C'mon man. Walsh was not making GM moves. He was a capologist.
Dantoni did wrong by Steph, I agree. But Steph was not going to lead this team anywhere. Now thats my opinion so it doesnt hold water but saying that he would have lead this team falls on deaf ears when he had his chance to lead this team before Dantoni, his attitude is hindering to his own and his teammates progress. You realize the only major drama this year was basketball related. Marbury please, Isiah (the guys who brought him hear) barely played him the th 4th qtr of games. That says something.
Yea Dantoni dished out a lot on DNPs but can you really say that those players were too important to keep off the court. Hughes, Nate, Duhon, that played well in portions of the season, then its nothing from them.
All the moves are made for this summer, now all those player we acquired, are gone.
I think you REALLY underestimate how bad this team is. Its been 6 years since Isiah's hire,, and its the same team, same result, 5-6 different coaches. The NBA like to fire coaches left and right, and the bad teams are still the same bad teams.
u still dont get it.......
Marbury was the best player on the Knicks when D'Antoni became headcoach.
Marbury accepted the role of coming off the bench to become that 6th man of the year in his final season contract. Marbury knew better than any other player on the team all his Knick teammates offensive talents, plus he was the best "tutor" for bum Duhon.
For Damntoni to have great success in New York, he was suppose to take advantage of all Isiah Thomas offensive players to get as many wins as possible before the trading deadline, he needed Marbury, Crawful, and Zach offensive styles on the team for those WINS.
Those first season "WINS" wouldve helped out the "2010-Plan" tremendously as far as player for player trades.
The NBA had alot of weak teams during the 2008-9 season inwhich the Knicks couldve gathered alot of wins with a bench depth chart of Marbury, Nate, Chandler, Balkman, Malik, Jefferies, and Lee.
The Knick Players stock wouldve risen sky high.
Hint: if Damntoni wouldve made the Curry & Zach tandem work using Lee, Balkman, Chandler, and Harrington as in between frontcourt players....D'Antoni wouldve won the coach of the year.
Especially, with Eddy Curry being the only player coming into training-camp as usual out of shape.