Garden Quagmire.

“And so the Knicks press on into a future roughly as promising as the fate of Iraq. In the near-term, it’s hard to foresee anything but a slide further into anarchy. And no one — not Brown, not Thomas, and not Madison Square Garden chairman James Dolan, who marched into the team’s locker room on Tuesday night and demanded that they start winning (now, there’s a strategy!) — seems to have a plausible exit strategy.” Slate‘s Michael Crowley laments the demise of the New York Knickerbockers under GM Isiah Thomas. Update: Dolan: “Stay the course.” Sound familiar?

2 thoughts on “Garden Quagmire.”

  1. I have never come across such vapid rubbish as in Crowley’s column.
    Larry Brown’s bizarre, burnt-out , berating style of coaching
    is responsible for 90% of the Knicks failures this year.
    Take a secret poll of the players and they would vote 13-2
    to send Larry packing.
    If you can reach that uninformed savant of of NBA, Michael
    Crowley, send him a copy of this essay on put on my blog;
    sevenpointman a little while ago…

    BROWN OUT IN THE GARDEN

    by SEVENPOINTMAN

    I remember sitting behind the basket in the late fifties, at the Old Madison Square Garden, with my father and brother.
    The swift moves of Sweetwater Clifton, the bumbling feints and falls of Ray Felix, the gliding
    sweeping ballet leaps of Willie Naulls, and best of all the long two-handed arching swish heaves of Richie Guerin. This was a youth well spent.
    As I Iook back on those days and the interim between, many fond memories and frustrations, about being a long time Knick fan surface.
    But nothing increases my angst more than the present situation. As the evening is beginning and as I prepare myself to watch another Knick game, I ask myself what pleasure can I get from
    seeing failure ,and being bored by the same unstable coaching of Larry Brown. I have watched this team,certainly talented and athletic enough to possibly contend in the Eastern conference, be confused and berated by a coach who makes countless mistakes of decision in developing and managing this team. After thirty different starting line-ups, playing odd-ball combinations of players, lengthening and shortening playing time without any reason, not establishing any motion in an offense, and chiding his players to perform when they are not given the training and options to do so, I feel that �Brownie is �not� doing a heck of a job�. True there have been injuries. True the new players are going through a learning curve. True the contracts of some of the players don�t match their talent and efforts-but these factors call out more for a stable guiding hand with consistent but innovative tactics, to teach confidence and strengthen fundamentals.
    I am not sure if it�s burn-out or due to stress, or a result of physical problems, but Larry Brown,
    should not be coaching the Knicks for much longer. Of course this must lead, eventually, to eating Brown�s contract. I am sure Dolan will not like this �one bit.
    But the writing is on the wall,
    We true Knick fans cannot sit through four more years of this.
    The Knick players cannot be forced to play under these conditions.
    We want to see the raining arcs of threes by Q, the Baby Shaq domination and finesse of Curry,
    the cross �over shuffle and sailing shots of Mal, the ever-present grit and leadership of Steph, the
    the tenacious courage and skillful panache of Nate, the versatility and gun slinging of Channing ,and the leaping feats of Lee.
    Something must be done to make this happen.
    So we can have a mature later life well spent.
    With the reality of a championship preceding the senility of old age.

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