After Another Loss, Knicks Executives Express Dissatisfaction

Coach David Fizdale is not the coach for the Knicks. The Knicks can't get a win. Coach Fizdale is trying to do great things with such a young team. The Knicks need Veterans to give them advice. Honestly the Knicks will not win more than 15 games this year with their winning rate. I watched their first 10 games this year and it was heartbreaking. 2-8 and ranked 15 is embarrassing. The Knicks need restructuring in their team and in their management. Players like Morris and Portis stepped up but it is time for the rest of the team to step up. One person can't win a game. Lastly, the Knicks need to restructure their starting lineup. Once a Knicks fan, always a Knicks fan. Hopefully this team starts to turn around this year.

Why do people continue to pay money to see a second rate product that has been that way for years under the ownership of James Dolan? Seriously, take your money and see a Broadway or off-Broadway show. At least the producers are trying to hire the best actors and give you the best show they can. Dolan? He hires second rate executives and is the subject of such disrespect that quality free agents won’t play for the Knicks. He should take the billions he would get by selling the team and do a service to all New Yorkers.

Upper management fails to remember that the two championships that the Knicks won were done with TEAM defense and offense. Who would you pick for your team if you had a choice? Chamberlain or Reed? West or Frazier? Baylor or Bradley? You would probably pick all the Lakers. But as a TEAM, the Knicks managed to beat the Lakers twice for the championship. My advice to upper management is to shut up and start thinking about next year's draft and build a better TEAM!

The answer, as always, is to eliminate Jimmy D from the picture.

They showed Mike D'Antoni the door after less than 4 seasons - they have no clue.

It's funny how the execs blame the players they picked. It is a team of spare parts which will struggle for a 10th win. They're doing their best. They had Kanter a solid player for a Portis who is not solid or consistent. Now it's spare parts with unimpressive rookies. No place to go but down,

Been a die hard loyal Knicks fan since 1970 and these past decades have been a joke. A carousel of coaches, bad free agent signings, never any consistency. Sure wish Dolan would sell the team but it seems he never will. Watching the games this season, there is talent out there but again - how about FOUR quarters of effort, not one or two? Plus I do question Fizdale's substitution knack - or lack thereof. It is really hard to watch & root for this team

If you really want to know what's wrong with the Knicks', just ask around the league and see who wants to make a trade with the Knicks? You will find that the Knick personnel is simply not highly regarded. The rookie Barrett might turn out to be a good player, but right now he's surrounded by guys that would be second tier on most teams. Why do you think no top free agents want to play for the Knicks? It's called management and the Knicks have had terrible management for years. Other teams have been able to endure a few losing seasons to build the team. Look at Phoenix or Salt Lake. But the Knicks lose and never seem to have a plan except hoping that a top free agent will choose to live in New York despite the teams dysfunction. It hasn't happened and it's unlikely to happen. The problem with the Knicks begins at the top.

What has Mills done is his 20 plus years other than replace Mr. Walsh who actually had a plan that was not based on speculation? "If we obtain the #1 draft choice,"---we will be okay. He broke up a developing team in in order to obtain C. Anthony? The scouts and management fail to see how the game is changing, or has changed many years ago.

“... delivering the product on the floor....”? C’mon. This is so New York. Other teams seek to put together a bunch of guys who play well together and strive to win championships; they use the language of sports TEAMS.

The reality is, it'll never happen. But, the truth is, Dolan deserves to be fired.

Yet the Knicks continue to sell out every home game at prices second to none. Why should management change anything?

A pre-K can immediately see that Fizzy-dale is trying to fit square pegs into round holes.

A fish rots from the head down. The stench from Dolan’s office can be smelled from NYC to LA where this transplanted New Yorker and Knick fan resides.

I would have more to say about this article if the NY Times actually reported on the Knicks games themselves. It is unbelievable to me that all I get in the paper is a line score, no articles about the games. Has the Times also given up on the Knicks?

Isn't it amazing how the high salaried execs for the Knicks can't see the most obvious issues in the team they created? I am confident that any 9th grader could do a better job constructing a roster. As others have noted it starts with Dolan and his poisonous influence on the team at every level. But the team is Dolan's plaything and so fans must endure this endless purgatory. 1973 was really special, right? Memories are all Knicks fans have.

This was a shameful and transparent setup for the approaching firing of Fizdale. Mills/Perry did not have much to say after they struck out on the top free agents this summer. Now they hijack a post-game press conference to let us all know that it is not their fault that the team is losing? Sadly, a painfully typical Knicks move.

