raven wrote:I will stop caring and rooting for this team if Thomas the snake comes back again.

We were back to respectability, we want to take shortcuts again and while doing so, will put shame on the guy who brought us back on track, Walsh.

I would have no respect left for what would be a joke of a franchise, I just couldn't take it anymore.

I sincerely hope things will go the right way, that we won't overpay for a player that, although very talented, will only lead us to second round exits.

34 years for me. Everyone should be getting bad vibes about Thomas' reemergence as a strings-pulling behind the scenes decision-maker for the Knicks. I dismissed all the talk of him becoming GM again when it was a topic of discussion last year, but I obviously underestimated the ties between Dolan and Thomas.

How ironic is it that Walsh, the guy who dug the franchise out of the hole Isiah put us in, has now (seemingly)become marginalized during some of the most important negotiations the team is going through in decades.

Lupica has a comment from a source bringing up the McAdoo/Haywood experiment of many years ago and how that failed. Are we going to be heading in this direction as a team?

If we do sign and extended contract Melo and the cap shrinks, what will that mean for roster flexibility? And what if the new CBA allows teams to put franchise tags on players or are allowed other advantages when trying to resign one of their star players? What will that mean for the future development of this team.

Anthony himself has reconfirmed that some players are only out for the money- how will players react when the team they are on can offer much more $$ than other suitors.

People who have doubts about Isiah's judgement should take note that the present trade particulars may have originated with (or been inspired by)Isiah, the same guy who buried this team only a few years ago. Should the guy who helped make the franchise a laughing stock now be a "player" in this trade?

And even more ironic is the possibility that Isiah may be playing a key part in a trade which includes his greatest mistake- E. Curry.

Lets see what happens. Will sanity, in the steady hands of Walsh, reemerge, or will MSG may once again become the Worlds Most Famous Arena... for the absurd.

raven wrote:I will stop caring and rooting for this team if Thomas the snake comes back again.

We were back to respectability, we want to take shortcuts again and while doing so, will put shame on the guy who brought us back on track, Walsh.

I would have no respect left for what would be a joke of a franchise, I just couldn't take it anymore.

I sincerely hope things will go the right way, that we won't overpay for a player that, although very talented, will only lead us to second round exits.

Papabear Says

I kinda think the reason why Dolan likes I.T. is because Isaih did everything Dolan asked of him to do. If you want to stop being a Knicks fan look to Dolan. Zeke can't do anything than Dolan don't approve of. If Isaih comes back I might not like it but I will still be a Knicks fan. He did not destroy this franchise. The franchis was destroyed when Ewing left and we allowed him to leave and we got nothing back. Plus bad trades and giving Alan Houston 100 million and that was before Zeke so stop blaming him for all of the Knicks woes.It was bad before he got here and he was pushed to get a playoff team now! And with D Lee, Zach, Crawford, Marbs that year before Zach and Crawford got traded we would have made the playoffs. We might not have gotten far but we would have made it with a winning record.

PresIke wrote:and if we're a title contending team will some folks stick to their word?

That's my censored version.

PresIke wrote:and if we're a title contending team will some folks stick to their word?

I don't think we can contend to anything without long term thinking. Very rare are examples of franchises built through ''fair'' trades (ie: no gasol gift or Lebron and co) that led to championships.

Dolan is a shame of a owner and Thomas has done us so much harm it's insane he's still around.

We won't contend, our big 3 (that we mayeven not have) can't contend with Miami, so what's the point? I'd rather build aournd youth and try to be like the spurs, good system, good drafting, solid and respected organisation. We are very far from that, and themelo trade would only put even further.