Posted by tkf:
Posted by franco12:
While it was Layden who made these bad deals, its ultimately Jim Dolan that has given the OK to go out and do these deals- Dolan is the mindless wonder who thought Layden was a smart basketball guy.
While I don't miss Layden, do you think he wanted to trade sprewell or was it Dolan who told Layden to trade sprewell?
Everyone seems to agree it was Dolan.
And while Isiah has so far made better moves than Layden, as long as Dolan & Co own the Knicks, I worry a championship will yet elude us.
I agree that Dolan is a idiot and I wish he just sells the knicks, but as a owner who is a self proclaimed basketball Idiot, he put his trust in Layden who was supposed to be a well respected basketball guy and he paid him a lot of money to make these decisions, he trusted layden, as far as the spree thing goes, I think it was the so called perceived lack of respect that spree had that upset dolan, I liked spree but lets face it spree is not exactly a company man, and I can respect dolan for not liking anyone who does not respec the pecking order in an organization..
This is so old hat, but my spin on Laydog was he was Dolans lapdog and had to honor the handshake deal checketts gave Allan when he signed him back in the day. Laydog also got a bad hand to deal with with trying to undue the Ewing-Rice debockle. That smelled of Dolan badly, as did dumping Spree.
All GM's make some bad deals. He over paid Fatspoon, but Eilsy and Shandon were his picks from Utah and had signed deals in other cities. We took them on, which they were over priced, but they also did not turn into the players projected.
ALso Laydog was an introvert which never is good for the high exposure job. He would be a great assistant GM. and from all accounts he is a great dude. Just badly miscast in the big role.
Laydog gets a fair share of the blame, but so does checketts, Ernie, and especially Dolan. Dolan shocked me when he fired Laydog, so he gets a point.
Isiah is no innocent prince here either. He has his share of mistakes over the years, and he bungled chaney's firing badly. But I believe he is fundamentally better than Laydog and has the owners confidence. He is charasmatic and brings attention to the team. He is the GM and I root for him to succeed, as I did Laydog. But lets not be totally nieve over him either.
