Well first off me and Allanfan got to meet up and chat during half-time. Geez, louis, rice, and peas this guy is huge, lol. Cool **** man we took a few pics. I'll post them in a second.

Fist off me and my two buds I came with were thouroughly impressed with David Lee. He basically came to play and greatly outplayed Shaq and Amare in the first half. He was just beating both guys to rebounds and dunks. If he didn't do what he did early on the Knicks woulda lost this one.

One guy who we totally wanted to assasinate was Chris Duhon. Yo he is a terrible point guard. The numbers are lying. He doesn't see the floor well and he is slow as hell!!! He has no explosion to the basket and he can't finish. He tries but he is not good. I think he is over his own head. Just a terrible point guard plenty of times he drove right to the hoop and then just dribble right out or kicked it out to the 3 point line.....no good dudes.....if the Knicks had a real point guard that could create they woulda blew out Pheonix....you know who we said would fit perfectly? Stephon Marbury. Some guys around us agreed. Marbs can finish and he can make interior passes. Marbs tends to get too selfish with his heat checks and breaking of the game to go at a certain player, but Knicks need to find a real point guard that can create and stop driving and kicking to the 3pt line everytime. When he should have he didn't and when he shoulda just tried to score he did.

Gallo is a damn good player. He made 2 awesome moves:

#1 he was on the left side where he got the ball on a botched play....he drove on his man crossed over a guy diving in for a steal and immediately jumped to lay it up (shoulda dunked it but he can't jump!!!). We was hype off that.

#2 he got the ball on the right side on a botched play.....he drove left across the lane like he was gonna drive to the basket, but stopped half way and did a matrix like fadeaway in the paint...swish bitch!!!!! I ye'll out a "yeah mutha******".

This kid is good ....but he left the game shortly after half time started. He had his warm ups with him in his hands on the way to the locker room. That scared me to death. He did come back...but he stretch out his back at center court!!! ah man!!! he did go oun to have a nice little run with the team in the second half. He's good guys very good basketball player. He has a chance to be something this year and most definately next season....but yo if his back is gonna be hurting like this he needs to do something about it.

Knikcs were doing good and we all we shocked the Knicks were winning with 30 secs or so left. my friend was like, "we got this!" I'm like man this is the Knicks and you don't know the Knicks like I know them....anything is possible. My other friend was like, "nah man ain't no Reggie Millers in the building its a wrap".....BANG Nash hist a 3 and Rrichardson hits a video game like fade away all withing about 7 seconds!!!

lol but damn man the Knicks hit their free throws and pulled through.

Oh yeah Tim Thomas came through big time as well. He and Shaq had a little battle going on and Timmy was taking him to the basket and drilling 3pters and playing some great defense on him....

in fact props to the whole team for playing great defense all night. The Knicks beat Pheonix fair and square. this wasn't a fluke....maybe they unerestimated the Knicks but the Knicks player well on both ends.

Go Knicks!!!!!

I agree with everything except the Duhon analysis. When Duhon drives to the basket and he just continues to dribble to reset, I think that is a D'Antoni tactic. I have seen Nash do this time and time again the previous years. Right now Duhon has a bad back, his lift is not there. He really needs a reliable PG to back him up to lower his PT to around 35min instead of 45min.

hey guys yea I was there too... but u know being the ultimateknicks outcast that I am I diddnt get to meet up wit u guys... should have tho lol

The main thing I noticed I already posted in the game thread, Gallo seems to have the "it" factor when he's out there you just feel like the team is better. He does so many positive things out there from spacing, being in the right places, moving without the ball, active on defense, knowing when to pass, who to pass to, shooting, driving, blocking shots I mean the kid does it all and most of all its his CONFIDENCE.

I saw him get pushed around a few tiems on screens and push right back you can tell this kid won't take any ****. I just have a feeling he will be our best player in the near future

Posted by Elite:

hey guys yea I was there too... but u know being the ultimateknicks outcast that I am I diddnt get to meet up wit u guys... should have tho lol

The main thing I noticed I already posted in the game thread, Gallo seems to have the "it" factor when he's out there you just feel like the team is better. He does so many positive things out there from spacing, being in the right places, moving without the ball, active on defense, knowing when to pass, who to pass to, shooting, driving, blocking shots I mean the kid does it all and most of all its his CONFIDENCE.

I saw him get pushed around a few tiems on screens and push right back you can tell this kid won't take any ****. I just have a feeling he will be our best player in the near future

Yes!!! There was quite a few times were guys were roughing him up and he was pushing back....looked like he was getting mad one time down in the second half. I love the kid. It does seem like his presence brings confidence to the team. He's also playing defense and is very active on both ends. I'm ompressed.

