<div class="quote_poster">Quoting MrJ:</div><div class="quote_post">They?re actually much better than they were with Isiah than they were with Layden ? that goes without saying. How can you mention the payroll being through the roof and than you support Scott Layden? Layden is the reason why the payroll is the way it is now. The ridiculous payroll is all Layden?s doing. I don?t think we?re headed into a black hole at all ? we seem to be well on our way into the right direction.
So what did Layden do? He overpaid Allan Houston who was a shooting specialist, however, he is the reason why we are in the condition we?re in now. He gave Allan Houston 100 million dollars and made him the 3rd most paid player in the whole league. He is terrible defensively, isn?t a great passer nor rebounder and his contract makes him immovable and yet you still like Layden?
Isiah is adding talent to the team who have all-star potential and whether or not his moves pan out well is yet to be seen, but so far it looks good on paper. In addition, if he finds a way to get Larry Brown, we will be all the more better.
Again, Layden didn?t do better. Even if this team happens to be expensive, at least we know we?re better than last year?s team. In the draft, it seems as if he did decently as well. If James turns out well and we get Larry Brown, Isiah deserves props. I just want to know: how you we?re going to suck on the court when you haven?t seen these Knicks play together?
How so? I don?t understand how you can judge this move so quickly. Training camp didn?t even start and yet you?re judging our players already? You?re not being reasonable, Tribute. At the very least we owe Isiah Thomas time to see how his moves turn out.
Marbury doesn't really demand the ball unless no one else is doing anything with it - that's when he takes the game into his own hands. Also now with Richardson, Marbury will look to pass much more having the presence of yet another good shooter. Last time when Marbury had good shooters around him, he averaged 9.3 assists which was good enough to be the leader in APG. Last year, not Marbury, Thomas, nor Crawford had chemistry issues. Being absent due to injuries did effect their game play a bit, however, it was not major; and now that they have a season under their belt, they will be better. These acquisitions make the Knicks perhaps the deepest team on the perimeter this season.</div>
Yeh, we're better, but thats not saying much, we're still not playoff contenders, and anything is an improvement over
Howard Eisley/Frank Williams/Charlie Ward
Allan Houston/Shannon Anderson
Keith Van Horn/Lee Nailon
Clarence Weatherspoon/Othella Harrington
Kurt Thomas/Micheal Doleac
We had the chance to get under the cap, Isiah completely KILLED it, Clerance Weatherspoon has an expiring contract this year...same with Ward and Doleac, Anderson, Nalion, Keith Van Horn, Howard Eisley, Othella Harrington contracts all expired this season, with Houston expiring in a year or two...........lol jesus man, we would have cap room to sign all these top free agents this year, or Lebron and Yao in 2007, suck and rebuild from then to now....and just start a new era.
Isiah is trying to rebuild with the cap on his back, thats why I don't respect Isiah.