Last I check the Nyets play in New York. Yes you can build a winner here
Unless Dolan is your owner of course
gunsnewing wrote:Last I check the Nyets play in New York. Yes you can build a winner hereUnless Dolan is your owner of course
Let's put on the brakes calling the Nets "winners". I know they beat the shit out of us today but that's no great feat and they're still only 17-22.
Papabear wrote:nycisgreat wrote:StarksEwing1 wrote:i agree we have the dumbest organization in the nba. Dolan has to be the dumbest owner
It not just Dolan. NYC is general is to demanding. The Knicks are ran like wallstreet. Trying to score big in an instance while in reality the best things take time. Many NYer lack patience.
Papabear SaysThe NBA is designed to make the Knicks Loose. It is ran the the Socialist Party. If they can afford to spend more money for a player then they should be able to. And screw the small town teams. Big business is ran by the strongest and the fittest with the deepest pockets have a better chance of winning. Not the NBA. They have too many teams and ran like a communist party.
Well that means Stern wants the NBA to be a big business and has decided that having 30 thriving teams is the best way to do it.
41 games in--lets hear an evaluation by management on the teams fortunes.
Bonn1997 wrote:Papabear wrote:nycisgreat wrote:StarksEwing1 wrote:i agree we have the dumbest organization in the nba. Dolan has to be the dumbest owner
It not just Dolan. NYC is general is to demanding. The Knicks are ran like wallstreet. Trying to score big in an instance while in reality the best things take time. Many NYer lack patience.
Papabear SaysThe NBA is designed to make the Knicks Loose. It is ran the the Socialist Party. If they can afford to spend more money for a player then they should be able to. And screw the small town teams. Big business is ran by the strongest and the fittest with the deepest pockets have a better chance of winning. Not the NBA. They have too many teams and ran like a communist party.
Well that means Stern wants the NBA to be a big business and has decided that having 30 thriving teams is the best way to do it.
Papa,
Knicks proved they could screw it up the old way also. teams like OKC, POrtland, SAS, and Indy are proving not just that you can rebuild thru the draft, or thru trades, or thru starphuchng, but by being smart!!
We blew our chance to outspend. Lakers used their money well and have lots of chips to prove it.
"Socialist" is not what I'd call it. I'd call it "franchising" and in the global economy small market teams can still produce global marketable players like Lebron out of CLeveland and Durant.
No conspiracies here. Just business.
Bottom line is NBA could produce better ratings with a strong NY franchise. Or better yet, TWO!!
Papabear - bleating
Socialism has absolutely nothing to so with the decisions this franchise has made.
The strategy of plugging in highly paid mercenaries is not Socialism. Hiring a professional gypsy like Larry Brown is not Socialism. Raymond Felton handling the basketball with the grace of Joe Frazier is not Socialism.
Playing a zone defense is Socialism.
Dolan replaced an experienced GM who has a good working relationship with other GMs out there, and who might have been able to remove some of the team's obstacles. Instead he was replaced with a former executive who left in disgrace, no experience on the basketball side of operations, and overstated connections.
Woodson did a great job of keeping things together last season with the help of some vets, but there are some problems too big for a coach to handle on his own and this is one of them IMO. Better to let the next coach start at 0-0 instead of subjecting him to having to keep this pile of caca afloat.
Yes, Melo is history, no doubt, Tyson and Stat will be shopped as well, with mixed results. If not now in the offseason. This franchise can keep applying band aids or it can use this confluence of events, bad team and big contracts coming off the books, to build a real contender from the ground up. Get rid of the big contracts, trade for some picks when its doable and leave a blank slate in a couple of years for a real GM (please no Allan Houston) and a real coach.
Nice dream I guess.
