CrushAlot wrote:I have written off a lot of seasons over the past thirteen years but never one when the Knicks were second in the east and first in the Atlantic in March.

You're not gonna be able to hang your hat on that for long at the rate this is going

SupremeCommander wrote:the ceiling of this team isn't as high as I thought it was, however, you cannot possibly write this team off. It has a good record against good teams. The Knicks just have to get hot at the right time. The Spurs and the Thunder are probably the only teams that legitimately have a shot against the Heat. But the Knicks should be able to meet them in the ECF. And that would not be a disappointment to me at all.

15-16 is a good record? It's 2nd in the East, effectively tied with Boston at 18-19, and 8th in the league.

CrushAlot wrote:I have written off a lot of seasons over the past thirteen years but never one when the Knicks were second in the east and first in the Atlantic in March.

The bottom line is that we put ourselves into the position of possibilities. However this is not the same team that went 18-4 to start the season and we have to be honest and account for that.

No team in the history of basketball has been 29th(2nd to last) in assists and won an NBA championship. Since beating Sacramento weve only hit 100 points in 4 of the last 17 games while we started the season by scoring 100 or more 14 of the first 18 games. We currently have 6 guys in our top 9 that shoot under 42%. It is of my opinion that our starting 2 G and SF Iman Shumpert and James White are nothing more than D league fodder. I feel bad for Iman but Iman is simply not an NBA core player right now. Our move to bring in older vets has now showed why there was criticism for the move--have not held up. While we can play a good game and beat mediocre teams--this is not a championship team or anything close to it. Our hopes would largely be dependent on Miami getting injured and for the Knicks to be able to beat teams we have a very bad collective record against Indiana Chicago Boston. Eye test--is this a championship team--or even close? Or is it a team that jump started well and gave false hope due to multiple aging and or injured players who could not hold up?

I think the New York Knicks are run by Isiah Thomas and James Dolan. While Dolan might be a ruthless successful businessman who just happened to be the right person's son--he has had an arrogant approach to running the basketball operations of this team and boy has it showed. Weve outspent every single team for the last 10 years and have 1 playoff win to show for it. Like Nolad has said--we have starphucked ourselves at every point we have been able to. We are not the teams that end up with the Kevin Durants the D Wades--we end up with SELFISH MFers like Marbury Carmelo and have mortgaged the team three years at a time to do so. We havent had our own top 5 draft pick in over 25 years--think about that.

MSG3 wrote:

SupremeCommander wrote:the ceiling of this team isn't as high as I thought it was, however, you cannot possibly write this team off. It has a good record against good teams. The Knicks just have to get hot at the right time. The Spurs and the Thunder are probably the only teams that legitimately have a shot against the Heat. But the Knicks should be able to meet them in the ECF. And that would not be a disappointment to me at all.

Agree. Just get healthy for April.

Ditto.

I've actually enjoyed this season, and I liked and appreciated all the wins, some people have been doom mongering since the preseason!

BRIGGS wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:I have written off a lot of seasons over the past thirteen years but never one when the Knicks were second in the east and first in the Atlantic in March.

The bottom line is that we put ourselves into the position of possibilities. However this is not the same team that went 18-4 to start the season and we have to be honest and account for that.

No team in the history of basketball has been 29th(2nd to last) in assists and won an NBA championship. Since beating Sacramento weve only hit 100 points in 4 of the last 17 games while we started the season by scoring 100 or more 14 of the first 18 games. We currently have 6 guys in our top 9 that shoot under 42%. It is of my opinion that our starting 2 G and SF Iman Shumpert and James White are nothing more than D league fodder. I feel bad for Iman but Iman is simply not an NBA core player right now. Our move to bring in older vets has now showed why there was criticism for the move--have not held up. While we can play a good game and beat mediocre teams--this is not a championship team or anything close to it. Our hopes would largely be dependent on Miami getting injured and for the Knicks to be able to beat teams we have a very bad collective record against Indiana Chicago Boston. Eye test--is this a championship team--or even close? Or is it a team that jump started well and gave false hope due to multiple aging and or injured players who could not hold up?

I think the New York Knicks are run by Isiah Thomas and James Dolan. While Dolan might be a ruthless successful businessman who just happened to be the right person's son--he has had an arrogant approach to running the basketball operations of this team and boy has it showed. Weve outspent every single team for the last 10 years and have 1 playoff win to show for it. Like Nolad has said--we have starphucked ourselves at every point we have been able to. We are not the teams that end up with the Kevin Durants the D Wades--we end up with SELFISH MFers like Marbury Carmelo and have mortgaged the team three years at a time to do so. We havent had our own top 5 draft pick in over 25 years--think about that.