Aight, lets say some thigns about Marbury and the rest of it.
There are only 3 players in the NBA who can be saviors, Shaq, Duncan, and Garnett, notice the trend? They are all BIG MEN. No gaurd will save this team unless his Airness sees a falling star and wishes he was 30 again, is granted his wish, and decides to make yet another comback with the Knicks this time around.
That said, we do have a foundation for a future squad. Marbury is 26 and signed to 7 years. Van Horn is signed for 2 years, Houston is signed for like 4 more or something like that. Norris is singed for a while and makes a good backup PG, Hardaway is signed and is a good bench player as well who can play 1, 2 and 3. OH is a solid backup PF, just don't play him a C. Doleac is a solid C.
Trade assets: Williams and Sweetney, 2nd rounderds, possible future 1st rounders (pushing it lol), Motombu (just cause he is a C), Thomas, Anderson.
What needs to be done:
1)Get a real coach, Chaney is a nice guy, but I hate for being a head coach, any man with any self respect would have quit by now seeing how much he sucks at something.
2)Get a reliable lowpost scorer.
3)Find a long term solution at C, Motombu is old, very old, he will hardly last past this season, as it is might not fit the new team style brought in by Stephon. Dallas needs a C for a real shot at the title, why not use thier desire?
4)Must realize this season is over, build with the next season in mind, as in bring in players that will play next year as a really good team once they have a real coach and a training camp together.
Possible Solutins:
1)Trade Motombu and Anderson to Dallas for their 1st round pick and Fortson, this way we can pick somebody in the 1st and have a good backup PF next year since Fortson is signed for years lol. Play around with minor players to make the deal work.
2)Trade Thomas, Sweetney, and Williams for Wallace and 1st round pick.
Add minor players to make it work. Gets us a lowpost scorer and another 1st rounder to make up for the looss of our own in the Marbury deal. Yeah I hate loosin 1st rounders lol.
3)Geroge Karl anyone? Can Rudy come back? Riles give up on his heah maybe? Thomas coah himself? Anybody but Chaney lol.
Feel free to disect this, this is just a rough draft of our future so to speak lol, it'll be fun to go back and see what actually happens by the beginnin of next season.

Nothing much to dissect. I think you got it. I think a REAL coach can win 45-50 games with THIS team in the EAST. To win a RING, you need a BONAFIDE low post guy to go with a healthy Stephon and H20 and KVH.

4)Must realize this season is over, build with the next season in mind, as in bring in players that will play next year as a really good team once they have a real coach and a training camp together.

If you think our season is over because we don't all the pieces and we're not at .500 this momement, think again

I would hardly call FWill and Sweetney ... foundations. Marbury, Van Horn, Houston are the foundation. Sweetney, was a horrible pick... but I'll try not to beat that horse any more.