Knicks Defense

As many have already said here, the season is lost, and again, I’m livid the Knicks are not going to the playoffs. I’m going to take a break from Knicksdefense for a while. I can’t stomach anymore losing, even if the goal is now to get a high lottery pick instead of make the playoffs.

This is far worse than last year, worse than the year before with that disgrace Next Town Brown. As a Knicks fan, I want Isiah Thomas out of New York now. He’s had four years to do it and has failed in every sense of the word, so it is time for him to go now. You can talk about the relative failures of Larry Bird or anyone else, as Scoop Jackson has in his recent article, but the bottom line is I never cared about Larry Bird, I never cared about the Pacers or any other team, my team is the New York Knicks, there is no comparison. By refusing to quit, Isiah has betrayed real Knicks fans everywhere because he is not getting the job done in New York. He sticks around just to get the paycheck, which makes him no better than Larry Brown, who also betrayed this Knicks franchise in my opinion.

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If Walsh comes in as GM, that means Isiah may stay on to coach, because Walsh has always supported Isiah when no one else besides magic would. I can’t agree with Isiah staying on in any capacity should Walsh take the helm. Isiah must go, Glen Grunwald must go, that scrub Steve Mills must go, and Mark Aguirre and Brendan Suhr must all go as well. The ultra-loyal soldier Herb Williams and the young coach Dave Hanners would do well to stick around the organization, but I won’t complain if they must clean house to eradicate the divided, defeated, halfhearted, lackadaisical, underachieving, excuse-making culture Isiah Thomas has cultivated during his New York tenure.

I rooted for him at first, but now it seems Isiah Thomas was never a true Knick, not in my mind. Never. The day he is gone will be a great day for real Knicks fans everywhere. It will be a sad day for the fakers. He screwed with New York for four years using the blame game, and this year even went as far as to blame it on the fans at the Garden for not kissing his ass while they lost. Guess what Isiah? Layden is gone, Chaney is gone, KVH is gone, Weatherspoon is gone, Shandon Anderson is gone, Kurt Thomas is gone, Allan Houston is gone (twice removed by you), Lenny Wilkins is gone, Larry Brown is gone, Stephon Marbury is gone, Eddy Curry is out, the season ticket holders you alienated are obviously MIA having been outsourced by tourists who just want to see the inside of MSG. Your last card was the rookies, and now that they’re playing, you can’t say anything. Finally there is no one left to blame but yourself, Isiah Thomas.

Four years ago, I thought it was unfair and mean-spirited when Mike and the Mad Dog talked smack on Isiah the day he came to New York, because he had not yet done anything to merit that kind of doubt. I thought then that Isiah would be worth a try to bring back glory to NY, he should start with a clean slate and not be judged for previous experiences. They doubted him. They cited the CBA bankruptcy under Isiah’s direction (forget the owners, what of the Starks and the Masons of that time just trying to make the pros when that minor league went under), and the Raptors as evidence that Isiah was a bad choice for the Knicks, and really implied that he would fail in New York. I don’t know how they knew it then, but it turns out they were proven right, and it has nothing to do with MSM or spin doctoring. After four full years, Isiah is objectively a loser in New York.

I’m going to spend the remainder of this month taking care of other business and watching the NCAA tournament, where mid-level exception atrocities don’t kill a fan’s spirit.

Hopefully Isiah will be gone soon because I’m sick and tired of talking about him. You might say to talk about the game instead, but it is very hard to watch this kind of prideless, spiritless knicks basketball. I never, ever thought I would say that, but that’s how it has been lately. They suck. Crawford isolation plays definitevely suck. Zach is no team player. Curry and Lee have taken steps in the wrong direction. Fred Jones shouldn’t even be on this team.

Dolan has the keys. He can do what he wants, and has done just that. In spite of the media’s opinion, and contrary to the patrons’ collective voice, nothing changes. If he keeps it the way it is, obviously he doesn’t give a rat’s ass, so why should anyone else? Dolan treats the most loyal, die-hard Knicks fans like stray dogs. Insulting your clientele is simply not the right way to run a business. Dolan’s father knows that. Does Jim? From the looks of it, I doubt it.

I’ll still be around, just cutting back a little because I don’t want to sound like a broken record, though the team is playing like one. The record called “Lose Horribly,” by I Drive a Tank. Save your money; don’t download that mp3.

Thanks to every single one of you guys for blogging here with your thoughts and ideas. It has been a tough season and you deserve something for getting through it. Too bad the knicks can’t deliver it though. The next thing I suppose we have to look forward to is what Steady alluded to previously, the draft. That’s way off in June…