| Author | Thread |
| AUTOADVERT |
|
iSergio
Posts: 21499 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 1/13/2010 Member: #3043 USA |
6/2/2010 1:57 PM
Yeah, this was a killer because we had no chance at winning that Game 6 in Chicago. That was also the best team of the Patrick Ewing era.
|
|
KnicksSince88
Posts: 20449 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 3/18/2007 Member: #1387 |
6/2/2010 2:05 PM LAST EDITED: 6/2/2010 2:40 PM
I was in 7th grade at the time, and for those of us who grew up in that era, you knew how many front-running Bulls/Jordan fans there were around here. Going to school those next couple of days was just brutal after talking smack leading up to that series thinking it was OUR YEAR. After "The Dunk" in game 2, where John Starks went up in the vicinity of Michael Jordan (wasn't really over MJ, but since us Knick fans could never really get over on Jordan, we instead will resort to manufacturing minor victories like saying Starks dunked over him when he really didn't, although i did have that poster hanging up in my room pretty much until I moved out of my parents house) you weren't going to convince me we were losing that series
Charles Smith gets a lot of heat for that, but we lost that game at the foul line. It shouldn't have been close in the final moments, we missed a TON of foul shots that night |
|
CrushAlot
Posts: 59764 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 7/25/2003 Member: #452 USA |
6/2/2010 2:07 PM
Horrible. There was so much passion in those games. Time does not heal all wounds.
I'm tired,I'm tired, I'm so tired right now......Kristaps Porzingis 1/3/18
|
|
sidsanders
Posts: 22541 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 1/17/2009 Member: #2426 |
6/2/2010 2:08 PM
ARGHHHH
DUNK IT SMITH... i couldnt understand why he didnt try and get some more contact. make the refs call it if you wont dunk it. GO TEAM VENTURE!!!!!
|
|
KnicksSince88
Posts: 20449 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 3/18/2007 Member: #1387 |
6/2/2010 2:12 PM
If there is one positive to this last decade of Knick basketball, it is never at any point have I gone to bed after a game as totally crushed as I was at some of these 90s moments, this one right at the top. Of course I'd trade this last decade in for a re-do of the 90s in a heartbeat, but nights like this were tougher to deal with than any night of this decade of futility
|
|
CrushAlot
Posts: 59764 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 7/25/2003 Member: #452 USA |
6/2/2010 2:13 PM
I don't remember a single play Smith was involved in and I watched 75+ games a year in the regular season back then and never missed a playoff.
I'm tired,I'm tired, I'm so tired right now......Kristaps Porzingis 1/3/18
|
|
djsunyc
Posts: 44929 Alba Posts: 42 Joined: 1/16/2004 Member: #536 |
6/2/2010 2:14 PM
that was my first year with a 14 game plan w/ a friend of mine in college.
we sat in section 408, row G. we got our tix literally 2 weeks before the season started. we went 14-0 during the regular season. and undefeated in the playoffs...until that game. walking out, the entire air was gone from the place. everybody knew it was over. |
|
KnicksSince88
Posts: 20449 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 3/18/2007 Member: #1387 |
6/2/2010 2:29 PM
Here is the game 5 boxscore. A pitiful 20-35 from the foul line
http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/199306020NYK.html |
|
JesseDark
Posts: 22781 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 9/9/2003 Member: #467 |
6/2/2010 2:33 PM
I was at that game, it was like leaving a funeral.
Bring back dee-fense
|
|
nixluva
Posts: 56258 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 10/5/2004 Member: #758 USA |
6/2/2010 2:53 PM
Game 6 & 7 of 94 was the worst feeling for me, but the Smith Debacle lingers longer in terms of my anger. You couldn't be angry about the loss in 94, but you can carry that anger and sense of a missed opportunity about that Smith game forever. We were the better team IMO, but they just flat rose up and got it done and our team shrank. It's in games like that where you see the real difference between elite players and the rest of the guys. Those elite players can just rise another level in the bit moment. Smith lost the little athletic ability he had with each attempt and the Bulls just got more resolute each time.
