isiah had made no moves. But then, no moves, no Curry, no Curry, no franchise player. No franchise player.... No way of winning a title.

So really, what you're saying is, Isiah has brought us the franchise player that will make us a contender for years to come. You just didn't realize thats what you were saying.

ForwarD!

That's total BS.

I for one, said from day one of Isiah, that we should all get used to mediocrity under Isiah. The fact that he went from mediocre to utter laughingstock and maybe back to mediocre, doesn't change what some of us said initially.

Secondly you really overrate this team's players based on a couple lucky wins and wins against some bad teams.