If Miami gets the first pick and resigns the Matrix, they might rebuild in 1 year. There are some great college players coming out this year, Rose, Beasley, Mayo, etc.

Cap flexibility is a LONG TERM goal. It’s not critical goal to be accomplished ASAP.

Many of our bad contracts will come off in the books in next couple of years. In addition, the closer they get to expiring the easier it will be to move them. There is no downside to waiting a year or two. Our team sucks and will continue to suck for at least another 2 years. What we want to do now is accumulate and develop some young players while we look out to 2010-2011 and slowly rid outselves of the bad contracts OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARs!

If you start with the assumption that we have to remove every bad contract ASAP, all the Knicks will do is get a boatload of horrible players in return or have to package some good assets with them. That would be a huge mistake. We can’t give away any young assets to get rid a bad contract we will be able to get rid of in another year or two anyway without ruining our future.

for me, it doesn’t feel that good, Dolan still owns the team, the roster still blows, and we’re in salary cap hell for the next three seasons. better players would feel good, let’s see what actually happens going forward.

But at long last, the coaching/GM rein is over!