rmack15: Honestly dude Melo is nothing but a cancer. He is a one sided player with a terrible attitude. How do you people not understand this?

That’s the way I see it. I guess because he’s a great scorer most people think he’s a great player. The knicks will never be a real contender as long as he is here.
Melo needs to go to an organization that has a stronger will than him and teach him how to play winning basketball, not winning sometimes basketball.

jon abbey: they botched the 2009 draft as badly as anyone could have…

Here are the top 3 most damaging decisions in the last decade by knicks management:

1) Cablevision giving Dolan control over the Knicks: I know this was 1999, but we have to include it. Dolan’s “apparent” support for quick-fix moves that grab headlines, sacrificing the lottery picks that are the lifeblood of a rebuilding team has left the Knicks time and again toiling in mediocrity with little prospect for the future. If not for Stern interceding and forcing Walsh on Dolan, who knows where the Knicks would be.

2) Eddy Curry sign and trade: Not only did this cost the Knicks two lottery picks, picks that became two of the best young bigs in the league in LaMarcus Aldridge and Joakim Noah, but it also cost the knicks IMMENSELY this past summer. If Curry had not been under contract, the knicks would have had an additional $11.2 million in cap space. That would have allowed them to A) pay off Houston to to take Jared Jeffries AND still have enough space to offer two max contracts. That means they could have signed, for example, Amare, Tyson Chandler, AND Raymond Felton. That is a VERY good team. Furthermore, the concerns about resigning young players would have been moot, since Bird Rights would have allowed us to pay whatever to Chandler and Gallo. We could have kept AR and played him in lower pressure situations, rather than being forced to move him at his absolute lowest value.

3) 2009 draft: Holiday or Lawson would have made for great starting point guards in our system. We could have skipped Felton and signed a legit 2 guard who could spread the floor like Dorrell Wright or Wes Matthews. Maybe James would have come, maybe not (IMO he was set on partying with his superfriends)

bobneptune: yes…. who would ever break up a 5 games under .500 unit!!!

just out of curiosity…. how exactly do they get better moving forward…. details plz….

Hahaha yea I don’t know why anyone would even think about breaking up such a dominant team with so much chemistry like the Knicks have!!

tenebrous:
Melons not getting traded, neither is amare.

yes…. who would ever break up a 5 games under .500 unit!!!

just out of curiosity…. how exactly do they get better moving forward…. details plz….

tenebrous: What?!??? Those are not shooters. They are next to the rim players. They are not even create hour own shot and sink it players. Are you ____ with us?

Why don’t more next-to-the-rim players post such a high TS%, then?

What is a “create [your] own shot and sink it” player? Do you mean a player who takes a lot of shots?

By the way, Nene averaged 10.5 FGA/36 and Bynum averaged 9.9. Yet would you call Bynum a player who can’t “create his own shot?” A shot is a shot. If you’re a player who grabs an offensive rebound and puts it back for an easy, high-success-rate 2PT, who cares?

If you’re more interested in watching circus shots, the And1 league might more up your alley. I’m interested in watching winning basketball.

(Shot creation is a myth.)

Frank: Unfortunately I think we might agree on that.

Haha well I’m glad we can agree on at least that!

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=3jwyyhy

billups and evans in the back court with scoring forwards granger and amar’e up front. now only one hole (center), rather than 2 like we have now.

also after the 2012 season when billups expires, since evans and granger will make 18m combined in 12-13, leaving the nix a full 18 m under today’s 58m cap leaving plenty of room for paul/williams/howard.

talk about making a silk purse from a sow’s ear!!!