does another round of trading and we stay relatively healthy, yet end up winning--lets say 36 games and finish 10th in the division--what course of action would you want to take place?

1) If not done already...fire the coach.

2) Rebuild. Young guys at all positions.

it's a fair question to ask. in terms of health, the timberwolves who has the best record in the west had 3-4 times as much injury time to major players as we did. We lost H2O for 30 games and we had some minor stuff. these guys lost wally hudson and kandiman for the majority of the season and the playoffs but still won 58 games and the first round 4-1. every team has injury problems for the most part, we had a realtively healthy year IMHO.

the question is if we stay relatively healthy we add in an isiah picked MLE and perhaps 1 trade where we take on salary again and it doesnt work at the end of the year i.e 36 wins 10th place---what does the team do?

you have to be kidding right? wally was replaced by trenton hassell -sprewell was going to start 2G no matter what. kandiman was replaced at C by mark madsen and earvin johnson and their 6th man troy hudson--who had averaged over 20 points against the lakers was basically never repalced. its not even close--on top of that wally is just about as good as H2o by himself the kings lost webber for almost the entire year with bobby jackson is h20 better than webber? come on --why did the kings win so many games? be real you are making excuses--much better teams dealt with much worse injury problems and much less payroll

first off, spree and cassell were not there last year. so with wally and hudson hurt, spree and cassell effectively replaced them in the lineup this season - ALREADY making them a better team. i'll give you a gripe about olowikandi b/c he was supposed to replace nestorovic but we see how important a C was on that team to begin with. that's why you're injury thing using minny is not valid.

and if you think missing houston for 30 games on THIS team, during a period of flux with the roster AND coach is easily dismissable:

every team has injury problems for the most part, we had a realtively healthy year IMHO.

well then, i don't know what else to say.

excuses? whatever man, it's easy to say the knicks are making excuses but i think it's pretty evident that they are valid ones. you think we still get swept or win only 39 games with a healthy allan houston down the stretch of the season? please...

it doesnt matter because BRIGGS would rather see us lose 60 games a year until 2010 with a bunch of High School kids.

Speaking of Brad Miller there's another guy. What great asset did the Kings give up to get him?

hey.. I promise if we trade for Elton Brand I wont make any exuses if KT misses time because of his pinky. Deal?

wally is nearly just as good as houston. and chris webber is another plain from either of those guys. losing KANDIMAN who you just paid 15mm for and had to replace with mark madsen and trenton hassell replacing wally z and having no replacement for hudson---you are talking about your starting C who averages 12-14 8 reb 2 blocks starting SF Wally Z who shoots close to 50% while averaging 17-18 points with 5 rebounds 3 assists[which is many ways is just as good as h2O] and one of the top 6th men in the league? these arent role players my man. and again chris webber is in a different class of player than anyone mentioned. injuries happen to every club the good ones the bad ones we had a reasonably healthy year bottom line. Look at the heat they had a roster full of nbdl players after their starting 6 and missed butler and wade for huge chunks of the season and they are still playing + they had a winning record AFTER starting 0-7. adversity hits almost every team--to say the knicks had some type of extra ordinary hardship is ludicrous and wrong. orlando hasnt had grant hill since they bought him, yet they have been in the playoffs every year except 1. lets not make excuses and stay on topic-lets not look through rose colored glasses and say we had something god awful worse when we didnt and lastly lets not over rate H2O by saying hes better than webber.

I don't think this is a valid question...I can't foresee a circumstance where we stay healthy and only win 36 games, especially if we add some decent players in here. We won 39 games without staying healthy and with a ridiculous amount of roster turnover.

If the 2% chance that it does happen takes into effect I would say bring in a new regime.

why do you say that? we won a majority of our games against the losing clubs of the league

we were very good against the cellar dwellars horrible against the west and had a losing record vs team above .500 in the east.

if many eastern teams improve why couldnt we finish at 36 games?

of course wally's better. i mean, at least houston has kurt to keep the defense honest.