There's bad and then there's the Knicks. Anytime Sonics fans want to groan and bemoan how terrible their team is, they need to take a long look at the Knicks and thank the basketball gods that Isiah Thomas isn't coaching this team. Ok that's a little harsh. Isiah the coach isn't so bad, but Isiah the GM is horrible. Case in point is New York's broken down lineup of mismatching parts. Spoke with Rainier Beach boys Jamal Crawford and Nate Robinson afterward. Crawford is ready for a new change of venue. He told me he's making the best of a tough situation, but wouldn't mind being traded. He talked about returning to Seattle and playing here, but then a lot of the Seattle guys say that. Crawford seemed serious, however, there's nothing in the works and it probably will never happen because he essentially plays Kevin Durant's position.

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its one thing to be playing on a bad team- its another to be playing on a bad team that isn't going to get better any time soon and its another to be playing in the gulag like atmosphere that Dolan creates with his press lock down and other media stifling policies.

I think the best thing for Crawford is for him to get traded to a perennial lottery team in a small market. I think he would play his best ball as the primary option on a really bad team. He needs to go somewhere where they won't look to closely at his horrible fg%, his poor shoot selection, his low basketball iq, his poor ast/to ratio, and his weak ass defense. This would hopefully assuage his ego, because for some reason this guy thinks he is a really talented player. However, this guy is a career loser, and the first person that really has to go after his gay lover, Curry.

The problem with Isiah is this:

Now bear with me, I am in business school right now so I am looking at this from a technical perspective.

Zeke has taking gambles on most of the players he added to the roster.

When you take a risk you need to look at the expected value added in combination with the risk. If the expected value is positive, you make the deal.

Now it seems to me, Zeke has taken a bunch of risks on negative expected value prospects - hoping that with such large risk, the upside will be huge if things work out. He was probably thinking that if even one of these players turned into a superstar he would save the franchise.

Unfortunately when you fill a portfolio with negative expected value, thats usually what you end up with. Isiah did nothing to hedge his risk by taking solid contributers to surround his risky acquisitions - sure he took some decent draft picks but that was not enough to balance out the Marbury, JCraw, QRich, Curry and others that have not paid off.