Masai drops rumors he’s got an out from his contract this summer. He wants the Knicks job. Dolan can’t wait that long, because there’s three hours till the trade deadline so he has to hire someone right now, even though there’s nothing substantive a new exec can do after, checks watch, two hours and forty-four minutes from now until the end of the season when an effective proven professional will be available.

I guess it’s possible the Knicks could luck into a good season at some point. It happened once before. What a worthless, hopeless team.

Like maybe Rose can be OK if he’s just the bigger picture management guy like people are saying and he hires a good GM and coach to do all the basketball stuff.

But why not focus on the trades that will give this team more picks to build something going forward and you can hire Rose, I don’t know…tomorrow?

Also, someone said Dolan hired Donnie cause he thought he could bring in a big star. Donnie was actually forced upon Dolan after the Isiah/sexual harassment fiasco. Donnie never really stood a chance. I think once the Knicks got Stat and Melo and were “good” again, the writing was on the wall for him.

Lived in Bay Area last 10 years to see the whole evolution of the Dubs…and while Myers is good…having Jerry West at your side for six years was invaluable and probably just as much a factor in the team’s success…and getting KD didn’t hurt….

Palooka…what kind of success as he had…he got fortunate that LeBron wanted to reside in LALA….nuff said….

So based on these two examples…we are following that “template”….seems like they just made that shit up in the last couple of days to justify this hiring….

How are we to quantify something like Frank’s defense

That was clearly directed at the following paraphrased but typical examples:

Strat: we should sign some type of guy, it’s obvious.
KB: which players specifically should they try to sign?
Strat: …

Strat: that was a horrible terrible no good trade, they could have easily done better.
KB: please give us an example of this hypothetical excellent trade? What would you suggest?
Strat: …

In terms of what got you so worked up, an eye test story. I couldn’t watch a game this past week so in the morning I hit up one of those recap thingies where it’s just people scoring. Useless of course, but I wake slowly. That evening a friend was heard to mention how well Frank did, especially on defense. I commented that he made a couple nice offensive plays but on defence he was routinely getting blown past and kept missing his assignments off-ball.

Your eye test is you seeing only the things you want to see. It’s worse than worthless as an evaluative tool, it’s actively detrimental. I’m confident this eye test based argument will convince you.

Watch them immediately trade for Kuzma and deal assets for DLo