Here’s a trade that hasn’t been proposed…

Lets trade LB for Flip.

With cash considerations.

And Jerome James for Darko.

And the next four years of 1st + 2nd round picks.

A one time league exception. Start making some calls to the league office, Zeke.

Yeah, way to go LB. Use every single player in the roster out of position. Tell Steph not to shoot…or drive. Tell Q not to shoot 3′s on the break. Let Malik Rose shoot 10 bricks a night, and play Jackie Butler more than Eddy Curry…start Trevor Ariza over Q…and what was with starging Barnes??? It’s like pure counterintuition on every level, from the rotations to the plays to the style of play.

The list of stupid coaching decisions is too long to list. We should start a thread just on LB’s mistakes. It’s just maddening…what more can I say?

Nelson, you’re post reminds me of that FedEx commercial where Joe Montana tells the office staff not to use football analogies. Good point though.

My biggest question:
Why last night, against the Clippers, did Robinson, Marbury, Crawford, and Hardaway combine to take almost 60% of the Knicks FGs with an AFG% of .250, while Frye and Curry took only 23% of the shots (the same % as Davis, Rose, and Hardaway) while posting an AFG% of .618.
In the 4th Frye and Curry went 2 for 3 and the 4 guards went 2 for 14. In this quarter the Clipps outscored the Knicks 29-16.

Has anyone noticed that Richardson’s 3p% hasn’t been below .350 since 2003 despite the fact that he’s averaged over 7 3pt FGAs a game. The Knicks need Richardson to be a jump shooter. Between Marbury, Crawford, and Robinson they have enough guys who try (maybe too hard) to create their own shots. He still rebounds: his rebound rate (10.9) is only slightly lower than Davis, Rose, and Taylor’s.

Did you see the second to last shot? IIRC Marbury didn’t get a good look, and took the shot way too early in the shot clock when he had other options.

– Nate Robinson is a total zero. That’s not to say he won’t get better, or that he is not talented, but right now he just sucks. He isn’t a reliable shooter, can’t finish at the hoop, and gets KILLED on defense. And I mean killed. Any time he was matched against Cassell or Mobley it was a slaughter, either by taking him down to the blocks or just shooting right over him. Still, if the goal is to get the young guys minutes then they can put him on the court when he has a mathcup he can handle (like when Eisly or Ewing were in the game for the Clips) and hope he improves enough offensivly to justify it.

– The offense is not generating shots and guys (Marbury and Crawford) looked lost running it. The only “play” the Knicks ran effectivly was that swing one where Marbury comes down and cross picks for Curry to let him get position in the post. Other than that, they wern’t even getting into their sets until the clock was down to 10 most times. This could improve with Brown’s guidance however.

– On a related note, although the interior D looked good — a really big front line when Antonio Davis and Taylor play next to Curry… Davis is really tough down there in particular — the O really suffers with these guys in. Either Frye needs to play or they need to figure out ways to get Crawford and Marbury shots within the offense.

– Why do they post Mo Taylor up so much? They went to him like 5 times in the post.

Overall, I think they’ll improve, but without a major talent infusion, this team is going nowhere. And with the payroll they have, that’s unaceptable.

However, we are all obviously wasting out breathes. The big story this year is the infallible front court of jerome james and malik rose. I will never understand the trades of kurt thomas and nazr mohammed.