Welcome to New York Knicks Basketball... Sort of

Sip's going to fill in for AFOMG today, still a little hungover from the B.O.A.F.O.M.G's wedding on Saturday. A hearty Y2K congrats for the bride and groom. It's really a heck of a family over there.

Today I'm going to tell you about the Knicks and why they will yet again be really bad.

Look at this roster, notably the starting lineup.

Stephon Marbury: The Suns pretty much gave him to the Knicks for free.

Jamal Crawford: The Bulls didn't want to pay a modest $7 mil per for a young up and coming player.




Q-Rich: Again, the Suns didn't want him, his bloated contract or his bad back.

Zach Randolph: Portland's most wanted: The Blazers gave him away because he would get in the way of their rebuilding. It's hard to understand how a 26-year old doesn't fit into rebuilding plans.

Eddy Curry: The Bulls would have given him and his bad heart away, but Isiah decided to throw in two lottery picks for the cause.

This is a team of castoffs, players that other NBA teams didn't want. They've combined to play roughly 40 NBA seasons and have made a combined 4 playoff appearances? These guys are losers. They are all below average defenders. They are just a poorly assembled unit.

And then there is the genius plan to put Zach Randolph and Eddy Curry together. How many times in 5 games has one of them driven the lane only to find the other one clogging up the middle? It's a disaster.

The only thing the Knicks have going for them is Renaldo Balkman. Kudos to Isiah for the pick that we all laughed at. This guy is a legitimate NBA rotation player, a shutdown defender and just a great guy to have on the team.




David Lee is a good player and apparently a good guy. But he is overrated. I hate to say it but if he wasn't white he wouldn't get the love he is getting. And I'm just tired of the whole Nate Robinson era. The guy just yells a lot. A couple of my NBA insiders tell me he is the most annoying/hated player in the league. And he can't defend either.

I don't think getting Randolph improved the team. In the NBA there is such a thing as having too much scoring. The Knicks have Eddy Curry. They just don't need another scoring big man.

Meanwhile, the east is getting better. With the Celtics now the toast of the NBA the Knicks are the 4th or maybe 5th best team in their division.

And its not going to get better. Every acquisition of Zach Randolph sets the Knicks back another two years.

The only solution is to blow this team up and start over. I've said this for 5 years now and it looks like I will say it for five more. But the front office is just too dumb to do that.



This team is at best a 35 win team and an 8 seed. More likely they are floating somewhere between having the 5th and 9th most ping pong balls in the Derek Rose sweepstakes of 2008.

It really is sad. There is no greater place in New York than the garden. This is a basketball city first and foremost and our basketball team is a joke.

Oh well.

Sooner basketball is upon us. See you all at the Garden on Thursday for the MSG debut of perhaps the best young coach in the country, one of my oldest pals, Coach Huff.

Vaya,
Sip

(Pics courtesy of msn.com, nba.com, newsday.com)