Layden was the first of our many horrible GMs. He started out downfall with the Ewing trade, Houston extension, garbage draft picks, and taking on “high character” players who make lots of money but couldn’t actually play basketball ( Eisley, Anderson, etc). I actually think he was a worse GM than Isiah, though a better human being.

The Glen Rice for Eisley and Shandon Anderson trade has to be up there with one of the dumbest Knicks transactions ever. In the long run, it obviously was a relatively minor transaction, and it didn’t cost them a draft pick or anything like that, but the trade involved not only trading for two mediocre players in Eisley and Anderson who didn’t help the Knicks much, but also extending Anderson for six years for 40.7 million! That would be too much money for a guy like Shandon Anderson today, let alone 18 years ago! It was just so insane that there was never a real defense of the deal anywhere. Most other terrible Knick deals at least had some defenders. That deal was unique in that regard, which made it stand out (man, you wouldn’t believe how many people defended the Eddy Curry deal when it happened).

I’ll give Anderson this much, though, at least he ended up with a ring with Miami (he even played some minutes in the NBA Finals). In what would have been the final year of his original Knick deal, after they cut him with three years and $23 million left on his contract! Dolan could afford to eat that money then, but Phil felt he needed to trade a second rounder to avoid Dolan eating the $3 million left on Travis Outlaw’s contract? Man, Knick GMs are so, so bad.

From all reports Grunwald was against the trade but played the good soldier which is why his firing right before training camp was so odd.

For his sake, hopefully he was against the trade!

He needs to accept the hopelessness and inevitable decay of life and stop giving a shit.

I’m working on that myself…

Towns for THJ + Enes

More likely KP for Wiggins in a sign and trade. I can hear it now-“Wiggins we’re going to get to work, we’re going to get you right.”

Anyway, he owes us one big time. Towns for THJ + Enes.

For the cited corner three statistics, Ntilikina hit 28% of them and the 95% confidence interval is 10% to 46% as his true rate.

It’s obvious that Frank is deeply uncomfortable being the guy who’s taking the shot and until he gets over that he’s ging to be a super shitty shooter. He may well still be shit after getting over it, he may never get over it. But it doesn’t really matter either way. Same deal for his handle. He’s clearly improved his skill level over last year but he is so damn nervous that the results are even worse. All he needed to do was develop skill and body and hope that led to consistency. But somebody lit a fire under his ass and it’s got him scared shitless that he’s going to fail. He needs to accept the hopelessness and inevitable decay of life and stop giving a shit.

He did the Bargs trade, so, well…

Again, if everybody that works here looks incompetent, but they look competent at all the other places they work, it’s probably safe to say that the are, in fact, competent, and that anybody will unltimately look incompetent here. Even guys that are in the hall fame, and have won at every level, and have more NBA championship rings than anybody on earth.

There’s a dude that sits above all these guys and that guy is to blame.