Dolan is one of the true idiots of sports and business.

In about 30 hours, we will no for sure, and whether how many people, will officially give up on this organization....

If we can acquire a penetrate PG like Barea, I believe he can bring the same some of the things that Lin can do, at a cheaper price, but we cannot.....

After this dumb move that Kidd just did, I hope we can rescind our offer to him, hope he goes to jail for all I care, and join Plaxico..

I can see Felton is the backup PG, that can continue to penetrate and play defense on a backup role, but to replace Lin, I don't think so.

I dont know- great to have Camby nd Kurt back, but it seems like we took a sideways step at best. We still don't have SG to replace Shump. Can't really blame Grunwald- Dolan and Lin teamed up to screw us. Lucky we got Felton as there is no other PG out there.

blkexec wrote:

crzymdups wrote:Yup.

Dolan is one of the true idiots of sports and business.

Well, that was true way before Linsanity.

for a few season, i actually believed he'd stepped out of the way.

but the melo trade, firing d'antoni and letting lin go prove that it's back to normal in knicks land.

the momentary stretch of sanity felt so nice.

Here's to praying that Kidd and CAmby find the fountain of youth.

And we just got A LOT OLDER and traded away or are getting rid of most of our young guys. And Shump will be out a while. Hope the new guys from Europe can help. They sure looked good in summer league. ehehhe

Come on Dolan, do the right thing.

Knicks have to match Lin it a doable contract it's not as bad as people are making it out to be. Put it this way Lin and Amare will be expiring deal about the same time so I can see the Knicks using the expiring deals in the future to get under the cap, or moving either Lin, Amare, Chandler in a couple of years.

smackeddog wrote:I'm not going to take this Lin thing out on Felton- he loved playing here and wanted to come back despite the way we treated him. And while he played badly last year, once he got the coach fired, he actually played quite well- Last 10 games, 14.2pts 46% FG, 42% 3pt! 4 reb, 7.7assists.

Problem with Felton is he sucks and we can't expect the MDA Felton because he couldn't do it in other systems.

Vmart wrote:

smackeddog wrote:I'm not going to take this Lin thing out on Felton- he loved playing here and wanted to come back despite the way we treated him. And while he played badly last year, once he got the coach fired, he actually played quite well- Last 10 games, 14.2pts 46% FG, 42% 3pt! 4 reb, 7.7assists.

Problem with Felton is he sucks and we can't expect the MDA Felton because he couldn't do it in other systems.

All of those guys could have been retained if they'd approached them with reasonable contracts on July 1st.

But, nope, they had to get used by Steve Nash who said "NY was never really an option." All that cost us was Fields and pissed off Lin who then decided he wanted to go to Houston for real.

This is one of the most horribly managed off-seasons I've ever seen.

Lin, Fields and Jeffries were three of the best players on the team last year and some of the only reasons the team made the playoffs along with Melo, Tyson and Shumpert.

So the Knicks essentially gave up half of their functional rotation, overpaid Novak, retained JR Smith (they'll have to overpay him next off-season), downgraded PG, signed two 40yr old backups... and traded like five second round picks in the process if you count this year's... Shump is out for half the season to boot.

oh, yeah, Amar'e Stoudemire is now the longest tenured Knick and he punched a fire extinguisher thus ruining any chance of being competitive against the Heat.

Do people think that the record next year will be better winning %?