Is He Any Better Than Layden…?
The Sports Guy had this to say about the most recent Knicks screwups moves:
KNICKS GET TWO MORE UNDERSIZED POWER FORWARDS
I have a couple of thoughts here …1. When Isiah called the Spurs and said, “We’ll give you Nazr Mohammed, you give us Malik Rose and a crap No. 1, and we don’t care about the $20 million difference in salaries,” do you think Gregg Popovich said, “Lemme call you right back,” then pretended he was deliberating about it for 30 seconds before speed-dialing Isiah back? Was there laughter in the Spurs offices? High-fiving? Was Popovich the guy who called Isiah under the “Maybe Isiah will be dumb enough to give us a center” premise? How did this go down?
2. Am I crazy or do the Knicks have a 10-man rotation made up of 3 shooting guards, 5 power forwards and 2 small forwards?
3. Could Isiah make a trade that surprised you anymore at this point? For instance, if you read that he traded Stephon Marbury to the Lakers for Brian Grant, Tierre Brown, a lottery-protected first-rounder and the rights to Magic Johnson’s next comeback, would you even bat an eyelash? Me neither.
It’s so true it makes me want to cry. He may have been a great player, but Isiah has to be the worst executive ever. He makes being a Knicks fan even harder than it should be. How many more businesses/teams does he have to run into the ground before someone realizes that he has no talent as a manger/executive/coach/GM? Aside from the Marbury trade (only good in that you have to have someone exciting playing at NY to sell tickets), I can’t say that he has done any better than Layden. And the payroll keeps getting larger!
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By Ender, 2/27/2005 @ 1:33 pm
I thought your home was in NJ…how did you become a Knicks fan?
By Hephador, 2/27/2005 @ 3:55 pm
Isn’t the only qualification to be a GM for a NY sports team to be able to throw money around indiscriminately and ensure you have the league’s largest payroll? ;p
By Kabitzin, 2/27/2005 @ 5:37 pm
When I grew up, the Devils and Nets were barely even considered teams. Sure things have changed a bit in recent history, but I am still loyal to the Knicks, and I don’t watch that much hockey. It’s true about NY GM’s, and it’s one thing to lose, but Isiah keeps bringing in consistently incompatible parts with bad contracts, insuring that there will never be light at the end of the tunnel.
By Velius, 2/28/2005 @ 12:06 pm
This is why they need to hurry up with the cloning technology. Then you can make an armada of the most talented players and even the most boneheaded GMs could get the best players when they wanted. If one ever gets injured, just sub in the same player! Parity at it’s best.