Isiah would only trade Marbury for a 4 or a 5 that is perennial All-Star who is still in his prime. Rahim doesn't qualify.

Sweetney is the only player on this roster who has a shot to be a stud front court player.

Briggs, you have suggested playing him 35 min. a night. I think that should, and probably will, happen soon.

I agree. Spree was better at going to the hoop when he was Craw's age. Craw is better from the outside. Spree was a shut down defender at one time.

Crawford has been quoted as saying that his weight is up to 196

As much as we need a big man, I don't think the right thing to do is unload either Crawford or Marbury. We should be able to get one in the offseason or by next season with the expiring contracts that we will have in Baker, Nazr, Penny, Tim, etc. We have to be a little patient.

Posted by simrud:

We have no makeup. We just grab the best available players we can get with our assets. Not suprising when doesnt work isnt it.

But Isiah said "This is a very cautious situation that we're in. You have to be conservative in terms of using your assets and using them wisely. We're building for the future."

I guess conservative and wisely to Isiah means using up all your assets for whoever is available without rhyme or reason other than making it look like you're doing something with complete disregard for how the pieces fit.

i thought that we needed to get out of the blocks quick to make a statement and really challenge for that 47-50 season. and more importantly was to win at home and establish the homecourt.

well both of those didn't happen yet and we all have to prepare for the very real possibility of the knicks starting off the season 1-7 or 2-6 like others have said.

that's a chaney team like start and a tough hole to climb out of.

but panic mode has set it too early and we all know our team is structurally flawed. BUT those that are panicking and going nuts are those that have put too high an expectation on this team. now the counter argument would be that the payroll is 100+mil which is valid.

it's tough b/c i have mixed emotions. but last night was a terrible loss, there's no way around it. boston coming off a tough game vs. indiana and we had 3 days rest. to get blown out like that was embarrassing, especially at home.

i think we all need to wait and see and figure out where we stand 20-25 games from now. and i think WE ALL hope for the best.

it's painfully obvious that we need h20 healthy just to prevent blowouts. and i also think it's obvious that we need to go to the post more and our only real player to do that everynight is sweetney. tim can based on the matchups, but we all know that tim's jersey # should be 33 1/3 for the percentage of games he shows up.

my milestones for this season has always been:

1. the most important thing to me was to find out if sweetney is our PF of the future. start him and give him 35 mins/night. no questions asked.

2. win 45-47 games and get to the 2nd round. that was the team goal.

let's start with #1 please.

brace yourselves everybody and get ready to shell out $200 on a webber jersey...

great post dj. We really need to know if sweetney is part of our future or not. I really like sweetney but I just dont think hes enuff in the frontcourt for us because we are extremly weak. I think Atlanta is the only team our frontcourt is stronger than in the league. With the development of wilcox, will the clippers be willing to make one more stupid move to benefit us? lol 2 first rd picks, tim thomas for brand? unfortanatly the only way we can possibly get this first round pick is if we traded sweetney for it. i was thinking of a team we can trade to that can ensure a high lottery and could use a PF and the only team i can come up with is Nets and atlanta. Almost every team in the league has a decent PF or a project on their hand already.