Inquiring Minds Want to Know
Just how bad are the NY Knicks? Actually, we know. They're the second worst team in the NBA.
But they are a mismatched bunch of athletes who don't mesh as a team or complement each other's strengths. Their guard situation is a mess. They have no point guard and two struggling and overrated shooting guards. They finally have a true small forward in Jalen Rose, but they had to take on salary and contract length to get him, and he's a player on the decline. What young talent they do have doesn't get the minutes they should. After all, the team is going nowhere, so why shouldn't they play?
The coach, even though he's the best in the NBA, seems to have no clue what to do with this team. The GM makes the previous GM, who was a mope if ever there was one, look like a genius. He's taken a bad situation and made it worse.
The Knicks have to give up all pretense of making the playoffs, stop making moves for the sake of making them, forget the free agent market for the time being, stock as much talent as they can through the draft, and bide their time until the ridiculous contracts they've taken on expire. After all, who the frack is going to take Stephon Marbury and his bloated contract. Or Jerome James or Q Rich or Jamaal Crawford and on and on.
They're sunk for the next few years. The only move they should make is to ditch head honcho Isiah Thomas. In the meantime, I have to resign myself - fans in general, actually, have to resign themselves - to nothing but lousiness.