The Randolph trade is possibly Isiah’s worst move and will be haunting us for years.

But it’s more complicated than:
“The Bulls had no use for Curry and the Blazers had no use for Randolph. Each would have given them to the Knicks for nothing. It?s pretty simple to see why.”

If Zach made $5 million per, not $13m, he’d have value – not as a franchise player, but a guy who can score and is one of the best rebounders in the league. Easily a rotation player on a good team. Contenders are willing to overpay, to get that little something extra.

ok, ok, with four years left that’s REALLY overpaying.

As for Curry… the Bulls didn’t think he was worthless, they just thought he was about to have a heart attack – and he’d told them he wouldn’t re-sign, so they were going to lose him for nothing. Those two things zeroed out his value.

But now, as a role player at $5 or $6m, he’s fine. As it stands, his contract is a lot better than Zach’s (and a year shorter), plus he’s only 24, so I’d guess he does have trade value – which will only increase as the contract winds down.

And “Starbury” has value because he’ll save someone money. Next February we can trade his expiring deal for two bozos with contracts running through 2010, plus a draft pick. Expensive way to buy a pick, but what do we fans care?

Absolutely true – that’s why it’s fantasy to think we can somehow dump these guys tomorrow for draft picks.

BUT… when the contracts are about to expire, they start to take on value. I mean – if you were a serious contender, needing a scorer off the bench, and only had to pay him for half the season… you might actually want Marbury, or Curry, or Crawford.

Zach Randolph has now become my most dreaded Knick, and that’s saying a lot.

It just seems so fitting.

He clearly put together a team, at least his starters, that are offensive minded and poor on defense. Then he tries to make his poor defensive players into defensive minded players. That makes as much sense as running your offense through Balkman and Jeffries.

I say, scrap the defense. Dont even bother with it, dont think about it at all. at least with the starters. Just let the offensive minded player take as many shots as they can as fast as they can. In other words, pretend you are an old ABA team. Just try to out score the other team.

Let the defensive teams play defense. Matter of fact create a defensive team of your defensive players. Let Balkman, Jeffires, Jones, and Collins play the all defense second unit.

Things cant get worse than they are now. I say do your best to outscore the other team. The 4 wins this season came on strong offensive games. I say ride that pony for all it worth (32 wins). That is at least 10 games better than the “defensive” team could win. Maybe you’ll get lucky and steal 8 or 9 games and sneak into the playoffs. But for the love of all things great and small, the defense is not working!! Give it up.

The old proverb goes: “One cannot make chicken soup from chicken poop. Well, you could try but I would not eat it”.

Isiah has chicken poop, yet he tries to make chicken soup. The result…disgusting!! But chicken poop isnt a bad thing if you find a good use for it. Chicken poop is a great fertilizer and can even be burned to produce energy.

I say take this chicken poop and, as Ray Charles would say: “let it do what it do baby”.