|
|
Allanfan20
Posts: 35947 Alba Posts: 50 Joined: 1/16/2004 Member: #542 USA |
6/2/2010 3:00 PM
nixluva wrote:Game 6 & 7 of 94 was the worst feeling for me, but the Smith Debacle lingers longer in terms of my anger. You couldn't be angry about the loss in 94, but you can carry that anger and sense of a missed opportunity about that Smith game forever. We were the better team IMO, but they just flat rose up and got it done and our team shrank. It's in games like that where you see the real difference between elite players and the rest of the guys. Those elite players can just rise another level in the bit moment. Smith lost the little athletic ability he had with each attempt and the Bulls just got more resolute each time. Losing to Miami in 1997 was worse for me. “Whenever I’m about to do something, I think ‘Would an idiot do that?’ and if they would, I do NOT do that thing.”- Dwight Schrute
|
|
KnicksSince88
Posts: 20449 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 3/18/2007 Member: #1387 |
6/2/2010 3:00 PM
nixluva wrote:Game 6 & 7 of 94 was the worst feeling for me, but the Smith Debacle lingers longer in terms of my anger. You couldn't be angry about the loss in 94, but you can carry that anger and sense of a missed opportunity about that Smith game forever. We were the better team IMO, but they just flat rose up and got it done and our team shrank. It's in games like that where you see the real difference between elite players and the rest of the guys. Those elite players can just rise another level in the bit moment. Smith lost the little athletic ability he had with each attempt and the Bulls just got more resolute each time. Its very tough to choose between that gm 5 in 93 vs Chicago and game 6 and 7 vs Houston in 94. Obviously the Rocket series we were one win away from a world championship. But To me Chicago hurt more because the Bulls were the bigger rival and MJ had already disposed of us 3 times in the playoffs by 93. So there was all this built up hatred for Chicago that wasn't really there for the Rockets, not to mention I was dealing with tens of front-running Bulls fans daily and didn't know a rocket fan. Plus, as silly as it may sound, there was sort of a feeling of "cheapness" to win a title while prime Jordan was playing baseball. It would have been much sweeter to go through him, and we had the chance. Not saying i wouldn't have thoroughly enjoyed winning it all in 94, I would have, but it would have been so much sweeter a year earlier |
|
Marv
Posts: 35540 Alba Posts: 69 Joined: 9/2/2002 Member: #315 |
6/2/2010 3:04 PM
i was at that game. i was also at game 1 of the 94 finals in houston and game 3 in the garden - all losses
 the smith game was horrific leaving the garden. funereal was a good word for it. game 1 in 94 wasn't that horrible because of it being game 1 and away. not exactly an upset loss. game 3 was horrendous. we gave them their home court right freaking back and were already showing signs of giving away a gift-wrapped title. but for me by far the very worst game of the ewing era was game 7 of 94. we so blew that series. a title. a f**king title. given to us by mr. jordan. and we did every possible to not take what was given to us. and we succeeded. |
|
KnicksSince88
Posts: 20449 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 3/18/2007 Member: #1387 |
6/2/2010 3:10 PM
Marv wrote:i was at that game. i was also at game 1 of the 94 finals in houston and game 3 in the garden - all losses NBA TV was actually running one of those "great past playoff moments" shows yesterday and did a piece on Cassell's shot in game 3 of the 94 finals. That was indeed a brutal loss. That was just a frustrating series all together. We didn't even get to see most of our last win in that series (gm 5) because OJ Simpson was driving around in his white Bronco and NBC had to join every other network carrying it live. I just remember being wildly pissed missing that live action. |
|
NYKBocker
Posts: 38419 Alba Posts: 474 Joined: 1/14/2003 Member: #377 USA |
6/2/2010 3:17 PM
Smith was FOULED!!! I mean Pippen and Jordan was just wacking at him and they did not call a foul. I count 2 times Pippen hit Smith in the head. Jordan slapped him twice in the arm. I hate them farking Bulls. I hope they all rot in hell!!!
|
|
kam77
Posts: 27664 Alba Posts: 25 Joined: 3/17/2004 Member: #634 |
6/2/2010 3:34 PM
That Bulls team was the 18th best of all time according to John Hollinger. But the worst Bulls teams of that era. They only won 57 games.
lol @ being BANNED by Martin since 11/07/10 (for asking if Mr. Earl had a point). Really, Martin? C'mon. This is the internet. I've seen much worse on this site. By Earl himself. Drop the hypocrisy.
|
|
sebstar
Posts: 25698 Alba Posts: 4 Joined: 6/2/2002 Member: #249 USA |
6/2/2010 3:36 PM
Vividly remember the end. Pops was using anything he could get his hands on as projectiles after that one.
Charles Smith will live in infamy. Whenever me and my pops see a hard ass dunk we say "Charles Smith" in mocking tribute of that baby shyt soft, fool. I dont care what anybody says, duke was 6'10, built like a greek god (no Ricky Martin) and right underneath the rim in the biggest Knick game in 20 years --- and he went up soft and fading. You gotta at least draw significant contact (although they prolly stripped a lil skin off his fingers with those slaps). They were not going to call anything on Jordan unless you made them. To me, he's our Bill Buckner. My saliva and spit can split thread into fiber and bits/ So trust me I'm as live as it gets.
--Royce Da 5'9 + DJ Premier = Hip Hop Utopia
|
|
Nalod
Posts: 71289 Alba Posts: 155 Joined: 12/24/2003 Member: #508 USA |
6/2/2010 3:44 PM
KnicksSince88 wrote:I was in 7th grade at the time, and for those of us who grew up in that era, you knew how many front-running Bulls/Jordan fans there were around here. Going to school those next couple of days was just brutal after talking smack leading up to that series thinking it was OUR YEAR. After "The Dunk" in game 2, where John Starks went up in the vicinity of Michael Jordan (wasn't really over MJ, but since us Knick fans could never really get over on Jordan, we instead will resort to manufacturing minor victories like saying Starks dunked over him when he really didn't, although i did have that poster hanging up in my room pretty much until I moved out of my parents house) you weren't going to convince me we were losing that series
Charles smith play at the end was representive of the fold we did. The riley teams were just no right in the head to finish games. Bone head Technicals and missed free throws were symtomatic of the era. Ewing was ego driven and could not admit he was breaking down and in pain. Call it a "warrior" or "man in denial"! By the time the 1999 finals rolled around It did not even bother me we got trumphed as the season was a total success with less expectations. Knicks were frustrating at times. Knick fans suffered for our Yankee arrogance toward the Redsowx! Im rooting for LA. Phuck the celtics! |
|
KnicksSince88
Posts: 20449 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 3/18/2007 Member: #1387 |
6/2/2010 4:05 PM
sebstar wrote: To this day, whenever Im watching a basketball game, or playing in one, and see someone struggle to convert a few successive attempts right under the basket, I immediately think of Charles Smith. Every. Single. Time. Its like war flashbacks |