2003: Isiah Get’s Hired: http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=1692143

Some quotes that jumped out at me:

“Thomas' first task will be evaluating a roster with the league's highest payroll and deciding whether any of those massive contracts can be moved in a trade.”

“Before the Van Horn trade, Layden's biggest move came on draft night in 2002 when he sent Marcus Camby, Mark Jackson and the Knicks' lottery pick to Denver for Antonio McDyess.”

(Hey, no matter how bad things may seem with Zeke, just remember the Layden era…)


Knicks 2002-2003 Roster: (37-45)

PG: Charlie Ward, Howard Eisley, Frank Williams
SG: Allan Houston
SG/SF: Spree, Shandon Anderson, Lavor Postell
PF: McDyess aka McDice aka McHurt , Spoon, Othella, Nailon
C: Krazy Kurt, Doleac, Travis Knight, Mark Pope??

Pluses: If all of the guys in bold are healthy, I guess it wasn’t a horrible team?? Ward, Houston, Thomas could be considered somewhat high in basketball IQ. Interesting question: Who would you rather have on your team healthy and in their prime: Houston or Marbury?

Minuses: Ugly ugly bench. Wow. Don’t really see any athletes other than Spree. I guess Anderson was athletic minus any discernible basketball skills… Um they went 37-45.

I’m at work right now so I’m not going to look up what the cap situation looked like back then. Coming off of Layden I vaguely recall me cringing back then…

Knicks Current Roster:

PG: Marbury, Nate, Mardy
PG/SG: Crawford, Francis
SF: Q, JJ2, Balkman
PF: Jerome James!, Lee, Frye, Malik Rose,
C: Curry, Kato, Jerome James!

My initial impression is that I like our current team more. Our cap situation: still fcuked..

Like someone pointed out in the original thread. I don't understand AT ALL the decision to get buy out Mo Taylor and Rose instead of seeing what we could have gotten for their expiring contracts..

Just move the convo back towards what they need to do. Having 2 threads is going to get confusing.