What’s up with the Knicks?

This may be my first non web related post ever, but it won’t be the last.

The Knicks are in last place, and pay their players more than any other team in the NBA. The Knicks have an attitude problem, and a coach that is supposed to be great at getting players to work as a team, but managing one AI is different than managing 5 players (at least) with bad attitudes that consistently underperform.

In Philadelphia Brown had the tough task of managing AI’s personality, but at least he put up numbers to justify his attitude.

The Knicks (unless they ship either Marbury or Francis today) will now have a team that includes:

• Eddy Curry
• Jalen Rose
• Stephon Marbury
• Steve Francis
• Quentin Richardson, and
• Jamal Crawford

An amazingly talented bunch, but not a workable combination. The attitudes don’t mesh.  Everyone on that list wants to be the hero, and none of them want to play hard nosed fundamental basketball, which historically has fueled Larry Brown’s success.

How could this happen?  How do you make that many bad moves?  The new Knicks remind me a lot of the TrailBlazers from a few years ago, too many attitudes not enough output. Basketball is a team game, the Knicks are not a team, they are five egos playing individually, that will blame everything else before taking the blame for themselves.

On a side note: the trade with the Magic sent Penny Hardaway back to Orlando, the one place that he was successful, it’d be nice to see Penny succeed again, but it’s doubtful. As much as the Magic have struggled this year, I think that their recent trades make them a better team, even Darko.