Biggest Surprise in the Young NBA Season: The Knickerbockers at 6-3

I can hardly believe that the usually awful New York Knicks are having a solid beginning to their season, with six up and three down. Is there any question that Mike D'Antoni can coach the crap out of the game? He may be the best coach in the league. What is certain is that a team with a fair amount of talent now has direction and leadership from the bench. Randolph, Lee, Crawford, Duhon, etc etc are fairly gifted players and should win forty or so games this season. Fifty if the Eastern Conference is as bad as it looks thus far. Who would have thunk it just a few months ago?

This all shows exactly how awful a coach and GM that Isiah Thomas is and was. Not only did he do a poor job in Indiana, but he did an even worse job in NY. In both places, his fans claim that Thomas assembled a roster of talented young men and was not given the time to allow them to mature, but it seems to me that he simply held back those same players until real coaches like D'Antoni and Larry Bird came along. I certainly do not celebrate the recent troubles of Thomas, but let's hope that he is never again allowed a leadership position with an NBA team. His track record is abysmal.