Lampe, Vranes and Dice on the IL......So no backup SG! Funny for 4 years we had too many SG's now, we dont have enough. Yet we still have too many PF's and PG's. One of these days, maybe Laydumb will get it right.

Ward-HOuston-KVH-KT-Mutombo
FWILL-Eisley-Anderson-Spoon-Harrington-Sweetney-Doleac

That is the opening night squad.

If houston is hurting and needs omre surgery, this team will have gone from a backcourt oriented team last year to a front court oriented team this year. the problem is the front court without DIce is not able to score.

This shows how Layden has FAILED. He has a lopsided squad which could not handle the blow of Dice last year so he overcompensated and this year will not be able to handle the blow of a hurt Houston.

If that's the way you want to see it. Our back court piece was the one we had as trade bait. Remember you didn't like Spoon or Doleac and Othella? Now we get KVH and Mutumbo you cry about sg. Well if Houston wasn't hurt you would talk about the mediocre point guards. Just let things work themselves out.

Have we scored 65 points with our top guns Houston and KVH on the court at the same time? NO! See what you guys forget is with those two on the court at the same time it creates easier (shots)points for teammates MutUmbo KT and Ward.

Waiving Knight & Carrol was the right move. Hopefully sets up Othella for shooting guard deal. Othella's trade value was down because other GMs thought we'd release him. Now they know they have to give up something. And they should. He's not totally useless.

But agree with all the posts suggesting we're in trouble if we don't get a capable backup 2. I've got a bad feeling that Houston's not going to play a full season without injury this year, and even if he only misses small stretches, none of us wants to see 10 - 15 minutes a night of Shannon at shooting guard.

Posted by bernard:

Waiving Knight & Carrol was the right move. Hopefully sets up Othella for shooting guard deal. Othella's trade value was down because other GMs thought we'd release him. Now they know they have to give up something. And they should. He's not totally useless.

But agree with all the posts suggesting we're in trouble if we don't get a capable backup 2. I've got a bad feeling that Houston's not going to play a full season without injury this year, and even if he only misses small stretches, none of us wants to see 10 - 15 minutes a night of Shannon at shooting guard.

That's not the plan. The plan is to put Eisley or Frank at SG. Shandon backs up KVH. Not saying that's much improvement ...

The other part of the maneuvering has Dice, Lampe and Vranes going to the IR. Lampe over Harrington to the IR, strange.

Yes, go ahead and give Layden the benefit of the doubt. But here are the facts. In early june Houston had surgery. This was before the draft and FA signing period. I am sure Layden knew all along that Houston's knee was not coming along right. He also knew, by looking at the roster, that his ONLY backup to SG were Eisley and hit the side of the backboard Anderson. He chose to get more PF's. He still has not solved a PG problem that has been going on since Derek harper left (remember when marbury said NY could not win with Ward and Childs..that was '99 before they got to the finals!). 4 years later, still no PG, no backup SG and about 8 PF's.

Someone made a good point. knights contract expires this year! He was a valuable trade asset. Now they will pay his salary after another team signs him to the min!
You are dreaming that he will make a deal with Harrington. As Vescey said last week, last year when Krause was begiing to give away Crawford AND Fizer, Layden sat on his balls. This year, Crawford is the starting PG and now he wants him so he offers OH?!! What a JOKE!

That is not GM level work. That is rotissiere level trading.

Go ahead speak ill of winning coaches and speak highly of Lydena nd Chaney. Your messages will not be forgotten!