how, if we're already going into the season better than we were last year....when people were predicting us to be a 3 seed?
Barring injury, we'll be even better in the 2nd half of the year too when Shumpert gets back.
Just like majority of yall thought ECF was sewn up after all of last years signings only to blow up the direction yall were going and switch lanes mid-season. It took some miracle called Linsanity to realize there were far better means of operations than what was being used at the time and for Melo and Stat to somewhat buy into the team-effort program.
But mainly because there's little to no chance Amare and Melo being on the same team is going to lead to a chip. Looks fantastic on NBA2k12, but the measurements just don't add up. Yall do realize how virtually close the Knicks were to being a lottery team last year?? You take out the once-in-a-lifetime emergence of Linsanity, then you've got 15th pick.
I should actually say, the main downfall will ultimately fall on Grun & Dolan. Their brash decisions (ex: letting lin test the market), short sighted plans (ex: the whole Lebron campaign) and poor executions (ex: bad contracts with bad timing) are what's ultimately going to hold yalls team back. Dude just makes bad decision after bad decision after bad decision. As soon as he makes a bold step ahead, two or three steps back are soon to follow.
It's just an unfortunate history of the franchise