Posted by islesfan:

Didn't you get the memo?

Injuries.

Posted by 4949:

Posted by BlueSeats:

And last year we were the best 23 win team ever, and before that the best 33 win team ever.

I'm seeing a pattern. At this rate we may be the best team ever to suck for a decade.

I don't know. L.A. Clips had some really tough years themselvels, years ago. They were the laughing stalk year after year and aren't really doing that much better now.

Posted by BlueSeats:

We're screwed as long as Marbury and Curry are our two best players. Not only because they're not that good, but also because their games just aren't that complementary.

I know that's nothing new around here, but it bears repeating

A scoring PG who can't pass inside and a center who can't pass outside is like a clock with hands going in opposite directions. Might make a nice novelty piece but I wouldn't plan my day around it.

Knicks are in a class by themselves for needing role players to make our franchise players better, rather than the other way around.

Posted by SupremeCommander:

Posted by BlueSeats:

We're screwed as long as Marbury and Curry are our two best players. Not only because they're not that good, but also because their games just aren't that complementary.

I know that's nothing new around here, but it bears repeating

A scoring PG who can't pass inside and a center who can't pass outside is like a clock with hands going in opposite directions. Might make a nice novelty piece but I wouldn't plan my day around it.

Knicks are in a class by themselves for needing role players to make our franchise players better, rather than the other way around.

The Knicks PR department is really good. People actually believe that ****.

Or how about the Knicks drafting, signing and trading for the same position--or even the same player--in the same offseason? Like Jerome James, Channing Frye and Eddy Curry or Jared Jeffries and Renaldo Balkman. There's the obvious Francis and Marbury connection too adn some might even include Jamal Crawford in there as well. Then consider the only two way player on the roster for the remaining players is QRich... and he's good for, what, 60 games a season (max)? The rest of the roster only plays one side of the ball. The only hope is if Collins, Balkman and Lee expand their games. I had high hopes for Crawford when LB was in town, but that's not going to happen with Isiah encouraging him to focus on chucking.

That last paragraph was a really long way of saying that notonly do our franchise players need role players to make them better, our role players need role players.

Posted by Cash:

Nah, all this silliness ends after next season. Eddy Curry is going to be the starting center for this team next season. We might add a shooter or two which theoretically will spread the floor for him. However, Curry will still have serious problems passing out of the double team(his reaction time and decision making stinks and it can only increase marginally from this point on. Most players go through college where problems like this are screened through the competitive process-he would not have been a top draft pick if he played four years in college.) Opposing teams know that doubling him will work, and they are going to do it even more increasing levels next year. He might still get 20ppg. He might slightly increase his apg, but it is going to bad as far as turnovers for him. It is going to be increasingly obvious that forcing the ball into a post player that can't pass out is a serious strategic mistake once teams start doubling him all the time. His rebounds won't increase too much either, because of the very realistic problem that he has a very slow reaction time. His defense won't get any better for the same reason his rebounding won't increase. Next year we are in the lottery big time, and no one will be talking about us being a good lottery team next year.

So are You trying to call eddy dumb?