the players give the notorious NY media too much information. The policy, internally, is knows as "Tell Those Bastards Nothing".Isola claims that the organization has gone as far as showing Knick players the pictures of the various beat writers in the city, and has even provided scouting reports on them (for example, what to watch for from a particular writer.) Frank Isola's scouting report claims that he'll "try to get close to players in an attempt to get information out of them."
Isola, whose work I enjoy tremendously, has even heard from people inside the Knick organization that "an employee from the Knicks sometimes sends in comments [to Isola's blog] and is listed as anonymous." Awesome!
The players aren't the only ones who have to deal with management's distrust of the media; apparently there's a PR person jotting down every word head coach Isiah Thomas says to the press corps.
Aside from the idiotic trades, bad contracts and overall managerial ineptitude, I think we can safely add insane paranoia to the growing list of Knick problems.
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the media are not the friends of the knicks on or off the court. they will hangthem with thier gross one sided, half baked articles. i dont blame the knicks. they bash the knicks and the management because it sells, Frank isola sucks anyway. he know his stuff indeed but he has been out of line and out of tune with the new generation sports figures of today. where are all the articles on hockey brawls,soccer scraps, baseball blunders. if the knicks weren't part of the national blackestball association, the press wouldnt be bothered.