Bobcats executive Ed Tapscott was vilified in New York for the one major move he made as the Knicks' interim general manager: Using the 15th overall pick in 1999 on Frederic Weis, a French center who never played in the NBA.

But here's the side of that story you don't generally hear: Tapscott had a deal worked out to trade that 15th pick and point guard Chris Childs to Toronto for the fifth pick. Tapscott intended to choose point guard Andre Miller at No. 5, but he never consummated that deal because then-Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy was lukewarm on Miller.

Miller went to the Cleveland Cavaliers with the eighth pick, and led the NBA in assists his third season there. As recently as this preseason, Knicks coach Don Chaney said his team still doesn't have a reliable point guard.

They'd have one if Tapscott had ignored Van Gundy's second-guessing and selected Miller."


Now if you can understand me now why I blast him all the time because Jeff did more behind the scenes damage than most knicks fans understood. Tapscott probably got back at jeff by picking weiss, this is the inner squabbling that avg fans never hear about! Like I said before I really knew this guy was a snake!

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Revisionist History. What else is Tapscott going to say about picking Weiss? The move is indefensible! So why didn't he take Artest then? He was the GM, he should have made the final decision like a real GM would have.

Come on now, you are really scraping the barrel now aren't you?

So how come you are not posting anything about NY's offensive woes? Hmmmm? YOUR boy Chaney does not look so great right now does he?

Anybody with a half a brain knows that Artest with his "queensbridge posse" would have had him in trouble all the time playing in NY. Cmon GONY

Ok, so you dont like Artest? What about these guys who were all available when Weiss was picked.

Artest
Posey
Glover
Jeff Foster
Kenny Thomas
Andrei Kirilenko
Scott Padgett
Gordon Giricek
Emmanuel Ginoboli

Don't get me wrong I like Artest , but in NY he would have been a messand that is my only point. Tapscott probaly got back at jeff for not taking Miller by sticking him with a stiff in Weiss. His lil egomaniac tendencies is what made tapscott not help the point gaurd position that we still smart over till this day.

Obviously with 20/20 hindsight youre gonna see the things that were right and that were wrong... Its not hard to see the mistakes after they happened. It is, however, hard to appreciate what was good in the past.

Tapscott, wasn't the real GM WAS HE? Interim I believe.

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Don't get me wrong I like Artest , but in NY he would have been a messand that is my only point. Tapscott probaly got back at jeff for not taking Miller by sticking him with a stiff in Weiss. His lil egomaniac tendencies is what made tapscott not help the point gaurd position that we still smart over till this day.

I can't blame JVG for Tapscott's creul intentions because by taking it out on JVG he indirectly took it out on the NYK fans and that to me is a big no no. It was Tapscott's call and he blew it.

Tell me then VMART, why didn't jeff want ANDRE MILLER? He wanted a point guard like ward who needs help running the point so he could exercise his ego and have input. With Miller he would have had a guy who could improvise without Gundy's help.

Ernie picked Weiss. I remember him talking about it on the Fan after it happened. He said they scouted him heavily and they saw him being a very valueable player as Ewing got older.

It wasnt a good draft, that much is obvious, but its not like picking Sam Bowie over Michael Jordan.