How Should We Feel?

About anything . . . everything . . . this THING. This terrible, terrible, decrepit THING. How, now ten games into the season, have I already found half of myself, possibly (secretfully and shamefully) much more than half, hoping we lose out. Do I really mean that? No. Maybe. I don't really know. What makes it so difficult is that I really do like our players and don't think that its their fault. They are good guys and for the most part they are all just stuck in a horrible situation. It's not their fault that their owner is the most incompetent man of his position in all of sports, that their coach is closet homosexual misogynist who has built a team which simply isn't designed to win basketball games, or that the least of their starting point guards worries is he will probably go down as the biggest cancer and loser in NBA history. That's a bold claim and I only make it because it seems to be fairly unianimous (sp?). I don't think that David Lee and Jamal and Nate and Q and Z-Bo and the rest of the gang go out there every night dogging it without caring whether they lose or not. I don't think they like losing at all. I think they hate it. But unfortunately, this team isn't designed to win. It's floor generals are shooting guards who should be point guards, and point guards who should be shooting guards. It swingmen are unskilled, low flying, defensive minded players who can't guard without fouling and can't knock down an open 15 footer (and its STOCKPILED with them). It's front court averages combined less than one block per game, while averaging (I'd have to imagine) the higest turnover rate for any starting frontcourt in the league. And on top of it, not a single player on the team can play defense. Who ever said Fred Jones was a great perimeter defender definitely came from the same scout school that said Q was a shooter (and his offseason surgery turned him into a 'dunking machine'), and Renaldo Balkman doesn't count because he never plays and when he does he fouls too much to be effective.
But again, I think they all really do care (with the obvious exception of Steph). I think they hate losing and don't know what to do. And at this point, maybe there is nothing to be done but to purge the team, keep a few of the bright spots (Z-Bo, D-Lee and, uhhhhhhh) and start over. Funny that I put D-Lee in their because JEWremy and I have been rotating shifts driving the 'trade David Lee while his stock is high' band wagon. Hopefully this will be done before people realize that if Jamal weren't on the team, D-Lee would be the worst defender on the squad (and yes, I know that Eddy Curry is still a Knick). Is this what should be done? Is it time to give up on this squad? Do we host a trade deadline yard sale, take what we can and wait for our approaching lottery pick? Take OJ Mayo or Derrick Rose or any of the other point guard standouts in this years freshman and sophmore classes? It just doesn't seem like its going to work with Isiah here coaching this group, and if its going to be dismantled, I'd rather it happen sooner than later. So do hope to lose every game to expedite the process? Drop 11 in a row so Dolan has no choice to finally get rid of Isiah and maybe we can begin to make things right. Or do we hold on a while long and hope this turns into a feel good story. Maybe things click, we say eff it, were done losing lets get some wins for Isiah, and we turn things around. And even if not, do we cheer to win because we feel bad for the players weve hung with and grown with over the past few years, who have been thrown into the worst of situations? I dont' know. Someone, please, what do we do and HOW SHOULD WE FEEL?!?!