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11/1/2009  6:49 PM
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11/1/2009  6:50 PM
not really bad news, hughes and douglas will have to step it up 4 notches though. but we suck, so whatever.
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11/1/2009  6:55 PM
i dunno about that, man. we need nate to be a successful team, and given our lack of depth at guard this is not good.
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11/1/2009  6:58 PM
nah, i mean, it's bad. but it's not like we're surging or winning, at all, for the moment. so maybe this will lead to something good, i don't know. i'm just not too worried about it, all i'm sayin'.
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11/1/2009  7:02 PM
ah okay. well, we will see what hughes and douglas can do.

i'll be at MSG for tomorrow's game. should be an interesting scene if the game gets ugly.

maybe gallo will have to play some pg...haha

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11/1/2009  7:04 PM
man, that's gotta be nerve wrecking. on one hand you're giong to the game, and that's awesome, but they've put us through some garbage so far this season.

i wouldn't mind gallo at point, it's obvious he can handle it. he had the ball in his hands top of key plenty of times last night and because he will draw tighter coverage on his shot, he can dish it out for mad dimes.

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11/1/2009  7:06 PM
Good news, more shots for Gallo.
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11/1/2009  7:28 PM
Gives douglas some min, and at least he drives to the hole..
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11/1/2009  7:29 PM
yea, i'm all for douglas getting some burn. but no way do i expect anything but energetic sloppiness right now.
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11/1/2009  7:55 PM
PresIke wrote:i dunno about that, man. we need nate to be a successful team, and given our lack of depth at guard this is not good.

We need Nate to be successful in order for us to be successful. Unfortunately, Nate Robinson has actually REGRESSED as a player over the years. It's a bad look for us. Let us see how things go with players who play more under control and act more mature. There will be a noticeable difference one way or another.

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11/1/2009  7:57 PM
at least now we'll see TD getting some more minutes so we can see what he can bring to the table during real game action... Nate's been playing like doody anyways... the time off will do him good.
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11/1/2009  8:38 PM
Giving more minutes to Hughes and Douglas should help our defense. Right now, our defense is what really needs to improve. With Gallo and Harrington, we can score with any team, but we have to figure out how to avoid getting down 20 pts every game. It happened alot last year too. We have to start games out more strongly and defense will be key to doing that.
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11/1/2009  8:44 PM    LAST EDITED: 11/1/2009  8:44 PM
yeah but that works both ways, u can get down by not scoring just like u can by letting guys score on u.
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11/1/2009  8:47 PM
I guess we'll see what TD's got. If hughes could somehow use these 2 weeks to really up his trade value that would be splendid. I feel like Jeffries is ALMOST tradeable right now, if we could add Hughes to that list, that would be very nice.
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11/1/2009  9:04 PM
Fishlips is 4 / 3 / 1 in 26 minutes & owed $14 mil over this year & next... who's gonna take him off our hands?
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11/1/2009  9:21 PM
TMS wrote:Fishlips is 4 / 3 / 1 in 26 minutes & owed $14 mil over this year & next... who's gonna take him off our hands?

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11/1/2009  10:37 PM
See this is kinda why I really wanting some more depth at the 2, even if they were guys that might not have played a whole lot at first. Forget this injury for a sec., Wilson's not a pure 2G (he's a good athlete and provides a lot but he's not a great shooter at all (we've seen it for 2 years now -- make 1 all net, miss the next 4 including 2 airballs..). And even when Nate's in the game, remember this guy's only 5'9". If he's not on offensively, he just doesn't supply enough overall play (setting up teammates, defense, his lack of size makes him a liability at times..).. Well I guess we're gonna see a lot of Larry Hughes the next couple of weeks. Hopefully TD can see some time here as well. I understand Landry made the team (maybe he gets a little bit of a look here as well) but I still thought we should've tried to add another shooter for some depth, esp. considering how perimeter-oriented Mike wants the team to play offensively. We still got that 15th roster spot open..
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11/2/2009  9:39 AM
TMS wrote:yeah but that works both ways, u can get down by not scoring just like u can by letting guys score on u.

True, but there are always going to be games when your shot is off. If you have solid defense to fall back on, you will rarely be out of any game. Given the fact that Duhon bascially sucks, I would really like to see what TD can do if given 15 minutes a game. It will probably take a few weeks, but I think he is a better PG than Duhon (or at least will be), and his defense at the point should help slow the fast starts other teams are getting.

IMO, when your team is constantly getting down by 20 pts in the 1st half, it means your players are not coming into the game with the right defensive focus. Guys like TD will be focused from the start on stopping the opposing team on defense.

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TheGame wrote:
TMS wrote:yeah but that works both ways, u can get down by not scoring just like u can by letting guys score on u.

True, but there are always going to be games when your shot is off. If you have solid defense to fall back on, you will rarely be out of any game. Given the fact that Duhon bascially sucks, I would really like to see what TD can do if given 15 minutes a game. It will probably take a few weeks, but I think he is a better PG than Duhon (or at least will be), and his defense at the point should help slow the fast starts other teams are getting.

IMO, when your team is constantly getting down by 20 pts in the 1st half, it means your players are not coming into the game with the right defensive focus. Guys like TD will be focused from the start on stopping the opposing team on defense.

Its not only being down 20, but its letting the other team score 70 in a half, 40 in the first quarter, 100 over 3 quarters.

I wouldn't be worried about defense if we were down 20 and the score was 40 to 20. But we're down 20 and we've scored 40-50.

And yes - I bet TD is either the starter or playing the most important minutes at PG by mid way through the season.
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11/2/2009  3:43 PM
i think the Knicks will use Duhon & TD the same way we used to use Ward & Childs back in the day by the end of the season with whoever's playing better that night getting the bulk of the minutes... Duhon will start games just like Ward used to, but TD will come in & play tenacious D on the perimeter just like Childs used to do vs. other teams' second units, & by the end of the season he could be seeing many of the minutes in crunchtime of games (as long as his shot is falling that is)
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