And then there's the Dolan problem. You know it's bad when people wax nostalgic over Pat Riley. Here's my hope for long suffering Knick fans. Hang onto Barrett and roll out the red carpet for Karl Anthony Towns when he gets tired of losing in Mpls.

What bonafides does Mills have to run a team? The Knicks are eschewed because of Dolan. He needs to keep his fingers on his guitar strings and not meddle. (Better yet, sell the team). Porzingis left because of management. Fizdale may have been dealt an imperfect hand, but I don't think I have ever seen an NBA coach so inconsistent with his lineups. The Knicks have been a mess since Pat Riley. No light at the end of the tunnel right now. Management keeps failing and Fizdale has not proven he's capable either. No light at the end of the tunnel.

Hold this L NYC...until OWNERSHIP changes, nothing will.

Ironically, I thought the front office was and has always been the problem. Please correct me if I'm wrong, I don't follow basketball as closely as I used to.

James Dolan, Daniel Snyder, Peter Angelos - three total failures who are either too stupid, too greedy, or too megalomaniacal for the good of their own teams as well as for their leagues. The Knicks (and the other two) will not improve until there is new ownership. Period.

The NBA should take over this franchise and auction it off to bona fide and competent ownership. It is bad for the entire league for the New York team, a charter member of the league, to be run by a bunch of clowns. A fifty year rebuilding plan is just too long. I was in my early 20s the last time they won a championship, and I am now an old man.

Only one solution. Dolan must go or the misery will continue

Oh my. Where do I start? Well, I'm not going to revisit the list of horribles - the Eddy Curry trade, the Melo debacle, the Porzingis giveaway - and just focus on the latest news that the circus is in town. How on Earth do you throw your coach under the bus in such public fashion. Steve Mills is complicit in Dolan's decades of incompetence as the Worst Owner in Sports. He put this team on the floor and now he tells the world that he expected better? Seriously? Signing underachieving players to contracts normally reserved for overachievers makes no sense. Dumping team players with great fundamentals like Ron Baker while signing a selfish chucker like Allonzo Trier makes no sense. Souring a veritable Unicorn on the Knicks and then dumping him for a so-so player - when we already have a promising guard in Frank N. - makes no sense. The antics of Dolan and his top brass simply make me ill. The fans need to boycott this team. Maybe then, there will be real, positive change.

Until Dolan no longer owns the Knicks, they will be basement dwellers in the NBA East. With owners like Dolan and the Wilpons, I have 2 teams that drive me nuts. But having been a fan since 1968 or so, I can't just shed them and become a fan of another team. The imprint is 50 years in the making. I've tried to find a new team, but I can't. I had Walt "Clyde" Frazier hanging on my wall as a kid. I loved Bud Harrelson and Cleon Jones. The Mets are only slightly better than the Knicks. What do you do when you have an owner like Dolan, the Wilpons or say Dan Snyder of the Washington Redskins. I feel sorry for Dwayne Haskins. I'm a huge Ohio State fan and I hope Haskins survives his time in DC and can have a successful football career. There's no real redress when your favorite team has an idiot for an owner. I don't go to Knicks games and only the occasional Mets game. The only way to force change is if NO one showed up for games, and that simply doesn't happen. Stuck for now :(

The Knicks won't "strike gold" in the free agent market until Dolan sells the team and leaves the building. Durant was diplomatic when asked why he wasn't interested in the Knicks--it was clear the Dolan Factor had a lot to do with it.

The coach's success or failure depends in large part on the caliber of the players hired, and that is the domain of the front office. Coach Fizdale is being set up as the fall guy by a front office that has failed in its responsibilities. Ownership hires front office personnel, so Dolan is ultimately responsible here. Unfortunately for coaches, that is how things work in the NBA. Instead of cleaning house from the bottom up, the Knicks will only improve when changes start from the top and work down.

I agree with John, the first commentator. The Knicks' problems are the result of years of ineffective ownership and top management. Sports writers and TV commentators often seem reluctant to say, when evidence is abundant, that owners and top management in the head office need to go. This reflexive submission and veneration of money and power obscure the the most important source of incompetence in sports franchises and in many other arenas of human endeavor.

Three things will improve these Knicks : 1) Dolan needs to sell the team to a competent person. 2) Dolan needs to sell the team to a competent person. 3) Dolan needs to sell the team to a competent person.