pretty much said this team has a future. keeps mentioning expiring deals and draft picks to build. he likes the foundation he established. he says injuries played a big part in why they're 17-23 and said this team is not good enough to overcome injuries.

he says his plan is to use expiring deals and acquire picks through the summer till the next trade deadline.

mad dog asked him about crawford, how he's a loser and why he gave him all that money. he says he envisioned this as a 3 guard with h20 and expected h20 to ease him in. he did not think crawford would have to play this many minutes and do this much for the team. he said he won games for us earlier but it's catching up to him now.

he defended marbury big time from mad dog's criticism. he said as the GM and president, he backs up all his players. he also acknowledge that it's debateable of what marbury claimed. he says marbury comes and plays every single night. he says he never takes nights off and plays hard every night when other big $$$ players don't. (and we all know who he means)

isiah says tanking is not an option in new york. says chicago can tank b/c they won championships they had a season ticket base and had the luxury of taking years to do it. new york can't do it. losing all the fans base and loss $$$ while tanking. he used boston as an example with duncan and said they still haven't recovered. he said he will use expiring deals to get younger players.

he had problems talking contract years and salaries of his own players but he said he made moves to get expiring deals to move.

[Edited by - djsunyc on 01/25/2005 17:36:22]

He got destroyed though. He sounded pretty unprepared.

[Edited by - silverfuel on 01/25/2005 17:36:03]

One thing I was surprised about...Chris asks who has Marbury made better. Nazr's name was no where to be heard.

isiah was wrong about the contracts, i was shocked but 1 million here and 1 million there doesn't matter. The bottomline is that we now have tradeable players and contracts.

Posted by gunsnewing:

mad dog just gave layden credit for drafting Sweetney but isiah no credit for drafting ariza. im sure they dont even know who ariza is.

I think it has been established that Mike & the Mad Dog no nothing about basketball. All they want to talk about is baseball so let them have it. Isiah was on the Michael Kay show yesterday where he sounded a lot better.

Posted by hDavis:

it was cool when Isiah started saying "goddamn" when he was defending Maurberry.

At that point it sounded like he was taking those comments personally.

i liked how Isiah said that instead of using the expiring contracts on over 33 year old players like the knicks gm's of the past he wants to use them to get younger players like when he turned the expiring contracts of deke, O and frank into Craw

let's take it easy fellas. isiah answered the questions but it's tough to answer questions when you're 17-23. he said things that we've been debating on this board since he's been hired.

but it's tough to listen to alot of these radio guys b/c they really have a general idea on bball and not the real intricate things that really need to take place to improve a team. alot of it is from the papers and what sounds sexy. mad dog doesn't like isiah and can't wait to give it to him. and isiah responded his own way. no biggie.

these interviews come and go and none of it means jack until we see it produce on the court.

i just wish there was a legitimate knicks show - be it 1/2 hour weekly with a guy that really knows the team and really knows bball and can have many perspectives on the team as opposed to just reading the papers and spouting it off as the truth.

Posted by gunsnewing:

He can't say Nash is better than him. He kept saying as GM of the knicks, suggesting that if he wasnt GM of the knicks he'd say Nash, thats how it sounded to me at least.

One of the many things I found weird about this interview.

i hope Mike and dog watched tonights game. im sure they did since isiah made them feel really stupid. They didn't even know who Ariza was so they were introduced to him today and Crawford should mad dog that he's an idiot. Marbury had an off game but he was looking to pass more again. and he has proven that when guys have it going offensively whether its KVH, Doleac, Kurt, Sweetney, Houston or Crawford

isiah got OWNED

and so then TMS, Silverfuel owns you