BTW....I took down your AIM off your UK profile but didn't see you on my buddy list. Not sure if you using a different name...I woulda hit you up if I saw ur name pop up.

Is AllanFan20 more Pvt. Pyle or Thor?

Posted by EnySpree:

Posted by Elite:

hey guys yea I was there too... but u know being the ultimateknicks outcast that I am I diddnt get to meet up wit u guys... should have tho lol

The main thing I noticed I already posted in the game thread, Gallo seems to have the "it" factor when he's out there you just feel like the team is better. He does so many positive things out there from spacing, being in the right places, moving without the ball, active on defense, knowing when to pass, who to pass to, shooting, driving, blocking shots I mean the kid does it all and most of all its his CONFIDENCE.

I saw him get pushed around a few tiems on screens and push right back you can tell this kid won't take any ****. I just have a feeling he will be our best player in the near future

Yes!!! There was quite a few times were guys were roughing him up and he was pushing back....looked like he was getting mad one time down in the second half. I love the kid. It does seem like his presence brings confidence to the team. He's also playing defense and is very active on both ends. I'm ompressed.

BTW....I took down your AIM off your UK profile but didn't see you on my buddy list. Not sure if you using a different name...I woulda hit you up if I saw ur name pop up.

ah damn, the aim is "Elitethatsme" .. I dunno if thats what i got up... next time!

Damn I need a haircut.

It was good to meet eny. Good guy to get to know.

As for the game:
I was proud of the Knicks bench especially in the first half. It looked like the Suns starters were about to burry us, but our bench took advantage of their weaknesses. Every one of them. Nate, Gallo, Harrington (I thought his performance was very underrated) and even TT b/c every one of his fouls were useful until the 4th quarter when he exploded. In the second half of the game, just about everyone on the team played great. I honestly felt that. Well, maybe not so much Q and Chandler, but they had some big defensive moments, but there weren't a ton.

Individually:
Obviously we all know Lee played awesome, Gallo was shining but showing his rookie weaknesses. Nate is officially out of his slump. He actually played great on both ends, and we probably wouldn't have won without him, but I felt we wouldn't have won without a lot of players either.

The guys that really stood out to me though were Duhon, Harrington and Lee.

Contrary to what else was said in this thread, Duhon played GREAT. He's not the most explosive player, but he is athletic, and he's fundamentally sound enough, that when he gets in the paint he knows exactly what to do. He made the right passes, he knew when to kick the ball out, and he hit clutch shots. His free throw shooting was huge at the end of the game too.

I don't have to talk much about Lee b/c I'm sure everybody is raving about him. He's the teams leader though. It's real obvious when you watch in person. Obviously he can't guard Shaq one on one, but I thought he did a great job standing his groud and I was proud of him for how tough he played. That dunk over Amare was exciting as sheeot as well btw.

Harrington came up with big buckets. He was important in the game. Big rebounds, big buckets and those 2 free throws at the end were big. I'm warming up to the guy. I just don't like the moments when he jacks up 3s, but he's getting better at that. He's probably the most scorer on the team. His footwork is outstanding.

As for that moment with Nate when he jumped on Shaq. I don't know how it happened, and I don't know why it happened, but 2 things. It just looked like Shaq gobbled him out and it was freaking crazy. What was crazier was that it prevented a basket. Shaq was deep downlow in position to take a feed and slam the crap out of the rim. Instead, Nate got up there and prevented the passer (I think it was Hill) from making the pass. Instead, he missed the jump shot.

Just as importantly as anything else. Though they scored 103 points, I thought the defensive intensity throughout the game was as key as anything. The Knicks are making strides. It just drives me NUTS when we lose to teams like Washington.

Word Allanfan...when Nate jumped on Shaq on that play me and my friends were dying laughing. Shaq was wide open and he did the best he could to stop the pass. Jumping into the guys lap was the best way to do it, lol. Damn he was moving, lol!

Posted by Elite:

one more observation... Tim Thomas got totally ABUSED on one play by Amare, just raped. Ethered. And instead of crawling under his skirt like you might expect from TT.. He fought back. Scored a 3 and a driving layup even played some decent D. Seems like TT is taking the challenge these days and delivering.

He seems to play better after he's disrespected. He gets mad. He had a good game last night. My section had Timmy's back if Shaq popped off on Timmy when they were kinda yappin.

Allanfan coming with the pics everyone wants to see.