the thing that amazes me is how a gm can sit there and be so patient i feel bad almost because you gotta have some balls to say ok were gunna stay quiet and lose for a couple of years and then when we develop our rookies and have ayohgn good team, thats just staright up hard to do, i know I would want to win now and win then so its a tough decision and i cannot knock thomas for stalling or whatever the word you could use. The bottom line is we have something wrong with our team, we have good players, you cannot say we dont have talent, we obviously have more offensive talent than defensive and that is a problem but we have some peices and i just hope we can go 500 the second half to show ppl were improving and i would like to get ratliff although i dont know how that dude got almost 12 million a year hes gotta be like 50 years old by now but he can sure as hell beat some ppls shot. Lets just hope for a good trade preferably defensive and have a good second half, and by the grace of God have denver tank the 2nd half and finish dead last in the west, then ill wake up but i want ratliff, i wouldnt mind patterson, i read somehting that said if he went to a different team they would see a whole new ruben patterson but hes a risk, just like the whole starting 5 of the knicks, except marbury becuase hes the greatest player that has ever lived, im just a big fan alright rebuttles,.....?