[Lefty Noob]

"Team Titanic" - that's the name given to the Knicks by New York Post writer Marc Berman. Anyway, Larry Brown seems pretty confident that he'll be back as the ship's captain, though he admits that owner James Dolan is unhappy with his performance.

"He never said [he's disappointed] to me," Brown told Berman. "I look at our record. I'm not going to ask him if he's happy with me. I'm not a rocket scientist, but we're bad, and that's my responsibility. I'm not sitting there saying, Isiah are you happy with what I'm doing? But I know I'm getting better as a coach, and I know I want to be back. And I know I want to help us turn this thing around. I'm confident I will."

Will Brown have the chance to turn it around? Should he?

[wvuauthor]

He definitely should. Brown is one of the greatest of all time, and for him to own up and put a lot of the blame on himself takes a lot.

Let him have another year or two, and the Knicks will see improvement.

[legend]

There is no way he and Marbury both come back. The same article infers that Marbury, rookie Nate Robinson, Eddy Curry, and Jalen Rose are all causing Brown more headaches than he can bear. This team has to start over from scratch, with or without Larry Brown. Sending an absolute loser like Marbury down the road would be a good start. Having Isiaih Thomas driving him there would be an even better one. Brown is not the problem. For him to be the solution, though, is going to take some doing.

[Lefty Noob]

Can they outright dump all of those guys and still be able to afford to put together a 12-man team? I don't know a ton about the NBA salary cap, or how much a cut player counts against it. Granted, doing so probably dooms the team to another season at least as bad as this one until they can afford to rebuild, but I'm wondering whether or not this is a viable option.

[ThePundit]

Lefty: Your right. They can't. They should just try to dump who they can and let all of their putrid contracts expire one by one. The process should take 4 years. I don't see any other way out of this mess.