From Newsday

"Anticipating another major shift in an Atlantic Division that has been reduced to five teams as a result of realignment, a survey of NBA general managers was released by the league yesterday, and the Knicks were the overwhelming choice to win. They received 67 percent of the vote compared to 14 percent for Philadelphia, 10 percent for Boston, 5 percent for the Nets and zero for Toronto."

We have the deepest, most talented team in the Atlantic. This prediction from the experts doesn't surprise me. Now the team has to go out there and make it happen!

I think Philly has better depth than the Knicks because of their talent up front.

Looking at their starters and rest of the rotation, it's probably:
Iverson, McKie, Igoudala, Kenny Thomas, Marc Jackson w/ Big Dog, Dalembert, Brian Skinner, Green, and Korver off the bench.

vs.

Marbury, Crawford, TT, Sweetney, KT w/ Penny, JYD, Baker, Mohammed, and Ariza. Until the Knicks get Houston back, I'd give Philly the upper hand.

who's to say marc jackson, igoulabababhassd, willie green, kyle korver and Aaron Mckie(coming off a horrible year) are any good! Big Dog is nothing more than a cancer Skinner and kenny thomas are about the same as Kurt offensively without the defense. The sixers have Iverson but we have Marbury, Crawford, Tim Thomas, Houston, Penny and Sweetney who has a chance of breaking out. give me a break!

Posted by gunsnewing:

who's to say marc jackson, igoulabababhassd, willie green, kyle korver and Aaron Mckie(coming off a horrible year) are any good! Big Dog is nothing more than a cancer Skinner and kenny thomas are about the same as Kurt offensively without the defense. The sixers have Iverson but we have Marbury, Crawford, Tim Thomas, Houston, Penny and Sweetney who has a chance of breaking out. give me a break!

Philly and NYK are practically mirror images.

Iverson = Marbury, a wash, Marbury could be better though...
Green = Crawford, also Green will DESTROY Craw. Craw cannot defend him.
Tim > Igodala or Glenn
K Thomas = K Thomas
Dalembert > NAzr, but only slightly
Mckie = Penny, the similarities are uncanny at this point
Corliss = Sweets, Sweets is younger and probably better but right now they are equals
Mark Jackson > Baker and Jerome combined
Allan Houston > Korver, but, Really, only slightly.
O'Brien >>>>>> Wilkens

This will be extremely interesting. Tim Thomas is the wild card for us. I think they can beat out Philly, but the similarities are shocking.

Posted by crzymdups:

Posted by gunsnewing:

who's to say marc jackson, igoulabababhassd, willie green, kyle korver and Aaron Mckie(coming off a horrible year) are any good! Big Dog is nothing more than a cancer Skinner and kenny thomas are about the same as Kurt offensively without the defense. The sixers have Iverson but we have Marbury, Crawford, Tim Thomas, Houston, Penny and Sweetney who has a chance of breaking out. give me a break!

Philly and NYK are practically mirror images.

Iverson = Marbury, a wash, Marbury could be better though...
Green = Crawford, also Green will DESTROY Craw. Craw cannot defend him.
Tim > Igodala or Glenn
K Thomas = K Thomas
Dalembert > NAzr, but only slightly
Mckie = Penny, the similarities are uncanny at this point
Corliss = Sweets, Sweets is younger and probably better but right now they are equals
Mark Jackson > Baker and Jerome combined
Allan Houston > Korver, but, Really, only slightly.
O'Brien >>>>>> Wilkens

This will be extremely interesting. Tim Thomas is the wild card for us. I think they can beat out Philly, but the similarities are shocking.

I think Crawford is significantly better than Green and a healthy Houston is significantly better than Korver. On the other hand, I think Dalembert is significantly better than Nazy. I agree with the rest of your comparisons, though. I think Sweetney right now is better than Williamson. He's a far better rebounder than Williamson. When Williamson was younger and playing 30 mpg, he still would only get like 4 rpg.

K Thomas = K Thomas

It's hard to argue with that one--I mean just look at each side of the equation!

to bad sports doesnt work this way. What makes teams great is when the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. We have seen Iverson's teams accomplish this. We have yet to see a MArbury team do the same. Time will tell...

Posted by fishmike:

to bad sports doesnt work this way. What makes teams great is when the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. We have seen Iverson's teams accomplish this. We have yet to see a MArbury team do the same. Time will tell...

That's true. We've also seen the team be less than the sum of its parts for Iverson--like last year.

Nets beat Philly enough said!