This team is imploding and headed for disaster. The bright spot in all this is a potential lottery pick (assuming the idiot GM Layden hasn't already or plans to trade it away). This team actually needs to rebuild from the ground up, so this season is as good as any to start,

Posted by Knick2001:

This team is imploding and headed for disaster. The bright spot in all this is a potential lottery pick (assuming the idiot GM Layden hasn't already or plans to trade it away). This team actually needs to rebuild from the ground up, so this season is as good as any to start,

If I were GM, this is how I would approach it:
- Can the current team get to the finals or at least the Conference playoffs? No.
- Can we make a trade that will propel us to the conference finals? No.
- Will we be able to make off-season roster moves that would allow us to compete for the conference finals next year? Unlikely (same as this past summer).
- Is Fredrick Weis finally going to dominate the European league and then be the savior of the Knicks? Oh boy.
- Is it possible that Cheowith has a twin brother that we could draft? (sigh)
- Last year's playoffs was an anomaly, but it does not look like the current team will even make the playoffs this season... with the stated $1 million revenue kick that comes with home games after the regular season, that make it a cool ~$10 million that have slipped through Dolan's hands for this year and last (I would submit that this year's team should get into the second round). With possible ~$5 million that the current team should be generating next year (all things considered and staying the same), that adds up to a lot of one dollars bills that won't be seeing the coffers. Yikes.
- Do the current groups' contract situation make it more likely that the team could free up some cap room over the next 2-3 years and give the team a chance to sign a free agent while still giving the fans hope that their team can win? Please.
- Do we have a young team that is going to get better? That's the Clippers or the Nets.

My only conclusion as GM would be to start rebuilding, whether by starting from scratch or by trading away my top players.

According to todays NY Dailynews even the sport reporters see the Knicks having to realize it's time to break up this team. Trade as many players as possible for draft picks and clear cap space. The Knicks may suck for a few years, but they will be building a foundation for longer playoff run in the future.

An article on the possible upcoming class of point guards...something that we need to go younger with. Looks like the next class will be full of them.

http://www.detroitnews.com/2002/pistons/0201/14/f04-390478.htm

Posted by VG:

I thought Juan Dixon was a 2?

he's an allen ivy, a 2 playing in a 1's body...

I know the one top center everyone is talking about is the China center Yao Ming. Has anyone seen a listing of other top centers that could be in this years draft. I wonder if there are any high school centers good enough this year to make the jump to the NBA.

Yup, upcoming draft

awhole lotta PG's,

a reasonable bunch of SF's,

a small group of PF's and SG's

and only a handful of centers.