O/T: Knicks after Squid?

[Matrim55]

I find this to be hilarious:

http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/230787/Knicks-Could-Pursue-John-Calipari

 

[upstater]

LOIs for Kentucky signed yet?

 

[pepband99]

PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE

Dolan and Calipari are just made for each other. My god, the explosion would be fabulous!!!

 

[superjohn]

That would put the nail in the coffin for me as a Knicks fan and Dolan is the one guy dumb enough to do this.

 

[SubbaBub]

The posse is on its way. It's right on schedule for squid to skip town.

 

[Chin Diesel]

This is Blazing Saddles and The Producers bad.

 

[8893]

That would put the nail in the coffin for me as a Knicks fan and Dolan is the one guy dumb enough to do this.

Exactly. We've been asked to endure a lot of stupidity as Knicks fans. In the worst years it merely led me to indifference. This would push me from an indifferent fan to one who actively roots against his former team. There is no universe in which I could accept this.

 

[billythekid]

That would put the nail in the coffin for me as a Knicks fan and Dolan is the one guy dumb enough to do this.

I was thinking the the same thing. I'm a life-long Knicks fan but the Dolan era has been nothing short of disastrous. They are old, overpaid, have low basketball IQ's, play a boring style of basketball and are just plain hard to root for. While it's hard to deny Carmelo's obvious talent as a basketball player, he's not that fun to root for. Throw in Felton, JR Smith and Kenyon Martin and they're just not a very likeable team. Only guys I enjoy rooting for are Tyson Chandler and Shumpert and they're not the kind of guys to build around. Living in California, I have bought the NBA package the past few years, but I find myself watching the Bobcat games more than the Knick games. The Bobcats might not be very good, but they're young, play hard and are much easier to get behind.

 

[UConnSwag11]

I feel like the Knicks organization is torturing their fans

That would put the nail in the coffin for me as a Knicks fan and Dolan is the one guy dumb enough to do this.

agreed, it's like they're trying to get rid of their fanbase over the past few years

 

[UConnSwag11]

I was thinking the the same thing. I'm a life-long Knicks fan but the Dolan era has been nothing short of disastrous. They are old, overpaid, have low basketball IQ's, play a boring style of basketball and are just plain hard to root for. While it's hard to deny Carmelo's obvious talent as a basketball player, he's not that fun to root for. Throw in Felton, JR Smith and Kenyon Martin and they're just not a very likeable team. Only guys I enjoy rooting for are Tyson Chandler and Shumpert and they're not the kind of guys to build around. Living in California, I have bought the NBA package the past few years, but I find myself watching the Bobcat games more than the Knick games. The Bobcats might not be very good, but they're young, play hard and are much easier to get behind.

i would like them to keep tyson, go after love and rondo and if they cant get rondo get kemba... I know about the salray cap, tax etc i know but for me i would like them to start over, get those names and either draft skilled players that play hard and arent selfish and build from there or go through trades and free agency, im no gm but i think love needs to get out of Minnesota and would be great in NY... just my opinion

 

[8893]

Although this would unquestionably end my Knicks fandom, the more I think about it, the more I would be willing to accept that if it means causing misery in Kentucky and getting Calapari out of the college game.

I far prefer CBB, and this would have the added bonus of actually making rooting against the Knicks fun. And it would free me to choose another NBA franchise to adopt. I've never abandoned or switched my rooting allegiance for any team, but I would make an exception for this. How about them Pelicans?

 

[Scoe]

Of course this is a rumor but Dolan is this stupid the Squid would even be dumber for taking that job.

 

[Scoe]

i would like them to keep tyson, go after love and rondo and if they cant get rondo get kemba... I know about the salray cap, tax etc i know but for me i would like them to start over, get those names and either draft skilled players that play hard and arent selfish and build from there or go through trades and free agency, im no gm but i think love needs to get out of Minnesota and would be great in NY... just my opinion

You know Dolan will sign Melo to the max and be capped out of getting any big time FA.

 

[Scoe]

I was thinking the the same thing. I'm a life-long Knicks fan but the Dolan era has been nothing short of disastrous. They are old, overpaid, have low basketball IQ's, play a boring style of basketball and are just plain hard to root for. While it's hard to deny Carmelo's obvious talent as a basketball player, he's not that fun to root for. Throw in Felton, JR Smith and Kenyon Martin and they're just not a very likeable team. Only guys I enjoy rooting for are Tyson Chandler and Shumpert and they're not the kind of guys to build around. Living in California, I have bought the NBA package the past few years, but I find myself watching the Bobcat games more than the Knick games. The Bobcats might not be very good, but they're young, play hard and are much easier to get behind.

Yes the team clearly doesn't get it and never will with Dolan running the show, they are very easy to defend with the Knicks reliance on outside shooting, I look at the way Uconn (men and women) play its a total night and day difference to the way the Knicks run an offense.

 

[tzznandrew]

While it's hard to deny Carmelo's obvious talent as a basketball player, he's not that fun to root for. Throw in Felton, JR Smith and Kenyon Martin and they're just not a very likeable team.

I think it's all about the team around him. Some players are fun to watch no matter who is on their team: LeBron, Durant, Curry, Kemba (for me, at least), Rubio, Love.

Some are good players, but you really only want to watch them when the team around them allows them to highlight their strengths. Chris Paul is like that, for me. He's a great player, but he's only been fun to watch when he's on a great team.

I think of Carmelo on the US team. There, with the knowledge that there were other scorers, he was largely free to play a more engaging style. And one of the years on the Nuggets, when they went to the Conference Finals, he was a lot of fun to watch. But the team built around him makes him play as a gunner, and so he's ultimately an uninteresting player. Give him someone else who could score consistently, and a halfway decent PG, and it would be different.

 

[UCHuskies08]

Melo is fun to watch when he's on your fantasy team

 

[UConnSwag11]

You know Dolan will sign Melo to the max and be capped out of getting any big time FA.

yeah i know even after melo said he wants and looks forward to free agency

 

[billythekid]

I just think back to that brief period of time known as Linsanity to remember what I love about the NBA. It wasn't that I thought Jeremy Lin would be able to play at that level forever, but they ball moved so well when he was in the game. They were just some much more fun to watch play. Now it's throw it in to Carmelo and watch him hoist up yet another shot.

The only thing Dolan could do to alienate me more than to hire Calipari would be to bring back Isaiah Thomas to be GM. That guy seemed to make it his mission to dismantle that organization. I almost waited for the moment when he would pull off his fancy suit to reveal his Pistons uniform under it a la the WWE.

 

[kemba]

Wouldn't even consider this a rumor, just complete speculation, and rehashed speculation at that. You can never say never with Dolan, but I really doubt it.

 

[TheChamps990411]

I could very easily see this happening. the knicks do nothing but make bad investments. look at the bright side,itd get squid out of the college game for a couple years until he comes back having failed in the nba.

 

[progrocks]

Zeke was not enough to make Knicks fans run? He was for me!