Dear Isiah,
I've supported you for so long. Through the crazy trades and draft picks when nobody believed in you, I looked at the potential. Ol' buddy, ol' pal, it doesn't look so good anymore.

You've done what you promised, sort of... You built a team chock full of talented players. Now what? You have to be starting to realize that you won't be able to get them to mesh together. They look bad in the preseason. Not even so much bad, as unprofessional. When you go to the YMCA, sometimes you see a bunch of young studs play the old dudes that wear short shorts, goggles and headbands and the old dudes school the young studs. Watching the Knicks is like watching that game every night. Everyone thinks they're a star, there's no plan, there are too many careless plays, its just ugly basketball.

The fact that we have 20, yes 20 players on the roster is horrific. And its horrific because most of them should be on the roster, but the ones who should be cut won't be cut.

A few things are clear to any Knicks fan out there at this point
- Fred Jones has no role on a young, building team and should be cut or traded now
- Marty Collins should be playing more than half of the game at the point now
- Crawford is, at best a 4th quarter comeback specialist who should ONLY be used in that role
- Jeffries, not Nichols is the wing player that should be deported to Europe to refine his game
- If Rose is going to spend the whole season on the bench coaching...he should be a coach, not a player taking a roster spot
- Jerome James has been talking to Carl Pavano
- If Nate can be used in a specific 5 minute spurt, change tempo role he can be "Nate the Great" for us, don't use him for 15 minutes at a time, the other team will match up eventually
- Curry and Randolph can play on the floor at the same time, but you have to have specific players on the floor with them to make that work, i.e. Chandler, Q, Marty so that they are not doubled and their defense isn't a massive problem
- Lee is a power forward, don't let him shoot his way to being an inefficient player

All these things are obvious to the fans, so don't pretend you're fooling us anymore. The time for talk with this team is over. You have about 3 rosters worth of players. I could make 3 mediocre teams from this roster. You can make one good team, but all the extra crap has to get cut off.

You're doing the players with skill and determination on this roster a disservice by playing or even keeping the guys around who do not have it.

Cut James, cut Jeffries, cut Rose, cut Jones, send Jordan to play in Europe, and let's go do something this season.

Start Marty, Q, Chandler, Zach and Curry, that team would have mismatches all over the damn place in our favor. Bring a bench crew of Steph, Lee and Balkman. Bring Nate in as a spark and only in that role. In the 4th, if you're down, you have Craw and Nichols and if they're having "ON" nights, you're going to steal some games.

Do all that and you would have an unhappy bunch... until they actually started winning games.

Why would we not do exactly this Isiah? Are we going to trade for another all-star? For one, I don't see it happening, for two, I don't know if they would fit in, and for three, how many games do we lose trying to keep a 15 man rotation going?

This crap doesn't make sense any more Isiah. I've been with you, but I'm the last one jumping off the band wagon. Do something to make sense of your roster now. The talent is there. Get the junk out of the way so that the talent can be allowed to go out and save your job.

Peace, I'm out, word to your mother...

Great post. I agree with everything you said. Nice job nailing it.

yeah man, its such a mixed bag with this dude.

What do you say about a guy who's brought in 20 new players, 10 of which are great pick-ups and the other 10 of which are terrible and you make you throw up a little bit in your mouth when you see them in a Knicks uni?

Its just a waste to watch the 20 man team struggle when you know there is a group within all the shiet that could actually be good.

Its going to take some man sized cajones to make the moves needed this year instead of waiting through another crappy season.

Good post. That really is the problem. There clearly are players on this team, but IT wastes too many minutes on guys like Jeffries and Nate. Collins can run the point as well as Marbury and is a better defender than either Marbury or Nate. Let him be the backup PG. The fact that Jeffries starts and gets more minutes than Balkman is criminal.

Posted by JohnWallace44:

If I was another almost any team out there, I'd be calling Isiah to try to steal a couple of the guys off of this roster for junk.

It would be great if that would happen, but you get the feeling that trade isn't coming in the last couple of weeks before the season starts.

Some kind of Jeffries/Morris for J Howard would be nice, but I don't even think Isiah is trying to make trades for some reason. You'd normally hear tons of rumor mill spin-off.

Isiah is strong character but not a superhuman.
I don’t think he has much left in the tank after all stuff he went through.
It it is not getting easy. It is hard to be "All Alone". And it is useless too.

James never palyed at all in the first place. You can sit/cut the guys you don't need out there to win. It certainly would take some courage though. That's kind of what I'm asking for in this post.

Nothing to root for

4949 - No matter what combo of players he puts out there, it will never work. There is no chemistry here. Hasn't been any kind of chemistry in the past six or seven years. I didn't even mention injury prone. There is nothing to root for.

Perhaps all this edition of Knicks needs is a bit of patience/