Posted by Nedyal1:


Laydog only gets booted if the draft picks this year and next are huge blunders.
Draftees aside, I think LayDown gets kicked if Dyess doesn't return.

If your going to suck, then you don't want Failblazer dope heads and idiots ruining the image. At least if you like the guys, they can sell tickets. Again, its entertainment. so lets say we do agree, but you need to understand that bad teams with bad attitudes really are no fun at all.
I see your point, but bad teams with NO attitudes (like the way we seem to be this year IMO) are straight up boring. Hopefully we won't end up that way...

Last year the team worked hard, stayed together, played and beat some nice teams, and was fun sometimes. But if they were all full of themselves, and lose, they are jokes!
Yeah but they weren't full of themselves. We still lost. The team does not have to be full of themselves to show some heart and have some fire. If we come out like softees, we will be the joke of the NBA. A major market team like the Knicks...a laughingstock. That ain't funny to me.

The good guy thing gets replaced with tough winning attitude. Winning forgives alot of things, and we just not there yet. Its a process hardcore, evolution. In time, in time.
What I want to see more than anything else is a tough winning attitude. I just want to see NYK get a title in my lifetime.

yeah, Spoon , eyes, anderson, all role players to support a team that never materialized. Again I agree with you. But lets face it, fireing Laydog does not make it go away.
True, but at least it's a step in the right direction. I can see Dolan trying to save face by chopping LayDown, and maybe then he'll back off and let the next GM get the job done right.

IF Dolan and laydog are in agreement to rebuild the right way, then those idiot contracts are best to expire some, then trade. IF you dump, it ends up costing good players or draft picks as sal cap days dictate you must do someone a favor to recieve one. A few years ago you could just dump and some teams (like the knicks) thinking they are in contention would pick them up.
Excellent point. We are on the same page there... 100%

So go on with the intense hatred of Laydog, but it won't matter. OUr society loves a scapegoat and we love to put a face on it. The taliban is the problem, so we make fun of Bin Laden, Iraq has a deadly government, but we get funny with Saddam. Its the way it gets done. Blame Wall street for societies ills, enron for corp america's ills. We blame bush for IRaqs mess up when it becomes poitical. If you need to demonize Laydog, so be it, but sometimes things just don't go to plan, and yes sometimes it also gets screwed up.
I just wish we had a GM that refused to be a scapegoat. I have said the same thing about LayDown being a scapegoat for Dolan numerous times in these threads. IMO LayDown has done too much damage to slide at this point. Again, hopefully the next GM won't make the same mistake.

Dice was a huge risk that would have had changed the complextion of the team. In that, I think Spree would have been moved earlier, and we would have found a defensive center to compliment the team. One move or set of circumstances begets another. Dice went down, and a rebuilding mode started. But you don't hype that as nobody would really care. The team regrouped after losing its best player (dice), Got back its small forward after 10 games and all of preseason, and did a nice job after a horrible start.
That is why I believe that LayDown's future in NY depends on the Dyess factor. If Dyess returns AND is productive, then LayDown saves some face and possibly extends his tenure here to continue attempting to undo his countless blunders here. If not, he's outta here and a new GM can try to do the impossible and fix the mess LayDown left in his wake.[