Posted by Bippity10:
Posted by nixluva:
What the HECK are some of you talking about when you say we hear the same thing every year? MANY OF THE KEY PLAYERS ON THIS TEAM HAVEN'T BEEN TOGETHER FOR MORE THAN A YEAR, SO WHO ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? Curry? Frye? Lee? Nate? Francis? Jalen? Jared? Balkman? Collins? OH you mean James who came in last year out of shape? from everything we've heard Isiah has spoken to him about coming in fit and ready. James has made statements that he was embarrassed by what he did and would do better and now we hear further that he's going to be in shape. If he's not, then shame on him, but he's not the key to this season. Curry we already KNOW has been working out and the workouts have been supervised and augmented by a Knicks Coach. What else do you want?
Why shouldn't we be pleased to hear these good reports. Don't tell me we heard these things last summer cuz we DIDN'T. I really don't know what you guys are talking about. We knew Curry hadn't been working out all summer. We didn't know James was way out of shape, but we had no reason to believe he was. There was some concern about QRich's health. We didn't really get into Mo's conditioning either. I don't think we were that concerned one way or the other about Mo to begin with. I really don't recall all this talk about the team being in such great shape. We may have been excited about the new additions, but we didn't have so much insight into the offseason progress of all the players.
SO THIS YEAR, we are more concerned and rightfully so. I just think its all good that we're hearing something positive about the team. Do you really think that with this season being SO IMPORTANT that Isiah wouldn't be all over the offseason conditioning of his players? He's not going to be playing around this year, with his job on the line. I can see some of you guys now just WAITING for something negative to happen so you can pounce on it. The 1st losing streak and you guys will be all over it. You must be those guys that go to the Garden and BOO the team for having a bad 1st qtr and then cheer like crazy if they start playing better in the 2nd. Fickle has hell. I HATE THAT CRAP!
Most of these players have been in the league for a while and most have reputations. And most have backed up those reputations. Again, I don't give a rats asse about reports. What do reports mean????? I am not going to get excited over a report. Do it on the court.
Fine go ahead and take that attitude, but the point i'm making is that we have NO VALID REASON to doubt that most of the players on this team are doing what they're supposed to be doing this offseason. You and some others just CHOOSE for whatever reasons to believe that the reports have to be false and that its more likely that these guys are gonna be out of shape and unprepared. Why do you even follow the team, if you're gonna be THAT negative in your thinking.
I personally don't see a team that we need to be concerned about in terms of effort and being prepared. The KEY players on this team are going to be ready for the season. Curry, Frye, Lee, Jared, Jamal, Nate, QRich, Balkman, Collins, Steph & Francis, I expect to be ready. That's enough for me. If JJ wants to kill his season by coming in out of shape, so be it.
8/29/2006 11:47 PM
