Here we go again. The Blame Game starting already from Walsh & Dantoni.
Walsh & Dantoni are starting-out like Larry Brown.
The Bloodclog crying has started during Training Camp.
Why did they take the JOB?
Both Walsh & Dantoni was sitting on "pins & needles" of being Fired from their previous job, and bailed out quick to grab the 23 win Knicks job, inwhich they are not qualified or prepared to take on as prize decision makers.
The two had 4 months to prepare a 23 win team into a rebuilding-mode competitor team that will get along with each other through the process of the early regular season losses.
They did absolutely nothing to better a 23 win team in the offseason.
<!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE: bbcode_quote -->Quote:
<TABLE class=auto cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=6 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=alt2 style="BORDER-RIGHT: 1px inset; BORDER-TOP: 1px inset; BORDER-LEFT: 1px inset; BORDER-BOTTOM: 1px inset">Opposed to buyouts, as he stated unequivocally 10 days ago, Walsh comes at it strictly from a business standpoint. For him, it's simply bad business not to try to trade a player to get talent in return.
As it pertains to Marbury, Walsh's stance runs counter to D'Antoni's thinking. The coach wanted Marbury off the team before he started his first training camp, based on his experiences with Marbury in Phoenix and the information he gleaned from talking to players about Marbury's notoriously adverse impact on the locker room. That much is clear when you raise the issue with people familiar with D'Antoni's thinking. </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<!-- END TEMPLATE: bbcode_quote -->Why take the JOB!
If you dont have a one season plan for Marbury, then why take on the job.
There is not one owner in sports that will "buy-out" a one year $21 million dollar player.
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Quote:
<TABLE class=auto cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=6 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=alt2 style="BORDER-RIGHT: 1px inset; BORDER-TOP: 1px inset; BORDER-LEFT: 1px inset; BORDER-BOTTOM: 1px inset">"I don't know the dynamics of the locker room," D'Antoni said on the eve of camp. "I do know the locker room is very important. I know we do have a plan and I do know that everybody needs to be on that plan. Who is, is. Who isn't, isn't. I'm not making any threats or anything like that. But at the same time it has to count for something that you're a New York Knick." </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<!-- END TEMPLATE: bbcode_quote -->Both quotes are "COP-OUTS"!
Both Walsh & Dantoni knew the situation of this Knick organization the day before they accepted the JOB.
What was the two smoking to think owner Dolan was going to improve a buyout of Marbury contract?
The Clippers Dunleavy offered his close friend Walsh the money to buy-out Marbury.
The culture and the cleaning of this Knick organization would've started the opening day of Training Camp without Zach Randolph and Marbury if Walsh would have accepted the Clippers deal.