According to Coach Mike D'antoni, the Knicks are the best 3-6 team in the league. By the end of the season they will be the best team NOT in the playoffs. There is always an excuse with this organization. Now they aren't playing well because Ronny Turiaf is hurt. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Ronny Turiaf is now the excuse.
Donnie Walsh got them under the cap, which any reasonable person with no executive experience could have done. And then he blows the cap space on Amare, who no other team in the league considered giving a max contract to. He signs Felton to a two year deal which hamstrings the Knicks until he becomes an expiring contract next year. He trades David Lee, the first good draft pick the Knicks made since Mark Jackson (who of course the Knicks also traded), for a talented turnover machine (Anthony Randolph), a guy who may not play for the Knicks because he was hurt before the acquired him (Azuibukke), and the now gem of the deal Ronny Turiaf. Walsh admit tingly did not scout Brandon Jennings. He passed on Russell Westbrook for an un-athletic tweener in Gallinari. Not saying Gallo will not be good one day, but the Knicks needed point guards. Walsh also traded another first round pick clearing cap space for a run at Lebron. Lebron clearly was never coming to the Knicks. Walsh should of done his homework and figured out that Queen James did not have the testicular fortitude to lead a team, and especially in a city like New York. He should have held on to the cap space and let New York fans brass themselves for another year of despicable basketball. Then he could have made a run at Carmelo and others. Now Knick fans are enduring another year of awful basketball anyway. Hopefully Carmelo wants to play in New York for the sake of playing here because this team has shown no signs of being a playoff team, let alone being a contender.
And now back to D’antoni. Is anyone else sick of seeing that dumb look on his face that says he has no idea how to make this team play better. Or are you sick about hearing about his so called doghouse? He says he cannot coach defense because the Knicks have no defensive minded players but anyone who knows basketball knows the coach has to make his players play defense. The Knicks ran Larry Brown out of town because he tried to make them play defense. Now the Bobcats are a playoff team as one of the top defensive teams in the league and the Knicks are not close to sniffing the playoffs. My level respect for Steve Nash has grown tremendously after watching D’antoni coach a few years. Nash should have won a few more MVP awards. D’antoni is clueless and if he hadn’t had one of the best players in the league running the show he probably would be back in Europe coaching by now.
The Knicks have some young talented players; (Douglas, Chandler, Gallinari, and Fields) but will any ever develop into winning players under D’antoni? The Knicks have been losers for so long you have to wonder what it will take to turn this organization around. Amare is not the answer. Felton is not the answer. TURIAF is not the answer.
NO MORE EXCUSES MIKE!!…WIN OR GO HOME!!!
By Michael Farbman
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