Benn Hodapp: Eric Musselman

I will address this to coach Eric Musselman himself. Pass it along if you see him.

I am convinced that a potato sack with comically placed glasses, a hat and the word ‘coach’ spray painted on it could do a better job of leading a basketball team than you have this season. It isn’t all your fault, though. I have seen this team seemingly lose interest and not try at times. It’s not surprising. I mean, if I was being paid $15 million a year I would probably be too tired from counting my money to try too. There’s only so much a man can do.

Your job, however, is to make your team try. Why Mike Bibby and Brad Miller are still being allowed to play 30 minutes per game is inexcusable. I have seen more energy at a lethargy convention than I have from these two this year.

What is your team playing for right now? Is it playing so we can see one more instance where Brad, a 7-footer, gets outrebounded by the opposing team’s point guard? Is it playing so Shareef Abdur-Rahim can chip the paint off the front of the rim all night? I’m not interested.

Anyone who watched the game against the Jazz on Friday saw that there is an answer to the question no one seems to want to ask. Play the young ones, coach. Give me Ronnie Price’s energy, defense and enthusiasm. Give me his minute-by-minute fight to show that he can play. Give me Justin Williams’ hustle, energy rebounding, shot blocking and athleticism.

It is your job, Musselman, to see these things. Has no one told you that we as fans don’t want to see uninterested players who have their minds set on where they’re going to hunt during the offseason? Are you unaware that what you saw on Friday was what used to make the Kings great even when they were terrible all those years? Did you notice how loud the fans were for seemingly the first time all season?

If you can’t motivate these guys to work, then they should be thrown out along with you.

Lamont Weaver: Isaiah Thomas

On December 22, 2003, the New York Knicks made arguably its biggest mistake, hiring Isaiah Thomas and making him president of basketball operations.

Well maybe its second biggest mistake giving Allan Houston a $100 million dollars was maybe the dumbest decision any pro team has ever made, it has to be one of those bad “all-time” list, I mean for real, the guy was the second-highest paid player in the NBA last year making over $20 million.

One problem, Houston doesn’t even play basketball anymore, he hasn’t played a minute since 2005. With that it is hard to blame a pretty nice guy like Isaiah Thomas for the Knicks misfortunes. Yet you can’t ignore Thomas’s after-basketball playing resume. Thomas was the arguably the greatest point guard ever, winning two championships.

Yet since he retired he has gone on to help “fix” franchises, the only problem is that every franchise he has worked for one way or another has suffered greatly in his care. The Toronto Raptors, the CBA franchise and the Pacers have all fallen victim to Thomas’s overspending and just plain sorry team management.

It seems through that Thomas has really saved his best for last. In his now four years with the Knicks Thomas has turned a once-great perennial playoff franchise into the biggest joke in sports. I mean come on how could the Knicks, who have the highest pay-roll in the NBA, turn over their money to Thomas. Through massive over spending and silly trades the Knicks have becoming a team assembled of selfish, overpaid players.

Tyrone Bowman: George Karl

When you think of disunity and overload of talent, what team do you first think of? The New York Knicks, but after that it is the Denver Nuggets.

Who is the coach of this disorganized franchise? George Karl. He is the man who is to blame for this team’s awful performances and failures in the past two post-seasons. The team is so bad this year they could miss the playoffs entirely.

Karl traded for Allen Iverson because he thought the team lacked scoring options when he had Carmelo Anthony off the bench, leading the NBA in scoring.

They are overloaded in the backcourt and have some of the hardest bricklayers in the inside.

Kenyon Martin and Marcus Camby are walking crash dummies. They enter the game with the intent to bump, bruise and impose their will on their opponents. While it is in their human nature; they are also praised by their coach and awarded extra playing time.

The only way for those dudes to get benched is to get injured, which is highly possible because of how much Karl insists on playing them.

Denver is so bad that they are hovering around .500 while allowing nearly as many points as they score. Just last week they gave up 115 points to the lowly Sacramento Kings.

I am guessing they will make the playoffs since they are battling with the Golden State Warriors who have not made the playoffs in more than a decade, and the New Orleans Oklahoma City Hornets, which is one of the most under appreciated NBA teams.

Karl led the Nuggets in the second half of the 2005 regular season to 32-8 while he is just above .500 in his last two years. Fire Karl now or wait to see if this pricey underachieving team can sneak into the playoffs just to experience another year of post-season trauma due to the Western Conference’s elites.