loved what i saw from most knicks today. but i really think there's only room for half of franbury on this team. we are paying francis top dollar to play a role we could probably fill for the vet's minimum. i think it's great to surround either steph or steve with ball handlers, but the marginal benefit of a second such player is tiny.

also, jalen is a total waste. would rather play mardy collins if we want ball handling, tentative offense, and passable D.

got the Balkmania. guy is awesome. i was surprised to see he only had 7 and 7, his impact was so much huger than those numbers. he and lee are a great pair, looks like they have a good vibe going.

Q and jamal mostly look good out there. i hope their outside shooting steps up, but they are doing a great job when they look for high percentage shots in close for themselves and teammates. i hope the regular season sees them play jsut a little more conservatively and shooting better from outside. but jamal was amazing when he got hot for a while, and Q does all the little things. oh yeah, jamal needs to learn how to draw a charge and/or flop.

frye looks great on O, had a bad defensive game but i'll give him the benefit of the doubt for now.

nate was good. if he keeps adjsuting to being the way smallest guy on the floor on O he'll be really dangerous.

curry i thought had a very good game. he'll probably never be a great defender, but he looked like he was trying out there, doing a notably good job on D on pick plays.

overall i think the team needs to calm down pushing hte ball sometimes. according to nba.com stats the celtics outscored us on fast break points, we turned it a bunch and got beat back down the court for easy buckets. if we're just trying it out in teh preseason and gonna settle down november on, that's cool.

our second unit is awesome. but i have a bad feeling they'll always be playing from behind the way our starters are defending and turning the ball over. we'll see.

my 2.5 cents, g'night

Great job from almoust all Knicks

Jrose is done and I hope gone
Steve is absolutely useless wa..st of space
Marbs is not fitting good in IT offence. He is some kind of overprised role player and he is lost.

If IT will keep playing this system and the team will be successfull this all 3 guys are gone sooner or later.

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Posted by arkrud:

Great job from almoust all Knicks

Jrose is done and I hope gone
Steve is absolutely useless wa..st of space
Marbs is not fitting good in IT offence. He is some kind of overprised role player and he is lost.

If IT will keep playing this system and the team will be successfull this all 3 guys are gone sooner or later.

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...people say he shoots too much, then he has a quiet game and he's "not fitting in." what do you want? 20 pts on 4 shots?

It's not about the numbers and shots.
It's about the value of the player on the team
The way Marbs played this 3 games he is not contributed in any way
I hope he will find a way to contribute in real games

just got home, watched the game at ESPN zone.... I like what I saw, lee and balkman were great, frye and curry were productive and jamal looked good. I agree with the poster earlier, francis and marbury to me is not a good fit, not enough room for both. neither one compliments the other....

I thought the Knicks looked alright tonite.
What I liked: Balkman looked really nice, his energy-level is just so high, love it. Crawford played really nice, I think he will the front-runner for 6th man of the year this year. Also, Quentin looked really good in all facets; shooting, rebounding and defense. If he plays 3/4 of this, he will have a really good year.

What I didn't like: Curry looked both good and bad, I'm seriously worried about his rebounding and his conditioning, STILL. I'm really tired of Francis, he never passes and forces all of his shots, I really don't like where this is going with him, he and Marbury WILL clash. Again, I was disappointed in the Knicks defense, the man to man defense just isn't there with this team. Again, the free-throw shooting was deplaurable, they need to fix that.

I think Francis and Marbury are probably going at about 40% right now. They're vets, the season doesn't start for them until Nov 1. Still, Francis looks like crap.

Curry looked GREAT to me. His offensive repetoire is really expanded and he just seems more comfortable on the court and moving from outside the key with the ball. I think summer ball really helped Curry.