"Whether I start or come off the bench, I'll play my same game," said Robinson, who was benched for 14 straight games in December and has been a reserve since. "I'll contribute to the team the best I know how.""

he sure has changed since that 14 game benching.

crzymdups wrote:of course, it might all be about showcasing him so they can trade him with jeffries. which, hey, nuthin wrong with that.

i think that is a fair assumption... Duhon will probably see himself out of the rotation for the next 2 weeks & the Knicks will probably either try to bring in an upgrade at the PG position or try to dump Jeffries' contract using Nate as a sweetener... the best thing that can happen for us right now is for Nate to go off & score as many points as he can & hopefully pump up his trade value.

Marv wrote:Nate's a total headcase. I'd love to have a good enough starting 5 where we could bring nate and al in off the bench to go fkcu up the opposition. These 2 are our most balls out players, but neither are any good as starters. They need to come off the bench for better teams and be free to wreak havoc.

Translation: "Start Duhon!"

oohah

AnubisADL wrote:Nate Robinson is NOT a PG and he exhibited that last night. He has been in the league 4 yrs and still makes the same bonehead plays. Have we learned nothing from waiting for Crawford to turn the corner.

arent you the same dude complaining about duhon starting? can't have it both ways. this is a rebuilding year, quit your piss'n and moaning.. this team will have a real PG soon enough.

AnubisADL wrote:

nyk4ever wrote:

AnubisADL wrote:Nate Robinson is NOT a PG and he exhibited that last night. He has been in the league 4 yrs and still makes the same bonehead plays. Have we learned nothing from waiting for Crawford to turn the corner.

arent you the same dude complaining about duhon starting? can't have it both ways. this is a rebuilding year, quit your piss'n and moaning.. this team will have a real PG soon enough.

I trust Hughs more than I trust Robinson.

WHY? What has Hughes ever done to deserve our trust?

Moonangie wrote:I think we will get plenty of bad play from Nate, mixed in with some unbelievable individual performances. But I doubt he does too much to improve the play of the other guys, which means he will be a bust as a PG. Still, anything is better than watching Duhon for a single game more. Hopefully TD gets max burn after Feb 18th.

i agree w/u here... Nate will look good at times & others u will wanna ring his neck... that's the player he's been his whole career, nothing has changed & nothing will change... all we can hope for is that he has a stretch of some really good games & gets teams to notice before the deadline comes around, but knowing how things go around here people will be clamoring to sign Nate to a longterm extension if that happens just like last year.

& i also agree w/u on Toney Douglas... we definitely need to get him max burn after the 18th... no excuse left not to at this point... we gotta see what we have in our rooks before the offseason comes around.

misterearl wrote:"The basic thing about basketball is to make your teammates better," Robinson said. "That's something I'm going to try to do."

yeah wake me up when the bulls!t quotes ever actually mean anything.