Friday, October 12, 2007
The Knicks; or worse, how can it get worse?
An audible groan arose from Knicks fans everywhere this week, as if it wasn't bad enough that degenerate coach, Isaiah Thomas, and enabling co-owner, Jimmy Dolan, were in court exposing what an awful, unprofessional, (we'd say frat house atmosphere-but that would be a denigrating insulting to fraternities everywhere) gutter mentality, front office they run. Zeke has to go down in the all-time Hall of Shame for his attempts to explain why it is okay for a black male to call a black female a bitch. "It's different for us." Oh, right? How's that again, Isaiah? Why don't you stand there quietly next to your Mom while her African-American employer calls her a bitch and makes sexual innuendos?
So as if all that wasn't bad enough, Knicks fans have to stomach Isaiah's awful personnel decisions, too. This week he decided to bring back the guy, who started the franchise current collapse, Alan Houston. It was Houston's ridiculous megabucks contract that killed the Knicks on the salary cap for years while Houston didn't even play. This contract was handed out by the man who owned the title of worst G.M. in the NBA when he was let go, Scott Layden. The man, the myth, the moron, that drafted Frederic Weis of France with the 15th pick in the first round. Houston hurt his back shortly after idiot Layden gave him the $100 million contract. (For a standstill shooting guard, who couldn't move his feet on defense and made exactly one successful drive to the basket in his Knicks career-a big one, it was, beating the favored Heat in Game 5.) Now Zeke wants to bring Houston back after three years of retirement??!
Unbelievable. Reggie Miller is more likely to be effective, and like the Knicks don't have enough shoot first guards, Marbury, Crawford, Nate Robinson? Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh. Worse Dolan extended Isaiah's contract for the magnificent accomplishment of almost making the playoffs last year! Jimbo this is the guy that killed the Pacers and the CBA which had been the NBA's minors over 50 years. More pertinently he has mauled our franchise for years. Last year was a flicker, the Clarion felt a pulse. There are players on the roster we like, sort of. The are parts, pieces, its not the disaster Larry Brown made it out to be. But there is no plan; Starbury is heading to Italy, Curry and Randolph are redundant, no one wants to be the past first point guard. Etc. Etc. A seven seed is the tip-top scenario.
Just in case one thought their might be hope, the Knicks are trying to squash it and its only preseason. There was a brief moment of light in the off-season, we got rid of another shoot first guard and perennial loafer, Steve Francis for nothing. We gave up the promising Channing Frye, but got an interior banging scorer back in the aforementioned Zack Randolph. Randolph has been splattered across the entertainment pages to the extent they have them in Portland, he has serious tabloid loaded, character questions to face in the city that never sleeps. Sure there was no coherent plan for how Randolph and Eddie Curry might co-exist, but in the all but center-less East, they were going to be dominant. Heck, Washington keeps making the playoffs with scrub centers like Brendon Haywood and Etan Thomas. (Yes, the Hibachi and his work ethic are a million miles from Starbury.) But before Knicks fans could even get to visualize this supposed dream pairing, Curry got hurt. Sure enough, the Knicks front office spun it. He was going to miss the next preseason game against the Sixers for sure. Gee thanks. He has a tear in his shoulder. No duh, he is going to miss the next preseason game, sounds like a call Dr. James Andrews moment to the Clarion. Says here we're lucky if we see Curry by Xmas. Extra glad to have Zach Randolph now, word is he's a beast. His numbers prove it out, but the Clarion hasn't watched a lot of his games since he was a mighty raw freshman in his last year at Michigan State.
So as if all that wasn't bad enough, Knicks fans have to stomach Isaiah's awful personnel decisions, too. This week he decided to bring back the guy, who started the franchise current collapse, Alan Houston. It was Houston's ridiculous megabucks contract that killed the Knicks on the salary cap for years while Houston didn't even play. This contract was handed out by the man who owned the title of worst G.M. in the NBA when he was let go, Scott Layden. The man, the myth, the moron, that drafted Frederic Weis of France with the 15th pick in the first round. Houston hurt his back shortly after idiot Layden gave him the $100 million contract. (For a standstill shooting guard, who couldn't move his feet on defense and made exactly one successful drive to the basket in his Knicks career-a big one, it was, beating the favored Heat in Game 5.) Now Zeke wants to bring Houston back after three years of retirement??!
Unbelievable. Reggie Miller is more likely to be effective, and like the Knicks don't have enough shoot first guards, Marbury, Crawford, Nate Robinson? Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh. Worse Dolan extended Isaiah's contract for the magnificent accomplishment of almost making the playoffs last year! Jimbo this is the guy that killed the Pacers and the CBA which had been the NBA's minors over 50 years. More pertinently he has mauled our franchise for years. Last year was a flicker, the Clarion felt a pulse. There are players on the roster we like, sort of. The are parts, pieces, its not the disaster Larry Brown made it out to be. But there is no plan; Starbury is heading to Italy, Curry and Randolph are redundant, no one wants to be the past first point guard. Etc. Etc. A seven seed is the tip-top scenario.
Just in case one thought their might be hope, the Knicks are trying to squash it and its only preseason. There was a brief moment of light in the off-season, we got rid of another shoot first guard and perennial loafer, Steve Francis for nothing. We gave up the promising Channing Frye, but got an interior banging scorer back in the aforementioned Zack Randolph. Randolph has been splattered across the entertainment pages to the extent they have them in Portland, he has serious tabloid loaded, character questions to face in the city that never sleeps. Sure there was no coherent plan for how Randolph and Eddie Curry might co-exist, but in the all but center-less East, they were going to be dominant. Heck, Washington keeps making the playoffs with scrub centers like Brendon Haywood and Etan Thomas. (Yes, the Hibachi and his work ethic are a million miles from Starbury.) But before Knicks fans could even get to visualize this supposed dream pairing, Curry got hurt. Sure enough, the Knicks front office spun it. He was going to miss the next preseason game against the Sixers for sure. Gee thanks. He has a tear in his shoulder. No duh, he is going to miss the next preseason game, sounds like a call Dr. James Andrews moment to the Clarion. Says here we're lucky if we see Curry by Xmas. Extra glad to have Zach Randolph now, word is he's a beast. His numbers prove it out, but the Clarion hasn't watched a lot of his games since he was a mighty raw freshman in his last year at Michigan State.
Labels: NBA, sports, The Knicks
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Thank goodness Allan Houston realized it wasn't happening and called off his comeback attempt with the Knicks. They don't have enough roster spots for everybody they have under contract, without bringing back Houston's shot knees.
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