Posted by islesfan:
Posted by Vmart:
Posted by MS:
How are the Knicks going to make the playoffs.
Boston is better and will be there, so one team isn't going to make it from the top 8 last year. The bobcats added jason richardson and the knicks couldn't guard them. The Bucks are healthy and deeper, as are the hawks. The knicks don't have a defensive stopper for those teams who all have quick guards the knicks can't hold
The knicks would have never made the playoffs if they were healthy last year, and we have a problem with getting everyone minutes, so from that standpoint
The Knicks got better too. Unfortunately everyone here is a grass is greener elsewhere person. The Knicks were going to make the playoffs last year how easily you guys discount the teams accomplisments from last year. The Knicks were actually making way through the seedings last year and weren't to far from getting involved with the 5 and 6th seed. It was unfortuante the injuries happened and that is what cost the team. If anyone was following power ranking last year the Knicks were on the rise until the injuries decimated the team. Stop crying about a defensive stopper they got stoppers Balkman is a stopper, Q-Rich, MArdy has capabilities of being a stopper, Marbury actually learned to play decent defense. Curry will get better at being a stopper. Who the hell do the celtic have thats any good at stopping anyone. KG his defense is toilet paper thin he has trouble stopping players but you guys just want to see his 2 blocks per game and make it like he is a true defensive stopper, thats a joke.
Everyone here wants to keep looking a tlast year but forget last year it should have taught you guys that the Knicks actually got better, And this is a brand new season coming, the knicks are right on everyones level right now Celtic might be a little better, but I like the kNicks chances against anyone in the EC.
That's a load of crap. They didn't make the playoffs because they weren't good enough. Period.
You make it sound like something extraordinary happened to them that didn't happen to anybody else, which caused them to miss the playoffs through no fault of their own.
Glad to see you back in true form. You really want to try and paint our situation as normal or somehow common place for teams that made the playoffs, since that is who we're comparing the Knicks to? The only reason Wash still made it is cuz they had enough of a cushion to still make it in. They too were decimated by injuries. Now we still had Curry and a hurting Steph, but let's not make it seem like the team was in great shape after losing as many of our best players as we did ALL AT ONCE!!! This is the part that keeps getting ignored. It's not about other teams having similar or more injuries over the course of the season. It's the timing of our injuries. Up until the injuries this team was improving.
None of this is important now anyway. The thing is that the Blazers have a great headstart on a good team with the young players they have. I think Oden still has a shot to be very good and I hope this is the last of his knee woes, tho I think he may just be cursed with bad ones. The rest of the Blazers make for an OK team, but without him they're nothing special. Especially out West.
As for the Knicks, I think we've got a very good deal of talent ourselves. We just need to work on refining the roster and meshing this talent. Hopefully we can settle our PG issue at some point over the next 2 seasons. That to me is the last thing we have to address in terms of roster make up. I feel good about what we have at every other position. I think we matchup well against any team in the league at C/PF. We'll see how our young SG/SF's develop, but I like what we have in Balkman, Chandler and Nichols. There are no locks that all these guys will work out, but that goes for Portland too.
9/13/2007 11:40 PM