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Legend
A part of me always knew Phil JAX would come back to the Knicks and I would have to witness his HOF career sputter out with a whimper... And those pangs of fruitlessness would resound with all those wails of woe bc it would only remind me of those wretched spring nights all throughout the 90s.... And the broken remote controls and upset evenings spent pouting instead of partying.
But... Seriously... It's comical to me if people hold angst, anger, and ire for the meta-PHIL-iCal JAX... The mess we are currently in now is due to the half-assed management philosophy of that old fart wheeling himself around on his Arrogance, wrapped in a neckbrace.
If Donnie Walsh did his job... If he didn't try to appease Dantoni, the fans, whomever... And he dedicated to rebuilding (the right and only way) and avoided the temptation to stay somewhat competitive, in order to be remotely relevant... The Knicks would be title contenders today.
Was planning to clear space to make a run at Lebron wise? Sure. Why not. But to put all the eggs in the 1 basket? To strip the team of its most valuable assets (Randolph, Lee, and Crawford) for absolutely nothing... To simply aNd charitably give them away for nothing... Makes me sick still...
Then, again, to have 1 foot in the future and 1 foot in the delusional present... Like we could stomach a 28-win season but 21 wins would've been unbearable?!?
We should have a backcourt of Russell Westbrook and Steph Curry right now. The only reason we don't is bc we had to appease that SSOL crowd who wanted to play vets like Harrington, Hughes and David Lee.
If we lose 4 more games each of those seasons... We are sitting pretty right now.
So... Sure... Having PJ act like he is the Buddha of BBall is hard to swallow... But at least he won us 2 titles playing for the great NYK team in the 1970s. It's Walsh who should be blamed! He is the reason we still toil in mediocrity.
But... Seriously... It's comical to me if people hold angst, anger, and ire for the meta-PHIL-iCal JAX... The mess we are currently in now is due to the half-assed management philosophy of that old fart wheeling himself around on his Arrogance, wrapped in a neckbrace.
If Donnie Walsh did his job... If he didn't try to appease Dantoni, the fans, whomever... And he dedicated to rebuilding (the right and only way) and avoided the temptation to stay somewhat competitive, in order to be remotely relevant... The Knicks would be title contenders today.
Was planning to clear space to make a run at Lebron wise? Sure. Why not. But to put all the eggs in the 1 basket? To strip the team of its most valuable assets (Randolph, Lee, and Crawford) for absolutely nothing... To simply aNd charitably give them away for nothing... Makes me sick still...
Then, again, to have 1 foot in the future and 1 foot in the delusional present... Like we could stomach a 28-win season but 21 wins would've been unbearable?!?
We should have a backcourt of Russell Westbrook and Steph Curry right now. The only reason we don't is bc we had to appease that SSOL crowd who wanted to play vets like Harrington, Hughes and David Lee.
If we lose 4 more games each of those seasons... We are sitting pretty right now.
So... Sure... Having PJ act like he is the Buddha of BBall is hard to swallow... But at least he won us 2 titles playing for the great NYK team in the 1970s. It's Walsh who should be blamed! He is the reason we still toil in mediocrity.