reub wrote:

Uptown wrote:

nyknickzingis wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

nixluva wrote:HOW BOUT DAT SCOTT PERRY . What a deal maker 😜

Scott, Steve, and Jeff seem to be a great team.

You do realize a certain someone picked Horny because he loved his basketball brain and thought he was a good choice because he had old school roots (ran system offense with Sloan) and new school offense blended in? That person wasn't Perry or Mills .... but I agree they are a good team. I like that we have no drama, no BS executives now. Blue collar stuff from top (the executives) to bottom (the players from 1-15). NY deserves a team like this. I think we just miss out on the playoffs, but we should be proud of this team. The culture is finally right here.

That same certain someone who picked Horny because of his basketball brain couldn't keep from medling and allowing Horny to do what he was hitred to to do...The certain someone's ego wouldn't allow it...Glad he's gone to allow guys to do the job they were hired to do!

Think about how bleak our future was when that certain someone was first hired and where we are now.

GustavBahler wrote:That was a fun game. Not fun retyping this **** because your overpriced ipad craps out again. Tax dodging, piece of ****, company. I hope you choke on your tax break.. bitches.

Anyway. Its been a very long time since Ive seen the Knicks field a team that not only plays unselfish ball, but defense as well. Hornacek is doing a great job getting everyone to buy in.They know everyone has to earn their minutes.

Doug had another great game. Lance and Doug have SF locked down. Hope we can keep them both.

Beasley made Melo look old. There were times I forgot Melo was in the game.

Baker and Frank work well together and they're both being more aggresive. Dont care that Frank is getting rejected at the rim at times. Glad he is taking it to the other team.

Jmpasq wrote:

TPercy wrote:What an awesome win! Beating the Thunder w/o your top two scorers is always a pleasant sight. Also this Thunder team is quite terrible.

Micheal Beasley outplayed Carmelo, he went for frickin 30, Id like to keep Beasly nice to have that option if you need it

nyknickzingis wrote:

Uptown wrote:

nyknickzingis wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

nixluva wrote:HOW BOUT DAT SCOTT PERRY . What a deal maker 😜

Scott, Steve, and Jeff seem to be a great team.

You do realize a certain someone picked Horny because he loved his basketball brain and thought he was a good choice because he had old school roots (ran system offense with Sloan) and new school offense blended in? That person wasn't Perry or Mills .... but I agree they are a good team. I like that we have no drama, no BS executives now. Blue collar stuff from top (the executives) to bottom (the players from 1-15). NY deserves a team like this. I think we just miss out on the playoffs, but we should be proud of this team. The culture is finally right here.

That same certain someone who picked Horny because of his basketball brain couldn't keep from medling and allowing Horny to do what he was hitred to to do...The certain someone's ego wouldn't allow it...Glad he's gone to allow guys to do the job they were hired to do!

A year ago, Knicks were identical 16-13 last year scoring 105+ points a game.
The offense wasn't the problem as much as the defense.
Once the defense wouldn't improve the team just gave in and accepted fate.
The real difference this year is the defense and teamwork. Last year the team played too much one on one and didn't play defense. This isn't on the system they ran it is on the players who refused to play within the team concepts.

The players on this team play defense and there's no consistent ball stopping on offense. This is why we are holding teams down to below 100 even at times and we're giving an effort that just wasn't there last year. Everyone feels involved. I think if you look at how someone as good as Willy isn't even in the rotation anymore, shows you the biggest change. This year the focus is on defense, which is why we're so much better. The team does give up too many wide open three pointers, but their movement and coverage of the court is so much better. It's the biggest change from what I've seen.

Late last year there were some games where we played like how we are right now. I recall Nix and I talking about it in the game threads. There were a few games where there was no Rose, no Melo and we played fantastic team basketball and effort was there. Fast forward 6 months later, KP is now a monster with a post game, we've added some better players in the rotation and we've become a solid competitive team. This is all based on the same principles. Teamwork. Defensive effort. Wasn't Ron Baker playing for us last year? O'Quinn? Thomas? They're all doing the same things. The change without having Melo and Rose is instrumental. Everyone gives an effort on defense on each possession. There's ball movement. Sorry, this isn't a Triangle thing. This is a get rid of the team cancers thing. Again, ask Nix about how he and I were talking about having some games like this late last year where the team played without Melo and Rose. Wasn't about the wins. It was about how they played. They played the right way just like this team is. It's a pretty simple game when you have players give an effort and move the ball.

