I don't think its an infatuation with Williams. Its more like Ward and Eisley have had their chance and pretty much haven't done anything when they get the run. People want a change from the losing who knows what Williams does when he starts. I remember when the Knicks made a move to Mark Jackson in his rookie season and that lit a fire under the team. Who is to say that if the Knicks make the move to Frank Williams it might not happen again. People just don't like losing and sometime a change is necessary. If Williams doesn't cut it than we know that he isn't the answer just as Eisley and Ward aren't but if he does well than we have a player.

Well he certainly played well tonight - I hope he keeps it up.

Posted by Silverfuel:

No one seems to view Frank as the answer. I completely agree with Vmart. It has more to do with frustration towards Esiely and Ward rather than infatuation with Frank Willaims.

People worry about him getting traded because he is the best PG on the knicks right now. His trade value is not that high so there is no point trading him anyway. We need to trade Othella, Shandon, Fatspoon and Howard Eisely.

No chance on doing any of that. I think Frank should start. We've seen that he's at least as good as Eisley. We need to find out what we have. He has to be given the minutes to realize his potential, and it seems like he might be developping a rapor with Dyess. Plus, he (unfortunately) is one of the only players on the team that can get an "oooh" or "aaahhh" out of the crowd.

I don't mind playing Frank like I said. But I would NOT SAY he has shown he's as good as anyone. Hopefully he is but take a look at his stats and pay attention to how many mistakes he makes out there. He is MORE turnover prone then either ward or eisley. Maybe with more time he gets better - could be - but I don't see how you can say he's proven he's better. Certainly not in the games and apparently Chaney doesn't think he's proved it in practice either.

we are infatuated with frank because he can make the nice pass, the dazzling play at times, he can defend his position well, and he penetrates, these are things that our other PG's don't do, they are busy throwing the ball away and getting abused by other PG's, this is why we are infatuated with Williams...

yep those are exactly the reasons for the "infatuation"

Frank made a point in saying all he was lacking is confidence. How many times have you heard young players say that after coming out of college early. This guy once he has full confidence in his game he will have the garden rocking again , because he has the players around him to get it done. Dice with his alley oops, Houston with the 3 after Franks dribbles thru the defence to kick out and Deke who will block a shot and senf Frank off to the races to make a spectacular finish.

Posted by playa2:

Frank made a point in saying all he was lacking is confidence. How many times have you heard young players say that after coming out of college early. This guy once he has full confidence in his game he will have the garden rocking again , because he has the players around him to get it done. Dice with his alley oops, Houston with the 3 after Franks dribbles thru the defence to kick out and Deke who will block a shot and senf Frank off to the races to make a spectacular finish.

sounds great. I hope they can read this in LA because here come the knicks!

Old fan if you watch a lil more closely you would see that frank creates better when the team has a motion offense , not the one that ward grew up on playing with ewing and vandummy . When he penetrates he has more targets to pass to , WHY ....because they are moving like him!