I'm not a big fan of moral victories and all that crud, but what I saw from this team in the second half made me proud to be a Knicks fan again.

I was at the Garden for the Wiz game last week, and this was like night and day. Yeah, I know we lost, and its the Celtics, and I know the first half was absolutely shocking, but that second half defense, man Oakley would have shed tears of joy.

Our play was structured, we nevered settled for an outside shot. We fought for rebounds. I would like to hear the effort analysis on Curry for this game because I was impressed on the D. He's no KG don't get me wrong, but he fought hard out there. The defense overall was fantastic, the Celts couldn't get a shot off the entire half and in the end needed their superstar to bail them out with a dagger 3.

I was also impressed with Jeffries' impact on the team. He aint winning any scoring titles, but man, if he can defend like that in his first game back, I'm excited. Q was off tonight (wonder what the game would have been like if he would have hit 1 of his first 7 shots), Lee was Lee, Craw did his thing (brick a few, take some stupid shots, but pass the rock pretty well), Steph is slowly getting back on track (vvvveeeeeerrrrryyyyy slowly) and Nate is as immature as ever, but it was the D that made me think of those 90's teams.

Again, I know its the Celts and we sucked first half and we lost. But I was proud of what this team did tonight. We made progress tonight, and hopefully we can keep it up.

Posted by firefly:

I'm not a big fan of moral victories and all that crud, but what I saw from this team in the second half made me proud to be a Knicks fan again.

I was at the Garden for the Wiz game last week, and this was like night and day. Yeah, I know we lost, and its the Celtics, and I know the first half was absolutely shocking, but that second half defense, man Oakley would have shed tears of joy.

Our play was structured, we nevered settled for an outside shot. We fought for rebounds. I would like to hear the effort analysis on Curry for this game because I was impressed on the D. He's no KG don't get me wrong, but he fought hard out there. The defense overall was fantastic, the Celts couldn't get a shot off the entire half and in the end needed their superstar to bail them out with a dagger 3.

I was also impressed with Jeffries' impact on the team. He aint winning any scoring titles, but man, if he can defend like that in his first game back, I'm excited. Q was off tonight (wonder what the game would have been like if he would have hit 1 of his first 7 shots), Lee was Lee, Craw did his thing (brick a few, take some stupid shots, but pass the rock pretty well), Steph is slowly getting back on track (vvvveeeeeerrrrryyyyy slowly) and Nate is as immature as ever, but it was the D that made me think of those 90's teams.

Again, I know its the Celts and we sucked first half and we lost. But I was proud of what this team did tonight. We made progress tonight, and hopefully we can keep it up.

Im sorry but this is enough already. Im tired of seeing almost every game like this. We get down by 20...come back to 3 or 4 and lose.

Isiah says he was disappointed with the first half play.

Maybe, but this one was different. It wasn't just scoring runs to cut the deficit. It was good old-fashioned blue collar D. And IMO, as a D starved Knicks fan, it was more fun to watch then Crawford hitting a bunch of off-balance no-hopers to win.

I hope they keep up that defensive intensity, because if they do, we might just have a team on our hands.

The Knicks played one good half of basketball. That's not enough. You have to show up for the entire game. No moral victory in fighting back after digging yourself into a huge hole against the Celtics.

rolling over on a 30 pt deficit would have been grounds to get fired.

Teams that roll over are those that give up on their coach. This has not happend yet.

Crackburys pass to Q was moronic.

You got Special nate tempting a Technical, then you bring in the "stopper" in Crackbury.

Crackbury did try but one thing really bothers me about him, even in a close game he won't put his stumps, er, I mean hands up on defense.

Kudos to eddy on another good game.

Celts are not a good team now, but we sure as hell made them look good. this is the kind of home game you just don't lose!

and back to embarrasing

I'm so glad fans here are proud of a team that falls 20 points behind to a starting line up of ryan Gomes, Al Jefferson, Tony Allen, Telfair and Paul Pierce. That might be the worst team in the NBA.

Proud indeed.

Hey.. at least Eddy the franchise got his 20

Special Nate in the circus

Proud of my Knicks tonight

You're insane. The Knicks were terrible. The Celtics played like crap during the end of the third and start of the fourth quarter, because they had the game wrapped up. That's their mistake, and we capitalized... but then once the Celts turned it on the final minutes, we lost again. The Celtics are not a cream of the crop team either. The only explanation is simple... we suck.

Posted by fishmike:

and back to embarrasing

I'm so glad fans here are proud of a team that falls 20 points behind to a starting line up of ryan Gomes, Al Jefferson, Tony Allen, Telfair and Paul Pierce. That might be the worst team in the NBA.

Proud indeed.

Hey.. at least Eddy the franchise got his 20

jeez fish, i've never known you to be so cynical... giving kudos to Eddy Curry's improvement is well deserved, regardless of how poorly the rest of the team played last night... i have no problem knocking Stephon for his boneheaded pass or his pisspoor perimeter D, i have no problem knocking Isiah for not playing Balkman at all last night, i have no problem for bashing Nate for his ridiculous selfishness in almost collecting a very costly technical when the team was trying to make their comeback run... but to bash Eddy for a 30 & 12 & 2 block effort is pretty ridiculous.

[Edited by - TMS on 12-12-2006 10:40 AM]

The game was crushing, even for an optimist like me. They didn't do anything in the first half. Its crushing. I was (and i'm sure everyone was) a little happy watching them cut the lead and play hard at the end but wtf!? Why not start the game out like that? Atleast match the intensity.