JeVale McGee is a gazelle who can jump out of the gym, no problem

Another game on the road? Piece of cake, Knicks fans alter the soundtrack enough to make the Knicks feel at home. M-V-P

Ray Felton has the off night (5-14) he is entitled to have once every two weeks, what happens? Toney Douglas, despite forcing the ball in traffic, squeezes out 6 assists

Trailing by double figures before the half? Do what we do, finish strong and ride the momentum all the way to the third quarter

Is that 12 of 13 bishes?

First, the margin of victory is only of value to bookies and the guys who pay for their kids to go to college. Whether by one or by twelve, if you check any nightly NBA scoreboard, most of the games are decided by six points or less. For example, the margin of victor for the Utah Jazz is 4.3 points.

This is pointed out as a counterpoint to worrying about things that irrelevant on a Saturday morning when the jelly donuts taste extra sweet. Denver, Boston and Miami can wait their turn.

The point being, whether the new Knicks playing personality "translates" against the "good" teams this week, 15-9 (and Landry Fields) wasn't forecast by ANYONE, including The Answer Man.

The only person who had the nerve to proclaim "The Knicks are back!", back in July, has the commitment to excellence to back it up.

Enjoy The Ride

BY STEVE ADAMEK
The Record

NEW YORK – A little more than four months ago, Amar’e Stoudemire raised him arms wide and proclaimed, “The Knicks are back.”

Then he spent the summer embracing everything New York had to offer.

Sunday night, following his new team’s fifth straight loss and fourth in five games at home, 104-96 to Houston, the Knicks’ $100 million man sat in his dressing stall and declared, “This is something that’s a foreign land for me right now.”

After a night in which it was clear he wanted the ball early and often _ although he insisted it had nothing to do with his mea culpa in Minnesota following Friday’s stunning loss from 21 points ahead in the second half _ Stoudemire looked like someone ready to take the next flight back to Phoenix.

Where he never became accustomed to funks like this, he said.

“Maybe a winning mentality has never been here,” he said. “I’m not used to that. I’m used to winning. I’m used to talking about winning and having the confidence toward winning.

“You can’t have guys complacent and comfortable with losing.”

Note To Self: Do not feed the Knicks detractors who are never satisfied. If the Knicks lose to Boston or Miami these same nattering naybobs of negativity will be the first to proclaim, "see, I told you the Knicks were fools gold". "No WAY are they ready to be labelled an elite team, or even a team worthy of being regarded as decent. They can only beat bad teams!"

Same old Knicks. Told you so.

misterearl wrote:Note to self: "the Wizards are pathetic. With or without Amare we should've blown these clowns out..."

Note To Self: Do not feed the Knicks detractors who are never satisfied. If the Knicks lose to Boston or Miami these same nattering naybobs of negativity will be the first to proclaim, "see, I told you the Knicks were fools gold". "No WAY are they ready to be labelled an elite team, or even a team worthy of being regarded as decent. They can only beat bad teams!"

Same old Knicks. Told you so.

No one here was being negative. No one said the team sucks and won't win 30 games again. Maybe we're being cautious but not negative.

Bonn1997 wrote:

aienjell wrote:hopefully the knicks take at least half of the next ten games, the knicks are rolling right now so we should be able to take some of these games and hopefully were the ones to snap miami's win streak to send them back into basketball hell

Hollinger's statistical analysis, which is probably more accurate than any Mr. Know-it-all fan who thinks he can make better predictions would admit, has us going exactly .500 the rest of the year and finishing with 44 wins. That sounds reasonable to me.

44 wins does sound reasonable, a playoff spot is where we set the bar at the begining of the year, i'm just hoping we set the bar a little too low.

"No one said the team sucks and won't win 30 games again."

Bonn1997 - Where did anyone, anywhere re-quote or refudiate a comment stating the Knicks suck and 30 games is the watermark for this franchise?

C'mon man.

The Knicks have more authentic problems than the press paying WAY too much attention to Carmelo. The real untold story is whether the rookie Mozgov will learn any veteran moves from his counterpart Nene. Or how Chauncey Billups responds to Raymond Felton and vice versa.

Toney Douglas guarding JR Smith is worth the price of admission as both are tough and never back down.

Who will be the first man to swing an intentional elbow this week?

Bonn1997 wrote:

foosballnick wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:This team is very good at (barely) beating bad teams. We'll find out soon whether that translates into wins against good teams.

We've won 12 of 13, 7 in a row overall, 8 in a row on the road. Even against bad teams that is impressive. No team wins every game, but if we are beating the teams we should be, I'll take it for now considering the past 10 years.

Agreed. That's why I'm cautiously optimistic. By that I mean, I'm not at all convinced we're a team that makes it out of the 1st round of the playoffs but I do expect the team to make it to the 1st round.

Yup, it's just being realistic in my view.

I'm happy about the thought of playoffs, believe me. Been waaay too long!

That's eight in a row bishes!

These Knicks have poise, determination and finis strong

The Mayor is growing before our disbelievin' eyes and only overshadowed by Captain Amar'e

You may now return to your regularly schedule pessimism and chicken little "sky is falling" cautious behavior

hold up, that's 13 of 14!