Posted by DefAndReb:
And we all know who decides the way the money is spent: Dolan.
I've said it year after year on this board. Until Cablevision sells to an owner with basketball business savvy and professional sports common sense, this will continue.
The problem here, you see, is despite both Cablevision teams being overpaid and weak, Dolan still pulls down a lot of money from ticket sales, advertising and merchandise. Why does Donald Sterling continue to own the Clippers, whom he won't pay a whole lot and lose year after year? Because they make him money. He doesn't pay them anything, and he makes enough in tickets and concessions to turn a profit, and sharing the arena with the Lakers is brilliant; they pick up half the tab on the real estate!
Dolan got my money this time. I went in on some season tickets with some guys, hoping that at least this team would try harder to win, make it more exciting. I should have stuck to my guns, and now I get the punishment due, having to endure a whole season of inconsistent play from overpaid streetballers.
Briggs has always been a proponent of the wholesale rebuild. I think the risk for long-term failure there is too great, as is evidenced in Chicago. However, the patch up and pay high method employed by Layden, under Dolan's guidance, put the org in a position that cannot be remedied without a good gutting. Isiah thinks he can make the team a winner through creative trades. It's possible, but so far all he's managed to do is up the payroll and up the hype. We've yet to see results. Granted, this season just got started, but if the true measure of a good team is consistency, this team is as poor as the any Knicks team dating back to 1996-1997, when they should have made major personnel moves. Instead, ownership settled for a second-round playoff team, because second round teams still make crazy playoff ticket money. That's good enough for Dolan, apparently. The Knicks have not had a good-enough-to-win-it-all team since the 1994-1995 season. Ten years.
I'd give them 40 games. If they're not close to, or over, .500 by game 41, gut it like a fish, make starters play third string, bring in guys off the street to play, replace Lenny with a high school coach, anything. No way you pay guys this much money and not get results. If you don't punish them, this will only continue. Where's Trump when you need him? "Stephon ... you're fired. Too many mistakes."
I don't know about a complete rebuild, but I sure wanted to take that pick in 2002. I don't want to fault some of the premise here, I understand what isiah is doing to a degree. He wants the team to be built like the Nets were--a team that can get up+ down the floor.
Now what i don't like about what isiah [says] is the following
A. we are rebuilding--no , no we are not rebuilding thats a cheapskate excuse if this fails. You were able to spend over 200mm$ on salaries--more than most GM move in 5 years. You dont bring in stephon Marbury @ 20mm per to rebuild.
B. In terms of personnel, he's has blantantly gone after soft type players. he says NY is a guards town, no Isiah thats not true, its a big mans town. you are saying its a guards town because you went out and spent 200mm on them.
c-we are stuck with what we have for the most part, no ending contracts and the only way we get something done is trade undesirable for undesirable..
IF we stink, I think they should highly consider moving KT to a contending team for a reasonable contract and a pick
in the offseason draft 2 big men and do what you have to do to work a deal for a player like Swift Dalembart Kwame brown etc.. and use your mLE wisley perhaps partially on a curtis bochardt etc..
bring in something that looks like
for example
C/F Stromie Swift 6-9 240 acquire via sign + trade
C Curtis Bochardt 7-0 260 acquire via MLE 4 years 16mm
C/PF Channing Fre 6-11 250 acquire via pick
C Kosta Peovic 7-2 245 acquire via pick
for example
11/8/2004 3:32 PM