Meanwhile the Thunder ....... Ooops

StarksEwing1 wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:That was a fun game. Not fun retyping this **** because your overpriced ipad craps out again. Tax dodging, piece of ****, company. I hope you choke on your tax break.. bitches.

Anyway. Its been a very long time since Ive seen the Knicks field a team that not only plays unselfish ball, but defense as well. Hornacek is doing a great job getting everyone to buy in.They know everyone has to earn their minutes.

Doug had another great game. Lance and Doug have SF locked down. Hope we can keep them both.

Beasley made Melo look old. There were times I forgot Melo was in the game.

Baker and Frank work well together and they're both being more aggresive. Dont care that Frank is getting rejected at the rim at times. Glad he is taking it to the other team.

Agreed. It just shows how getting rid of one guy can really make the team be cohesive

Bonn1997 wrote:

Jmpasq wrote:

TPercy wrote:What an awesome win! Beating the Thunder w/o your top two scorers is always a pleasant sight. Also this Thunder team is quite terrible.

Micheal Beasley outplayed Carmelo, he went for frickin 30, Id like to keep Beasly nice to have that option if you need it

And Melo had 12 points on 18 shots! That's gotta be an embarrassing night for him.

5-18 is actually what he was putting up here as a Knick almost one out of every three games. Glad someone else has to put up with that now.

meloshouldgo wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

Jmpasq wrote:

TPercy wrote:What an awesome win! Beating the Thunder w/o your top two scorers is always a pleasant sight. Also this Thunder team is quite terrible.

Micheal Beasley outplayed Carmelo, he went for frickin 30, Id like to keep Beasly nice to have that option if you need it

And Melo had 12 points on 18 shots! That's gotta be an embarrassing night for him.

5-18 is actually what he was putting up here as a Knick almost one out of every three games. Glad someone else has to put up with that now.

StarksEwing1 wrote:

Welpee wrote:

StarksEwing1 wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:That was a fun game. Not fun retyping this **** because your overpriced ipad craps out again. Tax dodging, piece of ****, company. I hope you choke on your tax break.. bitches.

Anyway. Its been a very long time since Ive seen the Knicks field a team that not only plays unselfish ball, but defense as well. Hornacek is doing a great job getting everyone to buy in.They know everyone has to earn their minutes.

Doug had another great game. Lance and Doug have SF locked down. Hope we can keep them both.

Beasley made Melo look old. There were times I forgot Melo was in the game.

Baker and Frank work well together and they're both being more aggresive. Dont care that Frank is getting rejected at the rim at times. Glad he is taking it to the other team.

Agreed. It just shows how getting rid of one guy can really make the team be cohesive

Lets be fair, it was way more complicated than just getting rid of Melo.

thats true there were other problems but watching how the ball movement has been so great this year compared to the previous five years shows that he just wasnt a fit here

Welpee wrote:

StarksEwing1 wrote:

Welpee wrote:

StarksEwing1 wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:That was a fun game. Not fun retyping this **** because your overpriced ipad craps out again. Tax dodging, piece of ****, company. I hope you choke on your tax break.. bitches.

Anyway. Its been a very long time since Ive seen the Knicks field a team that not only plays unselfish ball, but defense as well. Hornacek is doing a great job getting everyone to buy in.They know everyone has to earn their minutes.

Doug had another great game. Lance and Doug have SF locked down. Hope we can keep them both.

Beasley made Melo look old. There were times I forgot Melo was in the game.

Baker and Frank work well together and they're both being more aggresive. Dont care that Frank is getting rejected at the rim at times. Glad he is taking it to the other team.

Agreed. It just shows how getting rid of one guy can really make the team be cohesive

Lets be fair, it was way more complicated than just getting rid of Melo.

thats true there were other problems but watching how the ball movement has been so great this year compared to the previous five years shows that he just wasnt a fit here

I hate to be the keep it real dude, but I keep thinking about 22 out of our next 31 games will be on the road. As much as I've enjoyed the season so far I just can't get that out of my mind, especially since we've only built a 3 game cushion over .500 so far.